New York · Nonprofit
BROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE
BROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,703,676 to it, the largest being CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ($495,540). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $467k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $129k
What Brooklyn Greenway Initiative does
Mission
The organization's mission is to cause the creation and long-term maintenance of the brooklyn waterfront greenway. The corporation is organizied exclusively to create and sustain waterfront access and open space in the hudson river estuary by obtaining, developing and maintaining land for greenways.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization's largest program by expense is related to the development, establishment, and stewardship of the brooklyn waterfront greenway as vital public infrastructure that serves residents, employees, and visitors across brooklyn as a transportation and recreation corridor. The 26-mile planned greenway from greenpoint to east new york is more than 75% complete with gaps remaining only in vinegar hill, red hook, sunset park, and south brooklyn. Greenway planning, design and construction underway in 2021 included segments in wallabout, red hook, gowanus, sunset park, and bay ridge.in 2021, Brooklyn Greenway Initiative (bgi) measured more than 1.3 million greenway users in one location, highlighting its importance as safe accessible open space and mobility infrastructure, and adding physical and community resilience to new york city's overall system of transportation infrastructure.working with multiple public and private partners and advisors, bgi in 2021 advanced the brooklyn waterfront greenway user study to document how the greenway serves as a transportation, climate, and community solution that serves all brooklyn communities equitably. Year two of this project entailed…
$432,546 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $432,546.
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 $569k to $225k (−61%).
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 40% · 2018 10% · 2019 16% · 2020 21% · 2021 28% · 2022 15% · 2023 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Hunter Armstrong
Executive director
Board chair
Andrew Simons
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $161k → $261k.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 GREENWAY INITIATIVE’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 GREENWAY INITIATIVE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
45% 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 GREENWAY INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 52% · 2019 39% · 2020 67% · 2021 25% · 2022 33% · 2023 21% — 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
46% of BROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
70% of BROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE'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. $267k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 GREENWAY INITIATIVE's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE: 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 GREENWAY INITIATIVE?
- BROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,703,676 to it, the largest being CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ($495,540). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,703,676 in grants to BROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE?
- CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $495,540 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 27 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