New York · Nonprofit
BRONXWORKS INC
BRONXWORKS INC (New York) receives grants from 130 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,439,910 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($7,545,500). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $134M
- Funders on record
- 130
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $29M
What Bronxworks Inc does
Mission
Bronxworks helps individuals and families improve their economic and social well being. From toddlers to seniors, we feed, shelter, teach, and support our neighbors to build a stronger community. Bronxworks has operations at over 50 sites, serving individuals and families. We have maintained steady growth since 1972 and are one of the premier nonprofits in new york city.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Homeless prevention relocationstreet homelessness in the bronx has increased by 64%. The hope count number for the bronx was estimated to be 316 in 2025, up from 192 a year prior. Bronxworks jerome avenue men's shelter, homeless outreach team, and safe haven programs placed 264 formerly street homeless individuals into permanent housing. For fiscal year 2025, bronxworks family shelter staff successfully placed a total of 158 families from the jackson, sedgwick, and willow family residences, as well as the bronxworks family hotels, into permanent housing. For fy 2025, the transform program, which provides intensive case management support to families who have moved out of shelter, served 111 families across the four family sheltersjackson, willow, nelson residences, as well as our bronxworks family hotels. The emergency needs for the homeless program helped 231 households remain stable.
$45,445,629 spentof which $2,619,548 as grants$1,912,993 earned by the program38% of program spendingHomeless sheltersthe bronxworks jerome avenue men's shelter, homeless outreach team, and safe haven programs provided temporary shelter to 1,965 people in fy 2025.
$24,233,230 spentof which $533,349 as grants20% of program spendingChildren and youth programsbronxworks' children and youth department programs serve children and young people from 2.9 years to the age of twenty-four, as well as their parents or guardians and families. For children ages two to five, programs include the home instruction for parents of pre-school youngsters (hippy) program and two neighborhood-based early childhood learning centers (eclcs) for pre-school aged children. Afterschool programs for k-8th grade as well as high school, college retention and four cornerstone community centers located in nyc housing authority developments. Our compass and sonyc after-school and summer camp programs that are based in schools or neighborhood centers specifically served 1439 young people in elementary and middle school, programs. Include the middle school transitions initiative (msti) assists 291 young people and ninety-two parents/caregivers transition from middle school to high school by offering workshops for participants and caregivers on the high school application and selection process. Older youth participate in the center for achieving future education (caf) a college readiness program, for high school youth who attend selected…
$13,971,726 spentof which $822,277 as grants$45,000 earned by the program12% of program spendingSupportive housing services supportive housing services were provided to 347 households, which included 95 formerly homeless individuals and families at cooper gardens in bronx community district (cd) 6, 50 formerly homeless households at park haven in bronx cd 1, 120 formerly homeless individuals at brook in bronx cd 1, and 82 formerly homeless households at bronx point in bronx cd 4.bronxworks is the social services provider for the brook, cooper gardens, park haven, and bronx point, where supportive housing services are provided for 527 previously homeless individuals. The homebase program served over 3,500 households with about 7,000 individuals. 95% of the individuals have successfully remained in their homes or found another stable place to live. The hud scatter site program served 47 people.
$11,407,473 spentof which $374,763 as grants10% of program spendingCommunity programs bronxworks' community programs efforts included providing access to health insurance enrollment and navigation services, protective and crime victim services for adults, emergency food assistance, benefits and entitlements assistance, and immigration or family support services. These programs reached residents from throughout the bronx.the health insurance enrollment and navigation services engaged 7,055 people. They enrolled 6,926 people without insurance into a health plan.the adult protective services (aps) program engaged 525 people. Crime victim assistance was offered to 204 people.selected bronxworks locations distributed 44,591 bags of food that contained about 149,161 pounds of food that were used by vulnerable households to prepare about 15,678+ meals throughout the year for an average of about 5,521 persons a month. The estimated monetary value of the bags was $308,219. The bronxworks walk-in offices and access to benefits program offered benefits and entitlements assistance to 2,409 people, providing 760 consultations that led to the acquisition of public benefits worth $1,940,028. Bronxworks enrolled 320+ households for snap (food stamp) benefits…
$23,398,307 spentof which $1,576,705 as grants$3,632,340 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $118,456,365.
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 2022 to 2023, from $55M to $97M (+77%).
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: 2017 91% · 2018 89% · 2019 89% · 2020 89% · 2021 88% · 2022 89% · 2023 80% · 2024 87% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of BRONXWORKS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Eileen Torres
CEO
Board chair
Roger Begelman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $4.5M.
12 of 130 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 BRONXWORKS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 130 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
BRONXWORKS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
71% 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 BRONXWORKS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 39% · 2019 31% · 2020 22% · 2021 33% · 2022 36% · 2023 25% — 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
41% of BRONXWORKS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
83% of BRONXWORKS INC'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. $7.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
BRONXWORKS INC has grown faster than half of the 178 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 178 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding BRONXWORKS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.1M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$15.8M
- Department of Homeland Security$250k
- Department of Agriculture$100k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BRONXWORKS 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
88% 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 2 related entities
- Citizens Advice Bureau Property Holding Company · exempt
- Bronx Point Hdfc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRONXWORKS INC?
- BRONXWORKS INC (New York) receives grants from 130 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,439,910 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($7,545,500). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRONXWORKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 130 organizations giving $31,439,910 in grants to BRONXWORKS INC, 71 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRONXWORKS INC?
- ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,545,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRONXWORKS 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 130 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