Sesame Workshop
New York, NY · EIN 132655731 · Television · IRS code A32
Their finances
from their own IRS Form 990, fiscal year 2025Spending breakdown — and why we do not lead with it
A high figure here is not straightforwardly good. The measure counts money spent on programmes against money spent running the organisation, so it rewards charities that under-invest in staff, systems and evaluation — and it can be moved by accounting choices rather than by doing more. The largest charity raters publicly abandoned it as a headline measure for exactly that reason. It is here because it is on the filing and people look for it, not because we think it tells you who to give to.
No comparison shown. We list only 1 charity under this cause with a filing, which is too few to rank against meaningfully. A percentile drawn from a handful of organisations looks precise and means nothing.
Figures are as the organisation reported them to the IRS. We do not adjust, score or rate them, and we do not combine them into a single number — that would require deciding how much each one matters, which is your judgement to make, not ours.
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Against every Television charity in the country
317 filed under IRS code A32 in 2025A percentile here is a position among charities the IRS classifies the same way — it is not a score, and being lower is not automatically worse. A large organisation running its own veterinary hospitals will spend a different share on programmes than one that passes grants through, and both are doing their job.
The IRS registry lists this organisation’s revenue as $366M, while their most recent filing shows $181M. The registry figure is not always the latest year; the filing above is the one we show.