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· Public charity

Hester Street Collaborative Inc

To promote architecture, design and art in the community through the development of educational programs and improvements of the physical neighborhood.

$114k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Civil Rights$837kCommunity Improvement$525kEnvironment$265kEducation$87kCrime & Legal$50kEmployment$45kArts & Culture$40kHousing & Shelter$36kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $100,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $113,824 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,824 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.
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$876k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pro Bono Design Inc$50,000
Centro para la Reconstruccion del Habitat Inc$50,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%IBERO AMERICAN ACTION LEAGUE INC: $10k → 14%IBERO AMERICAN ACTION LEAGUE INC: $10k → 14%ROCHESTER REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT SERVICES INC: $10k → 14%ROCHESTER REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT SERVICES INC: $10k → 14%Futures Ignite: $50k → 17%Friends of WHEELS: $50k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
CT
CA
MO
MD
DC
AL
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 15 repeat orgs$577k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +146% since the first grant, against -20% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
9

Total granted

$1.3M
$577k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+146%
-20%

Still filing today

93%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • CP
    CENTRO PARA LA RECONSTRUCCION DEL HABITAT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue ×68
  • CC
    CHHAYA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    3× · 2019–2023 · $116k · revenue +307%
  • FI
    FUTURES IGNITE INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $100k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
    one grant, 2023 · $107k
  • PA
    PARCELERAS AFROCARIBENAS POR LA TRANSFORM BARRIAL
    one grant, 2022 · $95k · revenue -21%
  • WA
    WATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue -20%
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
Communities Resist Inc

We join our clients in the struggle to organize, assert their rights and protect their homes. we work to ensure that community voices are centered in the decisions that impact their lives and neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice

Greenaction mobilizes community power to win victories that change govenment and corporate policies and practices to protect health and promote environmental, economic and social justice.

Environment
4
Bk Rot Inc

BK Rot is a community centered closed loop fossilfuel free approach to hauling and compossting food waste in New York City

Environment
5
Worker Justice Center of New York Inc

Worker Justice Center of New York, Inc. (WJCNY) pusues juistice for those denied hian rights, with a focus on agricultural and other low-wage workers, through legal representation, community empowerment and advocacy for institutional…

Crime & Legal
6
Clean and Healthy New York

To build a just and healthy world where toxic chemicals are unthinkable

Environment
7
Right to the City Alliance

The organization is a national alliance of racial, economic, and environmental justice organizations that, through shared principles, are building a national movement for racial justice, urban justice, human rights, and democracy.

Civil Rights
8
Black Latinx Asian Charter Collaborative

Black Latinx Asian Charter Collaborative (the Organization") is a nonprofit organization dedicated to elevating charter schools founded and led by people of color in New York City. The organization represents educators and stakeholders in…

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9
Connecticut Roundtable On Climate and Jobs

CRCJ seeks to build a worker-oriented environmental movement committed to securing a fair and just transition that protects not only the environment but also the livelihoods of workers and their communities.

Environment
10
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
11
Alliance for Climate Transition Inc

ACT leads the just, equitable and rapid transition to a clean energy future and diverse climate economy.

Community Improvement
12
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ibero-American Action League Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pro Bono Design 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

23 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. 23 of the 25 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $150,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTEPRO BONO DESIGN INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementPRO BONO DESIGN INCCENTRO PARA LA RECONSTRUCCION DEL HABITAT: $150,000 · Community ImprovementCENTRO PARA LA RECONSTRUCCION DEL HABITA…HASER Inc: $90,000 · Community ImprovementHASER IncWATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC: $80,000 · Community ImprovementWATERFRONT ALLIANCE INCHOMETOWN ORGANIZING PROJECT: $45,000 · Community ImprovementHOMETOWN ORGANIZING PROJECT+1 more: $12,000 · Community ImprovementREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $107,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAL…The Point Community Development Corporation: $90,000 · OtherThe Point Community Development …GAYS AND LESBIANS LIVING IN A TRANSGENDER SOCIETY INC: $75,000 · OtherGAYS AND LESBIANS LIVING IN A TR…EL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INC: $70,000 · OtherEL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INCNORTH STAR FUND INC: $50,000 · OtherNORTH STAR FUND INCARTS EAST NEW YORK: $40,000 · OtherARTS EAST NEW YORKLOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE: $75,000 · OtherLOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTEMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $45,000 · OtherMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICEFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $160,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR …FUTURES IGNITE INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesFUTURES I…IBERO-AMERICAN ACTION LEAGUE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesIBERO-AME…Rochester Refugee Resettlement Services Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesRochester…Latino Community Fund of Washington State: $15,000 · Human ServicesLatino Co…West Harlem Environmental Action Inc: $80,000 · EnvironmentCONNECTICUT CITIZEN RESEARCH GROUP INC: $45,000 · EnvironmentClimate Solutions Accelerator of the Genesee-Finger Lakes Region: $20,000 · EnvironmentCHHAYA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $116,000 · Crime & LegalPARCELERAS AFROCARIBENAS POR LA TRANSFORM BARRIAL: $95,000 · Food & Nutrition
Community Improvement$677,000Other$552,000Philanthropy$160,000Human Services$155,000Environment$145,000Crime & Legal$116,000Food & Nutrition$95,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $160,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPRO BONO DESIGN INC: $150,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetCENTRO PARA LA RECONSTRUCCION DEL HABITAT: $150,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCHHAYA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $116,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetFUTURES IGNITE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetPARCELERAS AFROCARIBENAS POR LA TRANSFORM BARRIAL: $95,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetThe Point Community Development Corporation: $90,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHASER Inc: $90,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetWest Harlem Environmental Action Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC: $80,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetGAYS AND LESBIANS LIVING IN A TRANSGENDER SOCIETY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetLOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE: $75,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INC: $70,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT CITIZEN RESEARCH GROUP INC: $45,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetHOMETOWN ORGANIZING PROJECT: $45,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $45,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetIBERO-AMERICAN ACTION LEAGUE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetClimate Solutions Accelerator of the Genesee-Finger Lakes Region: $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetRochester Refugee Resettlement Services Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMBA INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Hispanic Federation I…The Ford FoundationTides FoundationProteus Fund IncThe Scherman Foundati…Windward FundTides CenterPeople's Action Insti…New York FoundationPinkerton FoundationMs Foundation for Wom…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC29.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Hispanic Federation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · The Scherman Foundation Inc · Windward Fund · Tides Center · People's Action Institute · New York Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Ms Foundation for Women Inc

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 Hester Street Collaborative Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hester Street Collaborative Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Connecticut Citizen Research Group Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report 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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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