New York · Nonprofit
CIV LAB INC
CIV LAB INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $282,000 to it, the largest being THE BLACKSTONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($282,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $207k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $282k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Civ Lab Inc does
Mission
CIV:LAB connects local actors with the resources and funding required to launch bold responses to the most pressing challenges facing their communities. Civ Lab aims to enhance community resilience and security by expanding the workforce, educating future leaders, and accelerating the development and adoption of innovative technologies. We support local organizations and actors in collaborating to leverage their resources and improve and strengthen their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Resilience Labs is designed to close the widening gap between escalating climate, health, and housing risks and communities' ability to prepare for and recover from them. The model works through three interconnected components: a Community Resilience Fund, Community Resilience Studios, and a National Collaboration network that connects grantee cohorts across cities like NYC, Michigan, and Los Angeles to share learnings and scale what works. By taking a "middle-out" approach that links place-based innovators with private, philanthropic, and government institutions, Community Resilience Labs aims to build stronger local ecosystems, drive economic development, and advance a more equitable, coordinated national resilience movement.
$325,945 spent51% of program spendingUrban Tech Summit (formerly known as SmartCities New York) - The Urban Tech Summit is an annual event that takes place in partnership with Cornell Tech and Emergence Creative. The summit is a leading global event that brings together leaders from across industries and sectors to explore the emerging influence of technologies in shaping the future. This event served as a testament to the fact that while global challenges can appear insurmountable, meaningful change often commences at the local level.
$318,861 spent$99,021 earned by the program49% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $644,806.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $52k to $1.5M (+2675%).
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 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 0% · 2022 1% · 2023 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of CIV LAB INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Simon Sylvester-Chaudhuri
Member,Exec Dir
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CIV LAB 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CIV LAB INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CIV LAB INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,668 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CIV LAB 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
80% 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 CIV LAB 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CIV LAB INC?
- CIV LAB INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $282,000 to it, the largest being THE BLACKSTONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($282,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CIV LAB INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $282,000 in grants to CIV LAB INC.
- Who is the largest funder of CIV LAB INC?
- THE BLACKSTONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $282,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIV LAB 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing