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RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,289,369 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,896,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $528k
What RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART does
Mission
To champion born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibition, critical publishing, and preservation programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To expose the public to works of both emerging and established media artists, through a website, email lists and program events.
$1,000,702 spent$105,352 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,000,702.
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 2021 to 2022, from $260k to $1.2M (+366%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 20% · 2018 12% · 2019 9% · 2020 33% · 2021 38% · 2022 8% · 2023 14% · 2024 12% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $612k → $461k.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $66k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Horizons). These are real filings, and they are not money RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART raised.
From the IRS filings of RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 funders by total. 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
RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 76%; 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 82% · 2018 93% · 2019 42% · 2020 61% · 2021 76% · 2022 38% · 2023 69% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
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
87% of RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART'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. $366k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $635k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$400k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$135k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$100k
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 RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
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.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART?
- RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,289,369 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,896,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $4,289,369 in grants to RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,896,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 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 28 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