New York · Nonprofit
INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC
INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,897,087 to it, the largest being JOSEPH & SYLVIA SLIFKA FOUNDATION INC ($2,415,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Interfaith Center of New York Inc does
Mission
The interfaith center of new york (icny) seeks to make new york city and the world safe for religious differences by increasing respect and mutual understanding among people of different faith, ethnic and cultural traditions, and by bolstering cooperation among religious communities and civic organizations to solve common social problems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Religious worlds of ny. The religious worlds of ny summer institute for k-12 teachers is a project of icny and union theological seminary with support from the national endowment for the humanities. The goal is to help k-12 teachers teach about everyday life of american religious diversity, in addition to the conventional "world religions" curriculum. Selected school teachers from throughout the united states participate. They learn from scholars of religion, meet with diverse religious leaders, visit local houses of worship, conduct field research and develop their own religious diversity curriculum projects.
$150,144 spentof which $129,900 as grants18% of program spendingAsylee seeker shelter program - the asylee seeker shelter program was a program where icny was the subcontractor of new york disaster interfaith services, in an initiative to convert houses of worship into overnight stabilization bed shelters for populations of asylum-seeking new yorkers. Icny successfully did outreach to hundreds of houses of worship to encourage participation in the program and additionally toured houses of worship to help identify strong candidates for the program. Through working directly with faith leaders, we were not only able to identify possible shelter sites, we also supported houses of worship as they navigated the process of becoming an overnight shelter.
$122,529 spent15% of program spendingEquipping houses of worship - with the help of trinity grants, icny created the "equipping houses of worship to support migrants" program in response to the rapid increase in migrants and asylum seekers arriving in new york city beginning the summer of 2022 to catalyze diverse houses of worship to provide support and shelter for asylum seekers. With this goal, icny 1) distributed small grants to diverse faith communities and 2) created a learning community that convenes virtually on a bimonthly basis to offer a shared scriptural reflection, receive and give technical assistance and problem solve, and develop advocacy strategies. In addition to addressing the immediate needs of migrants, this work builds the capacity of diverse houses of worship allowing them to take part in wider city-run bed stabilization proposed initiatives for the future.
$118,275 spentof which $97,415 as grants14% of program spendingMigrant work;racial justice;marshall meyer retreat; andramadan meals initiative.
$443,795 spent53% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $834,743.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.3M to $1.9M (+45%).
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: 2017 20% · 2018 16% · 2019 19% · 2020 6% · 2021 3% · 2022 8% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Rev Dr Chloe Breyer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $312k → $220k.
6 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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
INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 47% · 2019 50% · 2020 84% · 2021 65% · 2022 81% · 2023 68% — growing more concentrated.
“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
27% of INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
100% of INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK 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. $800k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 369 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 369 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $582k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$582k
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 INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK 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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC?
- INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,897,087 to it, the largest being JOSEPH & SYLVIA SLIFKA FOUNDATION INC ($2,415,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $3,897,087 in grants to INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC?
- JOSEPH & SYLVIA SLIFKA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,415,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 35 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