New York · Nonprofit
WAVEFIELD INC
WAVEFIELD INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,685 to it, the largest being FRACTURED ATLAS INC ($14,085). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WAVEFIELD INC receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $37k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,184 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
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.
- New Music USA Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Mid Atlantic Arts Incshared fundersportfolio match
- The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLPshared fundersportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $21k → $8k.
From the IRS filings of WAVEFIELD 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
WAVEFIELD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 WAVEFIELD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2021 100% · 2022 85% · 2023 100% — 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 WAVEFIELD INC'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. 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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- New Music USA Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 61 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mid Atlantic Arts Incshared fundersportfolio matchMD · backs 70 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLPshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 74 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Chamber Music America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmtportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mediathe Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Carnegie Hall Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pacific Harmony Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colburn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Howard Gilman Foundation Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 75 organizations that share your funders · funds 422 organizations near you
- West Harlem Development Corporationshared funderslocalNY · backs 14 organizations that share your funders · funds 163 organizations near you
- Virginia B Toulmin Charitable Foundation IIIshared fundersNJ · backs 22 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like WAVEFIELD 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.
Public support
61%
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 WAVEFIELD 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 WAVEFIELD INC?
- WAVEFIELD INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,685 to it, the largest being FRACTURED ATLAS INC ($14,085). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WAVEFIELD INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $36,685 in grants to WAVEFIELD INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAVEFIELD INC?
- FRACTURED ATLAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $14,085 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAVEFIELD 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 FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), and the filings of 5funders 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