New York · Nonprofit
THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC
THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,939,560 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($2,630,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 110
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What The River Fund New York Inc does
Mission
The mission of the river fund new york, inc. Is to empower those we serve to move beyond the line of poverty. Breaking the multigenerational cycle of poverty is accomplished by providing one of the largest food pantries in the borough of queens, complemented by a wide array of social services and educational programming to stabilize households currently in poverty, directing our efforts towards the community's youth to empower them to seize every opportunity for advancing themselves and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Today river fund stands as a frontline poverty center in our response to the devastation of those living on the lines of poverty. Fulfilling its goal to be a resource to those at-risk, over the past three plus decades the river fund has grown to become one of the largest providers of emergency food in the city of new york, delivering well over 1 million pounds of food and essential items, including clothing, shoes, pet food, and household goods to the community each month through its emergency food programs.the provision of nutritious, culturally appropriate weekly groceries via a walk-through, client choice pantry at the organization's headquarters in richmond hill, queens. Operating for more than 15 years, this pantry currently distributes food two days each week, wednesday, dedicated to seniors and disabled individuals, and saturday, to over 3,000 families. Every week, river fund provides groceries and essentials to a diverse population of food, insecure families and individuals. It also operates an array of emergency food efforts extending well beyond its home base. These programs include the very first mobile pantry in the country, serving neighborhoods with limited emergency…
$9,321,039 spentof which $8,740,144 as grants90% of program spendingThe river fund, benefits access center in helping families in distress meet their needs. Serving about fifteen hundred families annually, river fund's benefits access center provide comprehensive social services through a proactive, flexible, and sensitive approach designed to identify needs beyond those being expressed. The goal is to promote every family's capacity to address the factors contributing to its immediate and longer-term needs, as well as to take steps to ameliorate the effects of chronic poverty.benefits access agents have primary responsibility for providing individualized consumer assistance, including counseling, help with insurance enrollment, advocacy with accessing services and advice. Through its detailed client-intake process and thorough knowledge of community resources, staff can refer clients to more than 40 social service programs ranging from snap, immigration assistance, healthcare assistance, and much more.for more than a decade, river fund has promoted its "family-by-family" approach to benefits access in the belief that it can substantially increase the enrollment of qualified low-income adults, unemployed, seniors, and immigrants. To be most…
$405,176 spentof which $5,245 as grants4% of program spendingCollege enrollment and success are major problems for low-income students in urban school systems. For new york city to make substantial and lasting progress in reducing inequality and expanding economic opportunity, grassroots efforts from agencies like river fund are needed to increase both attendance and success in postsecondary education. River fund first began addressing this issue with the creation of the mary c. Tiedemann scholarship fund, which over the past decade has grown and evolved into a broad array of programs under the banner of cradle-to-college.cradle-to-college grew out of river fund's "river to success" initiative, a unique effort supporting children in the home through the annual provision of things that might seem minor in more prosperous households, like complete sets of grade-appropriate school supplies and backpacks; regular purchases of new shoes; and sleepaway camp during the summer. In fact, these efforts begin even before children are born, with river fund's baby shower program supporting new mothers with everything from workshops in lactation and parenting to prenatal vitamins, as well as providing them with postnatal essentials such as strollers, car…
$238,688 spentof which $101,117 as grants2% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$418,555 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,383,458.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $4.1M (+140%).
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.
100% of THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Swami Durga Das
CEO
Board chair
Michael Tiedemann
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $256k → $2.5M.
23 of 110 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 110 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
THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
73% 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 THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 30% · 2019 46% · 2020 25% · 2021 20% · 2022 46% · 2023 33% — 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
23% of THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
72% of THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK 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. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE RIVER FUND 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 2 related entities
- Rff Property I Owner LLC · disregarded
- River Fund Siof · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC?
- THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,939,560 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($2,630,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 110 organizations giving $11,939,560 in grants to THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC?
- ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,630,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE RIVER FUND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 110 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