New York · Nonprofit
Two Chairs Inc
Two Chairs Inc (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $467,555 to it, the largest being NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED ($89,380). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $367k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $468k
- Net assets
- $46k
What Two Chairs Inc does
Mission
The organization will educate the public about different cultures by presenting documentaries, doing social work, and making little known works of art available, while also helping artists fund their work as a tool to help fulfill the goal of educating the general public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Outreach - We continue to work with local communities, providing residencies, workshops, and other learning/engagement activities through our larger projects.
$262,106 spent76% of program spendingPrince of Sorrows Theatrical Symphonic Tale - This year we started production on a new theater piece. We are currently in production with an expected premiere in 2027.
$41,076 spent$26,967 earned by the program12% of program spendingBook Publishing Fund - We are continuing with our publishing fund to help artists publish their own books, allowing them to maintain more control over their work. We help raise funds for the cost of the book and then retain some portion of the profits for additional reprints.
$25,500 spent$36,971 earned by the program7% of program spendingSong of the North (theatrical play) - We have continued to tour our theatrical production, which premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music March 5, 2022. The 85-minute show incorporates puppets, shadow casters, music, and animation and is based on the 10th century epic poem Shahnameh. We produced this show with artist Hamid Rahmanian, providing support and fundraising services. We are also responsible for managing the tour and the show from the beginning of 2022 and beyond. This project was delayed until 2022 due to the COVID 19 pandemic. All touring dates have started and will continue through 2026.
$15,130 spent$2,150 earned by the program4% of program spendingLiterary Translations - We support the work of translators in their effort to make literary works available to a larger, wider, and more diverse audience.
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $343,812.
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 $49k to $186k (+277%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 21% · 2023 24% · 2024 11% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of Two Chairs Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $148k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 Two Chairs 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
Two Chairs Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
72% 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 Two Chairs Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2020 40% · 2021 37% · 2022 67% · 2023 57% — 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
0% of Two Chairs Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 13% 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
53% of Two Chairs Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $219k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $249k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Two Chairs Inc receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $468k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Two Chairs Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 Two Chairs 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Two Chairs 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 Two Chairs Inc?
- Two Chairs Inc (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $467,555 to it, the largest being NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED ($89,380). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Two Chairs Inc have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $467,555 in grants to Two Chairs Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Two Chairs Inc?
- NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $89,380 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Two Chairs 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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