· Public charity
Good Old Lower East Side Inc
To build the power of low-income residents on the lower east side to address displacement and gentrification, preserve and expand the low-income housing stock, assert community self-determination over the use of public space, ensure a clean and healthy environment where people live, work and play.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OFFICE HO JONOT | $11,352 |
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 (FY17–18, $193k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HSHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT2× · 2017–2018 · $193k · revenue +37%
- RFResearch Foundation of the City University of New York2× · 2017–2018 · $124k · revenue +22%
- FAFIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $88k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- FFIERCEone grant, 2022 · $225k
- MMMARY MITCHELL FAMILY AND YOUTH CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -10%
- AFASSOCIATION FOR NEIGHBORHOOD & HOUSING DEVELOPMENTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $19k · revenue +73%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
NYHCs mission is to advance City, State and Federal policies and funding to support the development and preservation of decent and affordable housing for all New Yorkers. NYHC is a nonprofit affordable housing policy and advocacy…
The organization provides education, training, tenant organizing guidance and promotion of social welfare and quality of life in New York, primarily in the area of affordable housing.
The Caribbean Equality Project is an NYC-based community organization that empowers, advocates for, and represents Afro and Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrants in New York City.
CVH Power is working to make New York a model of democratic participation and progressive policies and programs to improve the lives of poor and working class families across New York
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…
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.
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action or JFREJ) is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us.…
The New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) is a membership organization of workers, unions, community-based organizations, workers' rights activists, and health and safety professionals. NYCOSH uses training,…
To improve eceonomic and social conditions through the delivery of crisis intervention services. East Harlem Neighborhood Based Alliance operate programs dedicated for crime victims, homelessness and domestic violence prevention.
Takeroot justice provides legal, participatory research and policy support to strengthen the work of grassroots and community-based groups in new york city to dismantle racial, economic and social oppression.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Street Settlement and the most unlike its peers is Fierce. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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.
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 FIERCE ↗
- Who funds MARY MITCHELL FAMILY AND YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Voices Heard Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR NEIGHBORHOOD & HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: New York Foundation · New York Women's Foundation Inc · North Star Fund Inc · The Scherman Foundation Inc · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organization Good Old Lower East Side 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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