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THE FLOW CHART FOUNDATION

THE FLOW CHART FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,600 to it, the largest being DRIVER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$201k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$8k
Net assets
$583k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What The Flow Chart Foundation does

Program

  1. Promote john ashbery legacy

    $167,500 spent

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-PF.

02The 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 ($25k) Expenses 100 ($29k) Net assets 100 ($467k)2018 Revenue 180 ($45k) Expenses 132 ($39k) Net assets 101 ($474k)2021 Revenue 381 ($95k) Expenses 54 ($16k) Net assets 155 ($723k)2022 Revenue 237 ($59k) Expenses 394 ($115k) Net assets 143 ($667k)2023 Revenue 805 ($201k) Expenses 979 ($286k) Net assets 125 ($583k)
20172018202120222023
Revenue (805)Expenses (979)Net assets (125)Peer revenue range

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 $668k to $584k (−13%).

$467k
$474k
$723k
$668k
$584k
20172018202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

Jeffrey Lependorf

Exec director

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.

20172018202120222023
Listed11444
Joined···+0+0
No longer listed···00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of THE FLOW CHART FOUNDATION’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 FLOW CHART FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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

79%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

100% of THE FLOW CHART FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE FLOW CHART FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve12.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)42% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

Government funding THE FLOW CHART FOUNDATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.

Federal$45k
grants $45kcontracts $0
22
24
Top agencies
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$25k
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$10k

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 THE FLOW CHART FOUNDATION

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FLOW CHART FOUNDATION: 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 THE FLOW CHART FOUNDATION?
THE FLOW CHART FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,600 to it, the largest being DRIVER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE FLOW CHART FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $7,600 in grants to THE FLOW CHART FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE FLOW CHART FOUNDATION?
DRIVER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE FLOW CHART FOUNDATION 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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