New York · Nonprofit
BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY
BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $676,363 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($290,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $676k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy does
Mission
Bela's mission is to empower each young woman to be the best version of herself. Through a rigorous college preparatory curriculum, service learning initiatives, and a commitment to cultivating a spirit of resilience within each young woman, bela students will attend and graduate from college.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy (bela) was founded with a deep commitment to expanding educational opportunities for the young women of the bedford-stuyvesant community. Rooted in the belief that every student possesses boundless potential, bela provides a transformative learning environment designed to inspire, challenge, and empower.at bela, we cultivate a culture of excellence that nurtures intellectual curiosity, leadership, and resilience. Our program equips students with the academic foundation and personal confidence needed to thrive in high school, excel in college, and embark on fulfilling careers. By fostering a supportive and dynamic educational experience, we set our students on a trajectory for lifelong successensuring they emerge as leaders ready to shape their communities and the world.
$4,481,552 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,481,552.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.9M to $3.0M (+59%).
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 48% · 2018 77% · 2019 94% · 2020 95% · 2021 96% · 2022 96% · 2023 95% · 2024 95% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Diane Nathanial
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income fell $100k → $54k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY’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 EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 88% · 2019 83% · 2020 95% · 2021 74% · 2022 30% · 2023 59% — 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
43% of BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
53% of BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY'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 $318k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $358k 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.
Against its field
BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY?
- BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $676,363 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($290,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $676,363 in grants to BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $290,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY 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 18 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