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The Bronx Community Foundation Inc

The bronx community foundation supports and invests in community power to eradicate inequity and build sustainable futures for all bronxites.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Youth Development$395kEducation$358kFood & Nutrition$347kCrime & Legal$340kCommunity Improvement$327kHuman Services$264kHousing & Shelter$157kEmployment$125kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $960,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,578,184 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $618,184 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k18 grants · $350k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $610k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPARKYOUTH NYC INC$100,000
SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC$85,000
SOUTH BRONX COMMUNITY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL$85,000
DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL EAST HARLEM$85,000
KIPP NEW YORK INC$85,000
BRONX LACROSSE$85,000
INSPIRING FUTURES INC$85,000
NEW YORK WOMEN'S CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$40,000
CENTER FOR AN URBAN FUTURE$25,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK$25,000
SAFE PASSAGE PROJECT$20,000
AFRICAN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE CENTER$20,000
BRONX HEALTH COLLECTIVE OF MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER$20,000
HONDURANS AGAINST AIDS INC$20,000
HOT BREAD KITCHEN$20,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–24, $279k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ASTOR SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $25k → 9%ASTOR SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $10k → 9%INSPIRING FUTURES INC: $85k → 17%TRANSNATIONAL: $50k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $20k → 17%MEKONG NYC: $25k → 28%SAPNA NYC: $25k → 28%RAIN INC: $13k → 28%THE GAMBIAN YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $15k → 28%THE GAMBIAN YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $5k → 28%WORD OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $7k → 28%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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$643k · 14 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
46

Total granted

$643k
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+14%

Still filing today

93%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $820k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalEducationEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TF
    THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $55k · revenue +98%
  • TP
    The Point Community Development Corporation
    2× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue +64%
  • CF
    CITY FUTURES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • RF
    RETHINK FOOD NYC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +370%
  • MI
    MASA-MEXED INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +114%
  • YM
    YOUTH MINISTRIES FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
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
Urban Youth Alliance Internationalinc

To encompass a faith community based program that offers alternatives to detention, incarceration by connecting court-involved youth with positive resources in the local community. Provide supportive community services to justice-involved…

Education
2
The Bronx Parent Housing Network Inc

Bronx parent housing network is committed to making a difference in solving the housing problem in new york city by transforming lives and creating holistic paths to employment so that individuals and families can secure safe, clean,…

Human Services
3
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
4
Lsny-Bronx Corporation

Legal services nyc-bronx is a not-for-profit corporation organized for the purposes of providing legal assistance to indigent persons in the new york city area in noncriminal proceedings or matters.

Education
5
Legal Services Nyc

Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…

Crime & Legal
6
South Bronx Community Management Co Inc

The company is involved in acquiring and managing residential dwelling units primarily in the south bronx, for low income families.

Housing & Shelter
7
Sebco Development Inc

Sebco development inc. is a non profit community based organization committed to developing and maintaining affordable and safe housing in the city of new york. sebco strives to continually provide well maintained, secure housing along…

Housing & Shelter
8
Co-Counsel Nyc Inc

To transform our collective capacity to navigate complex legal systems and support safe, thriving, and engaged immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal
9
Black Latinx Asian Charter Collaborative

Black Latinx Asian Charter Collaborative (the Organization") is a nonprofit organization dedicated to elevating charter schools founded and led by people of color in New York City. The organization represents educators and stakeholders in…

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10
Brooklyn Legal Services Inc

Brooklyn legal services, inc is a not-for-profit corporation organized for the purpose of providing legal assistance to indigent persons in the new york city area in noncriminal proceedings or matters.

Crime & Legal
11
BronxCare Health Integrated Services System Inc

The objective and mission of the corporation shall be to ensure the availability of funding to support the development, expansion and delivery of the highest quality effective and efficient primary care services, coupled with additional…

Health
12
New York City Business Assistance Corporation

To reduce unemployment, promote and provide for additional and maximum employment in NYC, encourage the development and/or retention of businesses in NYC; instruct or train individuals to improve and develop their capabilities for jobs in…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Housing & Economic Development Corporation; the most unlike its peers is The Gambian Youths Organization 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

68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 76 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/68
Grantees still filing
44/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARY MITCHELL FAMILY AND YOUTH CENTER INC: $78,500 · OtherMARY MITCHELL FAMILY AND YOUTH CENTER INCYOUTH MINISTRIES FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE: $75,000 · OtherYOUTH MINISTRIES FOR PEACE AND JUSTICECitizens Against Recidivism Inc: $50,000 · OtherThe Point Community Development Corporation: $50,000 · OtherRETHINK FOOD NYC INC: $100,000 · OtherRETHINK FOOD NYC INCTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $55,000 · OtherCITY FUTURES INC: $50,000 · Other+37 more: $892,000 · Other+37 moreSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY FOR F…INSPIRING FUTURES INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesINSPIRING FUTUR…TRANSNATIONAL VILLAGES NETWORK REDDE PUEBLOS TRASNACIONALES: $50,000 · Human ServicesTRANSNATIONAL V…ASTOR SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $35,000 · Human ServicesASTOR SERVICES …THROUGHLINE LEARNING: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHROUGHLINE LEA…Mekong Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesMekong IncSAPNA NYC INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSAPNA NYC INCTHE GAMBIAN YOUTHS ORGANIZATION INC: $20,120 · Human ServicesHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $20,000 · Human Services+2 more: $19,000 · Human ServicesMASA-MEXED INC: $100,000 · EducationMASA-MEXED …KIPP NEW YORK INC: $85,000 · EducationKIPP NEW YO…SOUTH BRONX COMMUNITY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $85,000 · EducationSOUTH BRONX…Fordham University: $12,500 · EducationHUB-THIRD AVE MERCHANTS DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $82,000 · Community ImprovementHUB-THIRD…SOUTH BRONX OVERALL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTH BRO…NEW YORK WOMEN'S CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $40,000 · Community ImprovementNEW YORK …INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementINSTITUTE…AFRIKANA CORPORATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementAFRIKANA …Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc: $16,000 · Community ImprovementNorthwest…SPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $100,000 · Crime & LegalSPARKYOUT…THE BRONX DEFENDERS: $50,000 · Crime & LegalTHE BRONX…SAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION: $40,000 · Crime & LegalSAFE PASS…JUSTICE INNOVATION INC: $25,000 · Crime & LegalJUSTICE I…THRIVE FOR LIFE PRISON PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalHARLEM RBI INC: $85,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SKYLINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $51,506 · PhilanthropyBRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyBRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA: $85,000 · Recreation & SportsMercy Center Inc: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsSouth Bronx United Inc: $12,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,350,500Human Services$389,120Education$282,500Community Improvement$238,000Crime & Legal$225,000Philanthropy$161,506Recreation & Sports$142,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRETHINK FOOD NYC INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMASA-MEXED INC: $100,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetHARLEM RBI INC: $85,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $85,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKIPP NEW YORK INC: $85,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH BRONX COMMUNITY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $85,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA: $85,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetINSPIRING FUTURES INC: $85,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetHUB-THIRD AVE MERCHANTS DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $82,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetMARY MITCHELL FAMILY AND YOUTH CENTER INC: $78,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SKYLINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $51,506 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSOUTH BRONX OVERALL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BRONX DEFENDERS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCitizens Against Recidivism Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetThe Point Community Development Corporation: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCITY FUTURES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMercy Center Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAFRICAN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE CENTER (AICC) INC: $45,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC: $37,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASTOR SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN WILD INC: $35,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE CRENULATED COMPANY LTD: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPART OF THE SOLUTION: $28,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $27,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHROUGHLINE LEARNING: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Knowledge House Fellowship Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMekong Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetST ANN'S CORNER OF HARM REDUCTION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBronx Land Trust: $25,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bronx Neighborhood Housing: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG URBAN CHRISTIANS & ARTISTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetA Fair Shake for Youth Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetIRAISE GIRLS & BOYS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetJUSTICE INNOVATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAPNA NYC INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE BRONX IS BLOOMING: $25,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetLAAL NYC: $25,000 over 1y, 9.7% 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.

Robin Hood FoundationPinkerton FoundationUnited Way of New Yor…Hispanic Federation I…New York Women's Foun…The New York Communit…The Hyde and Watson F…New Yankee Stadium Co…New York FoundationLily Auchincloss Foun…Montefiore Medical Ce…City Parks Foundation…
Robin Hood FoundationNY54.3× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robin Hood Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · United Way of New York City · Hispanic Federation Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund Inc · New York Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Montefiore Medical Center · City Parks Foundation 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 The Bronx Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bronx Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%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
    1get no government money at all
    31report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Bronx Community Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Bronx Community Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 76 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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