The Imagine Awards Inc
Bohemia, NY · EIN 85-1129775. Reported 50 grants totalling $291,805 to 47 organizations across tax years 2022-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Imagine Awards Inc, the IRS classifies it as a philanthropy support organization (NTEE T19).
- How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 5% 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 much its list changes. 10% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $6,000. Half of what it reported fell between $5,000 and $6,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $8,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Campaign Against Hunger Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hair We Share Inc | Jericho, NY | $11,250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Viscardi Center Inc | Albertson, NY | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Special Olympics Inc | Washington, DC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Book Fairies Inc | Freeport, NY | $7,555 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth Inc | Hauppauge, NY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sco Family of Services | Garden City, NY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Spirit of Huntington Inc | Huntingtn Sta, NY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Teens for Food Justice Inc | New York, NY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Adults and Children With Learning and Developmental Disabilities Inc | Bethpage, NY | $6,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Empowerment Collaborative of Long Island Inc | Islandia, NY | $6,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Long Island Childrens Museum | Garden City, NY | $6,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Artbeat Li Inc | Patchogue, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Center for Employment Opportunities Inc | New York, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Museum of Manhattan | New York, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Emmas Torch Ltd | Brooklyn, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Exalt Youth | New York, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fiver Childrens Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Green Inside and Out | Huntington Station, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hear Your Song Inc | New York, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Heckscher Museum | Huntington, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York | Brooklyn, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ny Community Fridge Corp | New York, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Scott J Beigel Memorial Fund Inc | Dix Hills, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sibs Place Inc | Oceanside, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Stony Brook Childrens Service University Faculty Practice Corp | Stony Brook, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County Inc | Glen Cove, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Rosalind and Joseph Gurwin Jewish Geriatric Center of Long Is | Commack, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Womens Diversity Network Inc | Miller Place, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Young Peoples Chorus of New York City Inc | New York, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Family and Childrens Association | Garden City, NY | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Andrew Mcmorris Foundation Inc | Wading River, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Anthos Home Inc | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Backstretch Employee Service Team of New York Inc | Elmont, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Building Beats Incorporated | Brooklyn, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| City Living Ny | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Education Through Music Inc | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Eglevsky Ballet Company of L I Inc | Bethpage, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Family Legal Care Inc | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Family Service League Inc | Huntington, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Harmony Heights School | East Norwich, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Inspiring Minds of New York City Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth Inc | Hauppauge, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Marcy Lab Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Medical Debt Resolution Inc | Long Island City, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New York Common Pantry | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New York Foundation for the Arts Inc | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
3 of 47 (6%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 42 of 47 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10 | $53,000 | $5,000 |
| 2023 | 13 | $79,805 | $6,000 |
| 2024 | 14 | $85,000 | $6,000 |
| 2025 | 13 | $74,000 | $6,000 |
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
97% 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.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $6,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- 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 The Imagine Awards Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2022-2025). 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.
Address of record on the latest return: 3340 Veterans Memorial Hwy, Bohemia, NY, 11716.
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