· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $91,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $123,530 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $32,030 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
- Under $10k12 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| SOL CACAO LLC | $5,000 |
| FIX IT WITH PIGGY | $5,000 |
| THE SPICE THEORY | $5,000 |
| EQUITY DESIGN | $5,000 |
| BEE UNIVERSITY NYC | $5,000 |
| THE FLY CLUB | $5,000 |
| BRONX BOUND BOOKS LLC | $5,000 |
| POETIC BLACK GURL LLC | $5,000 |
| LIGHTNING BUG LAB LLC | $5,000 |
| BRONX EATS INC | $5,000 |
| MIZZ P POST-SECONDARY SUCCESS CONSULTING LLC | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 28%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
Recipient 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.
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.
300,000 women of color entrepreneurs
Teaching esl students for better understanding u.s. school program .
Black Girls Cook aims to empower and inspire inner-city adolescent Black girls through food security, culinary arts, urban farming, entrepreneurship, and STEM, emphasizing Black Diaspora cultural histories and food practices.
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…
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.
Hot bread kitchen creates economic opportunity through culinary job skills training and placement, food entrepreneurship, and an ecosystem of support for individuals who face barriers to meaningful careers.
Assist young PEOPLE OF COLOR to access jobs & become civically engaged
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.
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…
To empower youth and young adults through educational programs mentorship and career development opportunities supporting their personal and professional growth in underserved communities.
Educating Young Scholars
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.
11 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. 11 of the 44 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.
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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 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.
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.
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