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Business Outreach Center Network Inc

Business Outreach Center Network's mission is to improve the economic prospects of traditionally underserved groups, with a focus on low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs and their communities, and thereby create genuinely brighter futures.

$441k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$127k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

86% of Business Outreach Center Network Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Business Outreach Center Network Inc named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $426k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’17
3
’20
3
’21
8
’22
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’23
4
’24
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’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$868kEducation$806kEmployment$106kInternational$22kHousing & Shelter$14k
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $426,315, the rows itemized in this filing. The $441,065 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,750 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 · FY2022

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $303k
$46,035
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New York Womens Chamber of C$127,189
Womens Enterprise Devel cent$115,375
West Brighton Community LDC$60,000
Research foundation of CUNY$46,035
BOC Capital Corp$31,000
CommonWise Education Inc$22,160
Pratt Area Community Council$14,388
CHINATOWN MANPOWER PROJECT$10,168
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Womens Enterprise Devel cent: $115k → 9%West Brighton Community LDC: $60k → 11%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC: $22k → 17%Pratt Area Community Council: $14k → 20%CommonWise Education Inc: $55k → 28%Womens Enterprise Devel cent: $40k → 9%WEST BRIGHTON LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $31k → 11%Columbia University: $308k → 17%BOC Capital Corp: $65k → 20%CommonWise Education Inc: $22k → 28%West Brighton Community LDC: $29k → 11%Columbia University: $267k → 17%BOC Capital Corp: $63k → 20%Columbia University: $97k → 17%BOC Capital Corp: $50k → 20%New York Womens Chamber of C: $127k → 17%BOC Development Corporation: $50k → 20%New York Womens Chamber of C: $73k → 17%BOC Capital Corp: $31k → 20%CHINATOWN MANPOWER PROJECT: $65k → 17%BOC Capital Corp: $31k → 20%CHINATOWN MANPOWER PROJECT: $31k → 17%BOC Development Corporation: $10k → 20%CHINATOWN MANPOWER PROJECT: $10k → 17%BOC Capital Corp: $8k → 20%Research foundation of CUNY: $46k → 17%BOC Capital Corp: $7k → 20%Research foundation of CUNY: $46k → 17%Research foundation of CUNY: $43k → 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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 8 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$1.1M
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+81%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementEmploymentEducationHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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

  • BC
    BOC CAPITAL CORP
    5× · 2020–2025 · $255k · revenue +114%
  • RF
    Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    3× · 2020–2022 · $135k · revenue +22%
  • WB
    WEST BRIGHTON COMMUNITY LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    3× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +81%
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.

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Business Outreach Center Network Inc

Business Outreach Center Network's mission is to improve the economic prospects of traditionally underserved groups, with a focus on low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs and their communities, and thereby create genuinely brighter…

Community Improvement
2
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
3
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City Inc

Icic drives inclusive economic prosperity in under-resourced communities through innovative research and programs to create jobs, income, and wealth for local residents.

Housing & Shelter
4
The Business Initiative Corporation of New York

The mission of the business initiative corporation of new york (bicny) is to support economic development and induce private investments in new york state by providing below-market interest rate loans and long-term capital for the business…

Community Improvement
5
Workshop in Business Opportunities Inc

WIBOs mission is to enable small business owners and budding entrepreneurs from underserved communities obtain financial success by starting, operating, and building successful businesses that develop economic power, provide jobs, and…

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6
Workforce Development Corporation

Promote workforce development and job creation through activities specifically designed to create skilled workforce in the City of New York.

Education
7
Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation

Southwest brooklyn industrial development corporation provides advocacy and services to help businesses in the sunset park, red hook and gowanus neighborhoods grow and create employment opportunities for local residents.

Community Improvement
8
Community Capital New York Inc

Community capital is a nonprofit lender that has revitalized communities and transformed lives in the mid-hudson valley, bronx and fairfield county, ct for 36 years. our mission is to foster economic opportunity for underserved individuals…

Housing & Shelter
9
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
10
Cooperative Development Institute Inc

Develop and train cooperatives to create and sustain democratically owned, cooperative enterprises and networks in the northeast that grow a prosperous and equitable economy.

Community Improvement
11
Queens Economic Development Corporation

The Organization creates and retains jobs through establishing programs throughout neighborhoods that assist small businesses and promote tourism and business development.

Community Improvement
12
Center for International Private Enterprise Inc

The center for international private enterprise (cipe) is a non-profit global organization that works to strengthen democracy and build competitive, resilient markets in many of the world's most challenging environments. working alongside…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Enterprise Development Center in; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

11 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $671,429 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF…Research Foundation of the City University of New York: $134,735 · EducationResearch Foundation of the City University of New …NEW YORK WOMEN'S CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $200,000 · Community ImprovementNEW YORK WOMEN'S CHAMBER OF …WEST BRIGHTON COMMUNITY LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $120,157 · Community ImprovementWEST BRIGHTON COMMUNITY LOCA…Commonwise Education Inc: $77,215 · Community ImprovementCommonwise Education IncBOC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $60,000 · Community ImprovementBOC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONWOMEN'S ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT CENTER IN: $155,592 · EmploymentWOMEN'S ENTERPRI…CHINATOWN MANPOWER PROJECT INC: $106,320 · EmploymentCHINATOWN MANPOW…BOC CAPITAL CORP: $255,000 · OtherBOC CAPITAL COR…International Rescue Committee INC: $22,419 · InternationalPRATT AREA COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $14,388 · Housing & Shelter
Education$806,164Community Improvement$457,372Employment$261,912Other$255,000International$22,419Housing & Shelter$14,388

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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $671,429 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOC CAPITAL CORP: $255,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetWOMEN'S ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT CENTER IN: $155,592 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $134,735 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEST BRIGHTON COMMUNITY LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $120,157 over 3y, 19% of budgetCHINATOWN MANPOWER PROJECT INC: $106,320 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCommonwise Education Inc: $77,215 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBOC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $60,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $22,419 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRATT AREA COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $14,388 over 1y, 0.4% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Business Outreach Center Network Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Business Outreach Center Network Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 11 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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