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Causewave Community Partners Inc

Causewave Community Partners Inc (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,154,911 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($2,279,288). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.6M
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$5.2M
Net assets
$1.7M
15/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 54%
01What it does

What Causewave Community Partners Inc does

Mission

Making Communities stronger by bringing voice to diverse public issues and needs and building capacity within nonprofit organizations. (Continued on Schedule O) Each year we work with hundreds of nonprofits and coalitions on a variety of issues, from marketing to fundraising and from strategic planning to community-level change.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Organization Impact - Causewave assists nonprofits with many of the challenges that can limit their organizational effectiveness. This goal is achieved through a variety of standard and customized programs, led by Causewave's professional staff, with the support of volunteer professionals. This work often includes: strategic planning, marketing & communications planning and implementation, board development, fundraising planning, project management / process facilitation, brand development, foundational work (Mission, Vision, Values, Theory of Change), customer touchpoint analysis, and community outreach and engagement.

    $637,607 spent$569,823 earned by the program
    87% of program spending
  2. Community Impact - Community impact initiatives bring together diverse partners and stakeholders to address a significant issue or need in the community that can't be solved by one organization. Causewave works in partnership with all relevant nonprofit organizations, government agencies, businesses and funders to find a long-term, sustainable solution to a problem. This group uses a collective impact approach and engages in project management, market research, action plan development, campaign creation, media planning, program development / improvement and impact measurement. This broad-based effort often includes significant in-kind support from marketing, media and market research professionals.

    $98,373 spent$69,733 earned by the program
    13% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $735,980.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($981k) Expenses 100 ($774k) Net assets 100 ($418k)2018 Revenue 96 ($940k) Expenses 112 ($864k) Net assets 117 ($489k)2019 Revenue 97 ($953k) Expenses 124 ($961k) Net assets 117 ($489k)2020 Revenue 115 ($1.1M) Expenses 138 ($1.1M) Net assets 133 ($557k)2021 Revenue 181 ($1.8M) Expenses 142 ($1.1M) Net assets 296 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 74 ($725k) Expenses 155 ($1.2M) Net assets 180 ($752k)2023 Revenue 113 ($1.1M) Expenses 175 ($1.4M) Net assets 124 ($519k)2024 Revenue 262 ($2.6M) Expenses 186 ($1.4M) Net assets 397 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (262)Expenses (186)Net assets (397)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $809k to $2.9M (+253%).

$465k
$605k
$551k
$800k
$1.4M
$829k
$809k
$2.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 6% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$208k
’17
$76k
’18
−$8k
’19
$58k
’20
$674k
’21
−$473k
’22
−$245k
’23
$1.1M
’24
15
months of
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

Todd Butler

President & CEO

Board chair

Tom O'Connor

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2928362731333432
Joined·+5+8+2+4+7+5+4
No longer listed·60110546
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $103k → $587k.

9 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Causewave Community Partners 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

Causewave Community Partners Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

44%
largest funder
68%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 52% · 2019 68% · 2020 33% · 2021 42% · 2022 50% · 2023 75% — growing more concentrated.

“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

57% of Causewave Community Partners Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Causewave Community Partners Inc draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.

MI
NY
OH
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding Causewave Community Partners Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $600k on record.

Federal$600k
grants $600kcontracts $0
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24
25
Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$600k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

57% of spending goes to programs.

Program 57%Management 33%Fundraising 10%

Governance

26
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

47%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds Causewave Community Partners Inc?
Causewave Community Partners Inc (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,154,911 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($2,279,288). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Causewave Community Partners Inc have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $5,154,911 in grants to Causewave Community Partners Inc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Causewave Community Partners Inc?
THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,279,288 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Causewave Community Partners 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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