New York · Nonprofit
CUCS INITIATIVES INC
CUCS INITIATIVES INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,000 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($85,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $803k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $95k
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Cucs Initiatives Inc does
Mission
The corporation has been organized for the purposes of providing relief to the poor, distressed and underpriviledged by promoting low-income housing and by promoting economic development in impoverished neighborhoods in the city of new york.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The purpose of this program is to promote low income housing and economic development in impoverished neighborhoods in new york city.
$516,254 spent$803,274 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $516,254.
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 2018 to 2019, from $9.9M to $11M (+8%).
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.
0% of CUCS INITIATIVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Dawn M Pinnock
President & CEO (as of 7/24)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income held at $10k.
From the IRS filings of CUCS INITIATIVES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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
CUCS INITIATIVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
CUCS INITIATIVES INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
CUCS INITIATIVES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CUCS INITIATIVES 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- Center for Urban Community Services Inc · exempt
- Cucs Housing Development Fund Corp II · exempt
- Cucs Housing Development Fund Corp III · exempt
- Cucs Housing Development Fund Corp IV · exempt
- Janian Medical Care PC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CUCS INITIATIVES 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 CUCS INITIATIVES INC?
- CUCS INITIATIVES INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,000 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($85,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CUCS INITIATIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $95,000 in grants to CUCS INITIATIVES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CUCS INITIATIVES INC?
- THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CUCS INITIATIVES 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 3 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