New York · Nonprofit
SOCIETY FOR MARTIAL ARTS INSTRUCTION INC
SOCIETY FOR MARTIAL ARTS INSTRUCTION INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,197 to it, the largest being RODNEY L WHITE FOUNDATION INC ($21,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $35k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $-24099
What Society for Martial Arts Instruction Inc does
Mission
Offer full and partial scholarships to people attending karate classes, self offense (preventative personal protection training) and kids on the offense (anti-bullying), de-escalation and listening, and teacher trainings and committed to empowering people of all ages through theknowledge and practice of martial arts and somatic based movement practices.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Ongoing self offense workshops at broadway dance center/international foreign student program and professional program
$0 spentSelf offense workshops at gene dunn's shotokan dojo self offense/kids on the offense workshops hosted at society for martial arts instruction dojo
$0 spentSpace rental for battodo, taijitsu
$0 spentMentoring/leadership program karate-do kenwakan
$0 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2022 to 2023, from $45k to $39k (−13%).
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.
0% of SOCIETY FOR MARTIAL ARTS INSTRUCTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Zelda Gay
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $13k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 SOCIETY FOR MARTIAL ARTS INSTRUCTION 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
SOCIETY FOR MARTIAL ARTS INSTRUCTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 66% · 2022 77% — 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.
Where its funders are
88% of SOCIETY FOR MARTIAL ARTS INSTRUCTION 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. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SOCIETY FOR MARTIAL ARTS INSTRUCTION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SOCIETY FOR MARTIAL ARTS INSTRUCTION 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
0%
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 SOCIETY FOR MARTIAL ARTS INSTRUCTION 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 SOCIETY FOR MARTIAL ARTS INSTRUCTION INC?
- SOCIETY FOR MARTIAL ARTS INSTRUCTION INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,197 to it, the largest being RODNEY L WHITE FOUNDATION INC ($21,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIETY FOR MARTIAL ARTS INSTRUCTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $29,197 in grants to SOCIETY FOR MARTIAL ARTS INSTRUCTION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY FOR MARTIAL ARTS INSTRUCTION INC?
- RODNEY L WHITE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $21,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY FOR MARTIAL ARTS INSTRUCTION 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 2017–2024), 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