· Private foundation
Global Cities Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Global Cities Inc’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Hawaii Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Global Cities Inc named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $25k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC | $8,750 |
| SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC | $6,250 |
| THE BRONX DEFENDERS | $2,500 |
| DOROT INC | $2,500 |
| ARTISTS STRIVING TO END POVERTY | $1,250 |
| THE MELTING POT FOUNDATION USA INC | $1,250 |
| THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA | $1,250 |
| GIVING BACK FUND INC | $1,250 |
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 (FY20–20, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
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.
Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.
Using the power of volunteers and community partnerships to expand dignified access to food in the heart of disadvantaged communities.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
By harnessing the power of collective giving and collaborative action, impact 100 nyc unites women across the five boroughs to fund transformative giving that helps the people and communities of nyc.
A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.
To serve people with developmental disabilities
The organization provides representation and related defense services to indigent persons charged with federal crimes.
To transform our collective capacity to navigate complex legal systems and support safe, thriving, and engaged immigrant communities.
The abny foundation, inc. (the "foundation") was created to provide funds for social, educational, and civic initiatives that enhance the quality of life in the five boroughs of new york city.
Our mission is to foster a thriving and equitable central new york region by leading and inspiring a community culture of giving, celebrating legacy and stewarding charitable resources for today and tomorrow.
Housing partnership development corporation functions to provide available low and moderate cost housing in the new york metro area through new housing production, preservation, rehabilitation, as well as the revitalization and…
Bronx parent housing network is committed to making a difference in solving the housing problem in new york city by transforming lives and creating holistic paths to employment so that individuals and families can secure safe, clean,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Giving Back Fund and the most unlike its peers is Dorot Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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.
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 COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRONX DEFENDERS ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds MELTING POT FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS IGNITE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
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 Global Cities 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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