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Plinth

· Public charity

New York Building Foundation Inc

To promote the long term growth and well being of the construction industry through a program of research,educational and philanthropic activities.

$256k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$470kEmployment$225kArts & Culture$90kCommunity Improvement$58kEnvironment$40kHousing & Shelter$40kRecreation & Sports$25kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$112k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNELL ILR AR$65,000
THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE$50,000
NEW CITY PARKS$25,000
SALVADORI CENTER LTD$25,000
CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION$20,000
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF CONSTRUCTION$20,000
THE WATERFRONT ALLIANCE$20,000
ANDROMEDA COMMUNITY INITIATIVE$15,000
COOPER UNION$15,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%STATEN ISLAND COMMUNITY: $5k → 11%ANDROMEDA COMMUNITY INITIATIVE: $15k → 13%ANDROMEDA COMMUNITY INITIATIVE: $10k → 13%ANDROMEDA COMMUNITY INITIATIVE: $10k → 13%GREEN CITY FORCE INC: $5k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$605k · 12 repeat orgs$378k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
24

Total granted

$605k
$218k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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
EducationCommunity ImprovementEmploymentArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • SC
    SALVADORI CENTER LTD
    8× · 2017–2025 · $113k · revenue +49%
  • TC
    THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE & ART
    4× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +14%
  • MU
    Manhattan University
    4× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +35%
  • HA
    HAITIAN AMERICAN CAUCUS US INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • PI
    PRATT INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +23%

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.

1
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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2
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
3
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
4
Workforce Development Corporation

Promote workforce development and job creation through activities specifically designed to create skilled workforce in the City of New York.

Education
5
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
6
Workforce Professionals Training Institute

Wpti's mission is to build the capacities of people, programs, and organizations that provide job training, placement, and career guidance for individuals and to advocate for policies that promote economic opportunities for all.

Employment
7
New York Institute of Technology

New york institute of technology (nyit) offers various degree programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, in more than 50 fields of study, including architecture and design; arts and sciences; (continued on…

Education
8
Ie New York College

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Education
9
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
Van Alen Institute Projects in Public Architecture

Van alen institute helps create equitable cities through community-led inclusive design.

Arts & Culture
12
Hudson Yards Development Corporation

See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Architecture Inc and the most unlike its peers is Queens Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyNyc Youth Education & Enric…Affordable Housing Developm…Family FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Social Change Advocacy Orga…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%5%<5yr15%10%5–10yr21%20%10–20yr21%25%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr9%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%4%<5yr15%10%5–10yr21%19%10–20yr21%15%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr9%27%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/41
the rest of the field
11%
5,267/46,250

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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
27/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Cornell University — $65,000 · EducationCornell UniversityTHE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE & ART — $65,000 · EducationTHE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SC…Manhattan University — $57,500 · EducationManhattan UniversityACE Mentor Program of Greater New York Inc — $50,000 · EducationACE Mentor Program of Greater New York IncPATHWAYS TO APPRENTICESHIP INC — $50,000 · EducationPATHWAYS TO APPRENTICESHIP INCTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE — $50,000 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE+3 more — $30,000 · Education+3 moreSALVADORI CENTER LTD — $112,500 · Arts & CultureSALVADORI CENTER L…THE CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR ARC…QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART — $10,000 · Arts & CultureQUEENS MUSEUM OF A…WATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementWATERFRONT…NATIONAL ACADEMY OF CONSTRUCTION — $20,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL A…THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $7,500 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECT…Harlem Commonwealth Council Inc — $5,000 · Community ImprovementHarlem Com…STATEN ISLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $5,000 · Community ImprovementSTATEN ISL…FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $5,000 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK …SOUTH BRONX OVERALL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $5,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTH BRON…NONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN — $50,000 · EmploymentNONTRADIT…HAITIAN AMERICAN CAUCUS US INC — $10,000 · EmploymentHAITIAN A…CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC — $10,000 · EmploymentCENTER FO…TOOLS & TIARAS INC — $5,000 · EmploymentTOOLS & T…THOSE AMAZING PROFESSIONS INC — $5,000 · EmploymentTHOSE AMA…THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $50,000 · OtherTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC S…COMMUNITY FUNDS INC — $10,000 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHER NYC — $25,000 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHER N…EAST RIVER DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 · OtherBEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · OtherBEVERLY WILLIS ARCHIT…NEW CITY PARKS INC — $25,000 · OtherNEW CITY PARKS INCDESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC — $10,000 · OtherSNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER AND BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $10,000 · Other+4 more — $20,000 · Other+4 moreNY HELMETS TO HARDHATS INC — $50,000 · Public BenefitANDROMEDA COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesLA COLMENA NYC INC DBA LA COLMENA F/K/A STATEN ISLAND COMMUNITY JOB CENTER — $5,000 · Human ServicesGREEN CITY FORCE INC — $5,000 · Human Services
Education$367,500Arts & Culture$162,500Community Improvement$87,500Employment$80,000Other$190,000Public Benefit$50,000Human Services$45,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSALVADORI CENTER LTD — $112,500 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetCornell University — $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE & ART — $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetManhattan University — $57,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetACE Mentor Program of Greater New York Inc — $50,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetPATHWAYS TO APPRENTICESHIP INC — $50,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN — $50,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNY HELMETS TO HARDHATS INC — $50,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetANDROMEDA COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC — $35,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER NYC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPRATT INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBuilding Skills NY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER AND BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew York University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOOLS & TIARAS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLA COLMENA NYC INC DBA LA COLMENA F/K/A STATEN ISLAND COMMUNITY JOB CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHarlem Commonwealth Council Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN CITY FORCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTATEN ISLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Point Community Development Corporation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHOSE AMAZING PROFESSIONS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetPRATT AREA COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH BRONX OVERALL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Hyde and Watson F…Td Charitable Foundat…Lily Auchincloss Foun…Robin Hood FoundationThe New York Communit…Pinkerton FoundationWebster Bank Charitab…Mathis Pfohl Foundati…United Way of New Yor…Jewish Communal FundAmalgamated Charitabl…The Ford Foundation
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Pinkerton Foundation · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Mathis Pfohl Foundation · United Way of New York City · Jewish Communal Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation 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 organization New York Building Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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