Skip to content

New York · Nonprofit

LET GROW INC

LET GROW INC (New York) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,253,757 to it, the largest being CHARLES KOCH FOUNDATION ($1,625,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.1M
Funders on record
39
Grants received
$6.3M
Net assets
$2.2M
20/39 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Let Grow Inc does

Mission

Let grow is making it easy, normal, and legal to provide kids with the independence they need to grow into capable, confident, and happy adults.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Let grow, inc. Runs in school and after school programs that provide opportunities for kids to feel more empowered and develop trust in their own abilities, as well as provides education, advocacy, and support for state policies regarding reasonable independence for children. Let grow, inc. Also publishes articles and disseminates informational content that advises parents and educators on why and how to let kids grow.publications and educational materials - we continued to expand our library of articles, videos and other content reaching thousands of readers across multiple platforms, including a subscriber base of 73,410+. We expanded thought leadership with published articles in numerous education publications, as well as local and international media.in school/after school programs - in 2025 3,700 new schools requested guides for the let grow experience and/or play club. Over 1,600 schools committed to full or partial use of the program.scholarships - the 8th annual think for yourself scholarship received 4,639 submissions from high school seniors, challenging them to think differently about culture and to critically evaluate topics related to let grow programs. In 2025, we…

    $944,502 spentof which $81,896 as grants$114,300 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $944,502.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($780k) Expenses 100 ($471k) Net assets 100 ($328k)2019 Revenue 84 ($654k) Expenses 156 ($734k) Net assets 76 ($248k)2020 Revenue 192 ($1.5M) Expenses 310 ($1.5M) Net assets 85 ($279k)2021 Revenue 124 ($968k) Expenses 186 ($877k) Net assets 113 ($370k)2022 Revenue 118 ($919k) Expenses 121 ($572k) Net assets 218 ($717k)2023 Revenue 141 ($1.1M) Expenses 162 ($763k) Net assets 321 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 264 ($2.1M) Expenses 191 ($900k) Net assets 673 ($2.2M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (264)Expenses (191)Net assets (673)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 $1.1M to $2.2M (+110%).

$368k
$272k
$349k
$387k
$723k
$1.1M
$2.2M
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of LET GROW INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$309k
’18
−$80k
’19
$34k
’20
$91k
’21
$347k
’22
$336k
’23
$1.2M
’24
0.7
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.

Chief executive

Andrea Keith

Executive director

Board chair

Daniel Shuchman

Chair/treasurer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed5556666
Joined·+0+0+2+1+0+0
No longer listed·001100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $1k → $548k.

9 of 39 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 LET GROW INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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

LET GROW INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

26%
largest funder
54%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 49% · 2019 38% · 2020 73% · 2021 37% · 2022 35% · 2023 37% — 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

42% of LET GROW INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

LET GROW INC draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 15 states in all.

ID
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
VA
DE
AZ
NC
DC
TX
FL

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. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

LET GROW INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin56% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like LET GROW 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

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 19%Fundraising 15%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

42%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 5 states

IL
NY
CT
CA
VA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LET GROW 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 LET GROW INC?
LET GROW INC (New York) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,253,757 to it, the largest being CHARLES KOCH FOUNDATION ($1,625,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LET GROW INC have?
IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $6,253,757 in grants to LET GROW INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LET GROW INC?
CHARLES KOCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,625,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LET GROW 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 39 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