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· Public charity
THE FORUM FOR URBAN DESIGN
Connects and inspires new yorkers to design, build and care for a better city.
$375k
Granted FY2024
4
Grants
1
Communities
$175k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2024.
Community Improvement$325kCrime & Legal$250kEnvironment$175kInternational$125kOther$125k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2023
youthnon-profitthrivingissueswell-beingincarcerationjustice system
2024
districtsunnysidenorth brooklyn
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$828k
Total assets
Largest grants
- OPEN SPACE ALLIANCE FOR N BROOKLYN$175,000
- PITKIN AVENUE DISTRICT MANAGEMENT$100,000
- SUNNYSIDE DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOC$50,000
- CAPITOL DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOC$50,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 12%. 75% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Sunset Park District Management
To promote the economic growth and well being of the businesses in the business improvement district through improving neighborhood conditions and the environment.
Community Improvement
2
Chinatown International District
Improve the business enviornment, sanitation and public safety in the historical Chinatown-International district of Seattle, WA.
Community Improvement
3
West Village District Management
To improve neighborhood conditions in the west village business improvement district and to enhance the cleanliness, safety and enjoyment of the district.
Community Improvement
4
Chinatown District Management
Promote the vitality and economic growth of a business improvement district located in nyc.
Human Services
5
Chinatown International District
Fundraising for the seattle chinatown international district preservation and development authority.
Housing & Shelter
6
Chinatown Community Development Center
The purpose of ccdc is to build community and enhance the quality of life for san francisco residents. this is accomplished through our many roles as neighborhood advocates, community organizers and planners, and developers and managers of…
Housing & Shelter
7
Downtown Manhattan Inc
Downtown manhattan, inc. is a not-for profit community volunteer organization working in the areas of economic development, street design, retail and business recruitment and marketing and promotion. it is our mission to increase consumer…
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8
Central Philadelphia Development
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…
Arts & Culture
9
Civic Center Community Benefit District
The civic center cbd improves and promotes san francisco's historic civic center through a host of planning, policy and public programming initiatives.
Community Improvement
10
Downtown Berkeley Association
The Downtown Berkeley Association works to strengthen the Downtown as a vibrant and welcoming urban destination for arts, culture, and commerce through effective advocacy, prmotion and direct services.
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11
82nd Street District Management
Improve quality of life and promote business growth by creating a cleaner, safer, and more inviting commercial district.
Community Improvement
12
Centro Public Improvement District
To promote the revitalization of the city of san antonio's downtown business district, by protecting and enhancing the values and usage of downtown properties and businesses by making downtown san antonio an exciting place to live, work,…
Community Improvement
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chhaya Community Development Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Pitkin Avenue District Management Association Inc. 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
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Community Improvement$325,000Crime & Legal$250,000Environment$175,000International$125,000Other$125,000
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 N BROOKLYN ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THIRD WORLD ORGANIZING ↗
- Who funds CCHAYA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds Staten Island Urban Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PITKIN AVENUE DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds SUNNYSIDE DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOC ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOC ↗
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.
City Parks Foundation IncNY16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: City Parks Foundation Inc · 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Staten Island Urban Center Inc.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.6× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 371833463 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Staten Island Urban Center Inc, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 31% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Forum for Urban Design?
Find your warmest path to The Forum for Urban Design through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines