New York · Nonprofit
GROW BROOKLYN INC
GROW BROOKLYN INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,375,318 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($2,170,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $446k
What Grow Brooklyn Inc does
Mission
Grow brooklyn is a brooklyn based non-profit organization whose mission is to enable members of its community to preserve and grow their assets, thereby securing their economic future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grow Brooklyn provides free tax preparation services to low- and moderate-income individuals and families through the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. During the tax year, the organization prepared over 9,500 federal and state tax returns, helping taxpayers accurately file and access critical tax credits, including the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC).Grow Brooklyn also serves approximately 1,000 self-employed individuals and eligible small businesses annually, many of whom are ITIN holders, through the New York State Department of Consumer and Worker Protections Self-Employment Tax Preparation(SETP) initiative.The organizations commitment to financial empowerment extends beyond tax season through year-round support and referrals designed to help individuals maximize refunds, improve financial literacy, and access public benefits. These services contribute to increased financial stability for low- and moderate-income New Yorkers.
$915,012 spent65% of program spendingGrow brooklyn provides free legal services to support housing stability in new york city's most impacted neighborhoods. Our comprehensive foreclosure prevention counseling and estate planning services are designed to address the unique challenges faced by these communities. Each year, our foreclosure prevention program assists approximately 300 homeowners, helping many to successfully modify their mortgages and remain in their homes. Recognizing that 1015% of our clients facing foreclosure also contend with estate issues, grow brooklyn offers a targeted estate planning program called "protect your treasure". This initiative empowers individuals and families in low-income communities to preserve their financial assets, including their homes, by providing estate planning, estate administration advice, and limited legal services in conjunction with our foreclosure prevention efforts.
$483,351 spent34% of program spendingGrow Brooklyn conducts targeted outreach across New York City to connect low- and moderate-income homeowners with free housing stability services. Through in-person and virtual events, the organization reaches approximately 2,000 individuals annually, raising awareness and providing direct access to foreclosure prevention, estate planning, property tax and water lien support, scam prevention, repair assistance, and resiliency resources. Outreach efforts prioritize communities at high risk of displacement and focus on education, early intervention, and trusted guidance to help New Yorkers preserve homeownership and generational wealth
$3,467 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,401,830.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $920k to $2.2M (+141%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 84% · 2019 65% · 2020 58% · 2021 76% · 2022 67% · 2023 87% · 2024 99% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of GROW BROOKLYN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Aissatou Barry
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $64k → $898k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 GROW BROOKLYN 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
GROW BROOKLYN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 80%; 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 GROW BROOKLYN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 67% · 2019 42% · 2020 76% · 2021 63% · 2022 53% · 2023 62% — 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.
How long its funders stay
30% of GROW BROOKLYN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
88% of GROW BROOKLYN INC'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. $215k 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
GROW BROOKLYN INC is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GROW BROOKLYN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $593k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$593k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GROW BROOKLYN 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROW BROOKLYN 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 GROW BROOKLYN INC?
- GROW BROOKLYN INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,375,318 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($2,170,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROW BROOKLYN INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $4,375,318 in grants to GROW BROOKLYN INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROW BROOKLYN INC?
- ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROW BROOKLYN 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 16 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