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BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC

BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC (New York) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $858,577 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($196,300). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$935k
Funders on record
37
Grants received
$859k
Net assets
$581k
20/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Brooklyn Book Bodega Inc does

Mission

The mission of brooklyn book bodega is to increase the number of 100+ book homes for kids 0-18 in nyc.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Brooklyn book bodega serves a critical need (limited access to high quality books and programs) by fostering a love of reading, intentional book culture, and book ownership. In 2023 brooklyn book bodega partnered with 341 organizations and hosted 85 programs to distribute 141,898 books to 50,836 families, children, and individuals throughout new york city. Visitors and volunteers came from diverse socio-economic, racial, and cultural backgrounds, and all five boroughs. Brooklyn book bodega partners with traditional and non-traditional literacy advocates to reinforce and strengthen their work and encourage lifelong reading habits. Brooklyn book bodega partners with community based organizations to intentionally host book giveaways and programs in book desertsareas with few books for sale or borrowing. Brooklyn book bodega promotes literacy, sparks a love of reading, and increases book ownership, book choice, and book access.

    $426,792 spent$628,430 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $426,792.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($204k) Expenses 100 ($78k) Net assets 100 ($168k)2022 Revenue 121 ($248k) Expenses 317 ($246k) Net assets 101 ($170k)2023 Revenue 307 ($628k) Expenses 623 ($484k) Net assets 187 ($314k)2024 Revenue 458 ($935k) Expenses 860 ($668k) Net assets 346 ($581k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (458)Expenses (860)Net assets (346)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $315k to $582k (+85%).

$169k
$170k
$315k
$582k
2021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 8% · 2023 8% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

90% of BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,418 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$127k
’21
$2k
’22
$144k
’23
$267k
’24
9.8
months of
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

Rebecca Cohen

Executive director

Board chair

Analisa Barrett

Board president

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed99910
Joined·+0+1+1
No longer listed·010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 18 funders, grant income rose $2k → $171k.

5 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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

BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

44% 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 BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC.

23%
largest funder
47%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 74% · 2021 49% · 2022 52% · 2023 29% — 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

75% of BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 12 states in all.

VT
IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DE
KS
NC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $257k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,705 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin29% · top quartile
Months of reserve9.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)66% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,705 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 8%Fundraising 7%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

91%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC?
BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC (New York) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $858,577 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($196,300). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $858,577 in grants to BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $196,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 37 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