Brooklyn Community Bail Fund Inc

Analysis

Brooklyn Community Bail Fund Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Brooklyn, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Brooklyn Community Bail Fund Inc reported income of $2.4m and spending of $2.4m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.6m to $2.4m (-5.7%), an average of -1.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 347%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Brooklyn Community Bail Fund Inc sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include DC Justice Lab ($2.4m), Arkansas Coalition Against Sexual Assault ($2.4m) and Pangea Legal Services ($2.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $214k (9.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $10.3m against liabilities of $4.9m, net assets of $5.4m.