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21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$208k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$26,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 32
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$2.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations 21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsInternationalEducationCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$208k25%
FY202320$241k25%
FY202219$251k16%
FY202123$235k39%
FY202020$195k35%
FY201926$339k23%
FY201832$424k44%
FY201726$288kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$601kCivil Rights$551kCrime & Legal$300kHuman Services$251kPublic Safety & Disaster$120kInternational$117kEmployment$89kHealth$66kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 54 grantees
All grantees of 21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Migration Policy Institute$170,50041%
Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition Inc$120,00027%
Playwrights Horizons Inc$105,00070%
Penn South Social Services Inc$103,00063%
Worker Rights Consortium Inc$91,50032%
Concerts in Motion Inc$86,00083%
Washington Square Legal Services Inc$85,000714%
Civil Justice Inc$69,50037%
International Labor Rights Forum$56,00022%
Pro Bono Net Inc$50,00030%
The Forward Association Inc$44,50040%
Resources for Human Development Inc$44,08040%
Urban Justice Center$38,50030%
The Working Theatre Co Inc$38,00026%
Garment Worker Center$37,50034%
Consortium for Worker Education Inc$35,00010%
Lower East Side Tenement Museum$34,00030%
Helen Keller International$32,50010%
International Rescue Committee INC$29,00030%
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre Inc$27,00017%
Friends of Givat Haviva$25,00011%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp$24,00010%
New York Immigration Coalition Inc$23,50070%
New York Foundling$20,00020%
Research Foundation of the City University of New York$20,0001n/a
New Immigrant Community Empowerment Inc$20,00020%
Gaudenzia Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Jewish Labor Committee$18,50081%
From The Heart Productions$18,00020%
Council on Foreign Relations Inc$17,50070%
Heartland Media Foundation$15,0002n/a
The Kindling Group$15,00023%
Friends of China Labour Bulletin$15,00012%
American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Inc$12,50010%
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc$12,50010%
Camera News Inc$10,00011%
Res Publica US Inc$10,000127%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$10,00010%
The Haitian Americans United for Progress Inc$10,00010%
Chhaya Community Development Corporation$10,00011%
Asian American Federation Inc$8,50030%
Tradeswomen Incorporated$7,50021%
Irvington Historical Society$5,00023%
Cuny School of Professional Studies Foundation Inc$4,00040%
National Immigration Law Center$4,00020%
Museum at Eldridge Street$3,00020%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$3,00010%
Cuny School of Labor and Urban Studies Foundation Inc$3,00030%
Historic Landmarks Preservation Center Inc$2,50014%
Roundabout Theatre Company Inc$2,50010%
Fiscal Policy Institute Inc$2,00010%
Judson Memorial Church Inc$1,0001n/a
Immigrant Justice Corps Inc$1,00010%
Ascend Educational Fund Inc$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($509k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMigration Policy Institute: $170,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetRemember the Triangle Fire Coalition Inc: $120,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetPlaywrights Horizons Inc: $105,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPenn South Social Services Inc: $103,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetWorker Rights Consortium Inc: $91,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetConcerts in Motion Inc: $86,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetWashington Square Legal Services Inc: $85,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetCivil Justice Inc: $69,500 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetInternational Labor Rights Forum: $56,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPro Bono Net Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Forward Association Inc: $44,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetResources for Human Development Inc: $44,080 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Justice Center: $38,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Working Theatre Co Inc: $38,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetGarment Worker Center: $37,500 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetConsortium for Worker Education Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLower East Side Tenement Museum: $34,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHelen Keller International: $32,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $29,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPan Asian Repertory Theatre Inc: $27,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetFriends of Givat Haviva: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $24,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNew York Immigration Coalition Inc: $23,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Foundling: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Immigrant Community Empowerment Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGaudenzia Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Labor Committee: $18,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCouncil on Foreign Relations Inc: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kindling Group: $15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFriends of China Labour Bulletin: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAmerican Friends of Soroka Medical Center Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Refugee Assistance Project Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCamera News Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRes Publica US Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetSocial and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Haitian Americans United for Progress Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChhaya Community Development Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAsian American Federation Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTradeswomen Incorporated: $7,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetIrvington Historical Society: $5,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCuny School of Professional Studies Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNational Immigration Law Center: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum at Eldridge Street: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCuny School of Labor and Urban Studies Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHistoric Landmarks Preservation Center Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetRoundabout Theatre Company Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 50.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ford FoundationNY23.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Open Society Institute · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · 1199 Seiu United Healthcare Workers East · Marty and Dorothy Silverman Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Jewish Communal Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to 21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund?

Find your warmest path to 21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About 21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund

How much does 21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund give?
21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund reported 20 grants totaling $208,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does 21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Civil Rights (25%), Crime & Legal (14%).
Who are 21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Migration Policy Institute ($171k), Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition Inc ($120k), Playwrights Horizons Inc ($105k).
Does 21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does 21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as 21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc, Tides Foundation.
Where is 21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund based?
21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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