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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by DRUM-DESIS RISING UP AND MOVING INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$3,991,532
Total expenses
$2,108,991
Contributions and grants received
$3,811,823
Grants paid
$46,328
Program service revenue
$32,980
Investment income
$97,364
Other revenue
$49,365
Total assets, end of year
$5,218,610
Total liabilities, end of year
$498,580
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$4,720,030
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,574,452
Management and general expenses
$366,933
Fundraising expenses
$167,606
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,574,452

Program services were 74.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $3,811,823

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Service fee

    total $32,350 · related or exempt $32,350

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Program service revenue

    total $630 · related or exempt $630

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $97,364 · related or exempt $97,364

  • 6a · Gross rents

    personal property $14,600

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    personal property $14,600

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $14,600 · related or exempt $14,600

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: Membership Dues

    total $3,359 · related or exempt $3,359

  • 11b · Other revenue: Admin FeePass Through

    total $1,478 · related or exempt $1,478

  • 11c · Other revenue: Honoraria

    total $5,500 · related or exempt $5,500

  • 11d · All other revenue

    total $24,428 · related or exempt $24,428

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $34,765

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $12,404 · program services $12,404

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $33,924 · program services $33,924

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $80,788 · program services $40,394 · management and general $16,158 · fundraising $24,236

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $819,412 · program services $606,766 · management and general $142,252 · fundraising $70,394

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $219,241 · program services $142,520 · management and general $55,414 · fundraising $21,307

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $68,866 · program services $49,239 · management and general $12,265 · fundraising $7,362

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $272,750 · program services $225,485 · management and general $43,994 · fundraising $3,271

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $26,959 · management and general $26,959

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $14,559 · program services $9,817 · management and general $3,142 · fundraising $1,600

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $188,879 · program services $134,830 · management and general $34,830 · fundraising $19,219

  • 17 · Travel

    total $44,015 · program services $33,305 · management and general $6,308 · fundraising $4,402

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $28,463 · program services $22,770 · fundraising $5,693

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $440 · program services $440

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $5,884 · management and general $5,884

  • 24a · Other expenses: Stipends

    total $174,773 · program services $174,773

  • 24b · Other expenses: Food supplies

    total $67,650 · program services $47,355 · management and general $13,530 · fundraising $6,765

  • 24c · Other expenses: Supplies

    total $22,306 · program services $15,526 · management and general $4,459 · fundraising $2,321

  • 24d · Other expenses: Dues fees and subscription

    total $8,950 · program services $8,117 · management and general $525 · fundraising $308

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $18,728 · program services $16,787 · management and general $1,213 · fundraising $728

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $845,953 · end of year $683,932

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $1,800,000 · end of year $3,500,000

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $296,724 · end of year $546,031

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $18,374 · end of year $71,149

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    end of year $1,000

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $53,251

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $51,932

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $1,759 · end of year $1,319

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $136,630 · end of year $415,179

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $36,551 · end of year $34,833

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $71,070 · end of year $60,000

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $154,330 · end of year $403,747

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $2,762,489 · end of year $4,615,030

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $75,000 · end of year $105,000

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Public Charity - established to educate and organize low-income South Asian immigrants in New York City for immigrant rights, access to education, and social justice. DRUM is a multigenerational, membership led organization. To build power of South Asian low wage immigrant worker

  • Racial & Immigrant Justice Program - Educates, builds leadership, and assists immigrant families to access civil and immigrant rights, and runs legal clinics. This also includes services provided via the Citywide Immigrant Legal Empowerment Collaborative (CILEC) and organizing to make our communities safer through the Hate Violence Prevention Initiative.

    Expenses $594,995

  • Building Power & Safety Through Solidarity Program Educates our community about the changing conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic, provide resources such as food and direct relief for those in need, build community support networks to keep our families and communities safe and connected, and build leadership of members on issues such as housing and workers excluded from federal and relief funds. This included Vaccine Education, nonpartisan voter education, and PPE Distribution, the Excluded Workers Fund Campaign, and Housing Relief Campaign

    Expenses $551,908

  • Education Justice & YouthPower! Program - Educates and builds leadership of low-income immigrant youth to improve access to public education. Includes grassroots campaigns to End Institutionalized Bullying in schools, win more resources for restorative justice practices, counselors and social workers.

    Expenses $245,910

  • South Asian Workers Center - Educates and assists low-wage workers to access labor rights, address employment discrimination, and runs legal clinics. Gender Justice Program - Develops leadership of young women to lead gender justice and social change in their homes, schools, and communities. Global Justice Program - Builds coalitions internationally for peace and migrant rights. Gender Justice Program - Develops leadership of young women to lead gender justice and social change in their homes, schools, and communities. Hate Free Zones - Builds neighborhood-based community defense systems and community safety mechanisms for all people. Global Justice Program - Builds coalitions internationally for peace and migrant rights. Made over 15,000 phone calls, text messages, or held conversations with community members on vaccines to get our communities vaccinated, nonpartisan voter engagement & registration, access to food, provided protective equipment (masks and tests), and provide ongoing updates about the pandemic. Provided direct services and resources to over 5000 community members and their families through various immigrant, housing, health, food, vaccine, PPE distribution, and relief fund resources. Engaged over 20,000 community members and mobilized over 200 DRUM members to win the Excluded Workers Fund and Housing Relief. Won $2.1 Billion in the NYS budget for the historic Excluded Workers Fund for Immigrant communities left out of relief during the pandemic. Educated 2,000 undocumented immigrant workers about the NY Fund for Excluded Workers Hosted weekly Excluded Workers Fund clinics in Western Queens (Jackson Heights), Eastern Queens (Jamaica), Bronx (Parkchester), Brooklyn (Kensington), and South Queens (Richmond Hill) and screened over 600 community members. Provided one-on-one assistance to over 400 individuals to apply to the fund securing over $6 million in funds for South Asian and Indo-Caribbean community members. Secured $2.4 Billion in rent and mortgage relief in the NYS budget which included immigrant communities. We came together in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida to provide immediate support and information to over 100 community members and directly supported over 20 DRUM members with relief funds and resources who were severely impacted by flooding. Graduated 19 new youth members from our 21st annual Summer 6-week Youth Organizing Institute which was held virtually for the second time during the pandemic. Recruited over 450 new DRUM members across NYC. DRUM also began recruiting and organizing South Asian Delivery Worker since the summer of 2021 who have been faced with unsafe working conditions. Organized worker safety events for over 500 Delivery workers and provided over 400 helmets and bike registrations. Won the passage of the Our City Our Vote Campaign in NYC City Council that would permit lawfully present residents and those with work authorizations to vote in municipal elections. Supported over 100 community members with referrals to legal service providers, translation, support letters and or other case management activities. Supported over 70 women and girls through referrals to services and support networks.

    Expenses $181,639

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Moni Alam

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Judith LeBlanc

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kazembe Balagun

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Miguel Ramirez

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Syeda Parvin

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bekah Wolf

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shahed Chowdhury

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Fahd Ahmed

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

  • Tides Center

    no cash amount reported

    Curriculum Development - Subgrant

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Related corporations and trusts

Part IV: related organizations taxable as a corporation or trust.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
13 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202513219349326516

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