Brooklyn, NY

BK ROT INC

EIN 47-3925112

Education & Youth Development Job Training & Career Pathways Children & youth Communities of color

Mission

BK ROT powers a community-centered, bike-powered, fossil-fuel-free food-waste hauling and composting service that provides paid job training and leadership development for young people of color while producing locally-sourced compost and diverting organics from the landfill.

IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity Contributions are tax-deductible

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About BK ROT INC

BK ROT is a Brooklyn-based 501(c)(3) that operates a micro-hauling, bicycle-powered composting service and youth employment program. The organization collects food scraps from households and small businesses, processes those materials on community land, and sells and donates finished compost to support urban growing and soil regeneration.

BK ROT centers environmental justice and workforce development by hiring and training local youth (primarily young people of color) as bikers and composters, maintaining year-round drop-off operations and business compost services, and partnering with municipal and community programs to scale a localized, regenerative approach to waste. In recent years BK ROT has expanded measurable impact (hundreds of thousands of pounds diverted and compost produced) and secured municipal support to grow its programs.

Notable achievements

Large-scale organics diversion

Implemented community-scale composting and micro-hauling operations that have diverted hundreds of thousands of pounds of food scraps from the landfill and processed hundreds of thousands of pounds of finished compost.

Youth employment and income generation

Created paid job pathways and on-the-job composting and micro-hauler training for local youth, generating six-figure cumulative income for young workers while building skills in logistics, environmental stewardship, and small-business operations.

Municipal funding & program support

Secured designated municipal support to expand community composting and youth programming, reflecting public-sector endorsement of BK ROT’s micro-hauler and workforce model.

At a glance

Total assets: $400K
Annual revenue: $319K
Tax status: 501(c)(3)Public charity
EIN: 47-3925112
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Website: www.bkrot.org
On Mahalo since: May 2026

Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.

Recognition

Maintains a high third-party accountability and finance rating from major charity evaluators (four-star level performance metrics).

Featured in multiple local and national media stories for its bike-powered composting model and youth employment approach.

Established, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a record of grant and municipal partnerships confirming organizational legitimacy and public-sector collaboration.

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