New York · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF SEAMEN'S SOCIETY
FRIENDS OF SEAMEN'S SOCIETY (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,850 to it, the largest being STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $865k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Friends of Seamen's Society does
Mission
To assist, support & benefit the seamen's society for children & families, through the ownership, development, management & maintenance of real property & improvements thereto.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Improvements at 50 bay street, staten island, ny utilized by the affiliate to operate a comprehensive social services agency that offers the following programs/services: foster care and adoption, family support services, domestic/intimate partner violence intervention & counseling, home health care management, child care and youth enrichment programs.
$315,403 spent$570,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $315,403.
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 2021 to 2022, from $7.1M to $6.5M (−8%).
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.
0% of FRIENDS OF SEAMEN'S SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
David W Gaskin
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Jon Del Giorno
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $18k → $500.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF SEAMEN'S SOCIETY’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
FRIENDS OF SEAMEN'S SOCIETY 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 FRIENDS OF SEAMEN'S SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of FRIENDS OF SEAMEN'S SOCIETY'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. 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
FRIENDS OF SEAMEN'S SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF SEAMEN'S SOCIETY
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
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Seamen's Society for Children & Families · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF SEAMEN'S SOCIETY: 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 FRIENDS OF SEAMEN'S SOCIETY?
- FRIENDS OF SEAMEN'S SOCIETY (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,850 to it, the largest being STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF SEAMEN'S SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $19,850 in grants to FRIENDS OF SEAMEN'S SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF SEAMEN'S SOCIETY?
- STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF SEAMEN'S SOCIETY 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 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