New York · Nonprofit
Families for Lead Freedom Now
Families for Lead Freedom Now (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $143k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $170k
- Net assets
- $174k
What Families for Lead Freedom Now does
Mission
Families for Lead Freedom Now exists to eliminate childhood lead poisoning and advance health equity for families in Syracuse. Our purpose is to educate the community about lead hazards advocate for stronger protections for children and support families facing the medical educational and housing impacts of lead exposure. We empower parents with information help them navigate unsafe housing conditions and work to hold systems accountable for creating safe healthy homes. Through community education advocacy and direct family support we strive to ensure every child grows up free from the dangers of lead.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Families for Lead Freedom Now exists to eliminate childhood lead poisoning and advance health equity for families in Syracuse. Our purpose is to educate the community about lead hazards advocate for stronger protections for children and support families facing the medical educational and housing impacts of lead exposure. We empower parents with information help them navigate unsafe housing conditions and work to hold systems accountable for creating safe healthy homes. Through community education advocacy and direct family support we strive to ensure every child grows up free from the dangers of lead.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $54k to $0 (−100%).
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.
100% of Families for Lead Freedom Now’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. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Oceanna Fair
Chair Board member
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $40k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 Families for Lead Freedom Now’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
Families for Lead Freedom Now leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 Families for Lead Freedom Now.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 75% — 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.
Where its funders are
88% of Families for Lead Freedom Now's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k 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
Families for Lead Freedom Now runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Families for Lead Freedom Now
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Families for Lead Freedom Now: 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 Families for Lead Freedom Now?
- Families for Lead Freedom Now (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Families for Lead Freedom Now have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $170,000 in grants to Families for Lead Freedom Now, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Families for Lead Freedom Now?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Families for Lead Freedom Now 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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