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BUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK STATE INC

BUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK STATE INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,750 to it, the largest being The Education Trust Inc ($18,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$8.7M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$36k
Net assets
$2.9M
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Business Council of New York State Inc does

Mission

To be the voice of business and employers in new york state.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The business council (tbc) represents the state's business community by providing advocacy, research, and analysis on state budgets, legislation and regulations that impact the cost of doing business in new york. Through this process, tbc develops a public policy agenda, provides education through conferences, webinars, seminars, and issues publications supporting economic growth and development.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.2M) Expenses 100 ($7.4M) Net assets -421 ($-6791880)2018 Revenue 103 ($7.4M) Expenses 103 ($7.6M) Net assets -390 ($-6292950)2019 Revenue 109 ($7.9M) Expenses 92 ($6.8M) Net assets -333 ($-5376658)2020 Revenue 94 ($6.8M) Expenses 81 ($6.0M) Net assets -376 ($-6065632)2021 Revenue 102 ($7.3M) Expenses 84 ($6.2M) Net assets -214 ($-3459637)2022 Revenue 100 ($7.2M) Expenses 90 ($6.6M) Net assets -110 ($-1775497)2023 Revenue 105 ($7.6M) Expenses 95 ($7.0M) Net assets -28 ($-455603)2024 Revenue 117 ($8.5M) Expenses 106 ($7.8M) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 120 ($8.7M) Expenses 115 ($8.5M) Net assets 178 ($2.9M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (120)Expenses (115)Net assets (178)

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 $3.9M to $4.9M (+27%).

$4.5M
$4.3M
$3.6M
$3.4M
$3.9M
$4.9M
$4.8M
$4.3M
$4.0M
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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: 2021 10% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$169k
’17
−$214k
’18
$1.1M
’19
$780k
’20
$1.2M
’21
$571k
’22
$527k
’23
$631k
’24
$183k
’25
1.7
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

Heather C Mulligan

President and CEO, president of ppi

Board chair

Rich Constable

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed686765666163646971
Joined·+5+12+13+4+6+12+12+11
No longer listed·61412941179
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $19k → $17k.

Funder
'19
'23
total
$19k
Fwdus Incunclassified
$7k
funders
1
2

Left out of every figure on this page: $195k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Putting New Yorkers to Work Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK STATE INC raised.

From the IRS filings of BUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK STATE 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

BUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK STATE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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 BUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK STATE INC.

52%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

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

Where its funders are

BUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK STATE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.

CA
DC

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

’19
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like BUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK STATE 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

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

63
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 6 related entities

  • The Public Policy Institute of New York State Inc · exempt
  • New York Jobs Now Inc · exempt
  • Jobs New York Committee · exempt
  • The Business Council Service Corporation · corp_trust
  • The Business Council Workers' Compensation Administrators Inc · corp_trust

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK STATE 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 BUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK STATE INC?
BUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK STATE INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,750 to it, the largest being The Education Trust Inc ($18,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK STATE INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $35,750 in grants to BUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK STATE INC.
Who is the largest funder of BUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK STATE INC?
The Education Trust Inc is the largest funder on record, with $18,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK STATE 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing