Skip to content

New York · Nonprofit

Hester Street Collaborative Inc

Hester Street Collaborative Inc (New York) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,616,277 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($2,288,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.2M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$6.6M
Net assets
$-4280
7/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%
01What it does

What Hester Street Collaborative Inc does

Mission

To promote architecture, design and art in the community through the development of educational programs and improvements of the physical neighborhood.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. We design and implement participatory processes for community planning, design and equitable development; integrate data analysis and technical planning skills with inclusive, interactive community engagement resulting in concrete community benefits; design maps, activities, graphics, toolkits and other popular education tools to gather and disseminate information; demystify complex processes and inspire action plans; plan and manage community facility development projects for community-based organizations; provide technical assistance to plan projects, conduct spatial needs assessments, perform zoning and site analyses, identify sites, facilitate property acquisition, assemble financing and manage design and construction.

    $2,419,470 spentof which $113,824 as grants$1,005,751 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,419,470.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($750k)2019 Revenue 197 ($3.6M) Expenses 124 ($2.7M) Net assets 215 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 165 ($3.1M) Expenses 143 ($3.1M) Net assets 213 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 279 ($5.2M) Expenses 200 ($4.3M) Net assets 329 ($2.5M)2022 Revenue 244 ($4.5M) Expenses 241 ($5.2M) Net assets 239 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 310 ($5.7M) Expenses 204 ($4.4M) Net assets 421 ($3.2M)2024 Revenue 170 ($3.2M) Expenses 147 ($3.2M) Net assets -1 ($-4280)
2017201920202021202220232024
Revenue (170)Expenses (147)Net assets (-1)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 2023 to 2024, from $4.2M to $876k (−79%).

$871k
$2.0M
$2.1M
$3.1M
$2.8M
$4.2M
$876k
2017201920202021202220232024
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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 9% · 2019 4% · 2020 11% · 2021 11% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

67% of Hester Street Collaborative Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$297k
’17
$989k
’19
−$10k
’20
$867k
’21
−$671k
’22
$1.4M
’23
−$13k
’24
0.8
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.

2017201920202021202220232024
Listed17111214151614
Joined··+1+2+3+4+1
No longer listed··00233
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $140k → $853k.

3 of 20 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 Hester Street Collaborative 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

Hester Street Collaborative Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

31% 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 Hester Street Collaborative Inc.

35%
largest funder
84%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 60% · 2019 86% · 2020 77% · 2021 40% · 2022 34% · 2023 59% — 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

44% of Hester Street Collaborative Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

96% of Hester Street Collaborative Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.

ME
MI
NY
NJ
DC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Hester Street Collaborative Inc's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding Hester Street Collaborative Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $318k on record.

Federal$318k
grants $318kcontracts $0
17
18
19
20
21
22
24
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$318k

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 Hester Street Collaborative 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 19%Fundraising 5%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

49%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hester Street Collaborative Inc: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Hester Street Collaborative Inc?
Hester Street Collaborative Inc (New York) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,616,277 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($2,288,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Hester Street Collaborative Inc have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $6,616,277 in grants to Hester Street Collaborative Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Hester Street Collaborative Inc?
THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,288,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Hester Street Collaborative 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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