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Rockaway Business Alliance Inc

Rockaway Business Alliance Inc (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,001 to it, the largest being NEW YORK CITY BUSINESS ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ($100,001). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2019
$116k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$100k
Net assets
$42k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What Rockaway Business Alliance Inc does

Mission

To positively impact the Rockaway Peninsula community by ensuring that our shopping corridors are safe, welcoming and fully activated, and our businesses are economically viable to the benefit of the merchants, residents, and visitors. Rockaway Business Alliance, Inc. ("RBA") will initiate efficient community programming in addition to providing business resources and tools to operate and grow with community-oriented mechanisms, while offering an empowering collective to share input on community and business needs, supporting one another through collaboration.

As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.

Program

Mission Statement Concepts To positively impact the Rockaway Peninsula community by ensuring that our shopping corridors are safe, welcoming and fully activated, and our businesses are economically viable to the benefit of the merchants, residents, and visitors. Rockaway Business Alliance, Inc. ("RBA") will initiate efficient community programming in addition to providing business resources and tools to operate and grow with community-oriented mechanisms, while offering an empowering collective to share input on community and business needs, supporting one another through collaboration. Vision Statement RBAs vision is to create business corridors that are clean, safe, and welcoming, with shopping, dining, attractions, and engagement for the local community, and the swell of visitors drawn to Rockaways beaches and open spaces. RBA seeks to create and curate an inviting atmosphere for all to enjoy year-round. By engaging businesses that see this vision, RBA expects to contribute to the economic and social impact of the Rockaways. Alternative:A Rockaway Peninsula with an engaged business community that contributes to the communitys economic and social impact creating an inviting…

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($192k) Expenses 100 ($178k) Net assets 100 ($15k)2019 Revenue 60 ($116k) Expenses 50 ($89k) Net assets 287 ($42k)
20182019
Revenue (60)Expenses (50)Net assets (287)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $15k to $42k (+188%).

$15k
$42k
20182019
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.

2018
2019
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’18
$27k
’19
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $30k → $70k.

Funder
'18
'19
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of Rockaway Business Alliance 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.

Where its funders are

100% of Rockaway Business Alliance Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

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

’18
’19
New York out of state home

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rockaway Business Alliance 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 Rockaway Business Alliance Inc?
Rockaway Business Alliance Inc (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,001 to it, the largest being NEW YORK CITY BUSINESS ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ($100,001). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Rockaway Business Alliance Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,001 in grants to Rockaway Business Alliance Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Rockaway Business Alliance Inc?
NEW YORK CITY BUSINESS ASSISTANCE CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,001 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Rockaway Business Alliance 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 FY2019 (financials across 2018–2019), 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