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Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies Inc

The federation of protestant welfare agencies (fpwa) dismantles the structural and systemic barriers that impede economic security and well-being, and strengthens the capacity of human services agencies and faith organizations so new yorkers with lower income can thrive.

$1.3M
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of FEDERATION OF PROTESTANT WELFARE AGENCIES INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $80,221 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,349,984 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,269,763 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 · FY2023

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$80M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UW INVOICE RECEIVABLES$50,221
THE ALLIANCE FOR POSITIVE CHANGE$10,000
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS$10,000
CHINESE AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–23, $782k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE CENTRAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $25k → 11%JACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEMENT INC: $20k → 13%NEW YORK YMCA CAMP: $6k → 14%THE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES OF NC: $10k → 17%THE CENTRAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $10k → 11%NEW YORK YMCA CAMP: $6k → 14%THE CENTRAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $8k → 11%SERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $7k → 17%RELUME FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 13%UNITED METHODIST CITY SOCIETY: $6k → 17%THE FAMILY CENTER: $11k → 20%BRONXWORKS INC: $15k → 28%RELUME FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 13%UNITED METHODIST CITY SOCIETY: $6k → 17%BRONXWORKS INC: $8k → 28%THE HOPE CENTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15k → 20%THE HOPE CENTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $8k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 20%KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICE CENTER: $20k → 13%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $125k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $125k → 17%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $20k → 20%WORD OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $15k → 28%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $100k → 17%WORD OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $8k → 28%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $75k → 17%HEIGHTS & HILLS: $6k → 20%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS: $20k → 20%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS: $10k → 20%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS: $10k → 20%CHINESE AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $10k → 17%CHINESE AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $10k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS: $10k → 20%CHINESE AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $10k → 17%SERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $7k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 35 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

35 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 32 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
36

Total granted

$1.9M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+73%

Still filing today

69%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • NY
    NEW YORK ASIAN WOMEN'S CENTER INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $181k · revenue +36%
  • NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue +48%
  • UC
    UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • AP
    AMARE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
    one grant, 2022 · $2.6M
  • NN
    NAN NEWARK TECH WORLDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +49%
  • ED
    Every Day Is A Miracle Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue +555%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Nysarc Inc New York City Chapter

We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.

Human Services
2
Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services Inc

Cases' mission is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community. we believe…

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3
Housing Options and Geriatric Association Resources Inc

To assist societys most disenfranchised; the elderly, seriously mentally ill adults, the homeless, people living with AIDS and the physically challenged by promoting, fostering and providing the highest quality of housing and services in a…

Health
4
Diaspora Community Services Inc

diaspora community services is a social support service agency that empowers low income families and individuals to maximize their abilities to overcome obstacles to their well-being and self-sufficiency.

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5
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc

EMPOWERING LGBT PEOPLE, BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITY. NEW YORK CITY'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER EMPOWERS PEOPLE TO LEAD HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL LIVES. The Center celebrates our community and advocates for justice and…

Human Services
6
Under 21

Since 1972, under 21, d.b.a. covenant house new york (chny) has been working with one of new york city's most vulnerable populations - youth experiencing homelessness, age 16-24, and their dependent children. chny provides young people…

Human Services
7
Argus Community Inc

Argus community's mission is to provide innovative programs which help severely disadvantaged teens and adults to free themselves from poverty and drug abuse and build new lives based on responsibility, work, and hope. argus provides a…

Health
8
Forestdale Inc

Forestdale's mission is to ensure that children have the assets they need to thrive.

Human Services
9
Lantern Community Services Inc

Lantern community services' mission is to champion the independence and well-being of people who are impacted by or threatened with homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
10
Hamilton-Madison House Inc

Hamilton-madison house is a non-profit settlement house that has been the place for care and connection for the diverse populations of the lower east side since 1898. based in the lower east side but offering programming citywide, we…

Arts & Culture
11
Brooklyn Community Housing and Services

To provide short term, transitional and permanent housing, homelessness prevention, personalized case management, mental health care, on-site nursing, vocational training, substance abuse counseling, recreational activities and other vital…

Human Services
12
Pibly Residential Programs Inc

Pibly's mission embraces the belief that the needs of its consumers can be met and their goals can be achieved. pibly strives to expand opportunities for people living with mental health challenges by delivering person centered services…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chinese-American Planning Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mt Tremper Outdoor Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr15%2%5–10yr21%22%10–20yr22%12%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr9%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%23%10–20yr22%7%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr9%41%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/70
the rest of the field
12%
5,650/48,624

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
40/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMARE PUBLIC AFFAIRS — $2,636,331 · OtherAMARE PUBLIC AFFAIRSNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE — $324,115 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLENEW YORK ASIAN WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $181,226 · Other+36 more — $837,603 · Other+36 moreNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $425,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN L…UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY…THE CENTRAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER — $42,500 · Human ServicesTHE CENTRAL FAMI…CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC — $30,000 · Human Services+15 more — $244,600 · Human Services+15 moreNAN NEWARK TECH WORLD — $300,000 · Education+1 more — $5,500 · Education67TH PRECINCT CLERGY COUNCIL — $40,000 · Community ImprovementBANANA KELLY COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONINC — $30,000 · Community ImprovementCLAY AVENUE TENANTS ASSOCIATION INC — $22,500 · Community ImprovementWEST BRONX HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTE — $7,000 · Community ImprovementTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC — $22,500 · HealthAIDS SERVICE CENTER OF LOWER MANHATTAN INC — $21,000 · HealthWomankind Inc — $20,000 · HealthGLOBAL TRAUMA RESEARCH — $15,000 · HealthFAITH IN NEW YORK — $32,500 · ReligionMAJLIS ASH SHURA OF METROPOLIT NEW YORK INC — $32,500 · ReligionHousing Plus Solutions Inc — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING PLUS — $15,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,979,275Human Services$792,100Education$305,500Community Improvement$99,500Health$78,500Religion$65,000Housing & Shelter$45,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $425,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNAN NEWARK TECH WORLD — $300,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetNEW YORK ASIAN WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $181,226 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNEW YORK THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES INC — $95,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMT TREMPER OUTDOOR MINISTRIES INC — $42,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTHE CENTRAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER — $42,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budget67TH PRECINCT CLERGY COUNCIL — $40,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNEW YORK DISASTER INTERFAITH SERVICES INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFAITH IN NEW YORK — $32,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBANANA KELLY COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONINC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHousing Plus Solutions Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEAST SIDE HOUSE INC — $26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHope Center Development Corporation — $22,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBRONXWORKS INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRelume Foundation Inc — $22,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAFRICAN LIFE CENTER — $22,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetWORD OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAIDS SERVICE CENTER OF LOWER MANHATTAN INC — $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEMENT — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRAHAM WINDHAM — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomankind Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN'S PRISON ASSOCIATION AND HOME — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTERING ARMS CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING PLUS — $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGLOBAL TRAUMA RESEARCH — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY CENTER INC — $10,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetELITE LEARNERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED SIKHS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHARLEM CONGREGATIONS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Community Relations Council of New York — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEST BRONX HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTE — $7,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTRAILBLAZER CAMPS INC — $6,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEIGHTS & HILLS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECTIONS FOR OUR YOUTH INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Robin Hood FoundationUnited Way of New Yor…Brooklyn Community Fo…The Hyde and Watson F…Pinkerton FoundationFood Bank for New Yor…Td Charitable Foundat…United Jewish Appeal-…Mother Cabrini Health…The New York Communit…Lily Auchincloss Foun…Morgan Stanley Founda…
Robin Hood FoundationNY45.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robin Hood Foundation · United Way of New York City · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Food Bank for New York City · Td Charitable Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Foundation Inc

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 Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Nan Newark Tech World — 19% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
24report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $641k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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