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New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc

Community-based nonprofit organization that seeks to empower low- and moderate-income new yorkers to help themselves.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.1M
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.

Civil Rights$8.2MEnvironment$2.0MFood & Nutrition$797kHousing & Shelter$504kPublic Benefit$133kEmployment$30kReligion$20kEducation$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $2,239,362, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,285,807 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $46,445 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $309k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
$873,804
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK COMMUNITIES FOR CHANGE INC$1,056,183
Climate Organizing Hub$873,804
FOOD & WATER WATCH$190,625
NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP$118,750
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CPD ACTION: $45k → 14%CHURCHES UNIED FOR FAIR HOUSING INC: $14k → 17%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.6M · 4 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
16

Total granted

$8.6M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+39%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $874k 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
Public BenefitHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • NY
    New York Communities For Change Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $8.1M · revenue +43% · 53% of their budget
  • PP
    PUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $180k · revenue -15%
  • NY
    NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $166k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • CO
    CLIMATE ORGANIZING HUB
    one grant, 2023 · $860k · 87% of their budget
  • SC
    Shelter Cove
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue 0%
  • West Harlem Environmental Action Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $48k · revenue -36%
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
Worker Justice Center of New York Inc

Worker Justice Center of New York, Inc. (WJCNY) pusues juistice for those denied hian rights, with a focus on agricultural and other low-wage workers, through legal representation, community empowerment and advocacy for institutional…

Crime & Legal
2
Community Voices Heard Power Inc

CVH Power is working to make New York a model of democratic participation and progressive policies and programs to improve the lives of poor and working class families across New York

Human Services
3
Caaav Voice Inc

CAAAV Voice is a grassroot organization aiming to empower Asian immigrant communities by organizing against gentrification, tenant rights and promote social justice.

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4
New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness Inc

Provide advocacy for lower and working class new yorkers

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5
Northeast Brooklyn Housing Develop

The Organization is commited to the preservation, development, and management of affordable housing and home ownership opportunities:community and economic development initiative and human services to effect social change in central…

Housing & Shelter
6
Cny Fair Housing Inc

We work to eliminate housing discrimination, promote open communities, and ensure equal access to housing opportunity for all people in central and northern new york.

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7
The Center for New York City Neighborhoods Inc

Our mission is to promote and protect affordable homeownership in new york so that middle- and working-class families are able to build strong, thriving communities.

Housing & Shelter
8
New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc

Community-based nonprofit organization that seeks to empower low- and moderate-income new yorkers to help themselves. through public education, advocacy, research, and direct services, nycofi works to improve the economic security and…

Community Improvement
9
Cnyc Inc (Council of New York Cooperatives & Condominiums)

Support housing cooperatives and condominiums

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10
Western Ny Coalition of Farmworker Serving Agencies Inc

To promote justice, dignity, and equity for migrants and farmworkers through advocacy, education, outreach, and direct services. We empower our communities to achieve self-sufficiency by fostering collaboration among partners.

Human Services
11
Housing Partnership Development Corporation

Housing partnership development corporation functions to provide available low and moderate cost housing in the new york metro area through new housing production, preservation, rehabilitation, as well as the revitalization and…

Housing & Shelter
12
Connecticut Housing Coalition Inc

The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Shelter Cove. 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

20 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. 20 of the 22 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

New York Communities For Change Inc: $8,106,515 · Civil RightsNew York Communities For Change IncCLIMATE ORGANIZING HUB INSTITUTE INC: $873,804 · OtherCLIMATE ORGANIZING HU…CLIMATE ORGANIZING HUB: $859,645 · OtherCLIMATE ORGANIZING HU…Shelter Cove: $200,000 · OtherShelter CoveNEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC: $166,250 · OtherNEW YORK PUBLIC INTER…+10 more: $152,750 · Other+10 moreFOOD & WATER WATCH: $796,875 · Food & NutritionPUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $180,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $33,250 · Public BenefitMake the Road New York: $140,000 · Crime & LegalCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesCHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING INC: $14,250 · Human ServicesWest Harlem Environmental Action Inc: $47,500 · Environment
Civil Rights$8,106,515Other$2,252,449Food & Nutrition$796,875Public Benefit$213,250Crime & Legal$140,000Human Services$59,250Environment$47,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York Communities For Change Inc: $8,106,515 over 6y, 53% of budgetCLIMATE ORGANIZING HUB: $859,645 over 1y, 87% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH: $796,875 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $180,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC: $166,250 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMake the Road New York: $140,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWest Harlem Environmental Action Inc: $47,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $45,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $33,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Voices Heard Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSt Joseph's House of Hospitality: $20,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING INC: $14,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMUTUAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK INC: $14,250 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CRENULATED COMPANY LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA STRONG ECONOMY FOR ALL COALITION: $9,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE BLACK INSTITUTE INC: $9,500 over 1y, 2.9% 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.

New York FoundationNew York Women's Foun…North Star Fund IncThe Scherman Foundati…Working Families Orga…Mertz Gilmore Foundat…Tides FoundationThe New York Communit…The Ford FoundationNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
New York FoundationNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New York Foundation · New York Women's Foundation Inc · North Star Fund Inc · The Scherman Foundation Inc · Working Families Organization Inc · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · Tides Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Communities Organizing Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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 Communities Organizing Fund 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 22 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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