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Brooklyn Community Bail Fund Inc

Envision freedom fund works alongside impacted communities to dismantle the oppressive and interconnected criminal legal and immigration systems.

$131k
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Civil Rights$2.8MHuman Services$1.1MCrime & Legal$661kHealth$66kEnvironment$45kCommunity Improvement$35kHousing & Shelter$25k
02FY2021 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $122,058, the rows itemized in this filing. The $130,755 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,697 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAPID DEFENSE NETWORK$50,000
CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION$30,000
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS INC$20,000
GREEN WORKER INC$10,000
BLACK LEADERS ON OUR MISSION$6,058
VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS AND LEADERS$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%REENTRY ROCKS INC: $75k → 13%NEWBURGH LGBTQIA CENTER: $25k → 14%COOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI INC: $25k → 23%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $50k → 17%FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED: $50k → 20%THE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE INC: $25k → 17%COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD POWER INC: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
TN
DC
MS
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

8%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$277k · 4 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +156% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
48

Total granted

$277k
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+156%
-14%

Still filing today

75%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21
Human ServicesCivil RightsCrime & LegalEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CF
    CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $80k · revenue +58%
  • VO
    VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $71k · revenue +171%
  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $45k · revenue +156%

Funded once

  • HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -23%
  • ER
    EMERGENCY RELEASE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue -99%
  • FF
    FAMILIES FOR JUSTICE AS HEALING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $95k · revenue +154% · 42% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Detention Watch Network

Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.

Human Services
2
National Legal Advocacy Network Dba Glow

The National Legal Advocacy Network d/b/a Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies as a tool to build power for marginalized workers and create systemic change through…

Crime & Legal
3
Lets Get Free- the Women & Trans

We are a group working to end Death by Incarceration also known as life without parole sentencing, build a pathway out of the prisons back to our communities through commutation reform, support successful possibilities for people formerly…

Public Benefit
4
National Black Justice Coalition Inc

The national black justice coalition (nbjc) is a civil rights organization dedicated to the empowerment of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (lgbtq+) and same-gender loving (sgl) people, including people living with…

Civil Rights
5
Communities Resist Inc

We join our clients in the struggle to organize, assert their rights and protect their homes. we work to ensure that community voices are centered in the decisions that impact their lives and neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter
6
Dignity and Power Now

Dignity and Power Now (DPN) is a Los Angeles based grassroots organization that fights for the dignity and power of all incarcerated people, their families, and communities. DPNs mission is to build a Black and Brown led abolitionist…

Philanthropy
7
Colorofchangeorg

Colorofchange.org works to strengthen the voice of black americans and increase the level of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials to underrepresented black constituencies using the internet as a lobbying and…

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8
National Black Womens Justice Institite Inc
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9
Align the Alliance for a Greater New York Inc

programs in NYC pertaining to Workers Rights and workplaces by building power for working people

Employment
10
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
11
Carribean Equality Project Inc

The Caribbean Equality Project is an NYC-based community organization that empowers, advocates for, and represents Afro and Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrants in New York City.

Human Services
12
Alliance for Asian American Justice Inc

Coordinate pro bono legal aid for victims of anti-Asian violence.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families for Justice As Healing Inc; the most unlike its peers is Reign 4 Life. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 57 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/48
Grantees still filing
20/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TIDES CENTER: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERRE-ENTRY ROCKS INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesRE-ENTRY ROCKS INCAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Voices Heard Power Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED INC: $50,000 · Human Services+3 more: $75,000 · Human Services+3 moreHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $1,000,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCA…CLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $75,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR COALITION OF WEST…SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $45,000 · Environment+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentFAMILIES FOR JUSTICE AS HEALING INC: $95,000 · OtherFAMILIES FOR JUSTICE AS HEALIN…BLACK LEADERS ON OUR MISSION: $81,058 · OtherBLACK LEADERS ON OUR MISSIONCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $80,000 · OtherCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTI…FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $75,000 · OtherFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORKURBAN JUSTICE CENTER: $75,000 · OtherURBAN JUSTICE CENTERCommunity Aid and Development Corp: $75,000 · OtherCommunity Aid and Development …BROOKLYN GHOST PROJECT INC: $75,000 · OtherBROOKLYN GHOST PROJECT INCHARD WORK HEALS INC: $75,000 · OtherHARD WORK HEALS INCFLOWER CITY NOIRE COLLECTIVE INC: $50,000 · OtherTROY 4 BLACK LIVES: $50,000 · OtherBlack Trans Nation LLC: $50,000 · OtherBLACK AND PINK INC: $50,000 · OtherCORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $50,000 · OtherBrownsville Think Tank Matters Inc: $50,000 · OtherFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $50,000 · OtherA SECOND U FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Other+10 more: $226,023 · Other+10 moreEMERGENCY RELEASE FUND: $300,000 · Crime & LegalEMERGENCY …UNHEARD VOICES OUTREACH: $60,000 · Crime & LegalUNHEARD VO…GETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC: $25,000 · Crime & LegalGETTING OU…PURELEGACEE INC: $25,000 · Crime & LegalPURELEGACE…CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY COALITION INC: $15,000 · Crime & LegalNASHVILLE COMMUNITY BAIL FUND: $15,000 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE: $50,000 · Civil RightsRise Up Kingston NY Inc: $50,000 · Civil RightsRAPID DEFENSE NETWORK INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsFAMILIES FOR FREEDOM INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsWomens Diversity Network INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL MOBILIZATION AGAINST SWEATSHOPS SWEATSHOPS INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsTransgender Law Center: $25,000 · Civil RightsJustice Committee Inc: $75,000 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $15,000 · Arts & CultureVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC: $71,000 · HealthTHE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Health
Human Services$1,300,000Environment$1,130,000Other$1,257,081Crime & Legal$440,000Civil Rights$275,000Arts & Culture$190,000Health$121,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTIDES CENTER: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetEMERGENCY RELEASE FUND: $300,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetFAMILIES FOR JUSTICE AS HEALING INC: $95,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $80,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetURBAN JUSTICE CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Aid and Development Corp: $75,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetRE-ENTRY ROCKS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetCLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $75,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetJustice Committee Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC: $71,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRise Up Kingston NY Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetA SECOND U FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBrownsville Think Tank Matters Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetRAPID DEFENSE NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCommunity Voices Heard Power Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFAMILIES OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED INC: $50,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetBLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBLACK AND PINK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFAMILIES FOR FREEDOM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPURELEGACEE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MOBILIZATION AGAINST SWEATSHOPS SWEATSHOPS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetArts Business Collaborative: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY COALITION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY BONDS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNASHVILLE COMMUNITY BAIL FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $11,023 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN WORKER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Borealis PhilanthropyNew York FoundationNew York Women's Foun…Proteus Fund IncNorth Star Fund IncSolidago FoundationNEO Philanthropy IncTides FoundationBrooklyn Community Fo…Tides CenterMs Foundation for Wom…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC44.4× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · New York Foundation · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · North Star Fund Inc · Solidago Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Tides Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Tides Center · Ms Foundation for Women Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brooklyn Community Bail Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brooklyn Community Bail Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $600 of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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