New York · Nonprofit
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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $53k
What Sesame Flyers International Inc does
Mission
To provide a range of youth devlopment,cultural, social welfare and supportive services to individual and families in brooklyn
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide a range of youth development,cultural,social welfare and supportiv services to individual and families in brooklyn ny
cultural events
cultural events
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 $539k to $1.7M (+216%).
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 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 (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Raymond Lake
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $50.
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.
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.
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.
Against its field
SESAME FLYERS INTERNATIONAL INC's revenue grew 22% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- 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
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
28% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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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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.
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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 4 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