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NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC
NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,768,080 to it, the largest being AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC ($693,892). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $28M
What New York Civil Liberties Union Inc does
Mission
To defend and promote civil rights and civil liberties.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Policy - engages in policy analysis, legislative analysis, lobbying, public education and advocacy around civil rights and civil liberties issues and priorities consistent with the organizational strategic plan. In fy19, it was described as legislative.
$2,774,742 spentof which $1,000,000 as grants70% of program spendingField - seeks to influence public policy through grassroots organizing, public education, coalition building, online activism and direct lobbying in fy19, it was described as advocacy.
$458,217 spent12% of program spendingEducation policy center - legal and policy analysis, advocacy and occasional lobbying around civil rights and civil liberties issues relating to public schools. Its program includes a youth advocacy and development program.
$406,454 spent10% of program spendingProgram service expenses 50,129, grants and allocations 0, revenue 0 - communication - educates the public on nyclus priority issues and engages in various activities to educate people and ecourage grassroots advocacy for civil liberties. Program service expenses 127,663, grants and allocations 0, revenue 0 - legal - undertakes legal analysis, litigation, advocacy, and occasional lobbying on behalf of civil rights and liberties. Program service expenses 167,227, grants and allocations 0, revenue 0 - racial justice center - culmination of a decades-long commitment to protecting civil rights and achieving racial justice in new york works to uplift black, brown and people of color to realize the full access to opportunities as guaranteed by the new york state constitution.
$345,019 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,984,432.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $17M to $21M (+19%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Lieberman Donna
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $24k → $166k.
From the IRS filings of NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 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
NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 96% · 2019 40% · 2020 41% · 2021 50% · 2022 31% · 2023 45% — 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
29% of NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% 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
95% of NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION 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. 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.
Organizations like NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION 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 NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC?
- NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,768,080 to it, the largest being AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC ($693,892). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,768,080 in grants to NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC?
- AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC is the largest funder on record, with $693,892 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 28 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