New York · Nonprofit
Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry
Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,915 to it, the largest being WEST HARLEM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($87,616). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $102k
- Net assets
- $103k
What Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry does
Mission
The Board identifies and maximizes the strenght of African American and Caribbean children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry (BEPAA), established in 1991 in Harlem, New York, is a testament to educational empowerment through cultural connection. founded by Dr. Adele Stanford, former Vice-Chancellor of the New York State Board or Fregents, alonside dedicated educators, clergy, and community activists, BEPAA drives systemic change in education through meticulous research and strategic collaboration with superintendents, principals, teachers, parents, and para-professionals. Their unwavering mission ensures that African American childrens educational needs are comprehensively addressed. Beyond traditional education, BEPAA extends its impact by supporting the Digital Media Training Program, equipping underserved New York City Residents with skills in video production, photography, journalism, and the Harlem Through My Eyes Oral History Project. Operating from the Dr. John Henrick Clarke House at 286 Convent avenue-named for the renowned scholar, historian, and lecturer- BEPAA continues its profound legacy of advancing the history, culture, and education of people of Afican ancestry.
$18,713 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,713.
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 2024 to 2025, from $101k to $113k (+12%).
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.
84% of Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Cassandra Grant
Acting Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $37k → $15k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry’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
Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% — 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
100% of Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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
Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry?
- Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,915 to it, the largest being WEST HARLEM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($87,616). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $101,915 in grants to Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry?
- WEST HARLEM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $87,616 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry 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 2 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