· Private foundation
Popular Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THELMA GIBSON HEALTH INITIATIVE | $31,000 |
| CRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| CRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| RESOLUTION PROJECT INC | $20,000 |
| CREO COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC | $16,147 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW YORK | $15,000 |
| AUTISM HERO PROJECT | $14,649 |
| NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP | $13,000 |
| MINNESOTA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INC | $10,000 |
| LATINAS ON THE VERGE OF EXCELLENCE - LOVE INC | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATI | $10,000 |
| ASCENDUS INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $404k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 41% of Popular Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 70% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 28% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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
- CRCRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $162k · revenue +31%
- TGTHELMA GIBSON HEALTH INITIATIVE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +35%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW YORK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $413k
- HFHispanic Federation-Abrazando a PRone grant, 2020 · $325k
- HBHispanic Business Initiative Fone grant, 2020 · $150k
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.
The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…
Bronx parent housing network is committed to making a difference in solving the housing problem in new york city by transforming lives and creating holistic paths to employment so that individuals and families can secure safe, clean,…
Nyceec's mission is to deliver financing solutions and advance markets for energy efficiency and clean energy in communities.
Job path supports people with autism and other developmental disabilities as they make choices about their lives and play valued roles in their communities. job path encourages people to explore what they want out of life and to chart…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
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.
Provides temporary housing and housing assistance to homeless families and singles in new york city; provides ancillary social services, food, clothing, access to medical services and finds permanent housing and jobs to those families.
Goodwill nynj empowers people with disabilities and other barriers to employment to gain independence through the power of work. goodwill nynj provided services to more than 11,087 adults in fiscal year 2025 through all programs.
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.
City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning…
See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…
NYC Mission Society improves the lives of children, youth and families in the City's most underserved communities. Through programs and services that respond to community needs, we create cycles of success for generations to come.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The Humanity Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 78 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 CRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THELMA GIBSON HEALTH INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Violence Intervention Program ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds BOTTOMLESS CLOSET ↗
- Who funds Urban Workforce Advantage Inc ↗
- Who funds CREO COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESOLUTION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN MANHATTAN IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE AUTISM HERO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds LATINAS ON THE VERGE OF EXCELLENCE- LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VICTORY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR FAMILIES LTD ↗
- Who funds SEARCH AND CARE INC ↗
- Who funds BRONXWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ASCENDUS INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS ↗
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 · Robin Hood Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · American Express Foundation · The New York Community Trust · United Way Miami Inc · Pwc Foundation Inc · The Yelp Foundation · 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 Popular Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New Jersey Citizen Action — 37% of income from government
- United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
- Urban Workforce Advantage Inc — 9% of income from government
- New Community Corporation — 4% of income from government
- Chapman Partnership 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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