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Sensory Beans Inc

Sensory Beans Inc (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,296 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($62,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$266k
Revenue FY2024
6
Funders on record
$131k
Grants received
$55k
Net assets
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%

Against its field

Sensory Beans Inc has grown faster than half of the 15,485 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,485 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($121k) Expenses 100 ($132k) Net assets 100 ($48k)2018 Revenue 133 ($160k) Expenses 97 ($128k) Net assets 166 ($79k)2019 Revenue 168 ($203k) Expenses 138 ($182k) Net assets 211 ($100k)2020 Revenue 66 ($80k) Expenses 96 ($127k) Net assets 113 ($54k)2021 Revenue 129 ($155k) Expenses 123 ($162k) Net assets 99 ($47k)2022 Revenue 203 ($245k) Expenses 181 ($239k) Net assets 110 ($53k)2023 Revenue 280 ($337k) Expenses 226 ($299k) Net assets 223 ($106k)2024 Revenue 221 ($266k) Expenses 240 ($317k) Net assets 116 ($55k)
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Revenue (221)Expenses (240)Net assets (116)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

8% of Sensory Beans Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,078 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
17
$32k
18
$21k
19
$47k
20
$7k
21
$6k
22
$38k
23
$51k
24
2.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $18k → $11k.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)54% 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 Sensory Beans 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

Sensory Beans Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

54% 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 Sensory Beans Inc.

48%
largest funder
94%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 79% · 2019 67% · 2020 92% · 2021 60% · 2022 47% · 2023 89%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.

Where its funders are

54% of Sensory Beans Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $61k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.

NY

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 340 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Sensory Beans Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 3%Fundraising 2%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sensory Beans 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 Sensory Beans Inc?
Sensory Beans Inc (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,296 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($62,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Sensory Beans Inc have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $131,296 in grants to Sensory Beans Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sensory Beans Inc?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $62,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sensory Beans 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing