named programs · 5 · from sources
What they call their work
Alive in the Archive
Interview series featuring feminist icons and creators discussing legacy preservation and digital archiving.
Pop-Up Memory Lab
Community-based initiative offering hands-on digitization workshops and resources for personal archiving, hosted in partnership with cultural institutions.
Preserving the Feminist Internet
Initiative focused on documenting and archiving born-digital feminist media, including websites and digital publications, to prevent loss due to technological obsolescence.
TFI Digital Archive
Online repository preserving feminist history including art, politics, and humanities, with digitized collections from individuals and organizations.
TFI Teaches
Educational series providing tutorials on digitizing documents, photographs, and videotapes, aimed at empowering individuals to preserve personal and community histories.
activities · 4 groups
What they do
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Archival Digitization and Preservation 3 activities
- Building archival capacity through partnerships and trainingEngages interns and collaborates with institutions to process, catalog, and support digital humanities projects. Offers public archival consultations and produces educational tutorials to support community-led digitization and preservation efforts.
- Conducting digitization and preservation projects for at-risk feminist recordsExecutes feminist-led digitization and digital preservation initiatives for analog and digital media at risk of degradation, including VHS, Hi8, miniDV, audiocassettes, floppy disks, photographs, negatives, and early digital feminist websites. Projects include pop-up memory labs, community digitization events, and technical documentation for public use.
- Operating a digital archive of feminist historical materialsCollects, digitizes, and shares historical materials related to feminist art, humanities, politics, and business through a globally accessible online archive. The archive includes digitized photographs, flyers, contact sheets, ephemera, and digital records from feminist artists and collectives, with materials integrated from partner institutions and made accessible through a unified, searchable platform.
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Artist Support Grants 1 activity
- Funding graduate research in feminist art historyProvides grants to support graduate-level research in feminist art history, enabling scholarly work that contributes to the documentation and understanding of feminist cultural contributions.
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Oral History Collection and Preservation 1 activity
- Hosting public programs and educational initiatives on feminist historyOrganizes public events, workshops, and an interview series titled "Alive in the Archive" to explore feminist legacy-building and amplify gender-marginalized voices. Programs include panel discussions, showcase events for creative archival works, and educational content on digitization practices.
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Curated Art Exhibitions and Public Displays 1 activity
- Producing digital exhibitions on feminist art and activismCreates and publishes digital exhibitions that explore feminist art history, protest, and cultural impact, often in collaboration with scholars and based on newly digitized archival materials. Exhibitions include thematic series on feminist art collectives and individual artists, such as A.I.R. Gallery, Mary Beth Edelson, and Paula Cooper.
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financials · form 990 · fy2024
revenue
Total revenue$489K
Contributions & grants$489K100%
Program service revenue$00%
Investment income$00%
Other revenue$0
expenses
Total expenses$436K
Program expenses76%
Admin / overhead13%
Fundraising11%
Salaries & benefits$100K
Grants paid out$0
Largest expense lineCompensation
balance sheet
Total assets$240K
Cash$70K
Investments$0
Liabilities$484K
Net assets$-244K
Liquid reserves1.9 mo
5 years on record · 2019–2024 · YoY revenue -38.0%
leadership · form 990 part vii · fy2024
Who runs it
board members · 5
- AILEEN AGOPIAN — Director
- DANIELLE ANDERMAN — Director
- MOLLY CAMPBELL — Director
- PENNY LIEBMAN AARON — Director
- REBECCA BOONE — Director
relationships · 33
Who they work with
- A.I.R. Gallery Partner — Partner in documenting and exhibiting the history of feminist art collectives.
- A.I.R. Gallery Partner — Partnered to digitize a flyer for the 1991 panel discussion “Who Cares About Feminism? Art and Politics in the Nineties”.
- A.I.R. Gallery Partner — Partnered with The Feminist Institute to digitize photographs of founding members from 1974 in 2022.
- Addresses Project Partner — Partnered to ingest feminist historical materials, including photographs by Riya Lerner and of Stormé DeLarverie, into the TFI Digital Archive.
- Addresses Project Partner — Partnered with The Feminist Institute to ingest materials of Stormé DeLarverie into the TFI Digital Archive in 2022.
- Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc. Partner — Partner in professional archival initiatives focused on feminist materials.
- Art and Feminism Partner — Collaborates on initiatives related to feminist art and knowledge equity.
- CUNY Cultural Corps Partner — Partnered to engage interns in processing collections and supporting digital humanities projects.
- City Lore Partner — Collaborates on cultural documentation and public programming related to feminist history.
- Dindga McCannon Partner — Collaborated with TFI on the documentation and preservation of her artistic legacy through the Pop-Up Memory Lab.
- Estate of Mary Beth Edelson Partner — Partnered to preserve and digitize historical feminist materials, including records of protests and events from 1976 and 1979.
- Global Fund for Women Partner — Collaborated to preserve the digital work of the International Museum of Women.
- Global Fund for Women Partner — Collaborates on feminist advocacy and archival documentation.
- Kathleen Wentrack Partner — Curated a series of digital exhibitions on Mary Beth Edelson’s art, activism, and ritual performances.
- LGBTQ Artists Archive Project Partner — Partner in preserving and promoting the work of LGBTQ artists.
- Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) Partner — Collaborates on library and archival access projects in the New York region.
- New York City Councilmember Keith Powers Government — Provided support that made the 2024 Pop-Up Memory Lab possible.
- New York Public Library Partner — Collaborates with TFI on access to collections and archival resources.
- On This Spot Partner — Collaborates on location-based feminist history projects.
- Pen + Brush Partner — Hosted the TFI Pop-Up Memory Lab at their New York City location.
- Pen and Brush Partner — Hosted the 2024 Pop-Up Memory Lab and showcase event in New York City.
- Pen and Brush Partner — Partner in advancing women in the arts through archival and exhibition initiatives.
- Roxana Fabius Partner — Collaborated as a curator on multiple digital exhibitions about A.I.R. Gallery and Mary Beth Edelson.
- TFI Digital Archive Network — Central platform where digitized feminist materials from partner institutions and creators are made accessible.
- Taylor Bluestine Partner — Co-curated multiple digital exhibitions on A.I.R. Gallery and Mary Beth Edelson.
- The American LGBTQ+ Museum Partner — Partner in preserving and exhibiting LGBTQ+ feminist histories.
- Women's Studio Workshop Partner — Collaborates with Women's Studio Workshop, which is featured in the TFI Digital Archive.
- Women's Studio Workshop Partner — Partner organization in feminist art and archival initiatives.
- content partnerships Partner — Collaborates with content partners to expand access to feminist archives and programming.
- supersisters Partner — Collaborates on archival documentation of feminist cultural projects.
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strategies · 3
How they approach the work
Named approaches extracted from this org’s sources. Where others share an approach, follow it to see the full set of orgs running it.
- Collaborative and Ethical Stewardship of Archivesmethodology: ethical_co-governanceBy involving record holders in cataloging and using co-governance to determine access, we ensure that archival practices are relationally accountable and ethically grounded because trust and consent are central to feminist care.
- Digital Preservation as Activismmethodology: digital_preservation_as_activismBy digitizing at-risk feminist materials and ensuring long-term access, we sustain feminist movements across generations because preserving marginalized histories is a form of resistance against erasure.
- Feminist Archival Practice for Gender Justicemethodology: feminist_archival_practiceBy centering gender justice, intersectionality, and community engagement in archival work, we preserve feminist histories in a way that challenges traditional power structures and amplifies marginalized voices because representation and inclusion are foundational to social change.