New York · Nonprofit
SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (New York) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,165,322 to it, the largest being Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc ($235,276,200). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $122M
- Funders on record
- 115
- Grants received
- $274M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Selfhelp Community Services Inc does
Mission
A non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining the independence and dignity of seniors and at risk populations through a spectrum of services. Selfhelp is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to maintaining the independence and dignity of seniors and at-risk populations through a spectrum of housing, home health care, and social services and will lead in applying new methods and technologies to address changing needs of its community. Selfhelp will continue to serve as the "last surviving relative" to its historic constituency, victims of nazi persecution.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Selfhelp's social service programs include: specialized programs for holocaust survivors, serving approximately 4,700 individuals each year; six senior housing complexes housing 1,000+ senior residents with services available on-site; four naturally occurring retirement communities(norcs); three case management programs; six senior centers, including one of nyc's first innovative senior centers; client centered technology; court-appointed guardianship; the selfhelp alzheimers resource program(sharp); and emergency cash assistance.
$59,188,854 spentof which $3,429,082 as grants$4,192,159 earned by the program54% of program spendingSelfhelp's home care program provides approximately 2 million hours of home care each year to approximately 2,500 clients who are frail, older adults, or disabled. Services include home health care, skilled nursing, chore assistance, housekeeping, homemaking, and emergency home care. Selfhelp employs approximately 1,500 home care aides and trains aides in both spanish and english.selfhelp was born from crisis and has weathered economic, political, healthcare and social justice turbulence for over eight decades. During all of these times, an honest assessment of mission, human and financial resources, and ingenuity have guided the organization.
$50,090,558 spent$32,764,293 earned by the program46% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $109,279,412.
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 2019 to 2020, from $78M to $91M (+18%).
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 20% · 2018 20% · 2019 24% · 2020 26% · 2021 27% · 2022 20% · 2023 19% · 2024 17% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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
Stuart C Kaplan
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $20M → $46M.
11 of 115 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $14M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Selfhelp Community Services Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 115 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
SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 82% · 2019 86% · 2020 84% · 2021 88% · 2022 89% · 2023 90% — 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
44% of SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
98% of SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES 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. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC is better cushioned 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 SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $907k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$850k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$42k
- Department of Health and Human Services$15k
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 SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES 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
98%
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 33 related entities
- Kensington Church Avenue Properties LLC · disregarded
- Selfhelp Special Family Home Care Inc · exempt
- United Helpselfhelp Housing for the Elderly Hdfc · exempt
- Selfhelpunited Help Kissena Apts Hdfc Inc · exempt
- Selfhelp Community Services Home Attendant Corp · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
- SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (New York) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,165,322 to it, the largest being Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc ($235,276,200). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 115 organizations giving $274,165,322 in grants to SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
- Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc is the largest funder on record, with $235,276,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 115 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