New York · Nonprofit
BROOKLYN DONATES INC
BROOKLYN DONATES INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,201 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($56,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $61k
- Net assets
- $23k
What Brooklyn Donates Inc does
Mission
Brooklyn Donates Inc.'s primary exempt purpose is charitable. The charitable mission is to provide assistance to small businesses in transforming their business practices to be more sustainable, conducting activities best described by NTEE Code S30, economic development. Our focus is on combating community deterioration and preventing the further gentrification of Brooklyn neighborhoods by investing in projects that empower community-led decision-making.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Family Support: this program developed to support those families displaced and in need of support settling in more stable situations.
$1,592 spentof which $13,175 as grants100% of program spendingBack of House COVID Relief. This program allowed for employers to nominate back of house restaurant employees (e.g. cooks, bakers, dish washers) that went above and beyond for the business during the pandemic. Grants were capped at $1000 per recipient. This program benefited 4 individuals in New York City, at 4 different small businesses. (Grants: $4,000.00).
$0 spent0% of program spendingBrooklyn SCORES Cup Food Sponsor. This grant served the dual purposes of supporting small businesses as well as improving community programming for economically underserved communities. This program benefited 1 small business, 1 non-profit, and 1000 community members by providing food at a charitable event (Grants: $900.00).
$0 spent0% of program spending28. COVID-19 Small Business Relief - This program allowed NYC small business owners to apply for grants to help their business stay open, reopen, and recover from the pandemic. Grants were used to pay rent, bills, and re-hire employees. This program benefited 7 small businesses in New York City. (Grants: $60,700.00)
$0 spent0% of program spending29. Small Business Outdoor Heater Grant Program - This program allowed NYC small business owners to apply for grants of up to $3000 to purchase outdoor heaters, plexi-glass, and other winter improvements to keep their businesses open. This benefited 17 small businesses throughout Brooklyn, New York. (Grants: $30,500.00)
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,592.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $12k to $17k (+43%).
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.
100% of BROOKLYN DONATES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $56k → $34.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 DONATES 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 DONATES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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 BROOKLYN DONATES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 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
100% of BROOKLYN DONATES INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BROOKLYN DONATES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BROOKLYN DONATES 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.
Public support
72%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BROOKLYN DONATES INC?
- BROOKLYN DONATES INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,201 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($56,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BROOKLYN DONATES INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $61,201 in grants to BROOKLYN DONATES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROOKLYN DONATES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $56,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROOKLYN DONATES 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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