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The Thursday Club

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$139k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Animals$151kHuman Services$139kArts & Culture$4kEducation$500Housing & Shelter$500Environment$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $9k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $130k
$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$35k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Neighbors Link$130,000
Cardinal McCloskey Community Servic$2,000
Bethany Arts Community$2,000
Youth Shelter Program of Westcheste$2,000
Sharing Shelf$500
Billion Oyster Project$500
PAWS Crossed Animal Rescue$500
The Capa Space$500
Child Care Council of Westchester$500
02The need
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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 (FY23–24, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Child Care Council of Westchester: $500 → 9%El Centro Hispano Inc: $2k → 9%Neighbors Link: $130k → 9%Youth Shelter Program of Westcheste: $2k → 9%Hearts and Homes for Refugees: $2k → 9%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 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.

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Westchester Community Opportunity Program Inc

To mobilize and efficiently manage resources through partnerships and collaborations to help the low-income and at-risk populations in the hudson valley region to achieve greater self-sufficiency.

Community Improvement
2
Ywca White Plains & Central Westchester Inc and Its Affiliates

The ywca white plains & central westchester advances its mission to eliminate racism, empower women, and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all through high-impact, community-based programs that strengthen individuals,…

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3
Children's Home of Poughkeepsie Inc

The children's home of poughkeepsie is one of the oldest child welfare agencies in the nation. on january 21, 1847, a group of poughkeepsie women met to form the female guardian society to care for the poor, abandoned and neglected in…

Human Services
4
Mount Kisco Child Care Center

To help working families thrive by providing equitable access to high-quality child care and early education to a diverse group of children through innovative, developmentally appropriate programming and a holistic approach to supporting…

Human Services
5
Westchester Jewish Community Services Inc

Westchester jewish community services (wjcs) is a non-sectarian, not for profit, broad based human service agency dedicated to helping people of all ages cope with emotional, cognitive, environmental, physical, social, and educational…

Health
6
White Plains Childrens Center Inc

A developmental day care center providing care for special needs and non-special needs children.

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7
Nysarc Inc New York City Chapter

We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.

Human Services
8
The Young Women's Christian Association of Yonkers

Ywca is dedicated to empowering women and promoting peace, health, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

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9
West Street Child Care Learning Center Inc

West Street Child Care Learning Center, Inc. (the Center or Organization), is a corporation organized under the New York State Not-for-Profit Corporation Law. The Center provides educational childcare services on premises located in Spring…

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10
Family Service Society of Yonkers

The mission of family service society of yonkers is to be the premier provider of human services through a range of programs focusing on home health care, diverse family supports, education and advocacy. family service society of yonkers…

Human Services
11
Children's Center of New Paltz Inc

Operate and maintain a day care center for children of students, faculty, and staff of the state university of new york at new paltz, and for children of the greater new paltz community.

Human Services
12
The Child Center of Ny Inc

The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Shelter Program of Westchester Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sing Sing Prison Museum. 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
6/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PAWS CROSSED ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $150,500 · AnimalsPAWS CROSSED ANIMAL RESCUE INCNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $130,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORS LINK CORP+4 more: $6,500 · Human ServicesCARDINAL MCCLOSKEY SCHOOL AND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherTHE CAPA SPACE INC: $500 · OtherTHE SHARING SHELF INC: $500 · OtherBETHANY ARTS COMMUNITY INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC: $500 · Arts & CultureSING SING PRISON MUSEUM: $500 · Arts & CultureLATINO U COLLEGE ACCESS INC: $500 · EducationBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $500 · EducationLIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC: $500 · Housing & Shelter
Animals$150,500Human Services$136,500Other$5,000Arts & Culture$3,000Education$1,000Housing & Shelter$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPAWS CROSSED ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $150,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $130,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYOUTH SHELTER PROGRAM OF WESTCHESTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARDINAL MCCLOSKEY SCHOOL AND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY ARTS COMMUNITY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTS AND HOMES FOR REFUGEES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLATINO U COLLEGE ACCESS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD CARE COUNCIL OF WESTCHESTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAPA SPACE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHARING SHELF INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSING SING PRISON MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

United Way of Westche…The New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundImpact100 Westchester…St Faith's House Foun…The Thomas and Agnes …Pilzer Foundation IncThe Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…
United Way of Westchester and PutnamNY22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Westchester and Putnam · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Impact100 Westchester Inc · St Faith's House Foundation · The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation · Pilzer Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
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    How do I get to The Thursday Club?

    Find your warmest path to The Thursday Club 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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $149k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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