· Public charity
Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A
BROOKLYN LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION A (dba.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RHA KIM GROSSMAN & MCLLWAIN LLP | $620,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $212k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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.
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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- UJURBAN JUSTICE CENTER2× · 2017–2018 · $215k · revenue +29%
- SUSOUTHSIDE UNITED HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION2× · 2018–2020 · $101k · revenue +133%
- CSCooper Square Community Development Committee Inc3× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- CUCHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $116k · revenue +710%
- SNST NICKS ALLIANCE HOME CARE CORPORATIONone grant, 2018 · $56k · revenue +6%
- YAYEMENI AMERICAN MERCHANT ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +103%
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.
Develop and provide affordable housing
Support housing cooperatives and condominiums
A comprehensive community development corporation focused on providing affordable housing to low and moderate income families and social services, principally educational programs in the areas of college/career readiness, stem, and…
The company is involved in acquiring and managing residential dwelling units primarily in the south bronx, for low income families.
The Organization is commited to the preservation, development, and management of affordable housing and home ownership opportunities:community and economic development initiative and human services to effect social change in central…
Community capital is a nonprofit lender that has revitalized communities and transformed lives in the mid-hudson valley, bronx and fairfield county, ct for 36 years. our mission is to foster economic opportunity for underserved individuals…
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
Housing partnership development corporation functions to provide available low and moderate cost housing in the new york metro area through new housing production, preservation, rehabilitation, as well as the revitalization and…
To transform our collective capacity to navigate complex legal systems and support safe, thriving, and engaged immigrant communities.
CAAAV was founded in 1986 as one of the first groups in the United States to respond to racially motivated violence against Asians. Since then, CAAAV has broaden its focus to address a wide array of needs and challenges facing the Asian…
The Uniondale Community Land Trust, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization whose mission includes community renewal, revitalization, integration, and empowerment. Utilizing cooperative models of leadership and ownership, the Uniondale CLT,…
Brooklyn legal services corporation a (dba. build up justice nyc) wields community-focused civil legal services to confront injustice. we work to ensure all new yorkers have equal access to legal services to seek justice, make their voices…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Yemeni American Merchant Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 14 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 VOLUNTEERS OF LEGAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE UNITED HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST NICKS ALLIANCE HOME CARE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Cooper Square Community Development Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds YEMENI AMERICAN MERCHANT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACCOMPANY CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition 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: Brooklyn Community Foundation · Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development · Make the Road New York · New York Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · North Star Fund Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · United Way of New York City · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A 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.
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.