New York · Nonprofit
ARIVA INC
ARIVA INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,170,685 to it, the largest being CITI FOUNDATION ($500,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Ariva Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to bring economic justice, opportunity and inclusion to our bronx neighbors and other underserved communities across new york city. We envision a world where all new york city residents experience economic justice, financial inclusion and the opportunity to build financially empowered and prosperous lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ariva's vita program completed its 22nd season in 2025. We remain the largest and most established free income tax preparation program based in the bronx. During the 2025 season, we prepared 8,878 tax returns across 12 sites, generating more than 13 million in refunds for low- and moderate- income new yorkers. Our bronx senior empowerment project continued to grow, providing assistance to over 1000 older adults. In addition, we launched a new tax site in partnership with nyc health + hospitals/gotham health, morrisania, expanding access to free tax services in the community.
$903,177 spent40% of program spendingAriva provides free financial counseling and coaching to low income new yorkers, both as a stand alone service and as an integrated component of our free tax preparation program. We offer comprehensive financial counseling at multiple nonprofit partner sites located in underserved communities across new york city. Along with serving the general public, our team has deep expertise in specialized counseling for individuals seeking affordable housing, recent immigrants, micro entrepreneurs, and new yorkers with very low incomes. In 2025, ariva delivered one on one financial counseling to 4,700 clients. That same year, we also launched our financial literacy for youth initiative, expanding our efforts to support young people in building strong financial foundations.
$1,328,896 spent60% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,232,073.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $4.1M to $5.1M (+22%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 66% · 2018 45% · 2019 52% · 2020 74% · 2021 63% · 2022 69% · 2023 67% · 2024 61% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of ARIVA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Heng Ly
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $38k → $305k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARIVA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ARIVA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
49% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARIVA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 87% · 2019 71% · 2020 52% · 2021 68% · 2022 62% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
44% of ARIVA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
94% of ARIVA INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ARIVA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ARIVA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $951k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$951k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ARIVA INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARIVA INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARIVA INC?
- ARIVA INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,170,685 to it, the largest being CITI FOUNDATION ($500,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARIVA INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $2,170,685 in grants to ARIVA INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARIVA INC?
- CITI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARIVA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing