New York · Nonprofit
Inspiring Minds of New York City Inc
Inspiring Minds of New York City Inc (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $687,915 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($338,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $688k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Inspiring Minds of New York City Inc does
Mission
To engage inspire and empower youth to reach their full potential through education and exposure to life changing experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
After-School and Summer Programming is offered weekly for students focusing on education, mentoring, leadership, arts, civic engagement, college and career readiness, internships, personal development and so much more. At Inspiring Minds, students work in a happy, safe and structured environment that encourages them to become the next generation of leaders.The Life Goal Labs curriculum is an emotional wellness and leadership program for high school students ages 13-20, inspired by the healing philosophies of indigenous cultures from around the world. The program uses nature as a thematic guide to support participants as they awaken their personal leadership style. It arms students with tools for emotional literacy, stress reduction, and body awareness so that they may access their inner compass for success. During the pandemic, this program became Coed due to an increasing demand of health and wellness for the boys. The Sankofa Young Mens Empowerment Program will provide students with a holistic educational experience designed to assist them in cultivating their leadership skills. This 10-week experience will draw on principles from West African rite of passage ceremonies that…
$1,217,812 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,217,812.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $364k to $1.4M (+275%).
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 69% · 2022 37% · 2023 77% · 2024 81% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Inspiring Minds of New York City Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Sharleen Morris
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $18k → $200k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Inspiring Minds of New York City 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
Inspiring Minds of New York City Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 Inspiring Minds of New York City Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 81% · 2022 42% · 2023 40% — 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
50% of Inspiring Minds of New York City Inc's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 20% 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
97% of Inspiring Minds of New York City 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. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Inspiring Minds of New York City Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Inspiring Minds of New York City 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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Inspiring Minds of New York City Inc?
- Inspiring Minds of New York City Inc (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $687,915 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($338,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Inspiring Minds of New York City Inc have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $687,915 in grants to Inspiring Minds of New York City Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Inspiring Minds of New York City Inc?
- PINKERTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $338,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Inspiring Minds of New York City 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 10 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