New York · Nonprofit
THE AYIN INSTITUTE INC
THE AYIN INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,045,017 to it, the largest being RANDLEIGH FOUNDATION ($250,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $145k
What The Ayin Institute Inc does
Mission
The ayin institute, inc. (the organization") was formed on january 7, 2021 for the purpose of providing an artist-run publishing platform, production studio, and research collective rooted in jewish culture and emanating outward. The organization will create and support work at the intersection of political imagination, speculative theology, and radical aesthetics.both online and in print, the organization will seek to celebrate artists and thinkers at the margins and explore the growing edges of collective consciousness through a diverse range of interdisciplinary, multimedia, and experimental works and projects. This includes, but is not limited to poetry, essays, fiction, theory, artbooks, anthologies, archives, interviews, translations, multi media, conceptual projects, digital works, immersive events, and online programming.the ayin institute, inc. Was founded on a deep belief in the power of culture and creativity to heal, transform, and uplift the world we share and build t
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Digital publishing - throughout 2025, ayin published twenty-eight digital pieces within the framework of ourfour digital columns, maintaining our commitment to amplifying a polyphony of voicesyear-round. Digital highlights in 2025 included ten new pieces our literary column otiyot;two new pieces for our column moabet, devoted to sephardi/mizrahi jewry; two as partof our teiku column devoted to jewish texts and thought; one as part of our speakingfrom experience column on emergent spiritualities; and thirteen as part of our embersof the ottoman empire folio, with each piece written by a historian focusing onrespective ottoman jewish cultural artifacts.
$185,450 spent$53,479 earned by the program19% of program spendingPrint publishing - through ayin's book publishing program, we have continued to publish at theintersection of speculative theology, political imagination, and transformational art. In2025, we launched our new aora imprint, which publishes works beyond borders,disciplines, and traditions. Our print publications included four new books, one booklet,and the distribution of five books and card decks for aligned publishing partners. Ourpublished titles titles include: surviva: a future ancestral guide by cannupa hanskaluger; protocols: an erasure by daniela molnar; the torah in the tarot by stavappel; golden threads by ariella asha azoulay; and expanding the field: a diy roshhashanah companion by eden pearlstein, aya baron, sarah chandler, scott osman,ayse birsel, and jessica tamar deutsch. Our distributed works include megillat esther:the graphic tale by jt waldman; jewish mystic cards by jessica tamar deutsch; thethousands: a tithe by anne germanacos; mergemerge: a book of cards by annegermanacos; and the mergiing of two oceans: nine talks on sufism and hasidism bynetanel miles-ypez.
$556,348 spent$160,438 earned by the program57% of program spendingFiscal sponsorship - ayin institute is collaborating with a wide range of writers and artists to provide fiscal sponsorship for creative projects aligned with ayin's overall mission.
$229,500 spent$50,039 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $971,298.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $77k to $175k (+127%).
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.
80% of THE AYIN INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% 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.
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.
Board chair
Arthur Fried
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $125k → $190k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 THE AYIN INSTITUTE 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
THE AYIN INSTITUTE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
44% 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 THE AYIN INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 60% · 2023 53% — 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
THE AYIN INSTITUTE INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $394k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
THE AYIN INSTITUTE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE AYIN INSTITUTE 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE AYIN INSTITUTE INC?
- THE AYIN INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,045,017 to it, the largest being RANDLEIGH FOUNDATION ($250,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE AYIN INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,045,017 in grants to THE AYIN INSTITUTE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AYIN INSTITUTE INC?
- RANDLEIGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AYIN INSTITUTE 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 12 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