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Indiespace Inc

Astoria, NY · EIN 47-4523884. Reported 29 grants totalling $588,200 to 29 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.

29organizations funded
$20,100median reported grant
$588,200granted, 2021-2025
26%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Indiespace Inc, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A65) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 29 distinct organizations, with 26% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $20,100. Half of what it reported fell between $10,100 and $20,100; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $150,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
25 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant
$100,000 - $250,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Adc Consulting LLCSpokane, WA$150,000112023
Bugingo Studios LLCNew York, NY$33,000112025
Actors Theatre Workshop IncNew York, NY$20,100112023
American Indian Artist Amerinda IncNew York, NY$20,100112023
Bated Breath Theatre CompanyNew York, NY$20,100112023
Culture Lab Lic IncLong Island City, NY$20,100112023
Footlight PresentsRidgewood, NY$20,100112023
HUB17Staten Island, NY$20,100112023
Instituto Arte Teatral Internacional IncNew York, NY$20,100112023
Mise En Place IncBaltimore, MD$20,100112023
Pmt House of DanceNew York, NY$20,100112023
Roxanne Dance Foundation IncNew York, NY$20,100112023
The Fantastic Experimental Latino Theater IncNew York, NY$20,100112023
Topaz Arts IncWoodside, NY$20,100112023
Variations Theatre Group IncNew York, NY$20,100112023
The Indie Theater FundAstoria, NY$20,000112021
Brick Theater IncBrooklyn, NY$11,200112023
Brooklyn Arts Haus LLCNew York, NY$10,100112025
Ginger Goose Inc Dba Qed AstoriaAstoria, NY$10,100112025
Irt Theater IncNew York, NY$10,100112025
New Perspectives Theatre Company IncNew York, NY$10,100112025
Noosphere Arts IncBrooklyn, NY$10,100112025
Open Channels New York IncNew York, NY$10,100112025
St Lydia'sBrooklyn, NY$10,100112025
Dance EntropyLong Is City, NY$10,000112025
Inspiration Point Center for the Arts IncBronx, NY$10,000112025
The Little Victory TheaterStaten Island, NY$10,000112025
Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of America IncNew York, NY$6,500112025
National Queer Theater IncBrooklyn, NY$5,500112023

0 of 29 (0%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 7 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 17 of 29 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Arts & Culture
14 orgs
Food & Nutrition
1 org
Education
1 org
Human Services
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20211$20,000$20,000
202316$428,000$20,100
202512$140,200$10,100

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

71% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

New York
$418K
Washington
$150K
Maryland
$20K

Down to the city

New York, NY
$241K
Spokane, WA
$150K
Brooklyn, NY
$37K
Staten Island, NY
$30K
Astoria, NY
$30K
Long Island City, NY
$20K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Alliance of Resident Theatres6 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund5 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc4 shared recipientsDance Service New York City Inc4 shared recipientsMertz Gilmore Foundation4 shared recipientsThe Howard Gilman Foundation Inc3 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,100 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Indiespace Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 12 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 12 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 48-15 28TH Avenue, Astoria, NY, 11103.

EIN 47-4523884 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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