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GRAND PENN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC

GRAND PENN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,172,192 to it, the largest being NATIONAL CIVIC ART SOCIETY ($3,172,192). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$657k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$3.2M
Net assets
$437k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 98%
01What it does

What Grand Penn Community Alliance Inc does

Mission

The grand penn community alliance's mission (alliance) is to educate and raise the general awareness of the public significant benefits and historical background of penn station and to advocate for a major renovation of penn station to return it to its grand and glorious prominence serving as a world-class, sustainable public space and transportation destination that will transform the neighborhood and serve the needs of commuters, community, businesses, and visitors in an uplifting and gratifying building that relates to the design and architecture of the original penn station and the existing grand central terminal. Alliance has a particular focus on the use of classical architecture for public buildings, monuments, or works, lessening neighborhood tensions by incorporating good planning principles to resolve land use conflicts, and combating community deterioration by fostering a shared commitment to improvement. Alliance's activities include holding events, creating online materials highlighting alliance's missions. Alliance's activities are conducted by combination of volunteers and independent consultants who are engaged by alliance. Alliance's activities are funded 100…

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To educate and raise the general awareness of the public significant benefits and historical background of penn station and to advocate for a major (complete) renovation of penn station to return it to its grand and glorious prominence serving as a world-class, sustainable public space and transportation destination.

    $737,125 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $737,125.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($157k)2023 Revenue 104 ($1.3M) Expenses 83 ($907k) Net assets 350 ($547k)2024 Revenue 53 ($657k) Expenses 71 ($767k) Net assets 279 ($437k)
202220232024
Revenue (53)Expenses (71)Net assets (279)Peer revenue range

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 $157k to $547k (+250%).

$157k
$547k
$437k
202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of GRAND PENN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$157k
’22
$391k
’23
−$110k
’24
6.8
months of
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.

202220232024
Listed344
Joined·+1+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25k → $1.3M.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of GRAND PENN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE 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.

Where its funders are

GRAND PENN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.

DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GRAND PENN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−17% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−27% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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In New York

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 26%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds GRAND PENN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC?
GRAND PENN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,172,192 to it, the largest being NATIONAL CIVIC ART SOCIETY ($3,172,192). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GRAND PENN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,172,192 in grants to GRAND PENN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GRAND PENN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC?
NATIONAL CIVIC ART SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $3,172,192 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GRAND PENN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 1 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