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SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC

SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 288 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,266,413 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($12,427,596). 166 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$12M
Funders on record
288
Grants received
$17M
Net assets
$4.1M
166/288 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Special Olympics New York Inc does

Mission

To promote and conduct athletic instruction and competition for individuals with intellectual disabilities

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Games and competitions: sony provided training and competition sport seasons (winter, summer, and fall). The individuals served by sony range in age from 2 years to 90 years and have been diagnosed with an intellectual disability or a cognitive delay. Competitions are held in nine regions around the state. Athletes advance from local competition to regional, super-regional, and statewide competitions in each of the three seasons with potential advancement to national and world games available in all 23 sports. Sony hosted 181 competitive events for a total of 244,456 regional service hours, 28,688 state games service hours, and 1,375,810 public school service hours in the 2024 program year.

    $1,218,710 spent$54,581 earned by the program
    10% of program spending
  2. Athletes training: sony athletes train with coaches and certified volunteers for a total of 1,742,758 service hours. Sony provided service to athletes across multiple initiatives. Athletes were trained and educated in the following traditional sports during 2024 (all in athlete numbers): alpine skiing 227, athletics (track & field) 22,954; basketball 21,255; bocce 7,620; bowling 13,658; cycling - 74; cross country running 65; cross country skiing 33; equestrian - 212; esports 56;figure skating - 55; fitness 3,200; flag football 1,460; floor ball 7,996; soccer 7,502; golf 900; gymnastics 1,075; handball 204; matp 1,585; power lifting - 275; snow boarding - 5; snow shoeing - 350; softball 3,243; swimming 1,275; tennis 2,270; top golf - 50 volleyball 6,310; young athletes 3,178; project unify athletes 8,280, partners 6,718.

    $766,984 spent
    6% of program spending
  3. Athlete and coach's education and health services: the sony 'healthyathletes' program offered 2,138 health screenings that provided themwith the opportunity to meet with health professionals across multipledisciplines including: hearing, dental, optometry, nutrition,occupational therapy, podiatry, fitness, nutrition and physical therapyfor the purpose of evaluation and consultation. Sony offered an'athlete leadership' program for athletes who are gaining skills aspublic speakers by sharing our special olympics movement through publicoutlets. Sony engages a total of 14,130 volunteers; 7,081 who areformally certified as coaches. In 2024, sony held 390 volunteertraining sessions for a total of 3,900 training hours. All certified personnel receive a general orientation, a background check, and specialized protective behavior training. Each certified volunteer is recertified every 3 years.

    $147,831 spent
    1% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $10,117,231 spent
    83% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,250,756.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.0M) Expenses 100 ($6.9M) Net assets 100 ($4.3M)2018 Revenue 111 ($7.8M) Expenses 113 ($7.8M) Net assets 86 ($3.7M)2019 Revenue 119 ($8.3M) Expenses 124 ($8.5M) Net assets 86 ($3.7M)2020 Revenue 90 ($6.4M) Expenses 107 ($7.4M) Net assets 93 ($4.0M)2021 Revenue 116 ($8.2M) Expenses 137 ($9.4M) Net assets 105 ($4.5M)2022 Revenue 148 ($10M) Expenses 200 ($14M) Net assets 79 ($3.4M)2023 Revenue 152 ($11M) Expenses 205 ($14M) Net assets 72 ($3.1M)2024 Revenue 171 ($12M) Expenses 218 ($15M) Net assets 96 ($4.1M)
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Revenue (171)Expenses (218)Net assets (96)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.2M to $9.3M (+49%).

$5.0M
$4.8M
$5.0M
$5.0M
$6.2M
$9.3M
$8.3M
$8.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 17% · 2018 18% · 2019 17% · 2020 29% · 2021 30% · 2022 27% · 2023 15% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$151k
’17
$46k
’18
−$190k
’19
−$1.0M
’20
−$1.2M
’21
−$3.4M
’22
−$3.4M
’23
−$3.0M
’24
0.3
months of
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

Stacey Hengsterman

President & CEO

Board chair

Ceylane Meyers-Ruff

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2124272826272629
Joined·+4+6+7+7+1+6+6
No longer listed·1369073
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 58 funders to 93 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $2.7M.

26 of 288 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 288 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

SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

88% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC.

72%
largest funder
78%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 86% · 2019 81% · 2020 81% · 2021 73% · 2022 69% · 2023 68% — diversifying over time.

“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

36% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 22 states in all.

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
IA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 8%Fundraising 10%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC?
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 288 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,266,413 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($12,427,596). 166 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC have?
IRS filings report 288 organizations giving $17,266,413 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC, 166 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC?
SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,427,596 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 288 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