New York · Nonprofit
DIVAS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC
DIVAS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,609 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($153,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $470k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $203k
- Net assets
- $108k
What Divas for Social Justice Inc does
Mission
DIVAS Digital Interactive Visual Arts and Sciences encourages and empowers youth in underserved communities to use technology towards social change bridge the digital divide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sucessfully administered Steam Science Technology Engineering Ars Math based activities for youth ages 11-14 years old in after school programming in Central Blyn and SE Queens.
$370,101 spent92% of program spendingSucessfullY administered community workshops and parent engagement workshops in southeast Queens
$32,239 spent8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $402,340.
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 2019 to 2020, from $167k to $79k (−53%).
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: 2017 100% · 2019 86% · 2020 89% · 2021 73% · 2022 62% · 2023 79% · 2024 80% · 2025 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of DIVAS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Clarisa James
Founder and executive director
Board chair
Murray Cox
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $52k → $10k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 DIVAS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
DIVAS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 88%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 90% · 2023 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
100% of DIVAS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
DIVAS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DIVAS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DIVAS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 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 DIVAS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC?
- DIVAS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,609 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($153,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DIVAS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $202,609 in grants to DIVAS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DIVAS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC?
- PINKERTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $153,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIVAS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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