· Public charity
Civic Builders Inc
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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.
The 4 grants below total $501,776 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $527,427 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,651 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $422k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION III | $421,776 |
| CIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION II | $50,000 |
| HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC | $15,000 |
| CIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION IV | $15,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 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
- CNCIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION II6× · 2019–2024 · $138k · revenue +4%
- CNCIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION I3× · 2017–2021 · $124k · revenue +51%
- RIRHODE ISLAND MAYORAL ACADEMY (SM) BLACKSTONE VALLEY2× · 2019–2020 · $4k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- BCBUILDING CHARTERS FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $840k · revenue ×12
- GOGREAT OAKS NEWARK PROPERTY CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -27%
Cornell Universitygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +50%
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.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Through rigorous academic instruction, values-based character development, and the pursuit of ambitious goals, legacy college preparatory charter school ensures all students in grades six through twelve are prepared to graduate from…
Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…
To prepare students to succeed in competitive colleges and to empower them to use public policy to create a more just, free, and equal world.
Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The new york city charter school center is committed to ensuring all of nyc's children have equitable access to a high quality public school education. charter schools are one of the means through which to achieve that goal. we advocate…
Uncommon new york city charter schools operates outstanding urban public schools that close the opportunity gap and prepare students from low-income communities to graduate from college.
The international leadership charter high school will implement an academically rigorous college preparatory curriculum that will elevate students' intellectual capacity, provide a superior high school education to prepare our scholars for…
The mission of intrinsic schools is to create a revolutionary new school model in order to 1) prepare all students for postsecondary success and world-changing endeavors; and 2) provide the education community with a roadmap to sustainable…
The charter schools mission is to prepare newarks next generation of children to be intelectually, emotionally, socially and financially responsible citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Heights Academy Charter School and the most unlike its peers is Pomona College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 18 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 CIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION III ↗
- Who funds BUILDING CHARTERS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION II ↗
- Who funds CIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION IV ↗
- Who funds CIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION I ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT OAKS NEWARK PROPERTY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DePauw University ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND MAYORAL ACADEMY (SM) BLACKSTONE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE ACADEMIES NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Civic Builders Inc 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.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
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.