New York · Nonprofit
NYC SALT INC
NYC SALT INC (New York) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,251,891 to it, the largest being ALTMAN FOUNDATION ($360,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $908k
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $334k
What NYC Salt Inc does
Mission
Dedicated to engage, inspire and empower underserved youth in new york city to reach their full potential through photography, video and an understanding of the visual industry goal is to help student artists build advanced visual arts skills and the determination, confidence, and grit they need to succeed in college and future careers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Digital photography residency - a multi-year digital photography, college prep and career readiness program for high school students in nyc interested in pursuing carrers and majors in college focused on the creative industry. Students receive individualized college help, mentoring from an industry professional, and develop portfolios for college.
$506,279 spent$34,692 earned by the program90% of program spendingEmerging artists - nyc salt, inc. Utilizes professional photographers and editors as teaching artists to teach school year and summer workshops in the basics for digital photography and social media. The program gives students a knowledge of visual storytelling while also exposing students to career options in the creative industry through field trips.
$13,211 spent2% of program spendingCollege prep - nyc salt, inc. Provides college prep workshops and guidance through a college guidance counselor to its residency students. The students are given workshops on all aspects of preparing for college, six months of act prep classes, and a college bootcamp the summer prior to their senior year.
$45,641 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $565,131.
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 2022 to 2023, from $728k to $1.2M (+60%).
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 1% · 2020 9% · 2021 13% · 2022 22% · 2023 14% · 2024 35% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of NYC SALT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Alicia Hansen
Founder and chief executive officer
Board chair
Marc Asnin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $62k → $242k.
7 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 NYC SALT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
NYC SALT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 57% · 2019 31% · 2020 23% · 2021 26% · 2022 24% · 2023 27% — 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
35% of NYC SALT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
89% of NYC SALT 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. $231k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
NYC SALT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,734 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding NYC SALT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 NYC SALT 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
78% 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 NYC SALT 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 NYC SALT INC?
- NYC SALT INC (New York) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,251,891 to it, the largest being ALTMAN FOUNDATION ($360,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NYC SALT INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $2,251,891 in grants to NYC SALT INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NYC SALT INC?
- ALTMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $360,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NYC SALT 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 38 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