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POWERPLAY NYC INC

POWERPLAY NYC INC (New York) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,255,393 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($223,904). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year. POWERPLAY NYC INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

$2.1M
Revenue FY2025
40
Funders on record
$1.3M
Grants received
$138k
Net assets
20/40 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

POWERPLAY NYC INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programPOWERPLAY NYC INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$3.6M

Recipients

5

Contributions on record

$1.3M

Donors on record

40

Payments out run 2.9x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($925k) Net assets 100 ($677k)2019 Revenue 196 ($2.2M) Expenses 234 ($2.2M) Net assets 124 ($838k)2020 Revenue 190 ($2.1M) Expenses 252 ($2.3M) Net assets 93 ($629k)2021 Revenue 195 ($2.2M) Expenses 230 ($2.1M) Net assets 101 ($682k)2022 Revenue 205 ($2.3M) Expenses 227 ($2.1M) Net assets 128 ($866k)2023 Revenue 173 ($1.9M) Expenses 236 ($2.2M) Net assets 91 ($618k)2024 Revenue 190 ($2.1M) Expenses 232 ($2.1M) Net assets 88 ($592k)2025 Revenue 192 ($2.1M) Expenses 281 ($2.6M) Net assets 20 ($138k)
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Revenue (192)Expenses (281)Net assets (20)

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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 64% · 2019 59% · 2020 69% · 2021 72% · 2022 72% · 2023 79% · 2024 76% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$192k
17
$19k
19
$209k
20
$53k
21
$184k
22
$248k
23
$26k
24
$454k
25
1.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $130k → $97k.

10 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)48% 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 POWERPLAY NYC INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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.

Where its funders are

70% of POWERPLAY NYC INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

IL
NY
PA
CT
CA
MO
NC
TX
FL

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

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18
19
20
21
22
23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $603k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 40 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 8%Fundraising 12%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POWERPLAY NYC 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds POWERPLAY NYC INC?
POWERPLAY NYC INC (New York) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,255,393 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($223,904). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year. POWERPLAY NYC INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does POWERPLAY NYC INC have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,255,393 in grants to POWERPLAY NYC INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of POWERPLAY NYC INC?
Network for Good is the largest funder on record, with $223,904 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like POWERPLAY NYC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 40funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing