New York · Nonprofit
NYC AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS FD
NYC AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS FD (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,007 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($62,707). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2021
- $7k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $81k
- Net assets
- $20k
What NYC African American Business Leaders Fd does
Mission
The nyc african american business leaders fund's ("nyc aablf") is a charitable organization that is committed to promoting educational and life enhancing activities and opportunities for the next generation of leaders. The nyc aablf aims to fulfill its mission by selecting and funding activities in a number of areas, including, but not limited to, arts and culture, education, technology and financial literacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
During 2024 nycaablf did not have any program service accomplishments. They are not ceasing their programs and expect to resume their programmatic work soon.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $71k to $20k (−72%).
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.
100% of NYC AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS FD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $75k → $6k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 NYC AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS FD’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
NYC AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS FD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 NYC AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS FD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
97% of NYC AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS FD's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k 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
NYC AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS FD's revenue fell 89% between 2019 and 2021.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,144 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
36%
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 NYC AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS FD: 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 NYC AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS FD?
- NYC AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS FD (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,007 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($62,707). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NYC AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS FD have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $81,007 in grants to NYC AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS FD.
- Who is the largest funder of NYC AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS FD?
- Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $62,707 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NYC AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS FD 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 FY2021 (financials across 2019–2021), and the filings of 4 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