New York · Nonprofit
DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc
DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc (New York) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,301,612 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($2,000,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc does
Mission
Public Charity - established to educate and organize low-income South Asian immigrants in New York City for immigrant rights, access to education, and social justice. DRUM is a multigenerational, membership led organization. To build power of South Asian low wage immigrant worker
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Racial & Immigrant Justice Program - Educates, builds leadership, and assists immigrant families to access civil and immigrant rights, and runs legal clinics. This also includes services provided via the Citywide Immigrant Legal Empowerment Collaborative (CILEC) and organizing to make our communities safer through the Hate Violence Prevention Initiative.
$537,634 spent$288,800 earned by the program40% of program spendingBuilding Power & Safety Through Solidarity Program Educates our community about the changing conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic, provide resources such as food and direct relief for those in need, build community support networks to keep our families and communities safe and connected, and build leadership of members on issues such as housing and workers excluded from federal and relief funds. This included Vaccine Education, nonpartisan voter education, and PPE Distribution, the Excluded Workers Fund Campaign, and Housing Relief Campaign
$513,910 spent$385,000 earned by the program39% of program spendingSouth Asian Workers Center - Educates and assists low-wage workers to access labor rights, address employment discrimination, and runs legal clinics. Gender Justice Program - Develops leadership of young women to lead gender justice and social change in their homes, schools, and communities. Global Justice Program - Builds coalitions internationally for peace and migrant rights. Gender Justice Program - Develops leadership of young women to lead gender justice and social change in their homes, schools, and communities. Hate Free Zones - Builds neighborhood-based community defense systems and community safety mechanisms for all people. Global Justice Program - Builds coalitions internationally for peace and migrant rights. Made over 15,000 phone calls, text messages, or held conversations with community members on vaccines to get our communities vaccinated, nonpartisan voter engagement & registration, access to food, provided protective equipment (masks and tests), and provide ongoing updates about the pandemic. Provided direct services and resources to over 5000 community members and their families through various immigrant, housing, health, food, vaccine, PPE distribution, and…
$139,834 spent$140,000 earned by the program11% of program spendingEducation Justice & YouthPower! Program - Educates and builds leadership of low-income immigrant youth to improve access to public education. Includes grassroots campaigns to End Institutionalized Bullying in schools, win more resources for restorative justice practices, counselors and social workers.
$139,302 spent$137,750 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,330,680.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.1M to $5.2M (+68%).
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.
95% of DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Fahd Ahmed
Executive Director
Board chair
Judith LeBlanc
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $495k → $1.4M.
16 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
75% 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 DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 32% · 2019 13% · 2020 21% · 2021 13% · 2022 15% · 2023 15% — 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
41% of DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
69% of DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving 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. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,206 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,206 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving 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
75% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- DRUM Beats · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving 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 DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc?
- DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc (New York) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,301,612 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($2,000,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $11,301,612 in grants to DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 59 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