New York · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST INC
FOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST INC (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $906,153 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($223,378). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $906k
- Net assets
- $936k
What Foundation for New Yorks Strongest Inc does
Mission
The sanitation foundation is the official non-profit partner of the dsny. Our mission is to support the work of dsny to helpclean up the city and reduce waste sent to landfill.we engage individuals, communities, schools, elected officials and corporate partners to participate in this work. We accomplish this by fostering innovative public/private partnerships between dsny, businesses, and community organizations. Our cleaning initiatives, youth education, and public engagement programs help achieve our shared vision.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Psa campaign: dont do nyc dirty is a citywide anti-litter public service campaign led by the sanitation foundation, the official nonprofit partner of new york city (nyc) - department of sanitation (dsny). The campaign is designed to transform new yorkers strong sense of civic pride into everyday action, encouraging people to stop littering and take shared responsibility for keeping the city clean.
$541,452 spent41% of program spendingVolunteer program : the organization organizes and supports volunteer cleanup events hosted by community organizations, civic groups, and corporate partners to advance nyc - dsny's goal of keeping nyc healthy, safe and clean.
$354,274 spent27% of program spendingYouth education : the organization provides facilitated waste education activities (litter cleanups, waste audits, and litter buster assemblies) for nyc youth in grades k - 12, and educator curriculum resources and supply kits to support classroom and afterschool instruction in nyc public schools. In addition, the organization maintains follow your waste-- an interactive, educational game that follows the lifecycle of materials in each of nyc's residential waste streams. Through these program offerings, nyc youth learn how to properly sort and dispose of waste, what happens to it after it is collected, and the ongoing efforts of dsny to keep the city clean, safe, and healthy.
$200,315 spent15% of program spendingWorkshops and other support services. Expenses 678,260
$220,622 spent17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,316,663.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $390k to $1.5M (+294%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 12% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Caryl Englander
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $6k → $262k.
8 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 FOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST 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
FOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
59% 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 FOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 87% · 2020 59% · 2021 50% · 2022 49% · 2023 29% — 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
20% of FOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST 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
51% of FOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST INC'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 $445k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $461k 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.
Against its field
FOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST 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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST INC (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $906,153 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($223,378). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $906,153 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST INC?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $223,378 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 28 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