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Civ Lab Inc

CIV:LAB connects local actors with the resources and funding required to launch bold responses to the most pressing challenges facing their communities. Civ Lab aims to enhance community resilience and security by expanding the workforce, educating future leaders, and accelerating the development and adoption of innovative technologies.…

$639k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
18
Organizations funded FY2023
94%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$96,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$138,695
Organizations funded a year
1 to 18
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 94% of the organizations Civ Lab Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$639k88%
FY202318$1.1M94%
FY20221$70kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$303kHealth$213kEnvironment$204kEmployment$131kCommunity Improvement$124kFood & Nutrition$120kRecreation & Sports$100kEducation$98kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
South Bronx United Inc$100,00015%
Good Old Lower East Side Inc$97,50016%
New York Sun Works Inc$97,50012%
Community Services Unlimited Inc$96,00012%
Unite-La Inc$96,00011%
The Made Institute$74,00018%
Saje$66,50012%
Greener Way Associates Inc$60,500151%
We Want Green Too$60,00017%
Proyecto Pastoral$50,00011%
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All grantees of Civ Lab Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
South Bronx United Inc$100,00015%
Good Old Lower East Side Inc$97,50016%
New York Sun Works Inc$97,50012%
Community Services Unlimited Inc$96,00012%
Unite-La Inc$96,00011%
The Made Institute$74,00018%
Saje$66,50012%
Greener Way Associates Inc$60,500151%
We Want Green Too$60,00017%
Proyecto Pastoral$50,00011%
Sanctuary Farms$50,0001n/a
JustAir Solutions$48,0001n/a
Trubel&Co$37,00017%
Detroit Greenways Coalition$37,000118%
Green Guerillas Inc$35,00015%
Clockshop$35,00013%
Huron River Watershed Council$34,00012%
Seeds$25,00011%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($669k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Civ Lab Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouth Bronx United Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetGood Old Lower East Side Inc: $97,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetNew York Sun Works Inc: $97,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCommunity Services Unlimited Inc: $96,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUnite-La Inc: $96,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Made Institute: $74,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetSaje: $66,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGreener Way Associates Inc: $60,500 over 1y, 51% of budgetWe Want Green Too: $60,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetProyecto Pastoral: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTrubel&Co: $37,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetDetroit Greenways Coalition: $37,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetGreen Guerillas Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetClockshop: $35,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHuron River Watershed Council: $34,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSeeds: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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 Annenberg FoundationPA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Civ Lab Inc?

Find your warmest path to Civ Lab 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.

About Civ Lab Inc

How much does Civ Lab Inc give?
Civ Lab Inc reported 8 grants totaling $638,695 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Civ Lab Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (17%), Health (12%), Environment (12%).
Who are Civ Lab Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: South Bronx United Inc ($100k), Good Old Lower East Side Inc ($98k), New York Sun Works Inc ($98k).
Does Civ Lab Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 94% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Civ Lab Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Annenberg Foundation, California Community Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Civ Lab Inc based?
Civ Lab Inc is based in NY.

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 25 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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