· Public charity
Studentsfirst New York Institute Inc
Studentsfirst new york institute, inc (sfnyi)'s mission is to provide information to the general public about education reform issues and policies.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $90,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $110,900 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,400 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BETHLEHEM ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $25,000 |
| BRONX PARENT HOUSING NETWORK INC | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE NEW YORK | $10,000 |
| URBAN YOUTH ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL INC | $10,000 |
| YOUTH MINISTRIES FOR PEACE & JUSTICE INC | $5,500 |
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 (FY20–21, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 100% of Studentsfirst New York Institute 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, 79% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 0% — 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.
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 Organization works to promote the social welfare of low income people living in New York City, New York State and the nation through public education, leadership development and advocacy.
Food bank for nyc has been the city's major hunger-relief organization driven by our mission to empower every new yorker to achieve food security for good. we harness the collective power of our network of food providers, partners, and…
Broadway housing communities seeks to actively engage and support the community we serve through a unique supportive model blending stable affordable housing, access to the arts, and early childhood education programs. (see schedule…
Metropolitan ny coordinating council is a not-for-profit organization which serves as a primary advocate for the social welfare needs of the poor, near-poor and elderly in the metro ny area. the entity is dedicated to the alleviation of…
Neighbors together is committed to ending hunger and poverty in the ocean hill,brownsville, and bedford-stuyvesant neighborhoods of brooklyn. these are among the lowest-income areas in new york city.
The coalition for the homeless is the nation's oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless individuals and families. we believe that affordable housing, sufficient food and the chance to work for a living wage are…
To ensure that equal, fair and sufficient housing and other services and respurces are made available for the lower income residents of North Brooklyn and its surrounding neighborhoods
To help new yorkers, especially those in low-income areas, come together and improve the quality of life in their neighborhoods.
Our mission is to reduce food insecurity by developing practical models that distribute nutritionally dense, culturally sensitive meals to nourish healthy and thriving communities.
Uwnyc works with a coalition of trusted partners to unite community power with citywide possibility. together, we meet today's most urgent needs while building transformative solutions for tomorrow - striving for health, opportunity, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Community Services Archdiocese of New York and the most unlike its peers is Bafa Inc Bangladesh Academy of Fine Arts. 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 19 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 WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CORO NEW YORK LEADERSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds HAITIAN AMERICAN CAUCUS US INC ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH MARTIN LUTHER KING INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRONX PARENT HOUSING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HARVEST LTD ↗
- Who funds REACHING OUT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds BAFA INC BANGLADESH ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds National Black Caucus of State Legislators ↗
- Who funds URBAN YOUTH ALLIANCE INTERNATIONALINC ↗
- Who funds OPEN HAND ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK ↗
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: United Way of New York City · Food Bank for New York City · Hispanic Federation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Studentsfirst New York Institute 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.
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