New York · Nonprofit
REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC
REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC (New York) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,196,660 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($3,569,782). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 88
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What Regional Plan Association Inc does
Mission
Promote improvement of quality of life/economy in the new york, new jersey & connecticut tri-state region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy regions - this project addresses the health inequities rooted in urban planning and the built environment across the focus areas of transportation, housing, energy and environment. The exchange brings together practitioners, advocates, and community-based representatives from over 30 organizations representing 11 metropolitan regions of the us. Program offerings include peer learning events, technical assistance services, and facilitated networking opportunities hosted virtually and in-person across the country. With the support of rpa, participants in each region are advancing tailored strategies to change the built environments in their communities in ways that create better health and financial outcomes for their constituents
$493,653 spent10% of program spendingCongestion pricing - after years of advocacy and planning to ensure the program would successfully reduce traffic, fund public transportation, and improve air quality, the nation's first congestion relief program launched in nyc in january 2025. So far, the program has generated more than $215 million in revenue and is on track to raise $500 million in 2025 alone. Rpa has championed this policy for decades, and our advocacy continues on through the congestion pricing now coalition.
$455,313 spent10% of program spendingNew jersey issues - rpa's new jersey program focuses on statewide policy and system changes designed to improve the state's prosperity, opportunity, and general community well-being. Rpa engages and collaborates with diverse partners including elected representatives, business leaders, civic stakeholders, and local communities to advance key priorities including: promoting policies to increase housing affordability and reduce segregation and inequality; increasing public health through investments in the built and natural environments; transitioning to a decarbonized economy with robust clean energy opportunities; advocating for smart resilience planning, particularly with frontline communities; and expanding transportation capacity and public transit funding, among others.
$265,953 spent6% of program spendingIncluded in other program services are the following projects:regional planning exchange, peter herman/richard kaplan chairs, congestion pricing nj committee, sandy 10 resilience, desegregate connecticut, cornell atkinson, municipal impacts of buyouts, gateway/amtrak, hudson valley housing, nys housing campaign, streets and parks , open streets, taub civic engagement, equitable energy, leidos, brooklyn greenway user study, ceqr mas, fccho communications, eastern connecticut cheo, ct urban centers coalition, fairfield connecticut community, transforming cbd's, connecting children to nature, suffolk on call - brentwood, licf affordable housing, new city parks, nys health
$3,572,073 spent75% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,786,992.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $6.3M to $8.0M (+26%).
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: 2018 5% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 10% · 2022 17% · 2023 11% · 2024 9% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Raymond Mcguire
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $812k → $1.5M.
19 of 88 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.9M from 15 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Open Philanthropy Action Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 88 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
REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
30% 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 REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 64% · 2019 33% · 2020 51% · 2021 20% · 2022 43% · 2023 13% — 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 REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 28 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $482k on record — $65k federal, $417k state.
- National Archives and Records Administration$65k
- NJ$302k
- CT$115k
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 REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION 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 REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC?
- REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC (New York) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,196,660 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($3,569,782). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 88 organizations giving $12,196,660 in grants to REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,569,782 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 88 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