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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,250 to it, the largest being 1199 SEIU UNITED HEALTHCARE WORKERS EAST ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$127k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$47k
Net assets
$3k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Downtown Brooklyn Neighborhood Alliance does

Mission

Provide assistance to downtown brooklyn ny residents. Created to enhance quality of life in NYC and Brooklyn NY promotes a healthier enviornment through community outreach promote developed in the community benefits agreement and NETS Arena monitor community benefits.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Neidghborhood Allicance in charge of enforcing the community benefits agreement related to the Downtown Brooklyn Arena. To ensure fairness in the community relative to dispalacement and other factors associated with the project and its impact on the downtown brooklyn environment and neighborhood.

    $67,643 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $67,643.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($232k) Expenses 100 ($276k) Net assets 100 ($93k)2019 Revenue 233 ($541k) Expenses 123 ($340k) Net assets 139 ($129k)2020 Revenue 90 ($209k) Expenses 95 ($263k) Net assets 33 ($31k)2021 Revenue 67 ($155k) Expenses 56 ($153k) Net assets 34 ($31k)2022 Revenue 63 ($147k) Expenses 57 ($157k) Net assets 23 ($21k)2023 Revenue 57 ($132k) Expenses 51 ($141k) Net assets 13 ($12k)2024 Revenue 54 ($125k) Expenses 48 ($132k) Net assets 6 ($6k)2025 Revenue 55 ($127k) Expenses 47 ($130k) Net assets 3 ($3k)
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Revenue (55)Expenses (47)Net assets (3)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $129k to $31k (−76%).

$93k
$129k
$31k
$31k
$21k
$12k
$6k
$3k
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

2% of DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$44k
’17
$201k
’19
−$54k
’20
$1k
’21
−$10k
’22
−$9k
’23
−$7k
’24
−$3k
’25
0.2
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.

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Listed44544444
Joined··+1+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed··010000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $15k.

From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE’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

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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

95% 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 DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE.

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 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

95% of DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
SC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
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

Against its field

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE's revenue fell 45% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

52% of spending goes to programs.

Program 52%Management 34%Fundraising 14%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE?
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,250 to it, the largest being 1199 SEIU UNITED HEALTHCARE WORKERS EAST ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $47,250 in grants to DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE?
1199 SEIU UNITED HEALTHCARE WORKERS EAST is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE 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 2 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