New York · Nonprofit
SEEING FOR OURSELVES INC
SEEING FOR OURSELVES INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,400 to it, the largest being Zain Jaffer Foundation ($7,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- —
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $0
What Seeing for Ourselves Inc does
Mission
Not for profit charitable work
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To provide charitable work for the public
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SEEING FOR OURSELVES 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
SEEING FOR OURSELVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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.
Where its funders are
SEEING FOR OURSELVES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Government funding SEEING FOR OURSELVES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$22k
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 SEEING FOR OURSELVES 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.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEEING FOR OURSELVES 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 SEEING FOR OURSELVES INC?
- SEEING FOR OURSELVES INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,400 to it, the largest being Zain Jaffer Foundation ($7,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEEING FOR OURSELVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $8,400 in grants to SEEING FOR OURSELVES INC.
- Who is the largest funder of SEEING FOR OURSELVES INC?
- Zain Jaffer Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEEING FOR OURSELVES 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 FY2023, and the filings of 2 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