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Citizen Action of New York Inc

We envision a world where every person's basic needs are met.

$150k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$306kPublic Benefit$82kHealth$40kEmployment$40kPhilanthropy$39kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$150,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NY WORKING FAMILIES$150,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LONG ISLAND PROGRESSIVE COALITION: $41k → 6%PUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND: $50k → 14%NEO PHILANTHROPY ACTION FUND INC: $39k → 17%MAKE THE ROAD ACTION: $40k → 20%LONG ISLAND PROGRESSIVE COALITION: $10k → 6%NEW YORK CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE: $12k → 17%CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION: $20k → 20%COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD POWER INC: $40k → 17%NEW YORK COMMUNITIES FOR CHANGE: $65k → 20%VOCAL NEW YORK: $40k → 20%NY WORKING FAMILIES: $153k → 20%NY WORKING FAMILIES: $150k → 20%NY WORKING FAMILIES: $100k → 20%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 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
Community Voices Heard Power Inc

CVH Power is working to make New York a model of democratic participation and progressive policies and programs to improve the lives of poor and working class families across New York

Human Services
2
New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc

Community-based nonprofit organization that seeks to empower low- and moderate-income new yorkers to help themselves. through public education, advocacy, research, and direct services, nycofi works to improve the economic security and…

Community Improvement
3
New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness Inc

Provide advocacy for lower and working class new yorkers

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4
Worker Justice Center of New York Inc

Worker Justice Center of New York, Inc. (WJCNY) pusues juistice for those denied hian rights, with a focus on agricultural and other low-wage workers, through legal representation, community empowerment and advocacy for institutional…

Crime & Legal
5
Nyc Nowc Inc

The NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives is dedicated to sharing and cultivating the educational, financial, and technical resources of its members and supporting the growth of worker cooperatives for social and economic justice. We offer…

Community Improvement
6
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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7
Communities United for Police Reform Action Fund

CPRAF works to end discrimination and abusive policing in NYC, promotes effective public policy solution that promotes safety for all and strengthen police accountability

Community Improvement
8
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
9
Committee for Ranked Choice Voting Nyc Inc

Ranked Choice Voting is an election reform that helps voters make sense of crowded fields. It means no more costly, time-consuming runoffs in the event that no one gets a majority of votes. It means that voters have a stronger voice in…

Community Improvement
10
New York State Youth Leadership Council Inc

New York State Youth Leadership Council, Inc. (NYSYLC or the Organization) works to empower immigrant youth through leadership development, grassroots organizing, educational advancement, and self-expression. NYSYLCs goal is to give…

Human Services
11
Women Empowerment Coalition of Nyc

Wecnyc builds unity and power among communities of diverse immigrant women through education, collective support, direct services and practicing civic engagement.

Human Services
12
Vocal-Ny Action Fund Inc

To provide a grassroots and independent voice for some of the most marginalized communities in new york through educational and electoral activity, including legislative advocacy, voter education, and community organizing to promote…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Communities for Change Inc; the most unlike its peers is Long Island Progressive Coalition 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $253,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLONG ISLAND PROGRESSIVE COALITION INC: $50,500 · OtherLONG ISLAND PROGRESSIVE COALITION INCCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION: $20,000 · OtherCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTIONNEW YORK CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE: $12,000 · OtherWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $150,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INCNew York Communities For Change Inc: $65,000 · Civil RightsNew York Communities For Change IncNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc: $39,264 · Civil RightsNEO Philanthropy Action Fund IncPUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitCommunity Voices Heard Inc: $40,000 · EmploymentMake the Road New York: $40,000 · Crime & LegalVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC: $40,000 · Health
Other$335,500Civil Rights$254,264Public Benefit$50,000Employment$40,000Crime & Legal$40,000Health$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew York Communities For Change Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLONG ISLAND PROGRESSIVE COALITION INC: $50,500 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Voices Heard Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMake the Road New York: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc: $39,264 over 1y, 0.4% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Working Families Orga…
Working Families Organization IncNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Citizen Action of New York Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Citizen Action of New York Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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