New York · Nonprofit
BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION
BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,085,376 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($725,309). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $296k
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $699k
What Bronx Letters Foundation does
Mission
The Bronx Letters Foundation was formed to support and operate programs that enhance the educational experience of students of the Bronx Academy of Letters (the Academy). The Academy, a public high school in the Bronx, New York, serves low income middle and high school students and emphasizes the importance of reading and writing in its programs and activities. The Foundation acts as an informal PTA to the Academy and supports and operates various enrichment programs and activities for the Academys student body, in cooperation with the schools administration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Bronx Letters Foundation was formed to support and operate programs that enhance the educational experience of students of the Bronx Academy of Letters (the Academy). The Academy, a public high school in the Bronx, New York, serves low income middle and high school students and emphasizes the importance of reading and writing in its programs and activities. The Foundation acts as an informal PTA to the Academy and supports and operates various enrichment programs and activities for the Academys student body, in cooperation with the schools administration.
$444,241 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $444,241.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $927k (−20%).
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.
92% of BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $59k → $281k.
12 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 funders by total. 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
BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 88% · 2019 75% · 2020 64% · 2021 32% · 2022 26% · 2023 34% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
30% of BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
58% of BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $886k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states 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
BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION's revenue fell 34% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION: 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 BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION?
- BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,085,376 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($725,309). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $2,085,376 in grants to BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $725,309 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 41 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing