New York · Nonprofit
CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT INC
CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,397,135 to it, the largest being NEW YORK FOUNDATION ($283,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $262k
What Carribean Equality Project Inc does
Mission
The Caribbean Equality Project is an NYC-based community organization that empowers, advocates for, and represents Afro and Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrants in New York City.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Caribbean Equality Project (CEP) launched its monthly Food Justice Program in response to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Caribbean communities across New York City. In partnership with local officials and community organizations, CEP provides culturally responsive groceries, fresh produce, PPE,toiletries, period products, and other essential items???especially during Thanksgiving, Diwali, Christmas, and Kwanzaa. In 2024, CEP served over 22,000 low-income and undocumented LGBTQ+ people, immigrant families, and seniors through pop-up pantries in Flatbush, Brooklyn, and Soundview, The Bronx, which also offered health, housing, and voter resources to promote safety, dignity, and community care.
$60,582 spent22% of program spendingLaunched in 2021, the Caribbean Equality Project???s Trans Justice Unit (TJU) empowers trans, non-binary, and gender-expansive Caribbean immigrants through advocacy,direct support, and community care. Grounded in the legacies of resistance within human rights, labor, and racial justice movements, TJU advances trans liberation by providing access to affirming healthcare, sexual health resources, housing support, economic justice initiatives, workforce development, and immigration assistance for asylum seekers. The unit also leads legislative advocacy to strengthen trans rights and ensure equity, safety, and dignity for Caribbean trans communities.
$78,714 spent28% of program spendingIn 2022, the Caribbean Equality Project (CEP) launched Queeribbean Crossings, a community-centered, transnational conference dedicated to exploring queer and trans Caribbean histories and the ongoing realities of marginalization, resistance, and liberation. Hosted annually by CEP in partnership with the CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium, the conference aligns with the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence and Human Rights Day. It confronts gendered and racialized violence while fostering dialogue and action toward community-driven solutions. Queeribbean Crossings centers the intersections of cross-racial solidarity, intimate partner violence, liberation, immigration, trans equity, decriminalization, mental health, and HIV care, with a focus on the lived experiences of Black, Asian, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ Caribbean communities.
$37,187 spent13% of program spendingPagwah Social Justice Immigration Racial Justice City Wide Parades Pride Month Advocacy Unchained Capacity Building Civic Engagement
$103,791 spent37% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $280,274.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $12k to $359k (+2843%).
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: 2019 50% · 2020 23% · 2021 20% · 2022 96% · 2023 70% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Mohamed Q Amin
Executive director
Board chair
Ramdat Singh
Co chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $6k → $365k.
5 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT 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
CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
73% 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 CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 38% · 2021 36% · 2022 28% · 2023 22% — 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
33% of CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
89% of CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT 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. $127k 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
CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT 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
Organizations like CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT 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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT INC?
- CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,397,135 to it, the largest being NEW YORK FOUNDATION ($283,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,397,135 in grants to CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT INC?
- NEW YORK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $283,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 26 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