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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$198k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$918kCrime & Legal$758kEnvironment$393kCivil Rights$330kCommunity Improvement$307kPublic Benefit$160kHousing & Shelter$135k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
$143,333
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UPROSE INC$198,332
THE POINT CDC$173,333
NY RENEWS$160,000
WE STAY-NOS QUEDAMOS INC$148,515
GOOD OLD LOWER EAST SIDE INC$143,333
EL PUENTE$143,333
BROOKLYN MOVEMENT CENTER$66,667
THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL$66,667
BUILDING EQUITY AND ALIGNMENT$18,990
PRATT INSTITUTE$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%GREEN ROOTS: $20k → 16%PUSH BUFFALO: $50k → 13%ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES OF NY: $58k → 14%TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN: $58k → 17%BROOKLYN MOVEMENT CENTER: $133k → 20%WE STAY-NOS QUEDAMOS INC: $149k → 28%GROUNDSWELL: $10k → 14%CAPA STRATEGIES LLC: $6k → 12%CT COALITION ENVIRONMENT JUSTICE: $20k → 11%ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND: $20k → 16%PUSH BUFFALO: $40k → 13%ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES OF NY: $25k → 14%NY LAWYERS FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $25k → 17%BROOKLYN MOVEMENT CENTER: $67k → 20%WE STAY-NOS QUEDAMOS INC: $138k → 28%SUSTAINABLE CAPITAL ADVISORS: $120k → 14%PUSH BUFFALO: $25k → 13%THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL: $67k → 17%PRATT INSTITUTE: $10k → 20%THE POINT CDC: $173k → 28%SUSTAINABLE CAPITAL ADVISORS: $25k → 14%PUSH BUFFALO: $20k → 13%GOOD OLD LOWER EAST SIDE INC: $143k → 17%EL PUENTE: $187k → 20%THE POINT CDC: $172k → 28%SUSTAINABLE CAPITAL ADVISORS: $20k → 14%GOOD OLD LOWER EAST SIDE INC: $133k → 17%EL PUENTE: $143k → 20%THE POINT CDC: $15k → 28%SUSTAINABLE CAPITAL ADVISORS: $13k → 14%BUILDING EQUITY AND ALIGNMENT: $19k → 17%UPROSE INC: $198k → 20%SUSTAINABLE CAPITAL ADVISORS: $5k → 14%UPROSE INC: $183k → 20%UPROSE INC: $125k → 20%UPROSE INC: $70k → 20%UPROSE INC: $55k → 20%UPROSE INC: $50k → 20%UPROSE INC: $50k → 20%NY RENEWS: $160k → 20%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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 9 repeat orgs$535k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$2.5M
$279k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+15%

Still filing today

78%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • UI
    UPROSE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $732k · revenue +200%
  • TP
    The Point Community Development Corporation
    3× · 2021–2024 · $360k · revenue +64%
  • EP
    EL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $330k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • SC
    SUSTAINABLE CAPITAL ADVISORS
    one grant, 2022 · $120k
  • TT
    TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $58k · revenue 0%
  • NY
    New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +15%
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
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment
2
Design Trust for Public Space Inc

The Design Trust for Public Space is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the future of public space in New York City. Our projects bring together city agencies, community groups and private sector experts to make a lasting impact -…

Environment
3
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…

Environment
4
Energy Justice Law and Policy Center

The organization is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code.

Environment
5
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
6
New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation

Nyceec's mission is to deliver financing solutions and advance markets for energy efficiency and clean energy in communities.

Environment
7
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
8
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
9
Openplans Inc

Open plans' mission is to transform how people experience new york city's streets. open plans uses grassroots advocacy and policy change to inspire structural reforms and cultural shifts. we promote a people-first street culture that…

Public Benefit
10
Community Development Project Inc

Takeroot justice provides legal, participatory research and policy support to strengthen the work of grassroots and community-based groups in new york city to dismantle racial, economic and social oppression.

Community Improvement
11
New Economy Project Inc

New economy project's mission is to work with community groups to build a just economy that works for all, by fostering cooperative and community-led development and challenging systems that fuel inequality and poverty.

Community Improvement
12
Earth Day New York Inc

Promotion of environmental protection

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pratt Institute. 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

16 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. 16 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Point Community Development Corporation: $360,000 · OtherThe Point Community Development Corporatio…EL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INC: $330,000 · OtherEL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INCBROOKLYN MOVEMENT CENTER: $200,000 · OtherBROOKLYN MOVEMENT CENTERSUSTAINABLE CAPITAL ADVISORS: $120,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE CAPITAL ADVISORSIndividual grant recipient: $62,539 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+3 more: $51,000 · OtherUPROSE INC: $731,665 · Youth DevelopmentUPROSE INCTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $66,667 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INCWE STAY-NOS QUEDAMOS INC: $286,848 · Community ImprovementWE STAY-NOS QUEDAMOS I…GOOD OLD LOWER EAST SIDE INC: $276,666 · Community ImprovementGOOD OLD LOWER EAST SI…ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC: $83,333 · EnvironmentTRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN INC: $58,333 · EnvironmentGREENROOTS INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $18,990 · EnvironmentGROUNDSWELL INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $160,000 · Public BenefitPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC: $135,035 · Housing & ShelterPRATT INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Education
Other$1,123,539Youth Development$798,332Community Improvement$583,514Environment$190,656Public Benefit$160,000Housing & Shelter$135,035Education$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUPROSE INC: $731,665 over 7y, 10% of budgetThe Point Community Development Corporation: $360,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetEL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INC: $330,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetWE STAY-NOS QUEDAMOS INC: $286,848 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetGOOD OLD LOWER EAST SIDE INC: $276,666 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $160,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC: $135,035 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC: $83,333 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $66,667 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN INC: $58,333 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetNew York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREENROOTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $18,990 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDSWELL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPRATT INSTITUTE: $10,000 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.

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…The Scherman Foundati…United States Energy …Lily Auchincloss Foun…Solutions Project IncPatagoniaorgMovement Strategy Cen…Windward FundWest Harlem Environme…Freedom Together Foun…Tides FoundationThe New York Communit…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC24.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Greenroots Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report 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.
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Find your warmest path to New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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