· Private foundation
21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $166k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONCERTS IN MOTION INC | $26,000 |
| FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA | $25,000 |
| WORKING THEATER | $23,000 |
| THE TENEMENT MUSEUM | $18,000 |
| LABORARTSORG | $14,000 |
| GARMENT WORKERS CENTER | $12,500 |
| WASHINGTON SQUARE LEGAL SERVICES INC | $12,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER | $12,500 |
| ST PATRICK'S CHURCH | $12,250 |
| SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS | $10,000 |
| PENN SOUTH SOCIAL SERVICES | $9,000 |
| FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS | $9,000 |
| KINDLING GROUP NFP | $7,500 |
| NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION | $4,000 |
| MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE | $4,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $246k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of 21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 68% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 53% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- PHPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC7× · 2017–2023 · $105k · revenue +21%
- PSPENN SOUTH SOCIAL SERVICES INC6× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +68%
- WRWORKER RIGHTS CONSORTIUM INC3× · 2017–2019 · $92k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- CFCONSORTIUM FOR WORKER EDUCATION INCone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +15%
- HKHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $33k · revenue +44%
- PAPAN ASIAN REPERTORY THEATRE INCone grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue -21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Documented is an independent, nonprofit newsroom dedicated to transformative reporting with and for immigrant communities in new york city and beyond. based on ongoing engagement and audience listening, we publish actionable resource…
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…
Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
Iaf's purpose is to conduct research and publicize findings concerning citizen's attitudes about economic options confronting america. iaf is devoted to fostering a robust and democratic debate about ideas that will shape our country's…
The organization provides representation and related defense services to indigent persons charged with federal crimes.
Ccr is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the united states constitution the universal declaration of human rights. ccr stands with social justice movements…
Nylpi's mission is to advance equality and civil rights, with a focus on health justice, disability rights and environmental justice, through the power of community lawyering and partnerships with the private bar.
Advocacy institute supports social justice organizations to build the advocacy skills, knowledge and power they need to shape government policy for a more just and equitable new york.
Psc is a labor union that represents nearly 30,000 active and retired faculty and staff at cuny and the cuny research foundation. the psc's mission is to advance the professional lives of our members, enhance their terms and conditions of…
To defend and promote civil rights and civil liberties.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center and the most unlike its peers is Historic Landmarks Preservation Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 76 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds REMEMBER THE TRIANGLE FIRE COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds PENN SOUTH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WORKER RIGHTS CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERTS IN MOTION INC ↗
- Who funds Washington Square Legal Services Inc ↗
- Who funds CIVIL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL LABOR RIGHTS FORUM ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO NET INC ↗
- Who funds The Forward Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Resources for Human Development Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE WORKING THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds Garment Worker Center ↗
- Who funds CONSORTIUM FOR WORKER EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds PAN ASIAN REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Global Justice Corp ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDLING ↗
- Who funds GAUDENZIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds NEW IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization 21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Civil Justice Inc — 23% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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