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BIDOUN PROJECTS INC

EIN 27-2832354 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$990,695
Expenses 2024
$305,673

Program services were 59.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A23
Classification
1200
Street
47 ORCHARD STREET

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

BIDOUN PROJECTS IS A PUBLISHING AND CURATORIAL INITIATIVE WHOSE AIM IS TO PRESENT NEW AND UNEXPECTED IDEAS ABOUT MIDDLE EASTERN ARTS AND CULTURE. BIDOUN PRODUCES AN AVANT-GARDE MAGAZINE THAT COMBINES ELEMENTS OF AN ART MAGAZINE AND LITERARY JOURNAL(CON'T ON SCHEDULE O) IT IS CIRCULATED TO APPROXIMATELY 4,500 INDIVIDUALS AND INSTITUTIONS, AND MORE THAN 23,000 READERS VIEW THE MATERIAL VIA OUR WEBSITE, NEWSLETTERS AND SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDS. OUR CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE ARTISTS, WRITERS, ACTIVISTS, FILMMAKERS AND ENTREPRENEURS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE AND OUR CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES TAKE FORM AS EXHIBITIONS, FILM SCREENINGS, LECTURES AND BOOK LAUNCHES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

BIDOUN PROJECTS IS A PUBLISHING AND CURATORIAL INITIATIVE WHOSE AIM IS TO (CON'T ON SCHEDULE O) PRESENT NEW AND UNEXPECTED IDEAS ABOUT MIDDLE EASTERN ARTS AND CULTURE. BIDOUN PRODUCES AN AVANT-GARDE MAGAZINE THAT COMBINES ELEMENTS OF AN ART MAGAZINE AND LITERARY JOURNAL. IT IS CIRCULATED TO APPROXIMATELY 4,500 INDIVIDUALS AND INSTITUTIONS, AND MORE THAN 23,000 READERS VIEW THE MATERIAL VIA OUR WEBSITE, NEWSLETTERS AND SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDS. OUR CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE ARTISTS, WRITERS, ACTIVISTS, FILMMAKERS AND ENTREPRENEURS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE AND OUR CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES TAKE FORM AS EXHIBITIONS, FILM SCREENINGS, LECTURES AND BOOK LAUNCHES.

  • BIDOUN.ORGBIDOUN.ORG IS THE COMPREHENSIVE ARCHIVAL WEBSITE AND PUBLISHING PLATFORM FOR BIDOUN MAGAZINE. COMPRISED OF 6,039 IMAGES, 1,071 ARTICLES, 512 AUTHORS AND 29 ISSUES, BIDOUN.ORG PRESENTS 10 YEARS OF THE PRINT MAGAZINE IN A DIGITAL ARCHIVE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE. IN ADDITION, NEWLY COMMISSIONED LONG-FORM ARTICLES, TRANSLATIONS, AND ARTIST PROJECTS WERE PUBLISHED ON THE PLATFORM THROUGHOUT THE CALENDAR YEAR ON A MONTHLY BASIS REACHING OVER 23,000 UNIQUE VIEWERS ONLINE AND OVER 26,000 FOLLOWERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

    Expenses $94,363 · Revenue $200

  • SOLIDARITY MICROGRANTSBIDOUN ADMINISTERED MICROGRANTS TO ARTISTS, WRITERS, AND CURATORS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED SERIOUS ECONOMIC HARDSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL CENSORSHIP DUE TO THEIR ANTI-WAR STANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT. MICROGRANTS WERE ISSUED TO 12 INDIVIDUALS FROM 3 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES IDENTIFIED FROM OVER 100 UNIQUE GRANT REQUEST SUBMISSIONS.

    Expenses $67,500 · Grants $67,500

  • NICOLAS MOUFARREGE PUBLICATIONBIDOUN CONDUCTED RESEARCH AND PLANNING FOR A FORTHCOMINGLARGE-SCALE MONOGRAPH ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF ARTIST NICOLASMOUFARREGE. THIS INCLUDED EDITORIAL AND SCHOLARLY RESEARCH, THECOMMISSIONING OF LONG-FORM ESSAYS, EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ANDDOCUMENTATION OF ARCHIVAL WORKS.

    Expenses $18,567

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Negar Azimi

    SECRETARY/SENIOR EDITOR

    Total calculated
    $61,632
    From this org
    $46,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,632
    Hours/week
    20

  • Aarthi Belani

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lisa Farjam

    DIRECTOR/FOUNDING EDITOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dana Farouki

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Glenn Lowry

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shirin Neshat

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Burkhard P Varnholt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kambiz Shahbazi

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Luiza Texeira De Freitas

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pedro Barbosa

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maria Sukkar

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $990,695
    Expenses
    $305,673
    Contributions
    $990,495
    Grants paid
    $67,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $121,327
    Expenses
    $183,417
    Contributions
    $106,103
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $81,840
    Expenses
    $161,460
    Contributions
    $81,705
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $230,889
    Expenses
    $170,953
    Assets (EOY)
    $176,814

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $186,053
    Expenses
    $162,279
    Assets (EOY)
    $133,231

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $192,786
    Expenses
    $182,457
    Assets (EOY)
    $93,667

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $255,365
    Expenses
    $215,679
    Assets (EOY)
    $86,302

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $74,437
    Expenses
    $147,348
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,557

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $177,887
    Expenses
    $134,959
    Assets (EOY)
    $114,102

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $238,972
    Expenses
    $227,551
    Assets (EOY)
    $75,918

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $210,045
    Expenses
    $241,537
    Assets (EOY)
    $132,981

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.