New York · Nonprofit
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL INC
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,085,075 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($600,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared funders
- Piece by Piece Productions Incportfolio match
- Emma a Sheafer Charitable Tr Xxxxx7006portfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL 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
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
94% of UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 67 organizations that share your funders
- Piece by Piece Productions Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Emma a Sheafer Charitable Tr Xxxxx7006portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John Golden Fund Inc Co John Breglio-Paul Weiss Et Alportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Network of Ensemble Theaters Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lucille Lortel Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiespace Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Axe-Houghton Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation Co Kelley Drye & Warren LLPportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roy Cockrum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
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 UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL INC?
- UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,085,075 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($600,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,085,075 in grants to UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing