New York · Nonprofit
SANDBOX PERCUSSION INC
SANDBOX PERCUSSION INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,193 to it, the largest being MID ATLANTIC ARTS INC ($18,180). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $612k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $121k
- Net assets
- $181k
What Sandbox Percussion Inc does
Mission
Sandbox percussion expands the breadth and depth of the percussion form through commissions of original work that broaden representation in chamber music. We create new musical experiences by transforming creative challenges into meaningful art that is shared with our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Continued rehearsing and concerting throughout the United States newly commissioned works for percussion quartet
$344,520 spent75% of program spendingReleased multiple recordings on streaming platforms by composers Christopher Cerrone and Ellis Ludwig-Leone. Released recordings as part of the soundtrack for the film The Wild Robot with music by Kris Bowers.
$68,904 spent15% of program spendingSandbox Percussion is faculty and ensemble in residence at The New School College of the Performing Arts. Throughout the academic year we teach classes covering topics on composer/performer collaboration, entrepreneurship, and rehearsal techniques. We also teach percussion lessons. In the summer we invite students from around the United States and abroad for a week-long percussion chamber music seminar at The New School. Throughout the week, we rehearse and perform some of today's leading percussion repertoire with these students.
$46,805 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $460,229.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $111k to $324k (+191%).
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: 2021 14% · 2022 11% · 2023 17% · 2024 25% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of SANDBOX PERCUSSION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $16k → $13k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 SANDBOX PERCUSSION 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
SANDBOX PERCUSSION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
51% 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 SANDBOX PERCUSSION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 99% · 2020 100% · 2021 60% · 2022 51% · 2023 50% — 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
33% of SANDBOX PERCUSSION INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 43% 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
60% of SANDBOX PERCUSSION 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. $21k 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
SANDBOX PERCUSSION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SANDBOX PERCUSSION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 SANDBOX PERCUSSION 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.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 SANDBOX PERCUSSION 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 SANDBOX PERCUSSION INC?
- SANDBOX PERCUSSION INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,193 to it, the largest being MID ATLANTIC ARTS INC ($18,180). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANDBOX PERCUSSION INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $121,193 in grants to SANDBOX PERCUSSION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANDBOX PERCUSSION INC?
- MID ATLANTIC ARTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $18,180 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANDBOX PERCUSSION 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 14 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