· Public charity
The New York Urban League Inc
The league's mission is to enable african americans and underserved communities to secure a first-class education, economic self-reliance, and equal respect of their civil rights through programs, services, and advocacy in our highly diversified city.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $1,120,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,206,250 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $86,250 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 |
|---|---|
| GOOD CALL NYC CO | $45,000 |
| HARVEST HOME FARMER'S MARKET INC | $45,000 |
| 67TH PRECINCT CLERGY COUNCIL INC | $45,000 |
| THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC | $45,000 |
| KINGS AGAINST VIOLENCE INITIATIVE INC | $45,000 |
| COMMUNITY CONNECTION FOR YOUTH | $45,000 |
| OPUS DANCE THEATRE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES | $45,000 |
| BILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE | $45,000 |
| STEM FROM DANCE INC | $45,000 |
| YOU GOTTA BELIEVE | $45,000 |
| WARM INC | $45,000 |
| CUSTOM COLLABORATIVE | $45,000 |
| HIP HOP THEATER FESTIVAL DBA HI ARTS THEATER | $45,000 |
| DRIVE CHANGE | $45,000 |
| HARLEM BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC | $45,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $809k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those 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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 13 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $425k 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
- 6P67TH PRECINCT CLERGY COUNCIL3× · 2022–2024 · $179k · revenue +156%
- BBBARBERSHOP BOOKS INC4× · 2020–2023 · $151k · revenue +340%
- LOLIFE OF HOPE4× · 2020–2024 · $134k · revenue ×24
Funded once
- TNTHE NEW YORK URBAN LEAGUE INCone grant, 2021 · $507k · revenue -19%
- ELEMERGING LEADERS IN TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING INCone grant, 2020 · $185k
- DTDESTINATION TOMORROW INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +99%
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.
The Harlem Art''s Foundation''s Mission Is To Showcase And Preserve Harlem''s Tradition Of Rich Culture And Community By Working With Our Local Partners To Strategically Shape The Physical And Social Opportunities Of Our Neighborhood…
Empower the youth of new york city through basketball, providing them with academic enrichment, career development, and a strong sense of community to unlock their full potential
The Arts & Business Council of New York stimulates partnerships between the arts and business that strengthen both sectors in the communities they serve. This is accomplished through programs that promote voluntarism, build arts management…
Nia theatrical production company inc. is dedicatedto educating young artist and bringing arts program to underserved communities in nyc.
Assist young PEOPLE OF COLOR to access jobs & become civically engaged
The Unsung Collective serves the New York City community through music and music education experiences for people of color.
To encompass a faith community based program that offers alternatives to detention, incarceration by connecting court-involved youth with positive resources in the local community. Provide supportive community services to justice-involved…
Provide high quality low cost performing arts classes to underserved children in Harlem and the surrounding neigborhoods.
Stimulate overall economic development through creation of enterprises, generation of jobs and improvement of services. Mission accomplished through community development projects, education, training, entrepreneurial loan program, and…
The New York African Chorus Ensemble, Inc. (NYACE) strengthens New York Citys cultural life by using the arts to build bridges of understanding among diverse communities. Through performances, cultural programs, and community initiatives,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young New Yorkers Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Noel Pointer Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
86 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. 86 of the 97 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 NEW YORK URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds 67TH PRECINCT CLERGY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BARBERSHOP BOOKS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds OPUS DANCE THEATRE & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CUSTOM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds STATEN ISLAND URBAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WARM INC dba We All Really Matter ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN FILM FESTIVALINC ↗
- Who funds FULL CIRCLE LIFE ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD STUYVESANT GATEWAY DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Good Call NYC ↗
- Who funds YOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS ↗
- Who funds THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC ↗
- Who funds GRIOT CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds MONITOR MY HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG NEW YORKERS INC ↗
- Who funds STEM FROM DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds The Harlem Chamber Players Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS CREATIVE 404 INC ↗
- Who funds A BETTER JAMAICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN STEPPERS INC ↗
- Who funds NOT ON MY WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM JUNIOR TENNIS AND EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FCBC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PATH TO JOBS INC (FKA PEER TRAINING INC/PTI) ↗
- Who funds DESTINATION TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds Alex House Project Inc ↗
- Who funds CUMBE CENTER FOR AFRICAN AND DIASPORA DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds United Methodist Center in Far Rockaway Inc ↗
- Who funds HARLEM BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Design Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOME FARMER'S MARKET 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: Brooklyn Community Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · West Harlem Development Corporation · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children · The Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Ford 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 New York Urban League 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.
- Monitor My Health Inc — 36% of income from government
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.