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Fifth Avenue Committee Inc

Fifth avenue committee's mission is to advance economic, social and racial justice in new york city through its comprehensive community development programs and projects.

$445k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$419k
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 2025.

Housing & Shelter$1.8MEmployment$453kCommunity Improvement$381kYouth Development$141kEnvironment$89kCrime & Legal$21k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $250k+1 grant · $419k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
551 WARREN STREET HDFC$418,895
NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS$20,000
NEW YORK HOUSING CONFERENCE$6,000
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 (FY17–18, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%red hook initiative: $92k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $50k → 20%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 11 repeat orgs$437k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
1

Total granted

$2.4M
$12k

Still filing today

82%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $425k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterCommunity 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

  • NH
    NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $644k · revenue +121%
  • FR
    FAC RENAISSANCE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $432k · revenue +32%
  • LI
    LEAP INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $303k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • 5W
    551 WARREN STREET 1 LP
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
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
Fifth Avenue Committee Inc

Fifth avenue committee's mission is to advance economic, social and racial justice in new york city through its comprehensive community development programs and projects.

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2
Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corp

Develop and provide affordable housing

Education
3
Brooklyn Housing Inc

To provide low income housing

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4
Northeast Brooklyn Housing Develop

The Organization is commited to the preservation, development, and management of affordable housing and home ownership opportunities:community and economic development initiative and human services to effect social change in central…

Housing & Shelter
5
Neighbors Helping Neighbors Inc

Nhn promotes racial justice while empowering low and moderate-income new yorkers to fight for, secure and maintain quality housing and build financial assets. nhn is a hud-certfied counseling agency based in brooklyn, new york.

Housing & Shelter
6
Turning Point Red Hook Housing Development Fund Corporation

Turning point red hook housing development corporation provides housing to residents living in low-income housing projects at 713-714 henry street, brooklyn. as part of the brooklyn community services housing network, the organization…

Housing & Shelter
7
Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation

Fbhc was formed for the purpose of promoting, developing and managing low and moderate income housing, providing assistance to low income families and combating community deterioration in the fordham bedford section and surrounding areas…

Housing & Shelter
8
Welch Terrace Housing Development Fund Inc

The corporation was organized solely and specifically to develop, own, and operate a low-income housing project on a nonprofit basis pursuant to section 811 of the national affordable housing act.

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9
156 West 106TH Street Holding Corp

The corporation was formed in merger with jha housing corporation and is serving as the holding company for the property.

Community Improvement
10
Preserving City Neighborhoods Housing Development Fund Corp

The corporation is organized exclusively for the purpose of perserving and creating, on a non-profit basis, housing projects for persons of low and moderate income. in addition to promoting affordable housing opportunities, it seeks to…

Housing & Shelter
11
Riverview Avenue Apartments Housing Development Fund Company Inc

The corporation was organized to develop a housing project for persons of low income where no adequate housing exists for such persons, which project is to be assisted by a "municipally-aided mortgage" as defined in section 572(13) of the…

Housing & Shelter
12
Restored Homes Housing Development Fund Corporation

The corporation is organized exclusively for the purpose of preserving and creating, on a nonprofit basis, housing projects for persons of low and moderate income. in addition to promoting affordable housing opportunities,it seeks to…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fac Advance Housing Development Fund Corporation; the most unlike its peers is New York Housing Conference Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS INC: $643,973 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS INCFAC RENAISSANCE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $432,000 · Housing & ShelterFAC RENAISSANCE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION551 WARREN STREET HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $418,895 · Housing & Shelter551 WARREN STREET HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATIONLEAP INC: $303,096 · Housing & ShelterLEAP INC129 23RD STREET HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $134,500 · Housing & Shelter129 23RD STREET HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATIONFAC PRESERVATION HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $96,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $71,000 · Housing & ShelterFAC CENTER LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $256,166 · Community ImprovementFAC CENTER L…SOUTHWEST BROOKLYN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $63,049 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST BR…FAC 6309 FOURTH AVENUE LP: $200,000 · OtherFAC 6309 FO…SUNKEEPER SOLAR LLC: $88,500 · OtherSUNKEEPER S…551 WARREN STREET 1 LP: $11,834 · OtherRED HOOK INITIATIVE: $141,250 · Human Services
Housing & Shelter$2,099,464Community Improvement$319,215Other$300,334Human Services$141,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS INC: $643,973 over 9y, 12% of budgetFAC RENAISSANCE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $432,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetLEAP INC: $303,096 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetFAC CENTER LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $256,166 over 3y, 20% of budgetRED HOOK INITIATIVE: $141,250 over 2y, 2.3% of budget129 23RD STREET HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $134,500 over 3y, 55% of budgetFAC PRESERVATION HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $96,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetFAC ADVANCE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $65,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST BROOKLYN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $63,049 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetNEW YORK HOUSING CONFERENCE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fifth Avenue Committee Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fifth Avenue Committee Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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