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People United for Sustainable Housing Inc
People united for sustainable housing, inc.
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–50k1 grant · $14k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $595k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUFFALO NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION COMPANY | $1,421,845 |
| NYC ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC | $185,000 |
| POINT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP | $120,000 |
| NOS QUEDAMOS INC | $120,000 |
| UPROSE INC | $120,000 |
| THE WASH PROJECT | $50,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION | $13,547 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +63% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BNBUFFALO NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION COMPANY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +44% · 57% of their budget
- NYNEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +179% · 32% of their budget
- TPThe Point Community Development Corporation6× · 2018–2024 · $789k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- MAMASSACHUSETTS AVENUE COMMUNITY HOMES LLCone grant, 2020 · $38k
- HLHOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue -24%
- SLS77 LLCone grant, 2020 · $27k
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.
East Buffalo Development Corporation is a community-based real estate development corporation committed to our mission of leveraging private and public funds to drive equitable and inclusive eastside planning, construction, land use, and…
The Buffalo Institiute for Contemporary Art (Bica) is a art and educational project for Buffalo, NY. Through Innovative exhibitions, cross-discipplinary skills-based programming, and arts ecology development, bica mission is to break down…
Support the urban economic development efforts of the region through the acquisition, remediation and management of distressed properties
Respond to economic, social, educational, and cultural needs of hispanic/latinos in western new york through bilingual, bicultural services that promote self-sufficiency and improve quality of life.
People united for sustainable housing, inc. (push buffalo) helps to mobilize residents to create strong neighborhoods with quality, affordable housing; to expand local hiring opportunities; and to advance economic and environmental justice…
Create new public golf and recreation amenities in the city of buffalo; assist in the restoration of frederick law olmsted's south park arboretum; and construct a new education center for underserved, minority youth.
A grassroots network that cultivates food justice through advocacy, education, and resources in support of urban food production.
Grassroots Organization focused on workplace and economic justice. Through policy advocacy, leadership development, organizing, and popular education, they support and empower low-wage workers from all backgrounds to combat workplace…
Committed to jobs creation, material reuse and recycling, and community betterment
Searching for opportunities for small business owners in the North Buffalo area to maximize their income by increasing the walkability, cleanliness and beauty of the area. Increase accessablity to residents of good healthy food.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 417 Housing Development Fund Company Inc and the most unlike its peers is Holistic Life Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 35 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 BUFFALO NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds The Point Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds UPROSE INC ↗
- Who funds Partnership For the Public Good Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR CITY ACTION BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds 417 HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds UJIMA COMPANY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR MIGRANT FAMILIES WNY ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CoNECTINC ↗
- Who funds FB Community Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Open Buffalo Inc ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO ARTS STUDIO ↗
- Who funds Hester Street Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GALACTIC TRIBE INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING ENSURE AFRICA LOOMS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Western New York Peace Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BIG TABLE COMMUNITY CAFE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Grassroots Gardens of Western New York Inc ↗
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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Flock Inc · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Solutions Project Inc · Tides Center · Tides Foundation · Public Policy and Education Fund of New York Inc · New York Foundation · New York State Health Fdn D/B/A New York Health 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 People United for Sustainable Housing 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.
- Holistic Life Foundation Inc — 0% 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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