· Public charity
New York City Business Assistance Corporation
To reduce unemployment, promote and provide for additional and maximum employment in NYC, encourage the development and/or retention of businesses in NYC; instruct or train individuals to improve and develop their capabilities for jobs in business and encourage economic devt.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $250k+1 grant · $311k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Workforce Development Corporation | $311,413 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,375 |
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 (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of New York City Business Assistance Corporation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 52% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 59% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $324k 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
- CSCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC2× · 2018–2019 · $100k · revenue +99%
- CPCHINATOWN PARTNERSHIP LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORP2× · 2018–2019 · $100k · revenue +57% · 31% of their budget
- FNFLATBUSH NOSTRAND JUNCTION DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $99k · revenue +56% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- TLTHE LONG ISLAND CITY PARTNERSHIP INCone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -17%
- SBSUTPHIN BOULEVARD DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $88k · revenue +448% · 35% of their budget
- NLNO LONGER EMPTY INCone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -73%
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.
To promote the growth of local businesses located in the business improvement district and enhance the overall appearance of the business community.
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.
The organization is a district management association established pursuant to General Municipal Law Sect. 980-M to carry out the activities of the business improvement district established by the Town of North Hempstead. The purpose of the…
The organization provides supplemental sanitation, public safety, streetscape improvement, visitor information and commercial support services to property owners, businesses and residents of an area established as a business improvement…
East New York Restoration was incorporated to oversee the implementation of the community benefit agreement with the related companies for the expansion of the Gateway Mall center. Functions are job readiness and referral
To improve neighborhood conditions in the west village business improvement district and to enhance the cleanliness, safety and enjoyment of the district.
The organization provides supplemental sanitation, streetscape improvement, visitor information and commercial support services to property owners, businesses and residents of an area established as a business improvement district.
Downtown manhattan, inc. is a not-for-profit community volunteer organization working in the areas of economic development, street design, retail and business recruitment and marketing and promotion. it is our mission to increase consumer…
The yonkers downtown/waterfront business improvement district shall serve the special improvement district identified within its geographically specified bounds, the yonkers business community and the city of yonkers to formulate, promote…
The Columbus Amsterdam Business Improvement District was created to increase commercial activity create a more vital active business center along Columbus Amsterdam Avenues from West 96th to West 110th Street by providing services…
To assist in the overall economic improvement of the hudson square district by improving traffic management and safety, streetscape design, and marketing.
The Organization creates and retains jobs through establishing programs throughout neighborhoods that assist small businesses and promote tourism and business development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Downtown Brooklyn Partnership Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rockaway Business Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 55 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.
- Who funds Workforce Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds Rockaway Business Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE LONG ISLAND CITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN PARTNERSHIP LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds Myrtle Avenue Commercial Revitalization and Development Project LDC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FLATBUSH NOSTRAND JUNCTION DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUTPHIN BOULEVARD DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NO LONGER EMPTY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST BROOKLYN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OLD SEAPORT ALLIANCE ↗
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: Workforce Development Corporation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · 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 New York City Business Assistance Corporation 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.