How much did FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY grant in FY2023?

Food & Nutrition$10MHuman Services$9.9MPhilanthropy$5.9MHealth$2.6MCommunity Improvement$1.9MEducation$1.2MHousing & Shelter$841kYouth Development$780kReligion$593kOther$17M

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

2019

donateddevelop cultivatecultivate educationaleducational socialsocial culturalcultural recreationalrecreational activities

2020

boys girlsincarceratedhour children'sprotectinterestscivilbible

2021

seventh-day adventistgood counselhousing stabilityeffectiveteachingpopulationstrauma

2022

citadelinsteadcorpszionchristian churchinsecurityhope corporation

2023

grand streetnowexpansionslotsgowanuswyckoffstrategic plan

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 155 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k46 grants · $165k
$10k–50k68 grants · $1000k
$50k–250k23 grants · $3.7M
$250k+18 grants · $11M

$10,650

Median grant

States reached

$86M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY$3,004,997
METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY$964,284
THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK$848,744
THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER$624,721
NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY$592,389
PROJECT HOSPITALITY INC$570,036
WEST SIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER$536,535
CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES$442,530
PART OF THE SOLUTION$425,178
CATHOLIC CHARITIES NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICESINC$421,063
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC$407,526
ST JOHN'S BREAD AND LIFE PROGRAM INC$385,916
NEW DIRECTION SERVICES INC$313,943
MASBIA OF QUEENS$292,344
COMMUNITY HEALTH ACTION OF SI$291,921

02The need

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 (FY19–23, $9.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$47M · 218 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

218 repeat relationships — 112 still active in FY2023, 106 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

218

204

Total granted

$47M

$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+60%

Still filing today

44%

28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $972k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthReligionCommunity ImprovementHousing & 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

UW
UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY
3× · 2020–2023 · $5.9M · revenue +7%
TR
THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK MOBILE OUTREACH
6× · 2018–2023 · $2.2M · revenue +121%
NY
NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY
6× · 2018–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +84%

Funded once

CC
CATHOLIC CHARITIES NEIGNBORHOOD SERVICES INC
one grant, 2021 · $488k
EC
EVANGEL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOOD PANTRY
one grant, 2021 · $296k · revenue -25%
MC
METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY
one grant, 2020 · $109k

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.

Brooklyn Community Housing and Services

To provide safe, clean, supportive housing for formerly homeless women, children and men and help them learn how to live productively and independently with dignity & hope.

Human Services

Jewish Home of Central New York

Jewish home of central new york residential living's mission is to assure maximum independence and dignity offering a broad range of the highest quality of health, residential and community services. jewish home is committed to maintaining…

Human Services

Jewish Home of Central New York Senior

To assure maximum independence and dignity for residents, with a broad range of health, residential, and community services

Housing & Shelter

The Bronx Neighborhood Housing

To provide essential services to revitalize communities and address emerging needs while empowering residents to achieve self sufficiency

Unclassified

Sebco Development Inc

Sebco development, inc. is a community based housing development company located in the south bronx of new york city. it has developed more than 6,000 units of subsidized housing. it continues to develop housing, as well as providing…

Housing & Shelter

Ny Community Fridge Corp

Using the power of volunteers and community partnerships to expand dignified access to food in the heart of disadvantaged communities.

Food & Nutrition

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 cousling agency based in brooklyn, new york.

Housing & Shelter

The Neighborhood Self-Help

Neighborhood s.h.o.p.p. is a multi-service agency, servicing seniors residing in bronx.

Human Services

Neighborhood Housing Services of Brooklyn (Bedford Stuyvesant) Cdc Inc

The organizations mission is to revitalize underserved communities by creating and preserving affordable housing opportunities and increasing financial empowerment while promoting neughborhood stabilization.

Human Services

Broadway Housing Communities Inc

Bhc provides low-income housing to the underserved in west harlem and washington heights new york.

Human Services

National Council of Jewish Women Inc - Brooklyn

To provide community services to senior citizens and the economically challenged by providing a meal program, social recreation and education.

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At-Risk Community Services Inc

To assist and give aid to low-income and minority people in new york city, new york, including, but not limited to providing services for, and advocating on behalf of, new yorkers living in public housing.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nazareth Housing Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Barnabas Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%14/777

the rest of the field

10%

4,813/47,917

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.

05the grantee network

299 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

270/299

Grantees still filing

233/299

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$19,368,385Food & Nutrition$10,358,668Human Services$9,898,992Philanthropy$5,925,461Health$2,572,178Community Improvement$1,938,309Education$1,163,607

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.

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.

United Way of New York CityNY146.9× affinity119 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of New York City · City Harvest Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation Of · Affinity Legacy Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Single Stop USA Inc · The United Neighborhood Houses · Amazin' Mets Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation

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 FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY 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

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

05Through 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: WE CREATE COMMUNITY INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 853699699 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 WE CREATE COMMUNITY INC, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Food Bank for New York City?

Find your warmest path to Food Bank for New York City 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.

FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

299 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Food Bank for New York City?

More from the funding graph

FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

299 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Food Bank for New York City?

More from the funding graph