How much did THE SIRUS FUND grant in FY2025?

Human Services$2.7MHousing & Shelter$562kPublic Benefit$350kCrime & Legal$330kHealth$230kEducation$225kFood & Nutrition$180kPhilanthropy$150kOther$1.2M

02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

$50k–250k6 grants · $1.2M
$250k+1 grant · $335k

$212,000

Median grant

States reached

$288k

Total assets

Largest grants

UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES$335,000
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY$212,000
GRAHAM WINDHAM$212,000
BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES$212,000
ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN$212,000
THE BROWNSVILLE PARTNERSHIP$212,000
POWER OF TWO FUND FOR THE CITY OF NY$155,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 16%. 100% of those 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 edge

repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.5M · 17 repeat orgs$517k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.5M

$305k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+3%

Still filing today

71%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalPublic BenefitHealthEducationOther

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

UN
United Neighborhood Houses
5× · 2021–2025 · $690k · revenue +200%
CA
children's aid society
5× · 2021–2025 · $548k · revenue +33%
AT
association to benefit children
5× · 2021–2025 · $517k · revenue +45%

Funded once

CS
community solutions
one grant, 2021 · $195k
NY
New Yorkers for Children
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +3%
SF
SCO family services
one grant, 2021 · $10k

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

04Your 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.

New York City Energy Efficiency

Delivering financing solutions and advancing markets for energy efficiency and clean energy.

Environment

The Center for New York City

Housing & Shelter

The Bronx Parent Housing Network Inc

Bronx parent housing network is committed to making a difference in solving the housing problem in bronx parent housing network is committed to making a difference in solving the housing problem in new york city by transforming lives and…

Human Services

Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunites for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement

The Baruch College Fund

The fund engages in generating, encouraging & promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education

The Bronx Defenders

The bronx defenders provides legal representation and other related services to more than 20,000 low-income people in the bronx, every year, free of charge.

Crime & Legal

New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

To empower artists at critical stages in their creative lives

Arts & Culture

New York Apartment Association Inc

Advocates for the property rights of its members (rent-regulated property owners in new york city) through legislative and legal action, keeps its membership informed on critical issues through its newsletter, seminars, website and other…

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The New York State Society of Certified

To cultivate, promote, and disseminate knowledge and information concerning certified public accountants.

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N Y C Mission Society

Nyc mission society improves the lives of families in the city's most underserved communities.

Human Services

Citizens Committee for New York City Inc

To help new yorkers come together and improve the quality of life in their neighborhoods.

Community Improvement

Advocates for Children of New York

To ensure a high-quality education for new york students who face barriers to academic success, focusing on students from low-income backgrounds.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Yorkers for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York Appleseed 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

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

11/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$2,744,000Other$1,530,000Housing & Shelter$562,000Public Benefit$350,000Crime & Legal$330,000Health$230,000Education$225,000

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.

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.

Mother Cabrini Health Foundation IncNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 SIRUS FUND 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

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

05Through 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: New York Appleseed.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~39 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 473549251 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 New York Appleseed, 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 39 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 37% 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 Sirus Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Sirus Fund 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.

THE SIRUS FUND

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Sirus Fund?

More from the funding graph

THE SIRUS FUND

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Sirus Fund?

More from the funding graph