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ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY NEW
Volunteer prof.
$88k
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
1
Communities
$36k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY NEW’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
research
2021
—
2022
interior design
2023
knowledgeinterior designeducational
2024
knowledge
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$36,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
- ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY NA$36,000
- DESIGNER LIGHTING FORUM NY$10,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$277k · 6 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
6
2
Total granted
$277k
$45k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+41%
+38%
Still filing today
100%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHealthOther
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
- IEILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY NA3× · 2020–2024 · $87k · revenue +439%
- NYNEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN2× · 2022–2023 · $63k · revenue +41%
- TNTHE NEW SCHOOL2× · 2022–2023 · $38k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- IEILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $44k · revenue +13%
- CCCONQUER CANCERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +38%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your 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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New York University
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.
Education
2
New York Law School
The mission of new york law school is to provide its students with knowledge, skill (see schedule o) and ethical values needed for a career in law.
Education
3
American Chemical Societys New York Sec
Chemical Education and Professional Development in the field of Chemistry.
Science & Tech
4
New York Institute of Technology
We are committed to educating the next generation of leaders and inspiring innovation. (see sch o)
Education
5
Iald Education Trust Fund
To grow the available pool of entry level lighting designers by fostering connections.
Education
6
American Law Institute
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
Crime & Legal
7
International Interior Design Assoc Fdn
The iida foundation is a not-for-profit organization whose primary purpose is to advance interior design through education, research and knowledge to benefit the profession.
Education
8
The American Institute of Architects
The american institute of architects (aia) is a nonprofit association incorporated under the laws of the state of new york. its mission is to unite architects in fellowship; promote the aesthetic, scientific, and practical efficiency of…
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9
The Gilbert Hemsley Lighting Progra
To help current students and recent graduates bridge the often-intimidating divide between the education and professional and to support young aspiring designers in pursuing their artistic development.
Unclassified
10
New York University School of Law Foundation
Fosters legal education and research at new york university's school of law.
Education
11
The Architectural League of New York
The architectural league nurtures excellence in architecture, design, and urbanism, and stimulates thinking and action on critical design and building issues of our time.
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12
New York Academy of Sciences
To advance scientific knowledge and to increase the number of scientifically informed individuals.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Designers Lighting Forum of New York and the most unlike its peers is Conquer Cancer Foundation of the. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$185,500Education$135,000Health$1,000
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 ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY NA ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN ↗
- Who funds ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NEW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds DESIGNER'S LIGHTING FORUM OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds NUCKOLLS FUND FOR LIGHTING EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONQUER CANCER ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY NEW 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NUCKOLLS FUND FOR LIGHTING EDUCATION INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~0 months of operating runway; revenue held over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 133451357 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on NUCKOLLS FUND FOR LIGHTING EDUCATION INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 34% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Illuminating Engineering Society New?
Find your warmest path to Illuminating Engineering Society New through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines