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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.

$95k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$47kHealth$40kFood & Nutrition$32kHuman Services$31kEmployment$17kCivil Rights$13kCrime & Legal$11kYouth Development$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $74,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $95,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,000 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.
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$48k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK$8,000
SIBS PLACE$6,000
STONY BROOK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$6,000
CODANCECO (DANCING CLASSROOMS OF LONG ISLAND)$6,000
THE ROSALIND AND JOSEPH GURWIN JEWISH GERIATRIC CENTER OF LONG ISLAND$6,000
SCOTT J BEIGEL MEMORIAL FUND$6,000
THE HECKSCHER MUSEUM$6,000
ANTHOS HOME$5,000
THE MARCY LAB SCHOOL$5,000
BUILDING BEATS$5,000
CITY LIVING NY$5,000
NEW YORK LGBT NETWORK INC$5,000
NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY22–25, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIVEONNY INC: $6k → 13%THE CAMPAIUGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $8k → 20%SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $7k → 6%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $5k → 13%ACLD: $6k → 6%SCOTT J BEIGEL MEMORIAL FUND: $6k → 7%CITY LIVING NY: $5k → 17%EMMA'S TORCH: $6k → 20%TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE: $7k → 17%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER INC: $6k → 6%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY: $5k → 20%THE VISCARDI CENTER INC: $5k → 6%SIBS PLACE: $6k → 6%FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $5k → 7%HAIR WE SHARE: $6k → 6%HAIR WE SHARE: $5k → 6%BOOKFAIRIES: $8k → 6%ECLI-VIBES: $6k → 7%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

12%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36k · 3 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
31

Total granted

$36k
$182k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $14k · revenue +48%
  • HW
    HAIR WE SHARE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +8%
  • TV
    THE VISCARDI CENTER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • BF
    BOOK FAIRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +47%
  • SF
    SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +5%
  • LI
    LONG ISLAND GAY AND LESBIAN YOUTH INC GROUP RETURN
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue -31%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
New York City Center Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
The Way Back Inc

To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…

Human Services
4
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
5
New York Hall of Science

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
The Child Study Center of New York

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.

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11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
New York City Charter School of the Arts

New york city charter school of the arts (the "school") inspires a diverse community of young people to engage with the arts as a pathway to rich and rigorous academic scholarship and a creative, purposeful life.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan; 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.
04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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)
47/47
Grantees still filing
24/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesTHE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INCHAIR WE SHARE: $11,250 · Human ServicesHAIR WE SHARETHE VISCARDI CENTER INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesTHE VISCARDI CENTER INCBOOK FAIRIES INC: $7,555 · Human ServicesBOOK FAIRIES INCSCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $7,000 · Human ServicesSCO FAMILY OF SERVICESTEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesTEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INCEMPOWERMENT COLLABORATIVE OF LONG ISLAND INC: $6,250 · Human ServicesEMPOWERMENT COLLABORATIVE OF LONG ISLAND INCADULTS AND CHILDREN WITH LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INC: $6,250 · Human ServicesADULTS AND CHILDREN WITH LEARNING AND DEVELO…SCOTT J BEIGEL MEMORIAL FUND INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesEMMA'S TORCH LTD: $6,000 · Human ServicesSIBS PLACE INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC: $5,250 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCITY LIVING NY INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesLONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $6,250 · Arts & CultureLONG ISLAND CHI…THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE YOUNG PEOPL…HECKSCHER MUSEUM: $6,000 · Arts & CultureHECKSCHER MUSEU…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $6,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSE…BUILDING BEATS INCORPORATED: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBUILDING BEATS …EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION THROU…NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK FOUNDA…LONG ISLAND GAY AND LESBIAN YOUTH INC GROUP RETURN: $7,000 · OtherLONG ISLAND GAY AND LESBI…THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY: $6,000 · OtherTHE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AN…GREEN INSIDE AND OUT INC: $6,000 · OtherGREEN INSIDE AND OUT INCCODANCECO INC DBA DANCING CLASSROOMS LONG ISLAND: $6,000 · OtherCODANCECO INC DBA DANCING…Eglevsky Ballet Company of LI Inc: $5,000 · OtherEglevsky Ballet Company o…NY COMMUNITY FRIDGE CORP: $6,000 · OtherNY COMMUNITY FRIDGE CORPNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $5,000 · OtherNEW YORK COMMON PANTRYWomens Diversity Network INC: $6,000 · OtherWomens Diversity Network …LONG ISLAND GAY & LESBIAN YOUTH INC: $5,000 · OtherLONG ISLAND GAY & LESBIAN…SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $8,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS INCANTHOS HOME INC: $5,000 · OtherANTHOS HOME INCTHE SPIRIT OF HUNTINGTON INC: $7,000 · EducationTHE SPIRIT…THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $6,000 · EducationTHE MERCAN…HARMONY HEIGHTS SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationHARMONY HE…ANDREW MCMORRIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationANDREW MCM…MARCY LAB INC: $5,000 · EducationMARCY LAB …THE ROSALIND AND JOSEPH GURWIN JEWISH GERIATRIC CENTER OF LONG ISLAND INC: $6,000 · HealthStony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation: $6,000 · HealthHEAR YOUR SONG INC: $6,000 · HealthEXALT YOUTH: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentInspiring Minds of New York City Inc: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $6,000 · EmploymentBACKSTRETCH EMPLOYEE SERVICE TEAM OF NEW YORK INC: $5,000 · Employment
Human Services$113,555Arts & Culture$39,250Other$65,000Education$28,000Health$18,000Youth Development$17,000Employment$11,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAIR WE SHARE: $11,250 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE VISCARDI CENTER INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOOK FAIRIES INC: $7,555 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONG ISLAND GAY AND LESBIAN YOUTH INC GROUP RETURN: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SPIRIT OF HUNTINGTON INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $6,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWERMENT COLLABORATIVE OF LONG ISLAND INC: $6,250 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetADULTS AND CHILDREN WITH LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INC: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREEN INSIDE AND OUT INC: $6,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetEXALT YOUTH: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCOTT J BEIGEL MEMORIAL FUND INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNY COMMUNITY FRIDGE CORP: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMMA'S TORCH LTD: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCODANCECO INC DBA DANCING CLASSROOMS LONG ISLAND: $6,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetStony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Diversity Network INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHEAR YOUR SONG INC: $6,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC: $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY LIVING NY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBUILDING BEATS INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEglevsky Ballet Company of LI Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHARMONY HEIGHTS SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTHOS HOME INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInspiring Minds of New York City Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBACKSTRETCH EMPLOYEE SERVICE TEAM OF NEW YORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANDREW MCMORRIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetMARCY LAB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLONG ISLAND GAY & LESBIAN YOUTH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The New York Communit…Mother Cabrini Health…Brooklyn Community Fo…The Bahnik Foundation…Pseg Foundation IncPeoples United Commun…The Pfizer Foundation…Td Charitable Foundat…Jewish Communal FundLong Island Real Esta…John and Janet Kornre…New York Community Ba…
The New York Community TrustNY23.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Imagine Awards Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Imagine Awards Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Imagine Awards Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Imagine Awards 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 47 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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