How much did Make the Road New York grant in FY2024?

Human Services$3.7MCivil Rights$2.5MEducation$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.1MCommunity Improvement$936kPublic Benefit$800kEmployment$473kCrime & Legal$236kEnvironment$55kOther$2.8M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

youth organizingworkplace organizing

2019

brooklynyouth organizingimmigration legalworkplace organizing

2020

housing organizingworkplace organizingyouth organizingimmigration legalhealthstates

2021

workplace organizingsacsscivic engagementfoodaccessunderservedsouth

2022

aidtogethermembersstatusstandagainstwell-being

2023

memberssocial economicactivitieseducationadvocacysupportsleaders

2024

low-incomerightslegal

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $22k
$10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$50k–250k7 grants · $934k
$250k+2 grants · $555k

$125,000

Median grant

States reached

$73M

Total assets

Largest grants

Make The Road States Inc$290,000
MRNY QALICB Inc$264,947
New Yorkers for Equal Rights Inc$200,000
MAKE THE ROAD ACTION$200,000
NEW YORK LEGAL$155,973
UNLOCAL INC$133,100
Bangladeshi American Community Development & Youth$125,000
CYPRESS HILLS LDC$60,000
Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition$60,000
THE FUND FOR THE CITY OF NY$11,500
Tri-State Transportation Campaign$10,000
Columbia County Sanctuary Movement Inc$7,500
Worker Justice Center of New York Inc$7,500
VOCAL New York$7,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$13M · 46 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

46 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$13M

$945k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%

+88%

Still filing today

87%

85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitCrime & LegalEmploymentOther

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

MT
Make The Road States Inc
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +136%
TA
The Action Lab
3× · 2021–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +120% · 75% of their budget
MT
Make the Road Action Fund
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +2061%

Funded once

CW
Caribbean Womens's Health Assoc Incgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $117k · revenue +110%
AA
Asian American Federation Incgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $117k · revenue +644%
NY
New York Communities Organizing Fund Incgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $110k · revenue +107%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Nyc Nowc Inc

The NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives is dedicated to sharing and cultivating the educational, financial, and technical resources of its members and supporting the growth of worker cooperatives for social and economic justice. We offer…

Community Improvement

Legal Services of Central New York Inc

Legal services of central new york (lscny)is a 501c3 non-profit law firm that helps people and communities in central new york change law, policy, and systems to promote equity and create pathways out of poverty for low-income families and…

Crime & Legal

Western Ny Coalition of Farmworker

Facilitate information exchange, advocacy, collaboration among organizations that serve farmworkers.

Human Services

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. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…

Crime & Legal

Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights

Immigrant Advocates Response Collaborative Inc

We are a coalition of immigration legal advocates that works on increasing access to justice and access to counsel for all immigrant new yorkers. how we do this: mobilize: network new york state's legal service providers by facilitating…

Crime & Legal

The New York Urban League Inc

To improve social and economic conditions for those in underserved ethnic communities

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Council On American-Islamic Relations of New York

Through legal advocacy, education, media relations, civic engagement and grassroots mobilzation, cair-ny empowers the american muslim community against discrimination.

Civil Rights

Center for the Women of New York

The center for the women of new york helps women overcome financial, violence,social, wellness, and legal issues by raising awareness and advocating for full gender equality for women.

Human Services

New York Justice for Our Neighbors

New york justice for our neighbors welcomes immigrants into our communities with compassion, dignity, and love by providing free high-quality immigration legal services to low-income and vulnerable immigrants, education to communities of…

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La Comunidad Inc

Legal, immigration and community organizing

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Federal Defenders of New York Inc

The organization provides representation and related defense services to indigent persons charged with federal crimes.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4/82

the rest of the field

7,060/74,791

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.

05the grantee network

72 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

70/72

Grantees still filing

54/72

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$3,736,702Other$3,541,436Civil Rights$2,535,622Education$1,245,500Philanthropy$1,140,262Community Improvement$936,000Public Benefit$799,563

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.

New York FoundationNY56.1× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New York Foundation · New York Immigration Coalition Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · North Star Fund Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Scherman Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Hispanic Federation Inc · The Ford 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 organisation Make the Road New York 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MRNY QALICB Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~31 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 825474031 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MRNY QALICB Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 31 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Make the Road New York?

Find your warmest path to Make the Road New York through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Make the Road New York

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

72 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Make the Road New York?

More from the funding graph

Make the Road New York

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

72 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Make the Road New York?

More from the funding graph