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THE FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES
THE FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,607 to it, the largest being THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES INC ($162,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $75k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $267k
- Net assets
- $55k
What The Foundation of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences does
Mission
To promote education in the field of television communication and furnish scholarships to students pursuing studies in such field.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Foundation of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (natas foundation) was established to support and expand the educational and cultural initiatives of the national academy of television arts and sciences (natas).the foundation's oldest and largest program involves the awarding of seven major scholarships to high school seniors who intend to pursue a baccalaureate degree in communication with emphasis on any aspect of the television industry. The program seeks to identify those individuals who demonstrate exceptional talent as producers of creative video programming as well as outstanding academic achievement and potential for success in a highly competitive profession. The scholarship program, for over 20 years, has awarded scholarships to dozens of highly talented and diverse students who have attended such prestigious universities as columbia, stanford, nyu, usc, northwestern, penn state, texas, missouri, iowa, alabama, miami (ohio), arizona state, and florida.
$88,853 spentof which $80,848 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $88,853.
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 2023 to 2024, from $97k to $182k (+89%).
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.
100% of THE FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Douglas W Mummert
President & chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $35k → $13k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES’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 FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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
100% 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 FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 60% · 2019 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 66% · 2022 50% · 2023 99% — 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
100% of THE FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES'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. $104k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES has grown faster than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like THE FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES
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
33%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES?
- THE FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,607 to it, the largest being THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES INC ($162,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $266,607 in grants to THE FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES?
- THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES INC is the largest funder on record, with $162,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES 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 5 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