New York · Nonprofit
EQUITY ADVOCATES INC
EQUITY ADVOCATES INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,205,800 to it, the largest being NEW YORK STATE HEALTH FDN D/B/A NEW YORK HEALTH FOUNDATION ($170,030). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $171k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $441k
What Equity Advocates Inc does
Mission
Equity advocates builds the capacity of nonprofit organizations to address the underlying causes of food inequity through policy and systems change. We partner with new york-based organizations working to alleviate hunger and poverty, providing them with the tools they need to be more civically engaged. These include policy education, advocacy training and coalition building services. Through this work, we are building a non-partisan grassroots coalition of powerful advocates and leaders within the food movement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Equity advocates' programs consists of the following: equity advocates provides advocacy and leadership development workshops, policy technical assistance and vital coalition leadership to strengthen the advocacy capacity and food policy knowledge of new york food systems leaders.
$238,097 spent$700 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $238,097.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $235k to $525k (+123%).
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: 2020 11% · 2021 1% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of EQUITY ADVOCATES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Catherine Luu
Chair of the
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $66k → $228k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 EQUITY ADVOCATES 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
EQUITY ADVOCATES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 31% · 2021 35% · 2022 41% · 2023 50% — 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
20% of EQUITY ADVOCATES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
62% of EQUITY ADVOCATES 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. $122k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
EQUITY ADVOCATES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like EQUITY ADVOCATES 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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EQUITY ADVOCATES 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 EQUITY ADVOCATES INC?
- EQUITY ADVOCATES INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,205,800 to it, the largest being NEW YORK STATE HEALTH FDN D/B/A NEW YORK HEALTH FOUNDATION ($170,030). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EQUITY ADVOCATES INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,205,800 in grants to EQUITY ADVOCATES INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EQUITY ADVOCATES INC?
- NEW YORK STATE HEALTH FDN D/B/A NEW YORK HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $170,030 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EQUITY ADVOCATES 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 14 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