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DYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN

DYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $977,082 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FUND ($400,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$135k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$977k
Net assets
$62k
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 79%
01What it does

What Dyslexia Alliance for Black Children does

Mission

To eliminate the amplified inequities for black children experiencing unaddressed dyslexia and related learning disabilities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Family and school programs - the Dyslexia Alliance for Black Children (dabc) provides free literacy and dyslexia workshops, parent-to-parent coaching and supplemental educational support to families. In 2025, dabc served families through workshops and coached x families. Families also have access to asynchronous learning on-demand learning. Dabc also provided high dosage reading intervention to students in the bronx and mount vernon. Dabc partners with schools and community based organizaiton to dleiver workshops to families.

    $86,308 spent
    75% of program spending
  2. Educator workshops and conferences - the Dyslexia Alliance for Black Children worked with schools and community based organization to deliver workshops to educators and partnered with organizations to deliver workshops and presentations to more than educators. Our annual conference served educators and adovcates.

    $28,540 spent$2,250 earned by the program
    25% of program spending
  3. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $114,848.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($593k) Expenses 100 ($420k) Net assets 100 ($395k)2024 Revenue 43 ($257k) Expenses 137 ($574k) Net assets 20 ($78k)2025 Revenue 23 ($135k) Expenses 36 ($152k) Net assets 16 ($62k)
202320242025
Revenue (23)Expenses (36)Net assets (16)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 2023 to 2024, from $400k to $81k (−80%).

$400k
$81k
$65k
202320242025
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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of DYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$173k
’23
−$317k
’24
−$16k
’25
5.1
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

Resha Conroy

Executive director

Board chair

Heather Gregory

Board member - chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed1155
Joined·+1+0
No longer listed·70
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $225k → $469k.

1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 DYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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

DYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

88% 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 DYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN.

41%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 89% · 2023 64% — 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

DYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.

NY
CA
DE
DC

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

’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−52% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education 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

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 19%Fundraising 5%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

27%

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 DYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN?
DYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $977,082 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FUND ($400,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $977,082 in grants to DYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN?
NEW SCHOOLS FUND is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN 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 2023–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing