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CUSTOM COLLABORATIVE INC

CUSTOM COLLABORATIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,416,109 to it, the largest being PVH FOUNDATION INC ($515,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$970k
Funders on record
36
Grants received
$2.4M
Net assets
$871k
22/36 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%
01What it does

What Custom Collaborative Inc does

Mission

Custom collaborative, inc trains, maintors and advocates for and with no/low-income and immigrant women to build the skills necessary to achieve economic success in the sustainable fashion industry and broader society

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Organization provided a paid full-time 14 week course in the art technique and business fashion that equips trainees with marketplace skills and a business plan. Participants complete our program knowing how to make custom clothing, develop and use personal financial planning skils and with a network of mentors and colleagues in the sustainable fashion industry, business incubator, supports entrepreneurial efforts among our graduates and other emerging designers and business owners.

    $1,313,830 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,313,830.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($213k) Expenses 100 ($99k) Net assets 100 ($114k)2019 Revenue 150 ($320k) Expenses 345 ($343k) Net assets 79 ($90k)2020 Revenue 289 ($617k) Expenses 518 ($515k) Net assets 166 ($190k)2021 Revenue 370 ($790k) Expenses 490 ($487k) Net assets 431 ($492k)2022 Revenue 468 ($999k) Expenses 829 ($825k) Net assets 583 ($667k)2023 Revenue 822 ($1.8M) Expenses 1041 ($1.0M) Net assets 1213 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 455 ($970k) Expenses 1483 ($1.5M) Net assets 762 ($871k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (455)Expenses (1483)Net assets (762)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $678k to $3.8M (+468%).

$114k
$91k
$221k
$498k
$678k
$3.8M
$3.2M
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 0% · 2021 12% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of CUSTOM COLLABORATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,338 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$114k
’18
−$24k
’19
$102k
’20
$303k
’21
$174k
’22
$719k
’23
−$505k
’24
7.1
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

Ngozi Okaro

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed5599922
Joined·+1+6+0+0··
No longer listed·1200··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 16 funders, grant income rose $25k → $718k.

13 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 CUSTOM COLLABORATIVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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

CUSTOM COLLABORATIVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

54% 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 CUSTOM COLLABORATIVE INC.

21%
largest funder
47%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 57% · 2019 69% · 2020 32% · 2021 50% · 2022 30% · 2023 25% — 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

29% of CUSTOM COLLABORATIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

84% of CUSTOM COLLABORATIVE INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

ME
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $594k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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

Against its field

CUSTOM COLLABORATIVE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,276 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−52% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve7.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,276 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds CUSTOM COLLABORATIVE INC?
CUSTOM COLLABORATIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,416,109 to it, the largest being PVH FOUNDATION INC ($515,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CUSTOM COLLABORATIVE INC have?
IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $2,416,109 in grants to CUSTOM COLLABORATIVE INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CUSTOM COLLABORATIVE INC?
PVH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $515,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CUSTOM COLLABORATIVE 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 36 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