New York · Nonprofit
SESAME STREET INC
SESAME STREET INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,250 to it, the largest being THE WEISS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $728k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $175k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Sesame Street Inc does
Mission
Sesame street, inc.'s primary exempt purpose is to hold copyrights of music compositions that are registered in the united states with ascap and are related to programs produced by sesame workshop including sesame street.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Sesame Street Inc's primary exempt purpose is to hold copyrights to music compositions relating to the production of sesame street, an educational television show for the benefit of the sesame workshop, a section 501(c)(3) public charity.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $11M to $12M (+5%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Sherrie Westin
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $48k → $26k.
From the IRS filings of SESAME STREET 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
SESAME STREET INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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: 2019 83% · 2020 67% · 2021 71% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% — 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
SESAME STREET INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like SESAME STREET 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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 19 related entities
- Sesame Workshop · exempt
- The Electric Company Inc · exempt
- Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Ed · exempt
- Galli Galli Sim Sim Educational Initiative · exempt
- Sesame Workshop International Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SESAME STREET 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 SESAME STREET INC?
- SESAME STREET INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,250 to it, the largest being THE WEISS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SESAME STREET INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $175,250 in grants to SESAME STREET INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SESAME STREET INC?
- THE WEISS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SESAME STREET 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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