New York · Nonprofit
VERNON AVENUE PROJECT INC
VERNON AVENUE PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $512,950 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($200,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $258k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $513k
- Net assets
- $61k
What Vernon Avenue Project Inc does
Mission
The vernon avenue project, inc. Was formed in 2010 to reconnect young men, 17-24, to positive life paths through entrenprenurship, education and leadership. The organization, also known as "reconnect" offers formative entry level work through the youth employment and development program. Work is provided at reconnect graphics. The youth partners were young men not working or in school who experienced the benefits of employment - most for the first time - making strides towards their personal journey to a more positive life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The reconnect building maintenance training program provides hands-on, direct training on the job for our youth partners. The program has two elments: custodial/janitorial - reconnect provides daily full-suite janitorial services to immaculate conception church, thomas berry place, and the passionist monastery 365 days a year. Building maintenance and repair - reconnect provides maintenance and repair services including boiler maintenance, fire code compliance, electrical maintenance and gounds maintenance.
$79,740 spent20% of program spendingThe reconnect graphics and printing shop is a business that provides hands-on, direct on-the-job training for our youth partners. The graphics and printing shop offers full service, high quality printing services; we provide services to hundreds of businesses in the new york city region each year. Our print shop can print anything onto anything, but the mainstay of our business is printing garments such as tee shirts, sweat shirts, caps, and other accessories. We also make tote bage, customized mugs, and textiles for events (such as table cloths and banners). All of our youth partners spend time being trained in our graphics and printing shop.
$309,270 spent77% of program spendingThe reconnect cafe and apparel shop is a business that operates hands-on, direct on-the-job training for our youth partners. The reconnect cafe, first opened in bedford stuyvesant in 2013, was reopened after covid in 2021 in its new location in thomas berry place in jamaica, queens. In our new cafe, we also sell apparel and accessories created in the reconnect graphics shop, which is located on the same premisies. Our cafe is a full-service coffee and beverage shop that offers a range of coffee brew options, all of which are made from our specialty-sourced reconnect gourmet coffee beans.
$11,495 spent3% of program spendingThe reconnect cafe and apparel shop is a business that provides hands-on, direct on-the-job training for our youth partners. The reconnect cafe, first opened in bedford stuyvesant in 2013, was reopened after covid in 2021 in its new location in thomas berry place in jamaica, queens. In our new cafe, we also sell apparels and accessories created in the reconnect graphics shop, which is located on the same premises. Our cafe is a full- service coffee and beverage shop that offers a range of coffee brew options, all of which are made from our specialty-sourced reconnect gourmet coffee beans. Expenses = 93,715. Food service for the parish monastery provided by reconnect staff. Expenses = 53,314. General consulting and support services for thomas berry place retreat house. Expenses = 80,050.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $400,505.
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.
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 $300k to $65k (−78%).
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 20% · 2018 11% · 2019 15% · 2020 25% · 2021 15% · 2022 13% · 2023 9% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of VERNON AVENUE PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Marjorie Parker
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $90k → $122k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 VERNON AVENUE PROJECT 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.
How concentrated its funding is
VERNON AVENUE PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 74%; 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 VERNON AVENUE PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 65% · 2019 36% · 2020 91% · 2021 100% · 2022 77% · 2023 82% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of VERNON AVENUE PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
89% of VERNON AVENUE PROJECT INC'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. $217k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
VERNON AVENUE PROJECT INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,705 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like VERNON AVENUE PROJECT INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VERNON AVENUE PROJECT INC?
- VERNON AVENUE PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $512,950 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($200,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERNON AVENUE PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $512,950 in grants to VERNON AVENUE PROJECT INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERNON AVENUE PROJECT INC?
- PINKERTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERNON AVENUE PROJECT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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