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Fund for Public Housing Inc

The fund for public housing creates and leverages resources and relationships to enhance the opportunities and quality of life for new york city public housing residents, while uplifting the importance of public housing to our city.

$895k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$805k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$815kRecreation & Sports$250kCommunity Improvement$196kEducation$145kYouth Development$105kEnvironment$17kHuman Services$15kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $805,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $894,509 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $89,509 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$805,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$805,000
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 (FY19–19, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Start Small Think Big: $55k → 17%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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 3 repeat orgs$548k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$1.1M
$548k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+36%

Still filing today

33%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2020–2023 · $960k
  • RF
    Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    2× · 2019–2021 · $83k · revenue +19%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2019–2021 · $47k

Funded once

  • KI
    KABOOM INC
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue -19%
  • KK
    Karen Karp & Partners
    one grant, 2019 · $90k
  • SS
    START SMALL THINK BIG INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $55k · revenue +58%
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
Brooklyn Inst of Arts & Sciences Trust
Philanthropy
2
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
3
Brooklyn Bridge Manhattan Inc

Brooklyn bridge manhattan inc. was founded in 2021, to reopen, revitalize and reactivate the spaces under the manhattan side of the brooklyn bridge, one of nyc's most visited and historic destinations.

Community Improvement
4
The Brooklyn Nets & New York Liberty Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Brooklyn Arts Exchange Inc

Bax/brooklyn arts exchange is a multigenerational arts organization nurturing creative expression and artistic process through education, residencies, and performance at the intersection of arts and social justice.

Arts & Culture
6
Brooklyn Kindergarten Society

Brooklyn Kindergarten Society provides high-quality early childhood education and family support services, ensuring that children develop the social, emotional, physical and cognitive skills to succeed in kindergarten and beyond.Vision of…

Education
7
Studio in a School Association Inc

From classrooms to careers, studio in a school expands access to visual arts education and professions in the arts by partnering with practicing artists, schools, and cultural institutions.

—
8
A Better Way Brooklyn Inc

A better way brooklyn, inc. is a new york not-for-profit corporation formed for the purposes of educating the public about transportation issues throughout new york city by promoting community awareness and concerns on construction and…

Public Benefit
9
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
10
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

—
11
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
12
Art of Brooklyn Festival

The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is an annual event that brings Brooklyns celebrated film and media makers together with their peers across the country and around the world. AoBFF is a filmmaker-focused event, platform and showcase for…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank for New York City; the most unlike its peers is Start Small Think Big 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

8 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. 8 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $959,972 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKaren Karp & Partners: $89,719 · OtherKaren Karp & PartnersIndividual grant recipient: $47,000 · Other+3 more: $47,089 · OtherKABOOM INC: $250,000 · Recreation & SportsKABOOM INCResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $82,841 · EducationSTART SMALL THINK BIG INC: $55,148 · Human ServicesBROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE: $15,000 · Human ServicesDESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentKings Against Violence Initiative Inc: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $11,422 · Community ImprovementBRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,143,780Recreation & Sports$250,000Education$82,841Human Services$70,148Environment$40,000Youth Development$30,000Community Improvement$11,422Arts & Culture$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $82,841 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTART SMALL THINK BIG INC: $55,148 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetKings Against Violence Initiative Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $11,422 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The New York Communit…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The New York Community TrustNY13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fund for Public Housing Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fund for Public Housing Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $151k 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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