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Project for Public Spaces Inc
Project for public spaces, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND | $100,000 |
| CITY OF CLEVELAND PLANNING COMMISSION | $100,000 |
| ROCHESTER DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORP | $100,000 |
| MARION PUBLIC LIBRARY | $100,000 |
| AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| FARMINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $80,000 |
| FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $80,000 |
| CITY OF SILOAM SPRINGS | $80,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 create, enhance, and promote a downtown experience that is welcoming, fun, and livable.
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…
The organization's mission is to create and champion a vibrant and diverse downtown through placemaking, advocacy, and promotion.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
To facilitate collaboration, cultivate connections, and contribute to the growth and vitality of our community. to generate progress on issues, work toward sustainable growth, and build a stronger, more inclusive city core that generates…
To strengthen the competitiveness of center city philadelphia as an attractive place to work, to visit, and to live to enhance center city as the vibrant hub of the greater philadelphia region through research, planning, advocacy, and…
The mission of Downtown Wichita is to cultivate opportunities that revitalize and enhance Wichita's urban core.
Creating and preserving affordable communities for a variety of income levels with the goal of financial advancement and sustainability for individuals and families.
Portland downtown stimulates a vibrant, thriving, and sustainable downtown community.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Repair the World and the most unlike its peers is Austin Parks Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 22 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 AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HAWTHORNE SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rochester Downtown Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SEQUOYAH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DAYTON PARTNERSHIP CORP ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN ARLINGTON MANAGEMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL TERMINAL RESTORATION CORP ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEWABIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds REPAIR THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM 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: Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Arvest Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Project for Public Spaces 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.
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.