New York · Nonprofit
Community Security Service
Community Security Service (New York) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,247,789 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,641,700). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Community Security Service does
Mission
Protecting Jewish Life and Jewish Way of Life by Partnering with Jewish organizations, governmental authorities, and law enforcement agencies, CSS empowers and safeguards the community by training students, young professionals and synagogue volunteers in professional safety and security techniques as well as providing physical security at synagogues and Jewish events.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provided basic training, guidance and resources to over 7000+ community members to be better equipped to protect their own against the increasing atmosphere of violent incidents and terrorism. Provided advanced training, operational support and resources to the 3000+ volunteers that are already involved with providing regular safety, security, and protection services to different Jewish institutions and events.
$1,589,014 spent75% of program spendingEnabled effective security and safety support for the protection of weekly services at 200 institutions. Enabled effective security and safety support for the protection of 30+ special events.
$68,220 spent3% of program spendingReported and responded to 125+ incidents in coordination with communal partners and/or law enforcement.
$66,456 spent3% of program spendingContinued work towards the mission including outreach and developing strategic partnerships.
$395,150 spent19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,118,840.
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 $2.1M to $4.4M (+111%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Community Security Service’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. 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.
Board chair
Edward Sugar
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $150k → $2.2M.
11 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 Community Security Service’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 funders by total. 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
Community Security Service 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
85% 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 Community Security Service.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 73% · 2019 57% · 2020 43% · 2021 38% · 2022 39% · 2023 33% — 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
46% of Community Security Service's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
65% of Community Security Service'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 $4.0M that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Community Security Service has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Community Security Service
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 8 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community Security Service: 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 Community Security Service?
- Community Security Service (New York) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,247,789 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,641,700). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Community Security Service have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $11,247,789 in grants to Community Security Service, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Security Service?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,641,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Security Service 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 42 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