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Illuminating Engineering Society New York Section at a glance

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Illuminating Engineering Society New York Section

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$88k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$36k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Science & Tech$131kEducation$125kEnvironment$35kArts & Culture$30kHealth$1k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $46,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $88,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $42,000 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.
$36,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY NA$36,000
DESIGNER LIGHTING FORUM NY$10,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE NEW SCHOOL: $25k → 17%CONQUER CANCER: $1k → 9%THE NEW SCHOOL: $13k → 17%BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE: $30k → 17%BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE: $5k → 17%NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN: $38k → 17%NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN: $25k → 17%ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY: $44k → 17%ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY NA: $36k → 17%ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY NA: $34k → 17%ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY: $17k → 17%NUCKOLLS FUND FOR LIGHTING EDUCATION INC: $15k → 17%NUCKOLLS FUND FOR LIGHTING EDUCATION INC: $10k → 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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$277k · 6 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

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

+14%
+25%

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.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthOther
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

  • IE
    ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY GROUP RETURN
    3× · 2020–2024 · $87k · revenue +439%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN
    2× · 2022–2023 · $63k · revenue +7%
  • TN
    The New School
    2× · 2022–2023 · $38k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • IE
    ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $44k · revenue +10%
  • CC
    CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +25%
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
The Architectural League of New York

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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2
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
3
Efficiency Forward Inc

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,…

Environment
4
Iald Education Trust Fund

To grow the available pool of entry level lighting designers by fostering connections between pre-practitioners and practitioners of the lighting design profession.

Education
5
New York Library Association

The mission of the new york library association (nyla) is to lead, educate, and advocate for the advancement of the new york library community.

Education
6
The American Institute of Architects

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.

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7
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
8
Lumindeo Studio
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9
New York University School of Law Foundation

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…

Education
10
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
11
Council for Interior Design Accredi

Establishing and administering a voluntary plan for the specialized accreditation of interior design education offered at institutions of higher learning

Education
12
The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Designers Lighting Forum of New York Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY GROUP RETURN: $86,500 · OtherILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY GROUP RETURNILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY: $44,000 · OtherILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETYDESIGNERS LIGHTING FORUM OF NEW YORK INCORPORATED: $30,000 · OtherDESIGNERS LIGHTING FORUM OF NEW YORK INCORPORATEDTHE NUCKOLLS FUND FOR LIGHTING EDUC: $25,000 · OtherTHE NUCKOLLS FUND FOR LIGHTING EDUCNEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN: $62,500 · EducationNEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGNThe New School: $37,500 · EducationThe New SchoolGREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX): $35,000 · EducationGREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXC…CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: $1,000 · Health
Other$185,500Education$135,000Health$1,000

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 budgetILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY GROUP RETURN: $86,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN: $62,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY: $44,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe New School: $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX): $35,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetDESIGNERS LIGHTING FORUM OF NEW YORK INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NUCKOLLS FUND FOR LIGHTING EDUC: $25,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Illuminating Engineering Society New York Section funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Illuminating Engineering Society New York Section. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 8 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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