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RAIR INC

RAIR INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $900,764 to it, the largest being THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS ($185,200). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$396k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$901k
Net assets
$531k
10/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 68%
01What it does

What Rair Inc does

Mission

Rair's mission is to challenge the perception of waste culture by providing a unique platform at the intersection of art and industry, and community. Situated inside a construction and demolition waste recycling company in northeast philadelphia, rair creates and provides artist residencies, fellowships, new project commissions, interdisciplinary partnerships, and public programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Rair serves the community by promoting recycling through art. Resident artists create art that promotes the concept and awareness for recycling materials. Rair's mission is to challenge the perception of waste culture by providing a unique platform at the intersection of art and industry, and community. Situated inside a construction and demolition waste recycling company in northeast philadelphia, rair creates and provides artist residencies, fellowships, new project commissions, interdisciplinary partnerships, and public programs.

    $450,374 spent$34,042 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $450,374.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($145k) Expenses 100 ($143k) Net assets 100 ($77k)2018 Revenue 173 ($250k) Expenses 138 ($197k) Net assets 168 ($130k)2019 Revenue 124 ($180k) Expenses 125 ($178k) Net assets 171 ($132k)2020 Revenue 125 ($181k) Expenses 96 ($137k) Net assets 208 ($161k)2021 Revenue 125 ($182k) Expenses 95 ($136k) Net assets 212 ($164k)2022 Revenue 244 ($353k) Expenses 162 ($231k) Net assets 369 ($286k)2023 Revenue 425 ($615k) Expenses 261 ($373k) Net assets 682 ($528k)2024 Revenue 465 ($673k) Expenses 324 ($463k) Net assets 953 ($738k)2025 Revenue 273 ($396k) Expenses 421 ($602k) Net assets 687 ($531k)
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Revenue (273)Expenses (421)Net assets (687)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $288k to $528k (+83%).

$85k
$139k
$142k
$183k
$201k
$288k
$528k
$761k
$531k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 11% · 2023 16% · 2024 4% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

77% of RAIR INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’17
$53k
’18
$2k
’19
$44k
’20
$45k
’21
$122k
’22
$242k
’23
$210k
’24
−$206k
’25
8.4
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Max Tuttleman

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed67665678
Joined·+1+1+0+0+1+1+1
No longer listed·0201000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $27k → $120k.

2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of RAIR 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

RAIR INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

45% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund RAIR INC.

21%
largest funder
50%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 88% · 2019 38% · 2020 35% · 2021 53% · 2022 69% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

45% of RAIR INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

RAIR INC draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 7 states in all.

MN
IL
NY
PA
CA
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $113k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RAIR INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−52% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding RAIR INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $63k on record.

Federal$63k
grants $63kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$63k

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 RAIR 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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 21%Fundraising 5%

Governance

8
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds RAIR INC?
RAIR INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $900,764 to it, the largest being THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS ($185,200). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RAIR INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $900,764 in grants to RAIR INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RAIR INC?
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS is the largest funder on record, with $185,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RAIR INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 16 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing