· Public charity
The Imagine Awards Inc
The imagine awards, which holds academy award type events for nonprofit organizations in both long island (april) and new york city (october), was created for 3 purposes: to shine a light on nonprofit organizations that are impactful, innovative, possess strong leadership, and understand the need and importance of diversity.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $85,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $119,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $34,000 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE | $7,000 |
| NEW YORK LGBT NETWORK INC | $7,000 |
| SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES | $7,000 |
| SPIRIT OF HUNTINGTON NETWORK INC | $7,000 |
| HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER | $6,000 |
| CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN | $6,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S DIVERSITY NETWORK | $6,000 |
| FIVE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| GREEN INSIDE AND OUT | $6,000 |
| GRASSROOTS GROCERY | $6,000 |
| YOUNG PEOPLES CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY | $6,000 |
| THE VISCARDI CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| INSPIRING MINDS NYC | $5,000 |
| HAIR WE SHARE | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TCTHE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC2× · 2022–2023 · $14k · revenue +48%
- HWHAIR WE SHARE2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +8%
- TVTHE VISCARDI CENTER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- BFBOOK FAIRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +47%
- ECEMPOWERMENT COLLABORATIVE OF LONG ISLAND INCone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -7%
- LILONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -6%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
Founded to educate and inspire gifted and precocious learners who require special social, emotional, executive function and academic supports to realize their high potential, in the greater new york city area, for students grades 1 through…
To provide quality programs for young children with special needs.
To provide a program for children with special needs, ages three to five years by utilizing the disciplines of psychology, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy as integral functions of the educational program.
Establish a unified voice for children and youth with emotional, behavioral, and social challenges. the organizational mission is to ensure that every family has access to needed information, support, and services.
Edible schoolyard nyc is on a mission to make edible education accessible for every child in nyc. we believe edible education-where kids experience hands-on cooking and gardening helps kids gain the skills to contribute to a healthy and…
The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.
We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…
Goodwill nynj empowers people with disabilities and other barriers to employment to gain independence through the power of work. goodwill nynj provided services to more than 11,087 adults in fiscal year 2025 through all programs.
We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan and the most unlike its peers is Green Inside and Out Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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 THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds HAIR WE SHARE ↗
- Who funds THE VISCARDI CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOOK FAIRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPIRIT OF HUNTINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LONG ISLAND GAY AND LESBIAN YOUTH INC GROUP RETURN ↗
- Who funds TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERMENT COLLABORATIVE OF LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ADULTS AND CHILDREN WITH LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds EMMA'S TORCH LTD ↗
- Who funds EXALT YOUTH ↗
- Who funds FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds NY COMMUNITY FRIDGE CORP ↗
- Who funds HEAR YOUR SONG INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN INSIDE AND OUT INC ↗
- Who funds Womens Diversity Network INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds ANDREW MCMORRIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Eglevsky Ballet Company of LI Inc ↗
- Who funds HARMONY HEIGHTS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds BACKSTRETCH EMPLOYEE SERVICE TEAM OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Inspiring Minds of New York City 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: The New York Community Trust · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Bahnik Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Long Island Real Estate Group Inc · John and Janet Kornreich Charitable Foundation Ltd · New York Community Bank 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 Imagine Awards 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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