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Illuminating Engineering Society New York Section
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY NEW YORK SECTION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $46,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $88,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $42,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY NA | $36,000 |
| DESIGNER LIGHTING FORUM NY | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- IEILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY GROUP RETURN3× · 2020–2024 · $87k · revenue +439%
- NYNEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN2× · 2022–2023 · $63k · revenue +7%
- TNThe New School2× · 2022–2023 · $38k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- IEILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $44k · revenue +10%
- CCCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +25%
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.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
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Efficiency forward, inc. is a non-profit that administers and runs the dlc.the designlights consortium (dlc) is a non-profit organization with a mission to achieve energy optimization by enabling controllability with a focus on quality,…
To grow the available pool of entry level lighting designers by fostering connections between pre-practitioners and practitioners of the lighting design profession.
The mission of the new york library association (nyla) is to lead, educate, and advocate for the advancement of the new york library community.
Vision: drive positive change through the power of design and focused activism.mission: aia inspires and empowers architects to improve society and transform the world.
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.
The foundation, a subsidiary of new york university, fosters legal education and research at new york university's school of law by awarding scholarships, making grants for educational purposes related to law, and supporting programs of…
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
Establishing and administering a voluntary plan for the specialized accreditation of interior design education offered at institutions of higher learning
For over 150 years, aiany has been a center of gravity for leadership, innovation, and community building in architecture and design. with over 5,000 practicing architects, allied professionals, students, and public members, aiany…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Designers Lighting Forum of New York Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 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.
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 ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY GROUP RETURN ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN ↗
- Who funds ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds GREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX) ↗
- Who funds DESIGNERS LIGHTING FORUM OF NEW YORK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE NUCKOLLS FUND FOR LIGHTING EDUC ↗
- Who funds CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Illuminating Engineering Society New York Section 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.