New York · Nonprofit
BIG APPLE GREETER INC
BIG APPLE GREETER INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,230 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($52,800). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $160k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $156k
- Net assets
- $61k
What Big Apple Greeter Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is to enhance new york city's worldwide image and enrich the new york experience, with a goal of bolstering tourism and fostering economic development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Connecting visitors with knowledgeable and enthusiastic greeters who volunteer their time to provide a warm welcome and introduction to more than 100 neighborhoods throughout new york city. The organization builds bridges between people and cultures and promotes cross-cultural understanding. Greeters welcome visitors from all over the world, and visitors go home with a better appreciation of the diversity of new yorkers and all americans.
$81,088 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $81,088.
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 2021 to 2022, from $108k to $82k (−24%).
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 19% · 2018 15% · 2019 8% · 2020 12% · 2021 40% · 2022 12% · 2023 10% · 2024 11% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BIG APPLE GREETER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Alicia Pierro
Secretary & executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $13k → $12k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $30k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest New York City Tourism Conventions Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BIG APPLE GREETER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BIG APPLE GREETER 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
BIG APPLE GREETER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 BIG APPLE GREETER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 33% · 2019 97% · 2020 61% · 2021 57% · 2022 78% · 2023 49% — broadly stable.
“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 BIG APPLE GREETER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
82% of BIG APPLE GREETER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $28k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $128k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
BIG APPLE GREETER INC's revenue grew 24% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BIG APPLE GREETER 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
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 BIG APPLE GREETER 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 BIG APPLE GREETER INC?
- BIG APPLE GREETER INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,230 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($52,800). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIG APPLE GREETER INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $156,230 in grants to BIG APPLE GREETER INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG APPLE GREETER INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $52,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG APPLE GREETER 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 13 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