New York · Nonprofit
Racing Thoughts Inc
Racing Thoughts Inc (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,450 to it, the largest being Lawton W Fitt & James I McLaren Foundation ($30,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $143k
What Racing Thoughts Inc does
Mission
Racing Thoughts was formed to support the artistic work of Jane Comfort and Company. Jane Comfort has been choreographing since 1978 and creates dance theater works that are dedicated to achieving a new fusion of text and movement as a means of deep social commentary.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Jane Comfort began the fiscal year with rehearsals for a new work, Only an Expert, which premiered in September at the 2024 DanceNOW festival at Joes Pub in New York City. Her documentary feature length film, "Breaking Form," continued to screen throughout the country, winning best film at the Big Sky Film Festival, and audience favorite at the Sans Souci Film Festival. It traveled to the American Dance Festivals film festival in Durham, NC, Louisville, TN, Portugal, England, and San Franciscos Dance Film Festival where Jane, filmmaker and "Breaking Form" director Alexandra Nikolchev, and co-producer Leslie Cuyjet traveled to participate in the post screening talk. The film was shown at Lincoln Center again in April 2025 to a sold out audience. In the Q&As following these screenings, Jane taught the audiences the sign language version of the first verse of Amazing Grace which everyone sang and signed together. The film ends with footage of the company signing Amazing Grace, and audiences have loved doing it themselves. The company has joined with Cinema Guild to make the film available to educators throughout the country.
$29,769 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $29,769.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $107k to $135k (+26%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
88% of Racing Thoughts Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $500 → $12k.
From the IRS filings of Racing Thoughts Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Racing Thoughts Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 93% · 2023 85% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
80% of Racing Thoughts Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Racing Thoughts Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding Racing Thoughts Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Racing Thoughts Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Racing Thoughts Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Racing Thoughts Inc?
- Racing Thoughts Inc (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,450 to it, the largest being Lawton W Fitt & James I McLaren Foundation ($30,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Racing Thoughts Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $40,450 in grants to Racing Thoughts Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Racing Thoughts Inc?
- Lawton W Fitt & James I McLaren Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Racing Thoughts Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing