New York · Nonprofit
STORYCORPS INC
STORYCORPS INC (New York) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,985,118 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($18,476,846). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 134
- Grants received
- $66M
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What Storycorps Inc does
Mission
Storycorps' mission is to preserve and share humanity's stories in order to build connections between people and create a more compassionate and just world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, storycorps partnered with hundreds of organizations to conduct over 20,670 interviews with participants in towns and cities across the united states. In addition to collecting over 2,000 "signature" interviews--interviews collected directly by storycorps facilitators, who guide participants through the process, support the interview experience, and archive these conversations--participants uploaded 18,610 conversations using our free online platforms, the storycorps app and oss connect. Millions more people experienced storycorps' multimedia content through our weekly npr broadcasts, animations, podcasts, and digital platforms, and our communication efforts and distribution partnerships helped increase storycorps' exposure with new audiences. Below is a detailed description of storycorps' work to: (1) collect and preserve authentic stories from across the nation; (2) share and amplify voices that often go unheard; (3) serve diverse communities with storycorps content, tools, and trainings; and (4) build a culture of listening to foster greater awareness, empathy, and inclusion.(1) collect and preserve authentic stories from across the nationguided by storycorps-trained…
$15,136,491 spentof which $286,521 as grants$3,094,715 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,136,491.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $7.0M to $18M (+161%).
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: 2018 21% · 2019 22% · 2020 11% · 2021 28% · 2022 13% · 2023 12% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of STORYCORPS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Sandra Clark
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Dane E Holmes
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $3.6M → $7.8M.
28 of 134 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 STORYCORPS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 134 funders by total. 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
STORYCORPS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
67% 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 STORYCORPS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 34% · 2019 52% · 2020 32% · 2021 52% · 2022 21% · 2023 23% — 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 STORYCORPS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
STORYCORPS INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 28 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
STORYCORPS INC has grown faster than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding STORYCORPS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$705k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$535k
- Department of Health and Human Services$193k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$131k
- U.S. Agency for Global Media$50k
- Department of the Interior$35k
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 STORYCORPS 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STORYCORPS 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 STORYCORPS INC?
- STORYCORPS INC (New York) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,985,118 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($18,476,846). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STORYCORPS INC have?
- IRS filings report 134 organizations giving $65,985,118 in grants to STORYCORPS INC, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STORYCORPS INC?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $18,476,846 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STORYCORPS 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 134 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing