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THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WEEKSVILLE & BEDFORD-STUYVESANT
THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WEEKSVILLE & BEDFORD-STUYVESANT (New York) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,738,657 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($1,362,250). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What The Society for the Preservation of Weeksville & Bedford-Stuyvesant does
Mission
Preserving historical sites & artifacts from the weeksville section of brooklyn, ny.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational program - provide direct and meaningful information on the historic houses and sites, encourage visitors to become preservers of their community history, promote interest in african-american and brooklyn history and heritage and demonstrate the interconnectedness between the past and the present.
$1,125,616 spent$146,463 earned by the program98% of program spendingResearch program - provide transformative learning opportunities that encourage life-long learning and positive social interactions.
$21,875 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,147,491.
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.
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 $2.9M to $4.0M (+37%).
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 35% · 2020 51% · 2021 35% · 2022 60% · 2023 39% · 2024 68% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Jessica B Lee
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $117k → $374k.
10 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WEEKSVILLE & BEDFORD-STUYVESANT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WEEKSVILLE & BEDFORD-STUYVESANT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WEEKSVILLE & BEDFORD-STUYVESANT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 70% · 2019 57% · 2020 51% · 2021 60% · 2022 39% · 2023 30% — 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
39% of THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WEEKSVILLE & BEDFORD-STUYVESANT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
86% of THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WEEKSVILLE & BEDFORD-STUYVESANT'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. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WEEKSVILLE & BEDFORD-STUYVESANT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$100k
- Department of the Interior$50k
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 THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WEEKSVILLE & BEDFORD-STUYVESANT
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
41% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WEEKSVILLE & BEDFORD-STUYVESANT: 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 THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WEEKSVILLE & BEDFORD-STUYVESANT?
- THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WEEKSVILLE & BEDFORD-STUYVESANT (New York) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,738,657 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($1,362,250). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WEEKSVILLE & BEDFORD-STUYVESANT have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $3,738,657 in grants to THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WEEKSVILLE & BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WEEKSVILLE & BEDFORD-STUYVESANT?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,362,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WEEKSVILLE & BEDFORD-STUYVESANT 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 36 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