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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.

$111k
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

Education$376kEmployment$25kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2021 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $90,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $110,900 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,400 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%LONG BEACH MARTIN LUTHER KING CENTER INC: $25k → 6%BED-STUY CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $25k → 20%BRONX PARENT HOUSING NETWORK INC: $25k → 28%ISLAND HARVEST LTD: $25k → 6%ALBANIAN & AMERICAN OPEN HAND ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 28%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Studentsfirst New York Institute Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 0%.

Studentsfirst New York Institute Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its 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
Community Voices Heard Inc

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.

Employment
2
Food Bank for New York City

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…

Community Improvement
3
Broadway Housing Communities Inc

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…

Human Services
4
Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council On Jewish Poverty

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…

Human Services
5
Neighbors Together Corporation

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.

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6
Coalition for the Homeless Inc

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…

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7
New York Congregational Community Services
Health
8
Latino Americanos Unidos Del Bronx Ny Inc
Human Services
9
Churches United for Fair Housing Inc

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

Human Services
10
Citizens Committee for New York City Inc

To help new yorkers, especially those in low-income areas, come together and improve the quality of life in their neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
11
Rethink Food Nyc Inc

Our mission is to reduce food insecurity by developing practical models that distribute nutritionally dense, culturally sensitive meals to nourish healthy and thriving communities.

Food & Nutrition
12
United Way of New York City

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…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Community Services Archdiocese of New York; 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.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRONX COUNTY FAIRS & EXPO ASSOC INC: $30,000 · OtherBRONX COUNTY FAIRS & EXPO ASSOC INCBETHLEHEM ASSEMBLY OF GOD: $25,000 · OtherBETHLEHEM ASSEMBLY OF GODLONG ISLAND CITY GOSPEL CHURCH INC: $25,000 · OtherLONG ISLAND CITY GOSPEL CHURCH INCFIRST CORINTHIAN BAPTIST CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherFIRST CORINTHIAN BAPTIST CHURCHNational Black Caucus of State Legislators: $10,000 · OtherNational Black Caucus of State Legisla…CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK: $10,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES …YOUTH MINISTRIES FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE: $5,500 · OtherBAFA INC BANGLADESH ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS: $10,000 · OtherBAFA INC BANGLADESH ACADEMY OF FINE AR…URBAN YOUTH ALLIANCE INTERNATIONALINC: $10,000 · OtherURBAN YOUTH ALLIANCE INTERNATIONALINCLONG BEACH MARTIN LUTHER KING INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesLONG BEACH MARTIN LUTHER KING …THE BRONX PARENT HOUSING NETWORK INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRONX PARENT HOUSING NETWO…THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER IN…ISLAND HARVEST LTD: $25,000 · Human ServicesISLAND HARVEST LTDOPEN HAND ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesOPEN HAND ASSOCIATION INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $75,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHE…CORO NEW YORK LEADERSHIP CENTER: $25,000 · Civil RightsHAITIAN AMERICAN CAUCUS US INC: $25,000 · EmploymentREACHING OUT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$140,500Human Services$110,000International$75,000Civil Rights$25,000Employment$25,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Philanthropy$15,000

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 budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORO NEW YORK LEADERSHIP CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLONG BEACH MARTIN LUTHER KING INC: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHAITIAN AMERICAN CAUCUS US INC: $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE BRONX PARENT HOUSING NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetISLAND HARVEST LTD: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREACHING OUT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN HAND ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetNational Black Caucus of State Legislators: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN YOUTH ALLIANCE INTERNATIONALINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

United Way of New Yor…Food Bank for New Yor…Hispanic Federation I…The New York Communit…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of New York CityNY13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Studentsfirst New York Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Studentsfirst New York Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 Studentsfirst New York Institute Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Studentsfirst New York Institute 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 19 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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