New York · Nonprofit
RED HOOK INITIATIVE
RED HOOK INITIATIVE (New York) receives grants from 142 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,080,515 to it, the largest being CARSON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,366,666). 93 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 142
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Red Hook Initiative does
Mission
Rhi believes that social change to overcome systemic inequities begins with empowered youth. In partnership with community adults, we nurture young people in red hook to be inspired, resilient, and healthy, and to envision themselves as co-creators of their lives, community and society. We envision a red hook where all young people can pursue their dreams and grow into independent adults who contribute to their families and community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community building: advocacy and organizing has always been a key element of our work at rhi,recognizing the need to address systemic issues facing the neighborhood alongside our youth development approach. Our programs work toward two goals: to improve the health of residents of public housing in red hook and to strengthen the resiliency of the red hook community. The work of this program seeks to address the root causes of the issues residents face, positively impacting the lives of over 6,500 red hook houses residents each year.through our benefits access work, we served nearly 600 residents in benefits access including: housing repair support and advocacy, snap and one shot deal enrollment, translation services, and referrals to community partners for additional support.
$1,074,425 spentof which $168,960 as grants31% of program spendingRed hook farms: we harvested nearly 20,000 pounds of produce--increasing access to fresh, affordable produce and providing nutrition education that introduces vegetables, fruit and healthy, delicious ways to prepare them, are concrete ways we are meeting the basic needs of red hook's public housing residents and combating the public health crisis.
$804,085 spent$8,096 earned by the program23% of program spendingAdolescent youth: rhi provides comprehensive after school programming for almost 200 middle and high school students. We offer 40 middle school aged youth each academic year and 20 during the summertime. Middle school scholars use support to work toward academic success, begin career and college exploration, develop life skills, strengthen social supports and exercise their leadership in red hook. Rhi provides comprehensive programming for 120 red hook youth attending high school, as they work toward their high school diploma, develop a post-secondary plan, gain paid job training and work experience, strengthen their social supports and exercise their leadership in the community. Approximately 20 of these high school-aged youth receive college access support.
$629,075 spentof which $52,615 as grants18% of program spendingHealth and wellness: through a partnership with the silberman school of social work at hunter college, we continued to build the capacity of rhi staff to develop culturally-responsive, trauma-informed healing services and create safe spaces and opportunities for young people to heal from the trauma of the moment and the impacts of systemic racism and lack of public investment in our community. In addition we have a three-tiered model to provide direct counseling support through: individual wellness checkins and counseling sessions; group healing work, which offers both healing and peer support training; and community-wide healing events and workshops.
$370,416 spentof which $6,403 as grants$22,304 earned by the program11% of program spendingOther program
$47,498 spentof which $6,000 as grants1% of program spendingYoung adult programs: we engage and support nearly 200 young adults to set individualized goals around furthering their education (high school diploma, hse or college degree), obtaining employment and growing professionally and gaining and strengthening social supports. Our dedicated team provides comprehensive, personalized supports for young adults from a strengths-based, trauma-informed approach while intentionally addressing systemic injustice through education, advocacy and opportunities for young adult participation.
$596,935 spentof which $1,158 as grants17% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,522,434.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.6M to $5.9M (+61%).
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 13% · 2018 19% · 2019 12% · 2020 8% · 2021 13% · 2022 21% · 2023 19% · 2024 21% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of RED HOOK INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Michael Partis
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $727k → $2.5M.
24 of 142 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 RED HOOK INITIATIVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 142 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
RED HOOK INITIATIVE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 12 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 12 funders to its left
44% 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 RED HOOK INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 26% · 2019 17% · 2020 24% · 2021 22% · 2022 15% · 2023 16% — 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
48% of RED HOOK INITIATIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
77% of RED HOOK INITIATIVE'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. $6.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
RED HOOK INITIATIVE's funding base is broadening — from 23 funders to 56 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding RED HOOK INITIATIVE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$500k
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 RED HOOK INITIATIVE
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RED HOOK INITIATIVE: 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 RED HOOK INITIATIVE?
- RED HOOK INITIATIVE (New York) receives grants from 142 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,080,515 to it, the largest being CARSON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,366,666). 93 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RED HOOK INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 142 organizations giving $19,080,515 in grants to RED HOOK INITIATIVE, 93 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RED HOOK INITIATIVE?
- CARSON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,366,666 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RED HOOK INITIATIVE 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 142 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