· Public charity
New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Inc
Founded in 1991, the new york city environmental justice alliance (nyc-eja) is a non-profit, 501(c)3 city-wide membership network linking grassroots organizations from low-income neighborhoods and communities of color in their struggle for environmental justice.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UPROSE INC | $198,332 |
| THE POINT CDC | $173,333 |
| NY RENEWS | $160,000 |
| WE STAY-NOS QUEDAMOS INC | $148,515 |
| EL PUENTE | $143,333 |
| GOOD OLD LOWER EAST SIDE INC | $143,333 |
| BROOKLYN MOVEMENT CENTER | $66,667 |
| THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL | $66,667 |
| BUILDING EQUITY AND ALIGNMENT | $18,990 |
| PRATT INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 85% 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k 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
- UIUPROSE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $732k · revenue +200%
- TPThe Point Community Development Corporation3× · 2021–2024 · $360k · revenue +64%
- EPEL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INC2× · 2023–2024 · $330k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- SCSUSTAINABLE CAPITAL ADVISORSone grant, 2022 · $120k
- TTTRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN INCone grant, 2023 · $58k · revenue 0%
- NYNew York Lawyers for the Public Interest Incone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +15%
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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16 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. 16 of the 21 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 UPROSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Point Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds EL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds WE STAY-NOS QUEDAMOS INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD OLD LOWER EAST SIDE INC ↗
- Who funds STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds GREENROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDSWELL INC ↗
- Who funds PRATT INSTITUTE ↗
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Scherman Foundation Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Solutions Project Inc · Patagoniaorg · Movement Strategy Center · Windward Fund · West Harlem Environmental Action Inc · Freedom Together Foundation · Tides Foundation · The New York Community Trust
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 Environmental Justice Alliance 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.
- Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
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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