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EIN 27-1022579 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2023
$4,464,253
Expenses 2023
$3,818,574

Program services were 85.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
V20
Classification
2000
Street
150 E 52ND ST STE 28003

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • CLEA CONNER

    CEO/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $399,442
    From this org
    $370,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,042
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $329,266
    Bonus
    $40,000
    Other
    $1,134
    Deferred
    $13,200
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,842
    Filer's total
    $399,442

  • ROBERT ROSENKRANZ

    PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • IAN BREMMER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EDWARD W CONARD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID A COULTER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DOMENICO DESOLE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR KELLY POSNER GERSTENHABER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MERIT JANOW

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VANESSA MENDOZA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEXANDRA K MUNROE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BEN NELSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GERRY OHRSTROM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EDWARD STERN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PHILIPPE SELENDY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SALVATORE ARENA

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LIA MATTHOW

    COO

    Total calculated
    $257,653
    From this org
    $238,533
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,120
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $237,339
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,194
    Deferred
    $9,731
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,389
    Filer's total
    $257,653

  • ANDREW LIPSON

    DIR. OF PRODUCTION

    Total calculated
    $174,558
    From this org
    $164,673
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,885
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $158,291
    Bonus
    $3,000
    Other
    $3,382
    Deferred
    $6,473
    Nontaxable benefits
    $3,412
    Filer's total
    $174,558

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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,464,253
    Expenses
    $3,818,574
    Contributions
    $4,411,989
    Grants paid
    $27,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,915,960
    Expenses
    $2,998,087
    Contributions
    $2,836,959
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.