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Center for a New Economy Inc

The center for a new economy (cne) is puerto rico's first and foremost policy think tank, an independent, nonpartisan group that advocates for the development of a new economy for puerto rico.

$391k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$371k
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 2022.

Community Improvement$952kPublic Safety & Disaster$209kCrime & Legal$206kArts & Culture$71kYouth Development$30kHealth$30kEducation$23kHousing & Shelter$18kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $371,014, the rows itemized in this filing. The $391,059 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,045 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$371,014
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIENCIA PUERTO RICO$371,014
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 10%NAMB: $33k → 13%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 5 repeat orgs$473k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
19

Total granted

$1.1M
$473k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+61%

Still filing today

100%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22
EducationCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureOther
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

  • CP
    CIENCIA PUERTO RICO INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $907k · revenue +10% · 51% of their budget
  • CD
    CENTRO DE PERIODISMO INVESTIGATIVO INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $71k · revenue +9%
  • IN
    INSTITUTO NUEVA ESCUELA INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $38k · revenue +172%

Funded once

  • K0
    KILOMETRO 0 INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $93k · revenue +197%
  • UD
    UNIVERSIDAD DEL SAGRADO CORAZON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +27%
  • FF
    Fundacion Fondo Acceso a la Justicia Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $61k
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
Puerto Rico Salud Inc

Medical asst to under develop areas

Health
2
Puerto Rico Lit Inc
Philanthropy
3
Colegio De Ingenieros Y Agrimensores De Pr

The ciapr is a corporate body created under the provisions of act 319 of 1938 to regulate the profession of engineers & land surveyors in puerto rico.

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4
Instituto Para El Desarrollo Socio Economico Y De Vivienda De Pr Inc

Development activities, projects of housing and socioeconomic development to assist low and moderate income comunities in puerto rico.

Housing & Shelter
5
Mentes Puertorriquenas en Accion

To build a community of young change agents who make Puerto Rico their life project. This means we recruit engage and support young people who work on social projects in Puerto Rico. We do this through a fellowship program citizen…

Public Benefit
6
ColaborativoPR Inc

Increase postsecondary enrollment and completion of students from low income communities with the highest postsecondary non-enrollment.

Education
7
Enactus Puerto Rico Inc

Enactus is a network of leaders committed to using business as a catalyst for positive social and environmental impact. We educate, inspire, and support young people to use innovation and entrepreneurship to solve the world?s biggest…

Education
8
Centro Unido De Detallistas De Pr

Promote the economic technological social and business cultural progress of the commercial classes represented by the organization as small and medium business industrial and self-employment.

Community Improvement
9
Centro Para Emprendedores Inc

To teach entrepreneurship to people interested in starting businesses in Puerto Rico with the mission of improving local and country economy thru small businesses.

Education
10
Partnership for Modern Puerto Rico Inc

Promote better quality of life in our neighborhoods through local &

Human Services
11
Colectivo Ile Corporacion

Educate and research anti-racist and decolonizing work inside and outside of Puerto Rico

Human Services
12
Inter American University of Puerto Rico

The universidad interamericana de puerto rico inc, is a higher education institution pursuing quality thru academic excellence with emphasis in the formation of people with higher standards, ethical and democratically values.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Instituto Nueva Escuela Inc; the most unlike its peers is Para La Naturaleza Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 24 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CIENCIA PUERTO RICO INC: $906,841 · Community ImprovementCIENCIA PUERTO RICO INC+2 more: $35,000 · Community ImprovementFundacion Fondo Acceso a la Justicia Inc: $60,700 · OtherFundacion Fondo Ac…NORTH AMERICAN MISSION BOARD OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION INC: $33,000 · OtherNORTH AMERICAN MIS…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PUERTO RICO INC: $30,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS…CONCALMA LLC: $30,000 · OtherCONCALMA LLCFIDECOMISO DE LA TIERRA DEL CANO MARTIN PENA: $20,000 · OtherFIDECOMISO DE LA T…CORPORACION LA FONDITA DE JESUS: $17,500 · OtherCORPORACION LA FON…SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY: $15,336 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO STAT…CUERPO CONSULTIVO DESARROLLO: $10,000 · OtherCOOPERATIVA INDUSTRIAL CREACIO: $10,000 · OtherPARA LA NATURALEZA INC: $15,000 · OtherPARA LA NATURALEZA…+2 more: $15,350 · Other+2 moreUNIVERSIDAD DEL SAGRADO CORAZON INC: $75,000 · EducationUNIVERSIDA…INSTITUTO NUEVA ESCUELA INC: $37,500 · EducationINSTITUTO …JUAN DOMINGO EN ACCION INC: $10,000 · EducationJUAN DOMIN…ALIANZA PARA LA EDUCACION ALTERNATIVA INC: $10,000 · EducationALIANZA PA…PROYECTO 85 INC: $7,500 · EducationPROYECTO 8…KILOMETRO 0 INC: $93,333 · Crime & LegalCENTRO DE PERIODISMO INVESTIGATIVO INC: $70,500 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO LAW SCHOOL TRUST: $35,000 · InternationalPROYECTO MATRIA INC: $15,700 · Human Services
Community Improvement$941,841Other$256,886Education$140,000Crime & Legal$93,333Arts & Culture$70,500International$35,000Human Services$15,700

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCIENCIA PUERTO RICO INC: $906,841 over 2y, 51% of budgetINSTITUTO NUEVA ESCUELA INC: $37,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPARA LA NATURALEZA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConprmetidosCorp: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAYUDA LEGAL PUERTO RICO INC: $7,350 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

Hispanic Federation I…Foundation for Puerto…Boston Foundation IncPuerto Rico Community…Juntos y Unidos por P…Tides CenterFilantropia Puerto Ri…Center for Popular De…Fundacion ColibriFundacion Gestos Posi…2022 Act Foundation I…Peter Alfond Foundati…
Hispanic Federation IncNY25.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hispanic Federation Inc · Foundation for Puerto Rico Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Puerto Rico Community Foundation Inc · Juntos y Unidos por Puerto Rico Inc · Tides Center · Filantropia Puerto Rico Inc · Center for Popular Democracy Inc · Fundacion Colibri · Fundacion Gestos Positivos Econo Inc · 2022 Act Foundation Inc · Peter Alfond Foundation

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 Center for a New Economy Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for a New Economy Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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 Center for a New Economy Inc 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 24 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $25k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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