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Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled Inc

Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled Inc (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,200 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($123,075). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$150k
Net assets
$802k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled Inc does

Mission

To empower people with disabilities so they can improve the quality of their lives and have the same access to opportunities as their nondisabled peers. By law, BCID is operated by a majority of people with disabilities, and most of our staff have disabilities as well.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. For more than 55 years, our mission has been to empower people with disabilities so they can improve the quality of their lives and have the same access to opportunities as their non-disabled peers. By law, BCID is operated by a majority of people with disabilities, and most of our staff have disabilities as well.The agency provided services to individuals with disabilities, such as peer support, benefits and entitlements counseling, independent living skills training, assistancewith location housing, and providing information about other community resources. In addition, the agency conducts workshops and community education programsrelating to issues that affect people with disabilities.

    $1,296,184 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,296,184.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($926k) Expenses 100 ($888k) Net assets 100 ($191k)2018 Revenue 114 ($1.1M) Expenses 117 ($1.0M) Net assets 109 ($209k)2019 Revenue 120 ($1.1M) Expenses 121 ($1.1M) Net assets 126 ($241k)2020 Revenue 122 ($1.1M) Expenses 125 ($1.1M) Net assets 136 ($261k)2021 Revenue 123 ($1.1M) Expenses 125 ($1.1M) Net assets 148 ($283k)2022 Revenue 142 ($1.3M) Expenses 130 ($1.2M) Net assets 169 ($324k)2023 Revenue 122 ($1.1M) Expenses 124 ($1.1M) Net assets 187 ($357k)2024 Revenue 116 ($1.1M) Expenses 120 ($1.1M) Net assets 193 ($369k)2025 Revenue 130 ($1.2M) Expenses 166 ($1.5M) Net assets 420 ($802k)
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Revenue (130)Expenses (166)Net assets (420)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 $630k to $1.5M (+139%).

$530k
$493k
$379k
$516k
$507k
$657k
$630k
$1.5M
$1.1M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 43% · 2020 51% · 2021 46% · 2022 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’17
$18k
’18
$32k
’19
$20k
’20
$22k
’21
$159k
’22
$34k
’23
$11k
’24
−$274k
’25
4.0
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.

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Listed1010111010111199
Joined·+0+3+1+1+2+2+0+0
No longer listed·02211220
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $123k → $10k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Center for Independence of the Disabled 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

Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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

82%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 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

86% of Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
NC
DC

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled Inc is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−23% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled Inc: 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 Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled Inc?
Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled Inc (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,200 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($123,075). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled Inc have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $150,200 in grants to Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled Inc?
MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $123,075 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled 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 4 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