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Civic Builders Inc

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$527k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$422k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Community Improvement$1.4MEducation$1.2MHuman Services$25k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $501,776, the rows itemized in this filing. The $527,427 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,651 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $422k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$115M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION III$421,776
CIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION II$50,000
CIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION IV$15,000
HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC$15,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $15k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $10k → 17%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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 6 repeat orgs$900k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$1.7M
$900k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+50%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CN
    CIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION II
    6× · 2019–2024 · $138k · revenue +4%
  • CN
    CIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION I
    3× · 2017–2021 · $124k · revenue +51%
  • RI
    RHODE ISLAND MAYORAL ACADEMY (SM) BLACKSTONE VALLEY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $4k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • BC
    BUILDING CHARTERS FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $840k · revenue ×12
  • GO
    GREAT OAKS NEWARK PROPERTY CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -27%
  • DePauw Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +43%
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
Lewis & Clark College

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…

Education
2
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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3
Legacy College Preparatory Charter School

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…

Education
4
Trustees of Clark University

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…

Education
5
Cesar Chavez Public Charter School for Public Policy

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.

Education
6
Children's Aid College Prep Charter School

Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.

Education
7
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
8
New York City Center for Charter School Excellence

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…

Education
9
Uncommon New York City Charter Schools

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.

Education
10
International Leadership Charter High School

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…

Education
11
Intrinsic Schools

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…

Education
12
Marion P Thomas Charter School

The charter schools mission is to prepare newarks next generation of children to be intelectually, emotionally, socially and financially responsible citizens.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Heights Academy Charter School; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 18 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION III: $1,236,776 · Community ImprovementCIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION IIICIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION II: $138,288 · Community ImprovementCIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION IIBUILDING CHARTERS FUND INC: $840,000 · Human ServicesBUILDING CHARTERS FUND INC+1 more: $25,000 · Human ServicesCIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION IV: $136,000 · EducationCIVIC NEW MAR…CIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION I: $123,844 · EducationCIVIC NEW MAR…+9 more: $35,807 · Education+9 moreGREAT OAKS NEWARK PROPERTY CORPORATION: $20,000 · OtherSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COLLEGE AT PURCHASE: $5,000 · OtherSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON: $3,000 · Other
Community Improvement$1,375,064Human Services$865,000Education$295,651Other$28,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION III: $1,236,776 over 3y, 40% of budgetCIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION II: $138,288 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetCIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION IV: $136,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCIVIC NEW MARKETS SUPPORT CORPORATION I: $123,844 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT OAKS NEWARK PROPERTY CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetDePauw University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND MAYORAL ACADEMY (SM) BLACKSTONE VALLEY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE ACADEMIES NETWORK INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $2,807 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 Civic Builders Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Civic Builders Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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.

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 18 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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