· Public charity
Community Connections for Youth Inc
Through community-led alternatives to incarceration, we are on a mission to disrupt the youth prison pipeline by delivering direct support, advocacy, mentoring, training and building partnerships.
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 4 grants below total $76,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $95,201 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,951 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEIGHBORHOOD BENCHES INC | $20,000 |
| LEAD BY EXAMPLE AND REVERSE THE TREND INC | $20,000 |
| YOUNG URBAN CHRISTIANS & ARTISTS INC (YUCA) | $18,750 |
| FREEDOM YOUTH FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER INC | $17,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 76% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +169% since the first grant, against +93% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- BGBETHEL GOSPEL ASSEMBLY INC3× · 2018–2020 · $40k
- NBNeighborhood Benches Inc3× · 2020–2024 · $35k
- YUYOUNG URBAN CHRISTIANS & ARTISTS INC3× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +169%
Funded once
HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $166k · revenue -27%- PAPEOPLES ADVOCACY INSTITUTEone grant, 2019 · $23k
- 2220 20 Vision For Schools Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +181%
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.
We provide access, equity, and validation to foster and system impacted youth creatives ages 16-24 through media arts programming and mentoring helping them bridge the digital divide and develop their creative confidence, upleveling our…
To bridge the disparity gap between the transitioning youth and their community through education, mentoring, awareness and advocacy.
Youth
Mentoring and academic enrichment
TLNYCs mission is to help students and community members overcome social, emotional, and academic challenges to become positive and productive leaders of their community.
Empowers young individuals
We are a Youth Mentoring program
The mission of Center for Youth Development through Law is to inspire and prepare youth from first-generation and disadvantaged backgrounds to thrive academically, achieve fulfilling careers, and be civically engaged community members and…
Working with trouble youth
New City Networks exists to bring whole life transformation to under-resourced youth in the US and globally. In the US we operate two full leadership development programs that employ over 60 youth 200 days a year.
Youth Justice Network (YJN)s mission is to break cycles of incarceration and build an equitable justice system by providing young people with individualized advocacy, mentorship, and opportunities to grow, thrive, and lead. (SEE SCHEDULE O)
To harness the intelligence and positive energy of low-income young people to rebuild their community and their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Urban Christians & Artists Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stem Kids Nyc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 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 HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG URBAN CHRISTIANS & ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLES ADVOCACY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LEAD BY EXAMPLE AND REVERSE THE TREND ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM YOUTH FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds 20 20 Vision For Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds STEM KIDS NYC ↗
- Who funds DREAM DARE TO REVITALIZE EDUCATION THRU ARTS & MEDIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FATHERS INC ↗
- Who funds Mission Accomplished Transition Services Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD LIFE PHILANTHROPIC YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH LIFE SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC FAITH HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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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 Community Connections for Youth 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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