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PLAY ADK INC

PLAY ADK INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $571,500 to it, the largest being ROCKWOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($197,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$407k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$572k
Net assets
$872k
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 90%
01What it does

What Play Adk Inc does

Mission

To promote the development of healthier children by providing a safe, inclusive, and innovative place for children to engage in open-ended, imaginative play.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To promote the development of healthier children by providing a safe, inclusive, and innovative place for children to engage in open-ended, imaginative play.

    $142,593 spent
    90% of program spending
  2. To promote the development of healthier children by providing a safe,inclusive, and innovative place for children to engage in open-ended, imaginative play.

    $16,065 spent
    10% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $158,658.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($238k) Expenses 100 ($5k) Net assets 100 ($233k)2020 Revenue 33 ($79k) Expenses 204 ($10k) Net assets 130 ($302k)2021 Revenue 70 ($167k) Expenses 1080 ($51k) Net assets 179 ($418k)2022 Revenue 56 ($132k) Expenses 1301 ($62k) Net assets 210 ($489k)2023 Revenue 111 ($263k) Expenses 2250 ($106k) Net assets 277 ($646k)2024 Revenue 171 ($407k) Expenses 3880 ($184k) Net assets 374 ($872k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (171)Expenses (3880)Net assets (374)Peer revenue range

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 $646k to $872k (+35%).

$233k
$302k
$418k
$489k
$646k
$872k
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of PLAY ADK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$233k
’19
$69k
’20
$116k
’21
$71k
’22
$157k
’23
$223k
’24
23
months of
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

Roddy Deborah

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed78810118
Joined·+1+1+2+2+1
No longer listed·01014
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $35k → $75k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 PLAY ADK 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.

How concentrated its funding is

PLAY ADK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

34% 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 PLAY ADK INC.

34%
largest funder
83%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 71% · 2020 60% · 2021 71% · 2022 42% · 2023 47% — 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

60% of PLAY ADK INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

PLAY ADK INC draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.

NY
NJ
RI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PLAY ADK INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin55% · top quartile
Months of reserve22.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like PLAY ADK 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PLAY ADK 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 PLAY ADK INC?
PLAY ADK INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $571,500 to it, the largest being ROCKWOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($197,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PLAY ADK INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $571,500 in grants to PLAY ADK INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PLAY ADK INC?
ROCKWOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $197,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PLAY ADK 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 8 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