New York · Nonprofit
SPANISH SPEAKING ELDERLY COUNCIL - RAICES INC
SPANISH SPEAKING ELDERLY COUNCIL - RAICES INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $633,809 to it, the largest being HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ($451,048). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $634k
- Net assets
- $551k
What Spanish Speaking Elderly Council - Raices Inc does
Mission
Raices' mission is to respond to the unmet needs of the latino, african-american and low-income community and seek to improve their quality of life through advocacy and the direct provision of targeted services with work across the generations and a particular emphasis on the needs of older adults.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The spanish speaking elderly council-raices (raices) through its nine (9) senior centers, its outpatient mental health clinic and the raices access program provides congregate breakfasts, congregate lunch, case assistance, nutrition education, educational and recreational activities, celebration of cultural events, health promotion, outreach services, benefit and entitlement counseling, mental health intervention, and other social services, to approximately 2,074 hispanic, black and low income participants on a yearly basis. Through these services in fiscal year 2025, raices provided 4,560 case assistance and 5,032 information and referral.
$3,327,601 spent$54,232 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,327,601.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $948k to $2.5M (+162%).
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 80% · 2018 77% · 2019 83% · 2020 92% · 2021 94% · 2022 92% · 2023 93% · 2024 94% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Lisette Sosa-Dickson
Executive director
Board chair
Damaris Santiago
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $63k → $66k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 SPANISH SPEAKING ELDERLY COUNCIL - RAICES 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
SPANISH SPEAKING ELDERLY COUNCIL - RAICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 SPANISH SPEAKING ELDERLY COUNCIL - RAICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 75% · 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 56% · 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 SPANISH SPEAKING ELDERLY COUNCIL - RAICES 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. $90k 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.
Organizations like SPANISH SPEAKING ELDERLY COUNCIL - RAICES 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
88% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPANISH SPEAKING ELDERLY COUNCIL - RAICES 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 SPANISH SPEAKING ELDERLY COUNCIL - RAICES INC?
- SPANISH SPEAKING ELDERLY COUNCIL - RAICES INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $633,809 to it, the largest being HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ($451,048). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPANISH SPEAKING ELDERLY COUNCIL - RAICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $633,809 in grants to SPANISH SPEAKING ELDERLY COUNCIL - RAICES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPANISH SPEAKING ELDERLY COUNCIL - RAICES INC?
- HISPANIC FEDERATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $451,048 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPANISH SPEAKING ELDERLY COUNCIL - RAICES 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 6 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