New York · Nonprofit
EAST BROOKLYN MUTUAL AID
EAST BROOKLYN MUTUAL AID (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,991 to it, the largest being IN OUR BACKYARDS INC ($5,975). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $63k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $5k
What East Brooklyn Mutual Aid does
Mission
During the pandemic, East Brooklyn experienced higher death rates than NYC's average toll. In Ocean Hill and Brownsville, nearly half of the community experience hunger due to lack of income, and East New York is one of the biggest food swamps in NYC. This lack of access to healthy food stands in direct correlation to the community's death toll, and East Brooklyn Mutual Aid (EBMA) is on a mission to transform the food landscape of East Brooklyn to serve its people. EBMA is a volunteer-led initiative run by ordinary people, mostly Black, Latinx, and LGBTQIA+ folks, addressing food insecurity in Brooklyn's eastern neighborhoods. EBMA was organized to support those affected by COVID-19, particularly immunocompromised and unemployed people, by providing free groceries and social support, and we have expanded to strengthen movements for food sovereignty and community-reliance through direct community organizing.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Through 2022, we have been expanding our work to support healthy food in East Brooklyn from BIPOC farmers. We established new and continued collaboration with our diverse partners. We developed building plan for the Black Radish Grocery & food hub to be located at Chestnut Commons in Cypress Hills. We made 537 unique deliveries to 93 senior households affiliated with Christian Cultural Center. We provided fresh produce and groceries for 250 households for Grandparents Day at Doral Health and Fitness. We collected and donated surplus green produce (approximately 60-80lbs. per week) from Teens for Justice. We supported BIPOC Farms, Black Yard Farm and Trinity Farm. Support included farm field trips for community members to learn about farm operations & gain hands-on experience. We also made bi-monthly deliveries of fresh produce from Trinity Farm to East New York. EBMA supports our community in crisis. We provided 3 meals per day for two weeks during the Herkimer building electricity outage. We helped Black Yard Farm move and find new furniture. We avoided food waste at Farm Fresh Caribbean Growers by buying two bushels of callaloo and distributing it through our network. Our…
$53,457 spentof which $30,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $53,457.
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.
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 $3k to $31k (+979%).
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.
98% of EAST BROOKLYN MUTUAL AID’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Kelvin Taitt
Founder, Executive Director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 EAST BROOKLYN MUTUAL AID’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
EAST BROOKLYN MUTUAL AID leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% 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
86% 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 EAST BROOKLYN MUTUAL AID.
“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
86% of EAST BROOKLYN MUTUAL AID's grant income comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16 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.
Against its field
EAST BROOKLYN MUTUAL AID runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,072 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,072 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EAST BROOKLYN MUTUAL AID?
- EAST BROOKLYN MUTUAL AID (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,991 to it, the largest being IN OUR BACKYARDS INC ($5,975). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EAST BROOKLYN MUTUAL AID have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $6,991 in grants to EAST BROOKLYN MUTUAL AID.
- Who is the largest funder of EAST BROOKLYN MUTUAL AID?
- IN OUR BACKYARDS INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,975 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAST BROOKLYN MUTUAL AID 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 FY2022 (financials across 2021–2022), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing