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MANHATTAN AND BRONX SURFACE TRANSIT OPERATING AUTHORITY

MANHATTAN AND BRONX SURFACE TRANSIT OPERATING AUTHORITY (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,000 to it, the largest being TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF GREATER NEW YORK LOCAL 100 ($9,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$736M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$9k
Net assets
$-1094817614
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority does

Mission

Provide Public Transportation in New York City boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide Public Bus Transportation in New York City boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx

    $1,201,741,579 spent$289,557,484 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,201,741,579.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($972M) Expenses 100 ($1.7B)2018 Revenue 98 ($955M) Expenses 92 ($1.6B)2019 Revenue 99 ($964M) Expenses 92 ($1.5B)2020 Revenue 57 ($559M) Expenses 87 ($1.5B)2021 Revenue 49 ($480M) Expenses 94 ($1.6B)2022 Revenue 85 ($831M) Expenses 95 ($1.6B)2023 Revenue 76 ($737M) Expenses 108 ($1.8B)2024 Revenue 76 ($736M) Expenses 103 ($1.7B)
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Revenue (76)Expenses (103)

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 $1.5B to $737M (−49%).

$1.2B
$1.6B
$1.5B
$737M
$878M
$964M
$1.4B
$1.4B
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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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 65% · 2021 45% · 2022 66% · 2023 62% · 2024 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

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

−$708M
’17
−$596M
’18
−$581M
’19
−$906M
’20
−$1.1B
’21
−$764M
’22
−$1.1B
’23
−$994M
’24
0.0
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

John Leiber

CEO chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed2824212621252625
Joined·+11+3+11+13+10+9+9
No longer listed·1566186810
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of MANHATTAN AND BRONX SURFACE TRANSIT OPERATING AUTHORITY’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.

Where its funders are

100% of MANHATTAN AND BRONX SURFACE TRANSIT OPERATING AUTHORITY's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

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

Organizations like MANHATTAN AND BRONX SURFACE TRANSIT OPERATING AUTHORITY

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 25%Fundraising 0%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds MANHATTAN AND BRONX SURFACE TRANSIT OPERATING AUTHORITY?
MANHATTAN AND BRONX SURFACE TRANSIT OPERATING AUTHORITY (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,000 to it, the largest being TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF GREATER NEW YORK LOCAL 100 ($9,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MANHATTAN AND BRONX SURFACE TRANSIT OPERATING AUTHORITY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $9,000 in grants to MANHATTAN AND BRONX SURFACE TRANSIT OPERATING AUTHORITY.
Who is the largest funder of MANHATTAN AND BRONX SURFACE TRANSIT OPERATING AUTHORITY?
TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF GREATER NEW YORK LOCAL 100 is the largest funder on record, with $9,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MANHATTAN AND BRONX SURFACE TRANSIT OPERATING AUTHORITY 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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