New York · Nonprofit
Make The Road States Inc
Make The Road States Inc (New York) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,700,128 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($3,985,000). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 125
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Make The Road States Inc does
Mission
Make the road states, inc. Is a national organization which operates projects that deliver direct services, including adult education, youth leadership development and support programming, and legal services, to support communities, their members and their leadership, reduce oppression and discrimination, and help individuals families and communities to thrive. In addition to operating the projects, the organization also provides financial, human resources, operations, compliance and other infrastructure support to organizations that share a strategic vision and values.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Organizing projects: organizing projects aim to build a stronger community, make governing institutions subject to leadership development. The organization focuses on issues that most deeply impact its members, including immigrants' rights, workers' rights, civic engagement and more.
$9,467,515 spentof which $1,915,726 as grants85% of program spendingLegal and supportive services: the make the road family of organizations offers a wide range of legal and support services to low-income communities, including health care access.
$1,177,348 spentof which $177 as grants11% of program spendingYouth and school programs: youth development programs support low income young people with peer led college access support, creative arts and media programs, internship opportunities and more.
$423,534 spentof which $2,041 as grants4% of program spendinghealth programs
$93,006 spent1% of program spendingadult education
$30,334 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,191,737.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $7.4M to $15M (+97%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 9% · 2022 15% · 2023 13% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Make The Road States Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Arlenis Morel
Executive Director
Board chair
Oona Chatterjee
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $8.1M.
29 of 125 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.9M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Center for Popular Democracy Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Make The Road States Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Make The Road States Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 125 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
Make The Road States Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
74% 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 Make The Road States Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 30% · 2021 20% · 2022 16% · 2023 19% — 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
38% of Make The Road States Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
Make The Road States Inc draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
Make The Road States Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Make The Road States Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.4M on record — $300k federal, $4.1M state.
- Department of Homeland Security$300k
- FEDERAL$3.3M
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$403k
- GRANT IN AID$179k
- DEDICATED$132k
- TRUST FUND$126k
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 Make The Road States 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Make the Road New York · exempt
- Children's grove park · exempt
- MRNY QALICB Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Make The Road States 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 Make The Road States Inc?
- Make The Road States Inc (New York) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,700,128 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($3,985,000). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Make The Road States Inc have?
- IRS filings report 125 organizations giving $32,700,128 in grants to Make The Road States Inc, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Make The Road States Inc?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,985,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Make The Road States 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 125 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