New York · Nonprofit
Pay It Forward 911
Pay It Forward 911 (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $51,720 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($51,720). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $81k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $52k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Pay It Forward 911 does
Mission
To honor the lives lost on September 11 2001 by promoting kindness service and civic engagement through community-based acts of goodwill and educational initiatives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Social media outreach to encourage people to be kind to one another: Pay It Forward 9 11 conducted a nationwide social media campaign promoting kindness as a way to honor the lives lost on September 11. In 2024 content across social media platforms reached thousands of users encouraging them to participate in daily acts of kindness. The campaign was most active during the 11 Days of Kindness initiative leading up to September 11 fostering community engagement and national visibility.
$3,753 spent14% of program spendingPublic relations outreach to encourage people to be kind to one another: The organization implemented a public relations campaign to amplify its message through earned media coverage and strategic communications. In 2024 Pay It Forward 9 11 secured multiple media placements including national and regional news segments interviews and digital features. These efforts increased awareness of the organizations mission and encouraged broad participation in kindness activities particularly around the anniversary of September 11.
$15,678 spent59% of program spendingLocal events exhibiting and encouraging acts of kindness: Pay It Forward 9 11 organized and participated in several local events in 2024 including community fairs school programs service days and virtual gatherings. These events engaged over thousands of participants nationwide promoting acts of kindness and civic engagement. Programs included collaborations with schools veterans groups and first responders with an emphasis on inclusive intergenerational participation. Events supported the annual 11 Days of Kindness initiative and reinforced the organizations mission of healing through positive action.
$7,350 spent27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,781.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $10k to $24k (+147%).
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.
100% of Pay It Forward 911’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Pay It Forward 911’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
100% of Pay It Forward 911's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Pay It Forward 911 has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Pay It Forward 911
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pay It Forward 911: 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 Pay It Forward 911?
- Pay It Forward 911 (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $51,720 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($51,720). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Pay It Forward 911 have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $51,720 in grants to Pay It Forward 911, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pay It Forward 911?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $51,720 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pay It Forward 911 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 2023–2025), 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