· Public charity
Inner City Scholarship Fund Inc
Inner-city scholarship fund (icsf) changes lives for the better by providing families with demonstrable financial need, the opportunity to give their children a quality, values-based k-12 catholic education within the archdiocese of new york.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $663k
- $50k–250k34 grants · $4.5M
- $250k+12 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOBAL REGIONAL SCHOOL SYSTEM | $4,000,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $3,000,479 |
| CARDINAL SPELLMAN | $912,610 |
| DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK | $751,925 |
| STUDENT SPONSOR PARTNERSHIP INC | $650,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOL REGION NORTH WEST SOUTH BRONX | $522,468 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR SCHOOLS (FORMERLY PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER-CITY) | $500,000 |
| CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOL REGION NORTH EASTEAST BRONX | $444,650 |
| ST JEAN BAPTISTE | $304,950 |
| ALL HALLOWS | $289,010 |
| MT ST MICHAEL | $257,265 |
| CARDINAL HAYES | $246,375 |
| CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $230,320 |
| SACRED HEART HIGH SCHOOL | $221,800 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 95% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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; $15k 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
- TCTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND4× · 2021–2024 · $13M · revenue +8%
- SPSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +82%
- MAMONTFORT ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $291k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- CHCATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $210k
- MSmonsignor scanlan high schoolone grant, 2017 · $147k
- MSMSGR SCANLAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $107k
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.
Challenging and nurturing mind, body, and spirit, we inspire boys and girls to lead lives of purpose, faith, and integrity.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Futures in Education and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
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. 8 of the 98 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.
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.
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.
Open a dossier: Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools · Mutual of America Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club · Italian American Committee on Education · The Francesco and Mary Giambelli Foundation Inc · The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Verizon Foundation
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 Inner City Scholarship Fund Inc 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.
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
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.