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21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$208k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $166k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONCERTS IN MOTION INC$26,000
FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA$25,000
WORKING THEATER$23,000
THE TENEMENT MUSEUM$18,000
LABORARTSORG$14,000
WASHINGTON SQUARE LEGAL SERVICES INC$12,500
GARMENT WORKERS CENTER$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RESOURCE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: $11k → 22%HAITIAN-AMERICANS UNITED FOR PROGRESS: $10k → 13%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $10k → 17%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: $11k → 22%GARMENT WORKERS CENTER: $13k → 14%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $10k → 17%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: $11k → 22%GARMENT WORKERS CENTER: $13k → 14%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: $11k → 22%GARMENT WORKERS CENTER: $13k → 14%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $13k → 17%PENN SOUTH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $30k → 17%PENN SOUTH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $17k → 17%PENN SOUTH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $17k → 17%PENN SOUTH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $15k → 17%PENN SOUTH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $15k → 17%PENN SOUTH SOCIAL SERVICES: $9k → 17%RES PUBLICA: $10k → 17%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $4k → 17%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $3k → 17%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of 21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 68% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 53%.

21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 17% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 45 repeat orgs$390k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
25

Total granted

$1.8M
$329k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+15%

Still filing today

69%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEducationCivil RightsCrime & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PH
    PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $105k · revenue +21%
  • PS
    PENN SOUTH SOCIAL SERVICES INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +68%
  • WR
    WORKER RIGHTS CONSORTIUM INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $92k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • CF
    CONSORTIUM FOR WORKER EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +15%
  • HK
    HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $33k · revenue +44%
  • PA
    PAN ASIAN REPERTORY THEATRE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue -21%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Documented Ltd

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…

Human Services
2
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

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.

Public Benefit
3
Guernica Centre for InternationalJustice

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'…

International
4
Legal Services Nyc

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…

Crime & Legal
5
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
6
Institute for Americas Future Inc

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…

Education
7
Federal Defenders of New York Inc

The organization provides representation and related defense services to indigent persons charged with federal crimes.

Crime & Legal
8
Center for Constitutional Rights

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…

Civil Rights
9
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc

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.

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10
Advocacy Institute Inc

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.

Civil Rights
11
Professional Staff Congress Cuny

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…

—
12
New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation

To defend and promote civil rights and civil liberties.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center; 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.
05the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
33/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LABORARTSORG: $96,000 · OtherLABORARTSORGWORKING THEATER: $71,000 · OtherWORKING THEATERJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF CENTRAL NJ: $67,500 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF CENTRAL NJCORNELL UNIVERSITY KHEEL CENTER FOR LABOR MANAGEMENT: $46,250 · OtherCORNELL UNIVERSITY KHEEL CENTER FOR L…URBAN JUSTICE CENTER: $38,500 · OtherURBAN JUSTICE CENTERTHE WORKING THEATRE CO INC: $38,000 · OtherJOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE CUNY: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherST PATRICK'S CHURCH: $24,500 · OtherCONSORTIUM FOR WORKER EDUCATION INC: $35,000 · Other+23 more: $243,852 · Other+23 moreREMEMBER THE TRIANGLE FIRE COALITION INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureREMEMBER THE TRIANGLE FI…PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $105,000 · Arts & CulturePLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INCCONCERTS IN MOTION INC: $86,000 · Arts & CultureCONCERTS IN MOTION INCThe Forward Association Inc: $44,500 · Arts & CultureThe Forward Association …LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM: $34,000 · Arts & CultureLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT…PAN ASIAN REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $27,000 · Arts & CulturePAN ASIAN REPERTORY THEA…From The Heart Productions: $18,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $35,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreMIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE: $170,500 · Civil RightsMIGRATION POLI…WORKER RIGHTS CONSORTIUM INC: $91,500 · Civil RightsWORKER RIGHTS …NEW IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsNEW IMMIGRANT …+2 more: $7,000 · Civil RightsPENN SOUTH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $103,000 · Human ServicesPENN SOUTH S…Resources for Human Development Inc: $44,080 · Human ServicesResources fo…Garment Worker Center: $37,500 · Human ServicesGarment Work…NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $20,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK FOU…INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesRES PUBLICA US INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE HAITIAN AMERICANS UNITED FOR PROGRESS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL LABOR RIGHTS FORUM: $56,000 · InternationalINTERNATIO…HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $32,500 · InternationalHELEN KELL…International Rescue Committee INC: $29,000 · InternationalInternatio…FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $25,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF…Alliance for Global Justice Corp: $24,000 · InternationalAlliance f…COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $17,500 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $12,500 · InternationalAMERICAN F…Washington Square Legal Services Inc: $85,000 · EducationResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $20,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF CHINA LABOUR BULLETIN: $15,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · Education+3 more: $8,000 · EducationCIVIL JUSTICE INC: $69,500 · Crime & LegalPRO BONO NET INC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalCHHAYA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$720,602Arts & Culture$469,500Civil Rights$289,000Human Services$245,580International$196,500Education$133,000Crime & Legal$130,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 FoundationMother Cabrini Health…Tides FoundationFoundation to Promote…Open Society InstituteBrooklyn Community Fo…Robin Hood FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…1199 Seiu United Heal…Marty and Dorothy Sil…NEO Philanthropy IncJewish Communal Fund
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization 21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 21st Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Civil Justice Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home