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Spunk Fund Inc: 14 grants to organizations, $665,357 (tax year ended December 2024)
Spunk Fund Inc, a private foundation in New York, NY, paid 14 grants to organizations totaling $665,357 in its tax year ended December 2024, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on October 3, 2025. The largest was $200,000 to Safe Space Pictures Foundation in Beverly Hills, CA for a cinematic initiative for documentary filmmakers from southwest asia & north africa. to support the programs of close-up, an independent international organization which aims to promote the developme.
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- EIN
- 133116094
- Based in
- New York, NY
- Assets
- $25,806,203
- Grants paid
- $665,357
- Tax year ended
- December 2024
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed October 3, 2025, IRS object ID 202512769349101011. It reported $665,357 in grants paid; 14 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Safe Space Pictures Foundation | Beverly Hills, CA | A cinematic initiative for documentary filmmakers from southwest asia & north africa. to support the programs of close-up, an independent international organization which aims to promote the developme | Arts, culture and humanities | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Minors Inc | St Paul, MN | To provide support for the relocation of "minors" workspace, to continue the book and photo exhibit projects beyond the current project, and to continue conducting ongoing vietnam program operations. | $109,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Tisch MS Research Center of New York Inc | New York, NY | To support developing immunocompetent cerebral and spinal cord organoids for the study of the immune aspect of multiple sclerosis. | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Epidavros Project Inc | New York, NY | To provide supplementary support to cover the following work for "liberal, kansas" in 2025: editor and assistant sound editor, graphics, composer, traveling, promotion, and fundraising. | Arts, culture and humanities | $60,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Hospital for Special Surgery | New York, NY | To define the molecular basis of sle's extreme female predominance, a critical challenge central to understanding the development of sle. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Apopo Us Inc | Washington, DC | Mine victims assistance in rural cambodia - to provide assistance for up to 144 victims to access care while allowing its team to continue mapping our victims assistance (va) needs for up to 300 victi | Human services | $39,657 | apps.irs.gov |
| Ballet Tech Foundation Inc | New York, NY | Provide support for dance instructor salaries at the nyc public school for dance for the 2024-2025 school year. | Arts, culture and humanities | $35,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Peace Players International | Washington, DC | The enrique moscol scholarship - to provide support for year 2 for the three enrique moscol scholars as they continue pursuing their higher education degrees and to continue nurturing and supporting v | $34,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| School of American Ballet Inc | New York, NY | To support summer and winter courses diversity scholarships that covered or reduced training costs for the school of american ballet's summer and winter training programs for dancers of color. | Arts, culture and humanities | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of the South - Sewanee | Sewanee, TN | To support a second offering of journeys, the undergraduate course that will examine the metaphor of an individual journey and how that metaphor is understood culturally, historically, psychologically | $13,200 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Ugly Duckling Presse LTD | Brooklyn, NY | To publish their entire 2024 fall season (eight books of poetry and poetry in translation). | Arts, culture and humanities | $12,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Rockefeller University | New York, NY | Biomedical research | Education | $6,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Council On Foundations | Washington, DC | Membership. | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $4,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Philanthropy New York | New York, NY | Membership. | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Arts, culture and humanities | $332,500 |
| Human services | $39,657 |
| Education | $6,000 |
| Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $4,000 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| New York | $265,500 |
| California | $200,000 |
| Minnesota | $109,000 |
| District of Columbia | $77,657 |
| Tennessee | $13,200 |
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Updated October 3, 2025. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.