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Ponce de Leon Foundation at a glance

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Ponce de Leon Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$635k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$785kYouth Development$500kArts & Culture$441kHousing & Shelter$400kEmployment$390kCommunity Improvement$288kHealth$243kEducation$236kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$21M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 98% of reported assets are held in Bancorp Stock.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS$30,000
PALISADES EMERGENCY RESIDENCE CORP$30,000
JERSEY CITY THEATER CENTER INC$30,000
OPPORTUNITIES FOR A BETTER TOMORROW INC$25,000
BRIDGE STREET DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$25,000
LIFT INC$20,000
FIRST JAMAICA COMMUNITY AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$20,000
BRONX ARTS ENSEMBLE INC$20,000
DREAM DARE TO REVITALIZE EDUCATION THRU ARTS & MEDIATION$20,000
THE CARTER BURDEN CENTER FOR THE AGING INC$20,000
BROOKLYN CHILDRENS MUSEUM$20,000
EMMA'S TORCH LTD$20,000
THE NEIGHBORHOOD SELF HELP BY OLDER PERSON PROJECT INC$20,000
BRAATA PRODUCTIONS INC$20,000
ASTORIAQUEENS SHARE-ING AND CARE-ING INC$20,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ANDROMEDA COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC: $30k → 13%Save Latin America Inc: $20k → 14%Save Latin America Inc: $20k → 14%ANDROMEDA COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC: $20k → 13%Andromeda Community Initiative: $20k → 13%Andromeda Community Initiative Inc: $20k → 13%EMMA'S TORCH LTD: $20k → 20%Save Latin America Inc: $15k → 14%HOPE KIDS NY INC: $25k → 13%Act Now Foundation Inc: $10k → 14%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $30k → 13%Act Now Foundation: $10k → 14%GIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC DBA GALLOPNYC: $25k → 13%FAMILY LEGAL CARE: $20k → 17%Save Latin America Inc: $10k → 14%REGIONAL AID FOR INTERIM NEEDS INC: $30k → 28%Sapna NYC Inc: $20k → 28%PROJECT HOPE CHARITIES INC: $30k → 13%Sapna NYC Inc: $20k → 28%HOMECREST COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25k → 20%FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC: $25k → 17%Fresh Youth Initiatives Inc: $20k → 17%Neighborhood Self Help By Older Persons Project Inc: $53k → 28%THE NEIGHBORHOOD SELF HELP BY OLDER PERSON PROJECT INC: $30k → 28%Neighborhood Self Help By Older Persons Project Inc SHOPP: $30k → 28%Neighborhood Self Help by Older Persons Project Inc (SHOPP): $25k → 28%Union Settlement Association Inc: $25k → 17%THE NEIGHBORHOOD SELF HELP BY OLDER PERSON PROJECT INC: $20k → 28%Union Settlement Association: $20k → 17%Hot Bread Kitchen: $20k → 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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 36 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
51

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+9%

Still filing today

86%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $405k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TN
    THE NEIGHBORHOOD SELF-HELP BY OLDER PERSONS PROJECT INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $158k · revenue +61%
  • TH
    THE HOPE PROGRAM INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +123%
  • DM
    DANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • B
    BronxNet
    one grant, 2019 · $35k
  • PH
    PROJECT HOPE CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
  • RA
    REGIONAL AID FOR INTERIM NEEDS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +19%
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
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
2
Brooklyn Community Pride Center Inc

Brooklyn community pride center uplifts and empowers lgbtq+ brooklynites through socially conscious and culturally responsive programs, partnerships and advocacy.

Civil Rights
3
Fifth Avenue Committee Inc

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.

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4
The Bronx Council On the Arts Incorporated

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Futures and Options Inc

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…

Education
6
Nysarc Inc New York City Chapter

We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.

Human Services
7
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

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.

Education
8
The Dreamyard Project Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Legal Services Nyc

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…

Crime & Legal
10
Chinese-American Planning Council Inc

Cpc's mission is to promote social and economic empowerment of chineseamerican, immigrant and low-income communities.

Human Services
11
Jobsfirstnyc

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.

Youth Development
12
School in the Square Public Charter School

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of New York City; 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.
04the grantee network

88 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. 88 of the 108 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/88
Grantees still filing
50/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPANISH SPEAKING ELDERLY COUNCIL - RAICES INC: $85,000 · OtherLITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $85,000 · OtherThe Salvation Army - Man Citadel: $60,000 · OtherFAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS: $71,300 · OtherPART OF THE SOLUTION: $85,000 · OtherCENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC: $60,000 · Other+51 more: $1,308,029 · Other+51 moreTHE NEIGHBORHOOD SELF-HELP BY OLDER PERSONS PROJECT INC: $157,500 · Human ServicesTHE NEIGHBORHOOD SELF…ANDROMEDA COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesANDROMEDA COMMUNITY I…SAVE LATIN AMERICA INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesSAVE LATIN AMERICA IN…FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesFRESH YOUTH INITIATIV…UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesUNION SETTLEMENT ASSO…SAPNA NYC INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesSAPNA NYC INCACT NOW FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOPE CHARITIES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesREGIONAL AID FOR INTERIM NEEDS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesQUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $30,000 · Human ServicesGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesHope Kids NY Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesHomecrest Community Services Inc: $25,000 · Human Services+3 more: $60,000 · Human Services+3 moreDANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Arts & CultureDANIEL'S MU…Jersey City Theater Center Inc: $30,000 · Arts & CultureJersey City…THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE FOR…Creative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCreative Ar…THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE YOUNG P…EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION T…DREAM DARE TO REVITALIZE EDUCATION THRU ARTS & MEDIATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureDREAM DARE …JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING: $20,000 · Arts & CultureJAMAICA CEN…BRONX ARTS ENSEMBLE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBRONX ARTS …BROOKLYN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM CORPORATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBROOKLYN CH…Braata Productions Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBraata Prod…MORRIS JUMEL MANSION INC: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK WOMEN'S CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $76,000 · Community ImprovementLATINO PASTORAL ACTION CENTER: $65,000 · Community ImprovementASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT: $25,000 · Community ImprovementBRIDGE STREET DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementFIRST JAMAICA COMMUNITY AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementBUSINESS OUTREACH CENTER NETWORK INC: $15,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $4,400 · Community ImprovementTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC: $105,000 · EmploymentPER SCHOLAS INC: $75,000 · EmploymentLIFT INC: $20,000 · EmploymentNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentKips Bay Boys & Girls Club: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentRenaissance Youth Center: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentASTORIAQUEENS SHARE-ING AND CARE-ING INC: $50,000 · HealthMY TIME INC: $30,000 · HealthMORRIS HEIGHTS HEALTH CENTER: $30,000 · HealthURBAN HEALTH PLAN INC: $30,000 · HealthELMCOR YOUTH & ADULT ACTIVITIES INC: $25,000 · HealthJERSEY CITY CONNECTIONS INC: $20,000 · HealthAIDAN JACK SEEGER FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · Health
Other$1,754,329Human Services$697,500Arts & Culture$365,000Community Improvement$250,400Employment$200,000Youth Development$200,000Health$196,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD SELF-HELP BY OLDER PERSONS PROJECT INC: $157,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC: $105,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetANDROMEDA COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC: $90,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetPART OF THE SOLUTION: $85,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSPANISH SPEAKING ELDERLY COUNCIL - RAICES INC: $85,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $76,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS: $71,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLATINO PASTORAL ACTION CENTER: $65,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAVE LATIN AMERICA INC: $65,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetKips Bay Boys & Girls Club: $65,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY: $55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPALISADES EMERGENCY RESIDENCE CORP: $55,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Point Community Development Corporation: $50,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSouth Bronx United Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetASTORIAQUEENS SHARE-ING AND CARE-ING INC: $50,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetFRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAPNA NYC INC: $40,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetEDUCATIONAL VIDEO CENTER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetACT NOW FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMY TIME INC: $30,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetJersey City Theater Center Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetPROJECT HOPE CHARITIES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetREGIONAL AID FOR INTERIM NEEDS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMORRIS HEIGHTS HEALTH CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN HEALTH PLAN INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCreative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLEAP INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetQUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBROOKLYN YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE CRENULATED COMPANY LTD: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF BROOKLYN CDC INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBOC CAPITAL CORP: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRONX RIVER ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES FOR A BETTER TOMORROW INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHope Kids NY Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 31% 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.

The Hyde and Watson F…Pinkerton FoundationThe New York Communit…Robin Hood FoundationBrooklyn Community Fo…United Way of New Yor…Lily Auchincloss Foun…Hispanic Federation I…Webster Bank Charitab…The Ford FoundationBooth Ferris Foundati…New York Women's Foun…
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ59.4× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ponce de Leon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ponce de Leon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
51report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ponce de Leon Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ponce de Leon Foundation 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 108 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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