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SESAME FLYERS INTERNATIONAL INC

SESAME FLYERS INTERNATIONAL INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,642 to it, the largest being TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF GREATER NEW YORK LOCAL 100 ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.9M
Revenue FY2025
4
Funders on record
$42k
Grants received
$53k
Net assets
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

SESAME FLYERS INTERNATIONAL INC's revenue grew 22% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.4M) Net assets -405 ($-203115)2018 Revenue 102 ($2.4M) Expenses 101 ($2.4M) Net assets -322 ($-161519)2019 Revenue 120 ($2.9M) Expenses 120 ($2.9M) Net assets -280 ($-140314)2020 Revenue 127 ($3.0M) Expenses 119 ($2.9M) Net assets 100 ($50k)2021 Revenue 117 ($2.8M) Expenses 116 ($2.8M) Net assets 163 ($82k)2022 Revenue 148 ($3.6M) Expenses 156 ($3.7M) Net assets 885 ($444k)2023 Revenue 147 ($3.5M) Expenses 176 ($4.2M) Net assets -1379 ($-692231)2024 Revenue 186 ($4.5M) Expenses 171 ($4.1M) Net assets 105 ($53k)2025 Revenue 122 ($2.9M) Expenses 132 ($3.2M) Net assets 105 ($53k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (122)Expenses (132)Net assets (105)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 92% · 2018 96% · 2019 95% · 2020 92% · 2021 98% · 2022 82% · 2023 2% · 2024 79% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of SESAME FLYERS INTERNATIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
$15k
’18
$21k
’19
$191k
’20
$31k
’21
−$171k
’22
−$679k
’23
$358k
’24
−$227k
’25
0.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $50.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
2

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 SESAME FLYERS INTERNATIONAL 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

SESAME FLYERS INTERNATIONAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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

100% 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 SESAME FLYERS INTERNATIONAL INC.

60%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of SESAME FLYERS INTERNATIONAL INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
DE

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding SESAME FLYERS INTERNATIONAL INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $750k on record.

Federal$750k
grants $750kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$750k

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 SESAME FLYERS INTERNATIONAL INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Sesame Workshop International Inc81%Directions for Our Youth Inc81%Shared Interest Inc81%Brooklyn Chinese-American Association Inc81%Culture for One81%New Yorkers for Children Inc81%Seamen's Society for Children and Families80%Community Connections for Youth Inc80%

Nationally

Sesame Workshop International Inc81%Directions for Our Youth Inc81%Shared Interest Inc81%Brooklyn Chinese-American Association Inc81%Culture for One81%The Links Foundation Incorporated81%New Yorkers for Children Inc81%Seamen's Society for Children and Families80%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

28% of spending goes to programs.

Program 28%Management 72%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SESAME FLYERS INTERNATIONAL 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds SESAME FLYERS INTERNATIONAL INC?
SESAME FLYERS INTERNATIONAL INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,642 to it, the largest being TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF GREATER NEW YORK LOCAL 100 ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SESAME FLYERS INTERNATIONAL INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $41,642 in grants to SESAME FLYERS INTERNATIONAL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SESAME FLYERS INTERNATIONAL INC?
TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF GREATER NEW YORK LOCAL 100 is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SESAME FLYERS INTERNATIONAL 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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing