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Human Services Council of New York

Hsc strengthens new york's nonprofit human services sector, ensuring new yorkers from all walks of life, across diverse neighborhoods, cultures, and generations reach their full potential.

$200k
Granted FY2017
16
Grants FY2017
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT$20,000
CAMBA INC$20,000
BROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE$20,000
SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL$20,000
JEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR SERVICES FOR THE AGED (JASA)$10,000
COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY INC (LIVEON NY)$10,000
THE COMMITTEE FOR HISPANIC CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC$10,000
NONPROFIT FINANCE FUND$10,000
ASIAN AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC$10,000
GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES$10,000
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN PARTNERSHIP$10,000
YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK$10,000
GRAHAM WINDHAM$10,000
MERCYFIRST$10,000
WOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$10,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%MERCYFIRST: $10k → 6%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $10k → 17%BROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE: $20k → 20%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $10k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $20k → 17%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $10k → 20%GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC: $10k → 17%THE COMMITTEE FOR HISPANIC CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

03Your 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.

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Nysarc Inc New York City Chapter

We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.

Human Services
2
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
3
The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Inc

To provide a safe, affordable and comprehensive program of high-quality early childhood education, parental and family support, as well as academic enrichment and recreational programs.

Human Services
4
Forestdale Inc

Forestdale's mission is to ensure that children have the assets they need to thrive.

Human Services
5
Hamilton-Madison House Inc

Hamilton-madison house is a non-profit settlement house that has been the place for care and connection for the diverse populations of the lower east side since 1898. based in the lower east side but offering programming citywide, we…

Arts & Culture
6
The Child Center of Ny Inc

The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.

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7
Children's Aid College Prep Charter School

Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.

Education
8
Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services Inc

Cases' mission is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community. we believe…

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9
Cardinal Mccloskey School and Home for Children

The organization strives to protect, empower and promote independence for at-risk children and families and those with developmental disabilities through quality community based services.

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10
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
11
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…

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12
Bigs & Littles Nyc Mentoring Inc

Bigs & littles nyc mentoring is a nonprofit community-based organization which transforms the lives of vulnerable nyc children and strengthens families through professionally guided one-to-one mentoring, life skills programming, and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Street Settlement and the most unlike its peers is Asian American Coalition for Children and Families Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE — $20,000 · Human ServicesBROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICEHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $20,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENTYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK — $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORKTHE COMMITTEE FOR HISPANIC CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMITTEE FOR HISPANIC CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INCGRAHAM WINDHAM — $10,000 · Human ServicesGRAHAM WINDHAMGRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesGRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INCGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES — $10,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICESMERCYFIRST — $10,000 · Human ServicesMERCYFIRSTCAMBA INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementCAMBA INCNONPROFIT FINANCE FUND — $10,000 · Community ImprovementNONPROFIT FINANCE FUNDDOWNTOWN BROOKLYN PARTNERSHIP INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN BROOKLYN PART…SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — $20,000 · Social ScienceSOCIAL SCIE…COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $10,000 · OtherCOUNCIL OF …JEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR SERVICES FOR THE AGED (JASA) — $10,000 · OtherJEWISH ASSO…WOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterASIAN AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$100,000Community Improvement$40,000Social Science$20,000Other$20,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Crime & Legal$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMBA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMITTEE FOR HISPANIC CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNONPROFIT FINANCE FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN BROOKLYN PARTNERSHIP INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGRAHAM WINDHAM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCYFIRST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Ford FoundationExpanded Schools IncRobin Hood FoundationPinkerton FoundationUnited Way of New Yor…Food Bank for New Yor…Open Society InstituteJewish Communal FundCharities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY17.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Expanded Schools Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · United Way of New York City · Food Bank for New York City · Open Society Institute · Jewish Communal Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Human Services Council of New York 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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