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· Public charity

Putting New Yorkers to Work Inc

To further the common good and general welfare of the citizens of new york by researching, creating & proposing policies, legislation, programs, ideas and best practices to foster a vibrant enviroment for private sector job growth in new york state.

$330k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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.

Public Benefit$684kCommunity Improvement$620kCivil Rights$150kEmployment$115kPhilanthropy$80kHousing & Shelter$75kEnvironment$10k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$300,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$76k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER UNITED$300,000
FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC$25,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NYC FORWARD: $50k → 6%LONG ISLAND BUILDERS INC INSTITUTE: $75k → 7%REAL PROGRESSIVES FOR REAL CHANGE: $34k → 9%NY LEAGUE OF CONSERVATIVE VOTERS: $10k → 14%THE 400 FOUNDATION INC: $500k → 17%THE ARC OF JUSTICE: $10k → 20%CENTER UNITED: $300k → 14%LAWSUIT REFORM ALLIANCE OF NEW YORK: $50k → 14%THE 400 FOUNDATION INC: $140k → 17%CENTER UNITED: $250k → 14%THE BUSINESS COUNCIL OF NYS INC: $120k → 14%BUILDING SKILLS NY: $100k → 17%BUILDING SKILLS NEW YORK: $15k → 17%FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $30k → 17%FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $25k → 17%FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $25k → 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 5 repeat orgs$289k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$1.4M
$289k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+11%

Still filing today

80%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • T4
    THE 400 FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $640k
  • CU
    CENTER UNITED
    2× · 2021–2024 · $550k · revenue -93% · 94% of their budget
  • BS
    Building Skills NY
    2× · 2017–2020 · $115k · revenue +393%

Funded once

  • BC
    BUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK STATE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $120k · revenue +11%
  • LI
    LONG ISLAND BUILDERS INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +14%
  • NF
    NYC FORWARD
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
New York Building Congress Inc

The new york building congress is a private association committed to helping new york city maintain its position as a world class city through constant improvement of the physical environment where people live and work. to this end it…

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2
Building Trades Employers Association (B

To be the public voice and advocate for union contractors in new york city.

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3
New York City Business Assistance Corporation

To reduce unemployment, promote and provide for additional and maximum employment in NYC, encourage the development and/or retention of businesses in NYC; instruct or train individuals to improve and develop their capabilities for jobs in…

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4
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
5
American Federation of Labor & Cong of Industrial Orgs Nyc Bldg % Const

Liason for organized labor in the new york city area.

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6
New York State Building & Construction Trades Council Afl-Cio

Liason for organized labor.

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7
Upstate New York Construction Industry Research & Service Tr Fund

To assist workers and employers in solving problems of mutual concern not susceptible to resolution within the collective bargaining process, to improve the employment opportunities for employees, to expand the market for the construction…

Employment
8
New York State Court Clerks Association Inc

Provided collective bargaining representation to members.

Employment
9
New York State Economic Development Council Inc

The mission of organization is to promote the economic development of new york state and its communities, encourage sound business practicies in the conduct of regional and statewide development programs, and to develop educational…

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10
The General Contractors Association of Ny Inc

The organization's mission is to assist in current issues, represent member causes & handle union contract negotiations for member general contractors in the new york metropolitan area.

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11
Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Inc

The primary purpose of brooklyn chamber of commerce, inc.("bcc") is to assist brooklyn businesses by providing services, including marketing, education and advocacy, in ways that promote and monitor economic growth.

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12
Long Island Jobs With Justice Inc

To support labor and community organizing in Long Island.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Business Council of New York State Inc; the most unlike its peers is Arc of Justice 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE 400 FOUNDATION INC: $640,000 · OtherTHE 400 FOUNDATION INCBUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK STATE INC: $120,000 · OtherBUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK STATE INCLONG ISLAND BUILDERS INSTITUTE INC: $75,000 · OtherLONG ISLAND BUILDERS INSTITUTE INCNYC FORWARD: $50,000 · OtherNYC FORWARDREAL PROGRESSIVES FOR REAL CHANGE: $33,500 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherCENTER UNITED: $550,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER UNITEDBuilding Skills NY: $115,000 · EducationFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyLAWSUIT REFORM ALLIANCE OF NEW YORK INC: $60,000 · Public Benefit
Other$928,500Community Improvement$550,000Education$115,000Philanthropy$80,000Public Benefit$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE 400 FOUNDATION INC: $640,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCENTER UNITED: $550,000 over 2y, 94% of budgetBUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK STATE INC: $120,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBuilding Skills NY: $115,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLONG ISLAND BUILDERS INSTITUTE INC: $75,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetLAWSUIT REFORM ALLIANCE OF NEW YORK INC: $60,000 over 2y, 11% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Putting New Yorkers to Work Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Putting New Yorkers to Work Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
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    How do I get to Putting New Yorkers to Work Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Putting New Yorkers to Work 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 10 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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