New York · Nonprofit
RISING GROUND INC
RISING GROUND INC (New York) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,262,483 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY ($12,106,050). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $218M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $27M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Rising Ground Inc does
Mission
Rising ground is dedicated to supporting children, adults and families. Working together, we create strong foundations for success. We do this by providing the most vulnerable children, adults and families in the greater new york city area with resources and skills needed to rise above adversity and positively direct their lives. Our innovative and results-driven programs support individuals in the areas of education, family support, foster care, services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and juvenile justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, the Organization experienced significant growth in its Residential Treatment Center (RTC) program.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, the Organization ceased operations of the Children's Learning Center (CLC).
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Child and youth development - our child and youth development services include the residential treatment center, which provides residential care to youth requiring more significant therapeutic and educational support, supervised independent living program supporting foster youth in apartments with staff support, transitional independent living and crisis residences which houses and assists runaway and homeless youth while they transition into independent living, juvenile justice initiative and aftercare provides home-based alternative-to-placement and aftercare services for youth involved in nycac's juvenile justice initiative, youth reception center which house youth and children during the critical time between their removal from their parents care and their placement into the foster care system, center-based respite a short term program to support families who are experiencing crisis, limited secure placement, a residential program serving adjudicated youth, non-secure placement, for adjudicated juvenile delinquents, non-secured detention offer a less restrictive setting for lower-risk youth who have court cases pending in family court community schools in collaboration with…
$59,542,115 spentof which $4,578,567 as grants$67,049,062 earned by the program31% of program spendingImmigration services - our passage of hope program serves undocumented migrant children from an array of countries and regions who have come into the united states without an adult guardian, home study/post relief services provides an additional layer of oversite to children released from orr's care.
$45,111,936 spentof which $2,277,866 as grants$50,702,974 earned by the program24% of program spendingChildren and families - our services include enhanced family foster care that serves children who have experienced abuse and neglect and have been removed from their parent or guardian's care, preventive services which strengthen and preserve families, keep children safe by preventing child abuse and neglect, and prevent the necessity of placing children in foster care, fatherhood initiative supports non-custodial fathers to build healthy relationships with their children and co-parent, the george and marion ames early childhood center prepares children for their school years, promoting creativity, pre-academic skills, socialization, and independence, early head start serves pregnant women, infants and toddlers living at or below the poverty level.
$44,402,453 spentof which $8,898,224 as grants$47,793,101 earned by the program23% of program spendingDevelopmental disabilities - our services include community based programs such as community residences and supported apartments, prevocational services, and medicaid service coordination for both children and adults. Our supportive clinical practices address associated emotional, behavioral, and psychological issues/disorders in order to assist our consumers to live more fulfilling lives.
$26,415,247 spentof which $557,709 as grants$30,619,757 earned by the program14% of program spendingHealth and mental health - our services include an article 29i clinic serving young people in our foster care, residential and non-secure placement program to ensure that their health and mental needs are met, children and family treatment and support services that provides clinical as well as non-clinical supports to children and youth who are at risk of a mental health diagnosis and their families, article 31 clinic which offer services both in person and virtually, children's health home care management whereby we serve as a downstream care management providing comprehensive care management services to children and their families who meet necessary criteria.
$9,640,598 spentof which $13,401 as grants$11,188,474 earned by the program5% of program spendingSupports to survivors - our services include community based services, criminalized survivors' program, respect and responsibility, trauma recovery center.
$4,636,358 spentof which $569,152 as grants$5,219,451 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $189,748,707.
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 2023 to 2024, from $102M to $124M (+22%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 5% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of RISING GROUND INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (17% 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
Alan E Mucatel
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $54k → $2.8M.
15 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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: $6.8M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fund for Rising Ground Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money RISING GROUND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of RISING GROUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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
RISING GROUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 RISING GROUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 33% · 2019 23% · 2020 38% · 2021 24% · 2022 72% · 2023 78% — growing more concentrated.
“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
42% of RISING GROUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
95% of RISING GROUND INC'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. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
RISING GROUND INC has grown faster than half of the 180 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 180 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding RISING GROUND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $366.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$345.3M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$21.6M
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 RISING GROUND 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Rising Ground Employee Benefits Program Trust · disregarded
- Edwin Gould Services for Children & Families · exempt
- Fund for Rising Ground Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RISING GROUND INC?
- RISING GROUND INC (New York) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,262,483 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY ($12,106,050). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RISING GROUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $27,262,483 in grants to RISING GROUND INC, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RISING GROUND INC?
- UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY is the largest funder on record, with $12,106,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RISING GROUND 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 82 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