New York · Nonprofit
SCIENCE LIVE PRODUCTIONS INC
SCIENCE LIVE PRODUCTIONS INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,100 to it, the largest being THE CHARLES A DANA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($64,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $97k
- Net assets
- $25k
What Science Live Productions Inc does
Mission
Presenting science-themed events for the public
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The primary program of Science Live Productions Inc is the Secret Science Club SSC a series of live science lectures & events for the public. SSC seeks to bring scientists onto the same public stages where people see music theater & other cultural programming; and to embrace science as part of NYCs cultural life. In 2024 SSC curated and presented 14 public science events for adults including 4 free & low-cost events in Brooklyn 4 low-cost events in Manhattan and 6 free online programs serving a combined total of 2,355 members of the public. Topics included: THE BIGGEST IDEAS IN THE UNIVERSE with physicist Sean Carroll ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: OUR BRAINS & OUR BODIES with neuroscientist De-Shaine Murray & bioethicist Matthew Liao THE RNA REVOLUTION with Nobel-prize-winner Thomas Cech ANIMAL MIGRATIONS with ecologists Maxine Montello & Shannon Curley plus programs on art & the brain marine biology astrophysics Earths evolution urban ecosystems biochemistry and more!
$52,584 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $52,584.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $18k to $25k (+45%).
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.
87% of SCIENCE LIVE PRODUCTIONS 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. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Margaret Mittelbach
Executive Director
Board chair
Mark Fresh
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $28k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 SCIENCE LIVE PRODUCTIONS 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
SCIENCE LIVE PRODUCTIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
34% 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 SCIENCE LIVE PRODUCTIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 60% · 2021 100% · 2022 64% · 2023 60% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of SCIENCE LIVE PRODUCTIONS 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. $33k 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.
Against its field
SCIENCE LIVE PRODUCTIONS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SCIENCE LIVE PRODUCTIONS 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
96%
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 SCIENCE LIVE PRODUCTIONS 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 SCIENCE LIVE PRODUCTIONS INC?
- SCIENCE LIVE PRODUCTIONS INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,100 to it, the largest being THE CHARLES A DANA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($64,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCIENCE LIVE PRODUCTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $97,100 in grants to SCIENCE LIVE PRODUCTIONS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCIENCE LIVE PRODUCTIONS INC?
- THE CHARLES A DANA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $64,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCIENCE LIVE PRODUCTIONS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 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