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Ponce de Leon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Anchored by a single position — about 98% of reported assets are held in Bancorp Stock.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS | $30,000 |
| JERSEY CITY THEATER CENTER INC | $30,000 |
| PALISADES EMERGENCY RESIDENCE CORP | $30,000 |
| OPPORTUNITIES FOR A BETTER TOMORROW INC | $25,000 |
| BRIDGE STREET DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $25,000 |
| PART OF THE SOLUTION | $20,000 |
| ANDROMEDA COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC | $20,000 |
| POINT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $20,000 |
| BRONX ARTS ENSEMBLE INC | $20,000 |
| DREAM DARE TO REVITALIZE EDUCATION THRU ARTS & MEDIATION | $20,000 |
| NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC | $20,000 |
| GIVING ATERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC GALLOP | $20,000 |
| THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT | $20,000 |
| EMMA'S TORCH LTD | $20,000 |
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD SELF HELP BY OLDER PERSON PROJECT INC | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $688k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those 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 +27% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $405k 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
- TNTHE NEIGHBORHOOD SELF-HELP BY OLDER PERSONS PROJECT INC5× · 2019–2025 · $158k · revenue +61%
- THTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC5× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +123%
- DMDANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- BBronxNetone grant, 2019 · $35k
- BYBROOKLYN YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INCone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
- RAREGIONAL AID FOR INTERIM NEEDS INCone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +19%
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.
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.
Brooklyn community pride center uplifts and empowers lgbtq+ brooklynites through socially conscious and culturally responsive programs, partnerships and advocacy.
Fifth avenue committee's mission is to advance economic, social and racial justice in new york city through its comprehensive community development programs and projects.
A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.
Futures and options expands opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds and historically underrepresented communities, collaborating with employers to empower students to gain the skills and confidence needed to succeed in future…
We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.
The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.
The dreamyard project, inc. (dreamyard) is an arts and social justice organization dedicated to working with bronx youth, families, and schools to build pathways toward equity and opportunity.
Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…
Cpc's mission is to promote social and economic empowerment of chineseamerican, immigrant and low-income communities.
Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.
School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of New York City and the most unlike its peers is Aidan Jack Seeger 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 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established 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 — 0.0% 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.
88 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. 88 of the 108 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 THE NEIGHBORHOOD SELF-HELP BY OLDER PERSONS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANDROMEDA COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SPANISH SPEAKING ELDERLY COUNCIL - RAICES INC ↗
- Who funds PART OF THE SOLUTION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN'S CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club ↗
- Who funds SAVE LATIN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO PASTORAL ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds PALISADES EMERGENCY RESIDENCE CORP ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds South Bronx United Inc ↗
- Who funds The Point Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds UNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ASTORIAQUEENS SHARE-ING AND CARE-ING INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL VIDEO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAPNA NYC INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL AID FOR INTERIM NEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds URBAN HEALTH PLAN INC ↗
- Who funds LEAP INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds MY TIME 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: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Robin Hood Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · United Way of New York City · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Hispanic Federation Inc · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · New York Women's Foundation Inc
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 Ponce de Leon Foundation 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.
- Save Latin America Inc — 44% of income from government
- Center for Supportive Schools Inc — 9% of income from government
- Union City Music Project Inc — 8% of income from government
- Act Now Foundation 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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