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People United for Sustainable Housing Inc

People united for sustainable housing, inc.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.4M
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.

Housing & Shelter$5.1MEnvironment$1.5MYouth Development$796kPublic Safety & Disaster$577kArts & Culture$271kCommunity Improvement$255kCrime & Legal$196kHuman Services$79kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $595k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
$120,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUFFALO NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION COMPANY$1,421,845
NYC ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC$185,000
UPROSE INC$120,000
POINT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$120,000
NOS QUEDAMOS INC$120,000
THE WASH PROJECT$50,000
MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION$13,547
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%BIG BIG TABLE COMMUNITY CAFE INC: $10k → 13%OUR CITY BUFFALO: $79k → 13%OUR CITY BUFFALO: $51k → 13%HEALING ENSURE AFRICA LOOMS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO: $20k → 13%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.7M · 17 repeat orgs$273k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
18

Total granted

$8.7M
$273k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+12%

Still filing today

82%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • BN
    BUFFALO NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION COMPANY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +44% · 57% of their budget
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +179% · 32% of their budget
  • TP
    The Point Community Development Corporation
    6× · 2018–2024 · $789k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • MA
    MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE COMMUNITY HOMES LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $38k
  • HL
    HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue -24%
  • SL
    S77 LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $27k
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
East Buffalo Development Corporation

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…

Community Improvement
2
Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Buffalo Urban Development Corporation

Support the urban economic development efforts of the region through the acquisition, remediation and management of distressed properties

Community Improvement
4
People United for Sustainable Housing Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
Hispanos Unidos De Buffalo

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.

Human Services
6
Better Parks Buffalo Inc

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.

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7
Syracuse Grows Inc

A grassroots network that cultivates food justice through advocacy, education, and resources in support of urban food production.

Food & Nutrition
8
Workers' Center of Central New York Inc

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…

Human Services
9
Buffalo ReUse Inc

Committed to jobs creation, material reuse and recycling, and community betterment

Community Improvement
10
North Buffalo Organization

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.

Community Improvement
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 417 Housing Development Fund Company Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUFFALO NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION COMPANY INC: $4,841,265 · Housing & ShelterBUFFALO NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION COMPANY INC+1 more: $37,092 · Housing & ShelterThe Point Community Development Corporation: $789,394 · OtherThe Point Community …NOS QUEDAMOS INC: $235,000 · OtherNOS QUEDAMOS INCTHE WASH PROJECT: $201,250 · OtherTHE WASH PROJECT417 HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC: $122,499 · Other417 HOUSING DEVELOPM…JUSTICE FOR MIGRANT FAMILIES WNY: $66,400 · Other+13 more: $233,235 · Other+13 moreNEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC: $1,075,274 · EnvironmentNEW YORK CITY…+2 more: $15,000 · EnvironmentUPROSE INC: $789,393 · Youth DevelopmentUPROSE INCHOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentPartnership For the Public Good Inc: $144,000 · Community ImprovementCOALITION FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementFB Community Land Trust Inc: $25,000 · Community ImprovementHester Street Collaborative Inc: $12,500 · Community ImprovementOUR CITY ACTION BUFFALO INC: $130,383 · Human ServicesOpen Buffalo Inc: $19,965 · Human ServicesBIG BIG TABLE COMMUNITY CAFE INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Human ServicesHELPING ENSURE AFRICA LOOMS INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesUJIMA COMPANY INCORPORATED: $81,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO ARTS STUDIO: $15,000 · Arts & Culture
Housing & Shelter$4,878,357Other$1,647,778Environment$1,090,274Youth Development$821,893Community Improvement$231,500Human Services$170,348Arts & Culture$96,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBUFFALO NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION COMPANY INC: $4,841,265 over 4y, 57% of budgetNEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC: $1,075,274 over 7y, 32% of budgetThe Point Community Development Corporation: $789,394 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetUPROSE INC: $789,393 over 6y, 26% of budgetPartnership For the Public Good Inc: $144,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetOUR CITY ACTION BUFFALO INC: $130,383 over 2y, 82% of budget417 HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC: $122,499 over 2y, 62% of budgetUJIMA COMPANY INCORPORATED: $81,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetJUSTICE FOR MIGRANT FAMILIES WNY: $66,400 over 3y, 18% of budgetCOALITION FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AVENUE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $37,092 over 2y, 29% of budgetHOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCoNECTINC: $30,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetPUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetOpen Buffalo Inc: $19,965 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBUFFALO ARTS STUDIO: $15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHester Street Collaborative Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GALACTIC TRIBE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetCLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHELPING ENSURE AFRICA LOOMS INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetWestern New York Peace Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetGrassroots Gardens of Western New York Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Community Foundation …Flock IncThe Frank G Raichle F…The John R Oishei Fou…The Western New York …Amalgamated Charitabl…Solutions Project IncTides CenterTides FoundationPublic Policy and Edu…New York FoundationNew York State Health…
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY34.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 People United for Sustainable Housing Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from People United for Sustainable Housing Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Holistic Life Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to People United for Sustainable Housing Inc?

Find your warmest path to People United for Sustainable Housing 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 35 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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