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South Bronx United Inc

South Bronx United Inc (New York) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,474,335 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,286,876). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.0M
Funders on record
89
Grants received
$7.5M
Net assets
$3.1M
53/89 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What South Bronx United Inc does

Mission

South Bronx United uses soccer as a tool for social change. South Bronx United aims to help youth build character, teamwork, and leadership so that they can succeed in high school, college, careers, their community and beyond. South Bronx United strives to promote educational achievement, health and wellness, and character development through activities on and off the soccer field and to unite a diverse group of individuals and an incredibly diverse community toward common positive goals.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The SBU Academy: Includes after school tutoring and homework help, college prep, math and English classes, SAT prep, college prep mentoring and college placement assistance for high school seniors, college visits, and a Summer Soccer Scholars program to provide a full-day program over 5 weeks include academic enrichment, life skills, educational trips, and athletic training.

    $1,312,990 spent
    53% of program spending
  2. The Recreational Program serves more than 800 boys and girls between the ages of 4-16. The recreational league is open to all children regardless of ability. Children play a Fall and a Spring season on Saturdays at Macombs Dam field (1 E 161st Street) and at Mullaly Park (165th Street and Jerome Avenue). The program promotes health and wellness through good nutrition and active lifestyles to fight childhood obesity. Children stay active in a safe environment.

    $305,635 spent
    12% of program spending
  3. Cafe Clubhouse - operates the Clubhouse Caf, a social-enterprise coffee shop staff be Caf Fellows and graduates of the SBU Workforce Development Program.

    $207,848 spent
    8% of program spending
  4. Other Programs - Community activities, clubhouse program and camps and clinics.

    $157,005 spent
    6% of program spending
  5. Includes immigration relief screenings, immigration clinics, and Know Your Rights workshops. Case management and direct legal representation is provided to individuals and families from the South Bronx United participant community. The organization is recognized by the Office of Legal Access Programs (OLAP) at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and employs an accredited DOJ representative.

    $125,633 spent
    5% of program spending
  6. College Success: College and career supports and mentoring for college students and post-secondary individuals from low-income backgrounds.

    $111,093 spent
    4% of program spending
  7. Workforce Development

    $106,388 spent
    4% of program spending
  8. SBU Community Schools: After-school soccer and leadership programming held two days per week at three partnering public schools.

    $62,300 spent
    3% of program spending
  9. SBU Pre-Academy: Competitive, travel soccer teams for community participants in grades 3-5.

    $54,060 spent
    2% of program spending
  10. Global youth league - the global youth league is open to youth, ages 15-19, who are interested in competing on the soccer field in separate boys or girls divisions. 11th/12th grade participants can also attend twice weekly college access programming and 10th graders can attend monthly college access workshops.

    $47,032 spent
    2% of program spending

The 10 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,489,984.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($861k) Expenses 100 ($840k) Net assets 100 ($472k)2018 Revenue 126 ($1.1M) Expenses 103 ($869k) Net assets 146 ($689k)2019 Revenue 166 ($1.4M) Expenses 129 ($1.1M) Net assets 218 ($1.0M)2020 Revenue 169 ($1.5M) Expenses 163 ($1.4M) Net assets 237 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 189 ($1.6M) Expenses 176 ($1.5M) Net assets 268 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 217 ($1.9M) Expenses 208 ($1.7M) Net assets 294 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 220 ($1.9M) Expenses 252 ($2.1M) Net assets 248 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 515 ($4.4M) Expenses 294 ($2.5M) Net assets 666 ($3.1M)2025 Revenue 353 ($3.0M) Expenses 361 ($3.0M) Net assets 666 ($3.1M)
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Revenue (353)Expenses (361)Net assets (666)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.7M to $4.6M (+73%).

$521k
$724k
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$2.7M
$4.6M
$4.4M
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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
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2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2018 6% · 2019 5% · 2020 7% · 2021 10% · 2022 12% · 2023 9% · 2024 3% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

82% of South Bronx United Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,898 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’17
$217k
’18
$339k
’19
$90k
’20
$148k
’21
$120k
’22
−$217k
’23
$2.0M
’24
$3k
’25
10
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.

Board chair

Jon Lee

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+3+2+3+3+0+4+2
No longer listed·01311041
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $242k → $984k.

17 of 89 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 South Bronx United Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 89 funders by total. 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

South Bronx United Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

64% 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 South Bronx United Inc.

31%
largest funder
42%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 21% · 2019 16% · 2020 15% · 2021 14% · 2022 11% · 2023 10% — 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

50% of South Bronx United Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

79% of South Bronx United Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

South Bronx United Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve10.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 6%Fundraising 12%

Governance

20
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds South Bronx United Inc?
South Bronx United Inc (New York) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,474,335 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,286,876). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does South Bronx United Inc have?
IRS filings report 89 organizations giving $7,474,335 in grants to South Bronx United Inc, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of South Bronx United Inc?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,286,876 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like South Bronx United 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 89 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing