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Dossier hitlist #

Adjacent orgs to dossier next. Priority top to bottom; data tractability noted.

Done — first-pass dossiers (2026-05-02) #

All 7 share the new cover format: AI-generated colored-pencil illustration as hero, small pals top-right, creation date + revision counter.

  • Rhizome.org — papers/arxiv-rhizome/ — IRS XML, ProPublica API, CauseIQ
  • School for Poetic Computation — papers/arxiv-sfpc/ — SFPC's own GitHub finance repo + Wikipedia + sfpc.study/about
  • Eyebeam — papers/arxiv-eyebeam/ — IRS XML (EIN 13-3952075), 14 FYs of P&L FY2011–FY2024, six-ED leadership chain, three locations (Chelsea → Industry City → Bushwick)
  • Recurse Center — papers/arxiv-recurse/ — for-profit, no 990s; founder interviews + the rcrename post + public hiring-partner roster + recruiting model
  • Internet Archive — papers/arxiv-internet-archive/ — IRS XML (EIN 94-3242767), Hachette case fully documented, UMG Great 78 case, FY2023 net-asset cliff, 2024 cyberattack timeline
  • Mellon Foundation (funder flip) — papers/arxiv-mellon/ — Avalon+Old Dominion 1969 merger, full presidents lineage, FY2014–FY2024 990-PF table, recipient spotlight cross-references Rhizome/IA/Eyebeam/Pioneer Works
  • Pioneer Works — papers/arxiv-pioneer-works/ — IRS XML (EIN 46-1097738), Yellin-as-funder mechanic, $30M capital campaign, full residency-program documentation

Do next (worth picking up) #

NEW INC (NYC, 2014–) #

New Museum's incubator. Embedded in Museum's 990 — need to disentangle. Lisa Kim Kaganskiy founded it; she's now Eyebeam ED so this is now a sibling dossier.

Studio Museum in Harlem #

Already cross-referenced from Mellon dossier. 501(c)(3). Thelma Golden's tenure documented in Mellon spotlight.

Internet Archive sibling: HathiTrust #

Already cross-referenced from Mellon ($1M 2023). University-consortium, different shape than IA.

The Kitchen (NYC, 1971–) #

Long history (50+ years), recently more digital-leaning. 501(c)(3), IRS XML.

Hold off (worth it eventually, harder data) #

  • NEW INC (NYC, 2014–) — embedded in New Museum's 990; need to disentangle
  • The Kitchen (NYC, 1971–) — recently more digital-leaning; long history, lots to scope
  • Light Industry (Brooklyn, 2008–) — microcinema-as-org; financials thin
  • Triple Canopy (NYC, 2008–) — digital publishing + criticism
  • Dynamicland (Oakland) — fiscally sponsored, financials private
  • NEW Centre for Research & Practice — autodidact philosophy program, online-native

Different jurisdiction (separate ingestion path) #

  • Furtherfield (UK, CIC)
  • V2_ Lab for Unstable Media (Rotterdam, Dutch foundation)
  • transmediale (Berlin)
  • iMAL (Brussels), Aksioma (Ljubljana), Constant (Brussels)
  • HMKV (Dortmund)

Different shape (company dossier, not nonprofit) #

  • Are.na — for-profit; founder interviews are the source
  • glitch.com — for-profit, well-documented org evolution
  • OpenProcessing, shadertoy, p5.js Foundation

Funders (one-to-many flips) #

  • Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
  • Jerome Foundation
  • Knight Foundation (technology arm)
  • Creative Capital (artist-direct)
  • Art for Justice (Agnes Gund, sunset funder)

Schools / labs (academic-attached) #

  • Studio for Creative Inquiry, CMU
  • MIT Media Lab (would be huge; politically charged post-2019)
  • ITP / IMA (NYU Tisch)
  • RISD CD (Rhode Island School of Design Computation Department)

Picking just one #

If you only do one more, do Eyebeam.

If you do two, add Mellon — it's the "free dossier" because so much groundwork is already in arxiv-rhizome/data/.