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The Forum for Urban Design
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPEN SPACE ALLIANCE FOR N BROOKLYN | $175,000 |
| PITKIN AVENUE DISTRICT MANAGEMENT | $100,000 |
| CAPITOL DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOC | $50,000 |
| SUNNYSIDE DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOC | $50,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 75% of your 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.
The organization provides supplemental sanitation, streetscape improvement, visitor information and commercial support services to property owners, businesses and residents of an area established as a business improvement district.
Improve quality of life and promote business growth by creating a cleaner, safer, and more inviting commercial district.
Provides economic revitalization, supplemental sanitation services and promotion for the area.
The organization provides supplemental sanitation, public safety, streetscape improvement, visitor information and commercial support services to property owners, businesses and residents of an area established as a business improvement…
To enrich the lives of residents, artists, and businesses in utica's new york arts district by fostering creativity, inspiring community engagement, driving technological innovation, and celebrating a sustainable cultural vibrancy.
To act in the public interest by conceiving, designing, implementing, managing, and facilitating economic development projects that benefit residents and organizations in chinatown in new york city as well as the general public visiting…
CAAAV was founded in 1986 as one of the first groups in the United States to respond to racially motivated violence against Asians. Since then, CAAAV has broaden its focus to address a wide array of needs and challenges facing the Asian…
A better way brooklyn, inc. is a new york not-for-profit corporation formed for the purposes of educating the public about transportation issues throughout new york city by promoting community awareness and concerns on construction and…
To improve neighborhood conditions in the west village business improvement district and to enhance the cleanliness, safety and enjoyment of the district.
NOCD-NY is a citywide alliance of cultural networks and community leaders that have joined together to revitalize New York City from the neighborhood up. NOCD-NY came together in 2010 in response to the vision, sustained needs, and…
To promote the economic growth and well being of the businesses in the business improvement district through improving neighborhood conditions and the business environment.
To promote the economic growth and well being of the businesses in the business improvement district through improving neighborhood conditions and the environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chhaya Community Development Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Center for Third World Organizing. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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.
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 OPEN SPACE ALLIANCE FOR NORTH BROOKLYN INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Third World Organizing ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHHAYA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds STATEN ISLAND URBAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PITKIN AVENUE DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNNYSIDE DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATIO ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION 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: City Parks Foundation Inc · New York Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 The Forum for Urban Design 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.