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COMMUNITAS AMERICA INC
Communitas america, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is dedicated to building a community-driven entrepreneurial ecosystem that empowers small businesses and entrepreneurs advancing economic mobility in low-income communities, primarily across nyc.
$124k
Granted FY2024
15
Grants
1
Communities
$11k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of COMMUNITAS AMERICA INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
social enterpriseoperation grantee's
2019
winners venturesventures socialsocial bronx
2020
winner ventures
2021
winner ventures
2022
winner ventures
2023
winner ventures
2024
awarded winnerawarded businessbusiness advancementadvancement collaborationwinner ventures
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 15 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- LULO VENTURES INC$11,000
- FOR THE BETTER INC$10,000
- FEATURING THE CENTER FOR CULINARY ARTS INC$10,000
- BADJI NY LLC$5,500
- LIGHTNING BUG LAB LLC$5,000
- MIZZ P POST-SECONDARY SUCCESS CONSULTING LLC$5,000
- FIX IT WITH PIGGY$5,000
- THE SPICE THEORY$5,000
- BRONX BOUND BOOKS LLC$5,000
- POETIC BLACK GURL LLC$5,000
- SOL CACAO LLC$5,000
- THE FLY CLUB$5,000
- EQUITY DESIGN$5,000
- BEE UNIVERSITY NYC$5,000
- BRONX EATS INC$5,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 28% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of COMMUNITAS AMERICA INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 94% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
COMMUNITAS AMERICA INClessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Your field
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.
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Nyc Academy Foundation
NYC Academy Foundation, Inc is formed to provide educational advancement for public school students in New York city, to ensure their college, career and citizenship readiness; to prepare students for post-secondary education while…
Education
2
Manhattan Ace Inc
Teaching esl students for better understanding u.s. school program .
Education
3
Promoting Access to Specialized Schools in New York City
increasing the diversity of students sitting for the specialized high school admissions test by providing students of color with access to test prep centers/programs and materials.
Education
4
826NYC Inc
826NYC, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills.
Education
5
Black Girls Cook Inc
Black Girls Cook has a mission to empower and inspire inner-city adolescent black girls through culinary arts and urban farming with an emphasis on Black Diaspora cultural histories and food practices.
Food & Nutrition
6
Chinatown Youth Initiatives
The mission of chinatown youth initiatives (cyi) is to empower new york city youth with the knowledge and skills necessary to address the needs of chinatown, asian americans, and other underrepresented communities. by providing a safe and…
Arts & Culture
7
SocialSocietyU Inc
To empower youth and young adults through educational programs mentorship and career development opportunities supporting their personal and professional growth in underserved communities.
Education
8
Building Bridges Inc
To stimulate black and brown city youth about stem at an early age. the movement is to change the culture of black youth and instead, get excited about stem and celebrate its potential contribution and global stewardship.
Education
9
New York University
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.
Education
10
Youthbridge New York Inc
Youthbridge ny is a non profit leadership development organization that convenes trains, and prepares young people to meet the challenges of a diverse nyc through a 2 year fellowship which holds skill building workshops focusing on…
Religion
11
Change University
Educating Young Scholars
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12
Culikid Inc
Empower neurodiverse people through healthy culinary programs
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bronx Eats Inc and the most unlike its peers is Speakhire Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$338,000Employment$36,000Youth Development$16,000Education$15,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Human Services$5,000
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 ZAHN INNOVATION CENTER OF CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MADE IN BROWNSVILLE ↗
- Who funds START LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds MVP SWIMMERS INC ↗
- Who funds FEATURING THE CENTER FOR CULINARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FOR THE BETTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPEAKHIRE ↗
- Who funds BRONX EATS INC ↗
- Who funds BEE UNIVERSITY NYC ↗
- Who funds STRIVEHIGHER INC ↗
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.
Public Policy Lab IncNY13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation COMMUNITAS AMERICA 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: START LIGHTHOUSE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~12 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 18.8× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 852137528 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on START LIGHTHOUSE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 12 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 28% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Communitas America Inc?
Find your warmest path to Communitas America Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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