New York · Nonprofit
BLOCK INSTITUTE INC
BLOCK INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,204 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($3,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $25M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What Block Institute Inc does
Mission
The block institute, inc. Is dedicated to improving the quality of life for all people, primarily the developmentally disabled and their families. Through our vast experience, the agency provides unique and individualized services. The strong partnership between our staff and the community enables each person to achieve greater independence and integration. We believe in the protection of every persons civil rights, including the right to advocate for oneself and others. The agency is committed to community awareness, sensitivity, and acceptance of individuals with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential services - provided quality residential care in a family-like setting to 224 individuals with developmental disabilities. Through our non-certified community residences via the housing subsidy program, intermediate care facilities (icf), and individual residential alternatives (ira), our consumers received unique and person-centered services, which enabled each person in achieving greater independence and integration within the community.
$15,536,146 spent$17,474,018 earned by the program64% of program spendingAdult day programs - through its day treatment and day habilitation programs, block institute assisted 197 individuals with developmental disabilities increase their life skills, independence, individuality, productivity, and community inclusion by utilizing a wide array of community resources including volunteering and recreational activities.
$6,669,765 spent$6,838,093 earned by the program27% of program spendingThe organization provided 4,585 units of service in its article 16 clinic to individuals with developmental disabilities, including occupational, physical, psychological, and speech therapy sessions and evaluations.
$2,091,094 spent$309,443 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,297,005.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $14M to $25M (+78%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 36% · 2023 4% · 2024 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of BLOCK INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Scott Barkin Phd
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $3k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BLOCK INSTITUTE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BLOCK INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 93% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
BLOCK INSTITUTE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $704 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BLOCK INSTITUTE INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like BLOCK INSTITUTE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Block Institute School · exempt
- Brooklyn Comm Mental Retardation Svcs · exempt
- Brooklyn Hebrew School for Retarded Children · exempt
- Block Institute Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLOCK INSTITUTE INC?
- BLOCK INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,204 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($3,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLOCK INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $6,204 in grants to BLOCK INSTITUTE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLOCK INSTITUTE INC?
- Enterprise Holdings Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLOCK INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing