New York · Nonprofit
LET'S TALK SAFETY INC
LET'S TALK SAFETY INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,200 to it, the largest being SYNCHRONY FOUNDATION ($2,200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $87k
What Let's Talk Safety Inc does
Mission
Let's talk safety, inc. Is a not-for-profit corporation that provides comprehensive substance misuse prevention programs to educational institutions, schools and groups that are specifically targeted to teens and youth. The organization also operates a recovery community and outreach center in new york city. The organization provides holistic wellness services, food, clothing, and educational training for community members.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The positive interventions for living life with addiction recovery support nyc (pillars) offers a holistic approach to substance misuse recovery through a comprehensive network of organizations and institutions that support all who are in recovery, and those loving someone in active addiction. The program helps those receive the support they need for a healthy and balanced lifestyle.
$642,952 spent$24,500 earned by the program87% of program spendingSubstance misuse free environment in harlem (safe) works to create a network of organizations dedicated to supporting and empowering harlem's youth to achieve and maintain a substance misuse free lifestyle. It is a teen led prevention coalition
$93,031 spent13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $735,983.
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 $148k to $918k (+522%).
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: 2019 96% · 2020 96% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 96% · 2024 95% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of LET'S TALK SAFETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Alejandro Alvarez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of LET'S TALK SAFETY 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
LET'S TALK SAFETY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
LET'S TALK SAFETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LET'S TALK SAFETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.6M
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 LET'S TALK SAFETY 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
73% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LET'S TALK SAFETY 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 LET'S TALK SAFETY INC?
- LET'S TALK SAFETY INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,200 to it, the largest being SYNCHRONY FOUNDATION ($2,200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LET'S TALK SAFETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,200 in grants to LET'S TALK SAFETY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of LET'S TALK SAFETY INC?
- SYNCHRONY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LET'S TALK SAFETY 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 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