New York · Nonprofit
FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC
FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC (New York) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,726,862 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($13,057,902). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What Fifth Avenue Committee Inc does
Mission
Fifth avenue committee's mission is to advance economic, social and racial justice in new york city through its comprehensive community development programs and projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Affordable housing and community facilities development: since its founding, fac has developed 1,665 affordable homes, revitalized more than 30 storefronts, and built over 120,000 square feet of community space. Facs affordable housing development and preservation pipeline includes over 2,061 units representing an investment of nearly $1.44 billion in brooklyn. All fac's new developments are designed to leed, enterprise green community or passive house standards. Fac owns and/or manages 46 residential buildings with 738 units in south/central brooklyn and jamaica, queens that are home to 1,100 very low-, low- and moderate-income residents and has 32 small business and nonprofit tenants. Over 75% of our commercial tenants are small, local, minority and/or women owned businesses. A significant portion of fac affordable housing is set aside for special populations including seniors, individuals who are formerly homeless and survivors of domestic violence.
$3,596,455 spentof which $444,920 as grants$4,068,504 earned by the program38% of program spendingAdult education:facs adult education department offers a range of classes, including english for speakers of other languages (esol), adult basic education (abe), high school equivalency (hse), digital literacy, and workforce bridge programming at local public schools and churches. In fy 25, 1,187 students enrolled in one or more of these programs and classes. The bridge program is a partnership with facs nonprofit workforce development affiliate, brooklyn workforce innovations (bwi)s red hook on the road commercial drivers license (cdl), brooklyn networks tele-data cable installation, and brooklyn woods carpentry programs. Per the nys department of education, the program performs in the top quartile of adult education programs statewide.
$1,688,485 spent18% of program spendingOrganizing and advocacy: facs organizing and advocacy programs empower low-income residents through a range of environmental, accountable development, social justice and tenant rights campaigns. Fac leads and participates in local, city and statewide campaigns, and advocates at the federal level for policy changes. Campaigns empower traditionally marginalized groups, such as rent stabilized and public housing residents, and immigrants. In fy25, these programs helped 158 tenants avoid eviction. Fac also continued its leadership of local environmental and climate justice and accountable development campaigns.
$338,308 spent4% of program spendingCommunity services:community services provides a range of free services including public benefits access (snap, unemployment insurance, medicare/aid and more), tax preparation, financial coaching, and legal, housing and health referrals to over 1,200 very low and low-income new yorkers annually. The program helps low-income individuals gain economic and housing stability and build their assets. In fy25, community services connected 379 households with one or more public benefits. The program connected 43 people to legal services, provided financial coaching to 488, and 295 received free tax preparation services. Additionally, fac provided case management and social service supports to over 70 formerly homeless individuals and families living in fac affordable housing to promote housing stability.workforce development:fac affiliate bwi assists over 900 new yorkers each year through sector-based job training and direct placement services. These programs provide access to industry recognized credentials, living-wage employment and career paths, placement and supports (I.e., resume development, interview, and soft skill development). Facs bridge programs that we carry out in…
$3,727,864 spent40% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,351,112.
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.
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 $9.6M to $14M (+49%).
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 24% · 2018 21% · 2019 22% · 2020 22% · 2021 30% · 2022 25% · 2023 24% · 2024 23% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Michelle De La Uz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 20 funders, grant income fell $2.9M → $1.6M.
10 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 64% · 2019 67% · 2020 63% · 2021 39% · 2022 53% · 2023 37% — 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
46% of FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
79% of FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE 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. $470k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.8M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.8M
- Environmental Protection Agency$30k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 47 related entities
- Sunset Garden LLC · disregarded
- Fac at Member LLC · disregarded
- Fac Solar LLC · disregarded
- Fac Gowanus Green LLC · disregarded
- Gowanus Green Building D LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC?
- FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC (New York) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,726,862 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($13,057,902). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $24,726,862 in grants to FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC?
- ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,057,902 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE 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 51 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