· Public charity
Legal Services NYC
LEGAL SERVICES NYC is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $84k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $711k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $1,075,836 |
| MET COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY | $587,724 |
| CENTER FOR DISABILITY ADVOCACY RIGHTS | $185,676 |
| NEW SETTLEMENT APARTMENTS | $169,699 |
| URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE BOARD INC | $149,628 |
| COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD | $105,113 |
| FLATBUSH DEVELOPMENT CORP | $100,781 |
| MET COUNCIL RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC | $49,388 |
| HOUSING COURT ANSWERS INC | $34,764 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $588k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those 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 +37% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $622k 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
- TLTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY6× · 2019–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +44%
- UHURBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +125%
- NSNEW SETTLEMENT COMMUNITY CAMPUS CORP6× · 2019–2024 · $940k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- NBNorthwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +125%
- JIJustFix Incone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue -50%
- PBPRO BONO NET INCone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +16%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing Court Answers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Center for Disability Advocacy Rights Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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 THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC ↗
- Who funds NEW SETTLEMENT COMMUNITY CAMPUS CORP ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISABILITY ADVOCACY RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY ↗
- Who funds Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Voices Heard Inc ↗
- Who funds FLATBUSH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSING COURT ANSWERS INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds JustFix Inc ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO NET INC ↗
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: North Star Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Fund for the City of New York Inc · New York Foundation · The Ford Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Legal Services NYC 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.
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