New York · Nonprofit
DEAR BLACK GIRL INCORPORATED
DEAR BLACK GIRL INCORPORATED (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $418,161 to it, the largest being PROSPECT HILL FOUNDATION INC ($192,450). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $225k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $418k
- Net assets
- $-10373
What Dear Black Girl Incorporated does
Mission
Our mission is to teach, love, and empower disenfranchised youth ages 12-26 through mentorship, after-school programs, and community engagement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
During the 2025 tax year, Dear Black Girl Incorporated expanded and enhanced its program services to better meet the needs of youth and families served. In addition to continuing core programming, the organization increased its wellness, mentoring, and school-based supports, including expanded group-based mental health and social-emotional learning services and additional community programming. These services were undertaken to strengthen access to consistent, healing-centered supports and respond to evolving community needs.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Girl Talk - School Based Group Therapy and Mentoring. During 2025, Dear Black Girl Incorporated delivered Girl Talk, a healing-centered program providing group-based mental health support, mentoring, and social emotional learning for youth. The program created a consistent and culturally responsive space for participants to process challenges such as anxiety, grief, self-esteem, peer conflict, identity development, and stress related to school and home life. Sessions incorporated facilitated discussion, therapeutic activities, and practical coping strategies to strengthen emotional regulation, communication skills, self-advocacy, and healthy relationships. Through weekly programming and ongoing engagement, Girl Talk helped participants build confidence, increase mental health awareness, and improve their ability to navigate day-to-day challenges in a supportive community environment.
$99,697 spent45% of program spendingHeal to Hip Hop - Movement Based Wellness and Community Healing. During 2025, Dear Black Girl Incorporated delivered Heal to Hip Hop, a movement-based wellness program designed to support mental health, confidence, and community connection through dance, fitness, and holistic well-being activities. The program created a safe and inclusive environment where participants could engage in physical movement as a tool for emotional release, self-expression, and stress reduction. Sessions promoted healthy habits, positive body image, self-discipline, and resilience while strengthening social connection and belonging. Heal to Hip Hop supported youth and community members in building confidence, improving overall wellness, and participating in healing-centered programming that meets participants where they are.
$66,464 spent30% of program spendingThe LITeration Project - Literacy and Financial Education. During 2025, Dear Black Girl Incorporated delivered The LITeration Project, a program designed to strengthen literacy, academic confidence, and real-life financial knowledge for youth. The program supported participants in building reading comprehension, critical thinking, and communication skills while introducing age-appropriate personal finance concepts. Through structured learning activities, discussion-based lessons, and engaging exercises, participants increased their understanding of budgeting, saving, goal setting, and responsible decision-making. The LITeration Project helped youth develop practical skills that support long-term success in school and life while reinforcing confidence, independence, and future planning.
$55,387 spent25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $221,548.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $8k to $-9872 (−216%).
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.
96% of DEAR BLACK GIRL INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Cassandra Pryor
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $66k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 DEAR BLACK GIRL INCORPORATED’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
DEAR BLACK GIRL INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 62% · 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of DEAR BLACK GIRL INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 25% 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
99% of DEAR BLACK GIRL INCORPORATED'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. $45k 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
DEAR BLACK GIRL INCORPORATED's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DEAR BLACK GIRL INCORPORATED
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DEAR BLACK GIRL INCORPORATED?
- DEAR BLACK GIRL INCORPORATED (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $418,161 to it, the largest being PROSPECT HILL FOUNDATION INC ($192,450). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEAR BLACK GIRL INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $418,161 in grants to DEAR BLACK GIRL INCORPORATED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEAR BLACK GIRL INCORPORATED?
- PROSPECT HILL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $192,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEAR BLACK GIRL INCORPORATED 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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