New York · Nonprofit
THE THIRD RAIL NYC INC
THE THIRD RAIL NYC INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,988 to it, the largest being PUBLIC MEDIA INSTITUTE ($12,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $65k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $130k
What The Third Rail NYC Inc does
Mission
Charitable contributions
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Support for nycfc fans, tr members and the nyc community
$5,788 spent45% of program spendingTo advance the game of soccer as both spectator sportand participatory activity within ny and its surrounding areas
$1,800 spent14% of program spendingTo advance the game of soccer as both spectator sportand participatory activity within ny and its surrounding areas
$5,147 spent40% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $12,735.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $27k to $61k (+126%).
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.
80% of THE THIRD RAIL NYC INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $109 → $1k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 THIRD RAIL NYC 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
THE THIRD RAIL NYC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
52% 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 THIRD RAIL NYC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 57% · 2023 79% — 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.
Where its funders are
THE THIRD RAIL NYC INC draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $566 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 THIRD RAIL NYC INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE THIRD RAIL NYC 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE THIRD RAIL NYC 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 THE THIRD RAIL NYC INC?
- THE THIRD RAIL NYC INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,988 to it, the largest being PUBLIC MEDIA INSTITUTE ($12,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE THIRD RAIL NYC INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $23,988 in grants to THE THIRD RAIL NYC INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE THIRD RAIL NYC INC?
- PUBLIC MEDIA INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE THIRD RAIL NYC 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 3 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