New York · Nonprofit
EMPIRE DRAGONS NYC INC
EMPIRE DRAGONS NYC INC (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,704 to it, the largest being LILY AUCHINCLOSS FOUNDATION INC ($65,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $31k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $108k
- Net assets
- $138k
What Empire Dragons NYC Inc does
Mission
To spread awareness of the sport of dragon boating and its benefits to women who have batted cancer and to provide funding in the fight against cancer.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The organization used its assets to train new and existing team members to race and travel to and participate in dragon boat races, funds were used to maintain, store and equip dragon boats to race. This achieved a goal of a healthy lifestyle for cancer survivors.
$0 spentContributions to environmental watchdog groups for the areas in which the empire dragon boat team races. This achieves their exempt purpose by providing a healthy environment for the women to race.
$0 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2022 to 2023, from $155k to $138k (−11%).
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.
96% of EMPIRE DRAGONS NYC INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $26k → $83.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 EMPIRE DRAGONS NYC INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
EMPIRE DRAGONS NYC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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 77% · 2018 79% · 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 82% · 2022 60% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
30% of EMPIRE DRAGONS NYC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
95% of EMPIRE DRAGONS NYC 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. $454 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
EMPIRE DRAGONS NYC INC's revenue fell 77% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,774 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like EMPIRE DRAGONS NYC 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.
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EMPIRE DRAGONS NYC INC?
- EMPIRE DRAGONS NYC INC (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,704 to it, the largest being LILY AUCHINCLOSS FOUNDATION INC ($65,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMPIRE DRAGONS NYC INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $107,704 in grants to EMPIRE DRAGONS NYC INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMPIRE DRAGONS NYC INC?
- LILY AUCHINCLOSS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMPIRE DRAGONS NYC 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 11 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