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Living Cities Inc the National Community Development Initiative

Living cities harnesses the collective power of philanthropy and financial institutions to improve the lives of low-income people and the cities where they live.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$6.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$11MPhilanthropy$5.2MYouth Development$4.2MCommunity Improvement$2.2MSocial Science$1.3MEducation$1.3MHousing & Shelter$689kPublic Safety & Disaster$561kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $930k
  • $250k+4 grants · $9.6M
$100,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FUSE CORP$6,000,000
SOCIAL IMPACT FUND$2,000,000
ACTIVEST LLC$950,000
BROOKINGS$625,000
MONTOPOLIS$200,000
CITY OF MEMPHIS$100,000
CITY OF ATLANTA$100,000
NASHVILLE OFFICE OF DEI$100,000
CITY OF MIAMI DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES$100,000
CITY OF CHARLOTTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT$100,000
YOUTPRISE$71,409
FRONTLINE SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL$56,300
HOMEOWNERSHIP COUNCIL OF AMERICA$52,500
CITY OF CLEVELAND$50,000
SOCAP GLOBAL PBC$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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $355k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%FII-NATIONAL DBA UPTOGETHER: $167k → 10%United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County: $10k → 16%Hillside ICAP: $125k → 14%HOMEOWNERSHIP COUNCIL OF AMERICA: $53k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MO
KY
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 18 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
60

Total granted

$12M
$5.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+14%

Still filing today

44%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
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

  • THE URBAN INSTITUTE
    4× · 2018–2024 · $705k · revenue +46%
  • MP
    MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK
    3× · 2017–2019 · $420k · revenue +362%
  • CF
    CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $240k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • B
    BORROWERS
    one grant, 2019 · $702k
  • SF
    SURDNA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $244k · revenue +16%
  • CO
    CITY OF NEW ORLEANS - NOPD
    one grant, 2017 · $242k
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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
3
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
4
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
5
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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6
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven by three…

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7
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
8
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
9
Brooklyn Community Foundation

Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.

Philanthropy
10
Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose Inc

Chief executives for corporate purpose (cecp) is the only business counsel and network dedicated to driving measurable returns on purpose. we promote responsible purpose-driven business as it increases customer loyalty, builds employee…

Philanthropy
11
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
12
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 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

52 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. 52 of the 99 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
36/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACTIVEST: $4,207,124 · OtherACTIVESTFRONTLINE SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL CORP: $1,206,850 · OtherFRONTLINE SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPSCHOOL READINESS CONSULTING LLC: $911,193 · OtherSCHOOL READINESS CONSULTING LLCCITY OF SAINT PAUL: $740,201 · OtherCITY OF MEMPHIS: $725,201 · OtherNUSENDA FOUNDATION: $710,000 · OtherBORROWERS: $702,005 · OtherCITY OF ALBUQUERQUE: $625,201 · OtherCITY OF ROCHESTER: $624,161 · Other+52 more: $4,245,181 · Other+52 moreFUSE Corps: $6,000,000 · Public BenefitFUSE CorpsCODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC: $240,000 · Public BenefitSocial Impact Fund: $2,000,000 · PhilanthropySocial Impact Fun…THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $487,570 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN FRANCISCO…THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $450,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNEAPOLIS F…SURDNA FOUNDATION INC: $243,750 · PhilanthropySURDNA FOUNDATION…THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NATHAN CUMMINGS FOUNDATION INC: $195,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $175,000 · PhilanthropyCFLEADS: $150,000 · Philanthropy+10 more: $448,000 · Philanthropy+10 moreTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $704,865 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $625,000 · Social ScienceYouthprise: $621,610 · EducationKnowledgeworks Foundation: $210,000 · EducationRED SALMON ARTS: $75,101 · EducationTHE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: $52,762 · Education+3 more: $42,000 · EducationCENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION: $160,000 · Community ImprovementPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC: $126,000 · Community ImprovementINVEST NEWARK A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORP: $100,000 · Community ImprovementCONSCIENCE COMMUNITY NETWORK LLC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $50,000 · Community ImprovementBLUEHUB CAPITAL INC: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterMONTOPOLIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $200,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $15,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$14,697,117Public Benefit$6,240,000Philanthropy$4,349,320Social Science$1,329,865Education$1,001,473Community Improvement$536,000Housing & Shelter$415,000

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 budgetSocial Impact Fund: $2,000,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNUSENDA FOUNDATION: $710,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $704,865 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $625,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYouthprise: $621,610 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $487,570 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $420,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetSURDNA FOUNDATION INC: $243,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC: $240,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetKnowledgeworks Foundation: $210,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBLUEHUB CAPITAL INC: $200,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATHAN CUMMINGS FOUNDATION INC: $195,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $175,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $167,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCFLEADS: $150,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC: $126,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHILLSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINVEST NEWARK A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORP: $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCONSCIENCE COMMUNITY NETWORK LLC: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $95,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED SALMON ARTS: $75,101 over 1y, 32% of budgetALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: $52,762 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CITYCOUNTY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClifford Charitable Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR LAND REFORM INC DBA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY PROGRESS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENT SECTOR: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNewark Alliance INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASSET FUNDERS NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEDERAL CITY COUNCIL: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND: $5,000 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.

  • Who funds FUSE Corps ↗
  • Who funds Social Impact Fund ↗
  • Who funds NUSENDA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds Youthprise ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds SURDNA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC ↗
  • Who funds Knowledgeworks Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BLUEHUB CAPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTOPOLIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NATHAN CUMMINGS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
  • Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION ↗
  • Who funds CFLEADS ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds INVEST NEWARK A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORP ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Cities for Financial …National Recreation a…National League of Ci…The Kresge FoundationThe Robert Wood Johns…The Ford FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationAnnie E Casey Foundat…Gates FoundationWells Fargo FoundationThe Recycling Partner…The Rockefeller Found…
Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund IncNY29.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc · National Recreation and Park Association · National League of Cities Institute Inc · The Kresge Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Ford Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · The Recycling Partnership Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Living Cities Inc the National Community Development Initiative funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Living Cities Inc the National Community Development Initiative. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Bluehub Capital Inc: 32% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Newark Alliance Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Cfleads: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 99 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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