How much did UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY grant in FY2023?

UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY reported 231 grants totaling $48,239,288 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY based?

UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY is based in NY.

UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY

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· Public charity

UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY

UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY (uwnyc) mobilizes communities, breaks down barriers,(see schedule o) and builds opportunities for low-income new yorkers for the benefit of all.

$48M

Granted FY2023

231

Grants

Communities

$5.5M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

attendance improvementgraduateacademicimprovement dropoutdropout preventionprevention aidpnycdoe

2020

censusattendance improvementmobilizedisproportionatelyimpactedcoronavirusconsequences

2021

addressdisparitiesraisepreventativemeasuresimportantlytesting

2022

onstherapysafetychurchescollaborativelydepartmentsmuch-needed

2023

black studiesmigrantsasylumonssafetytherapychoose

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 231 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k34 grants · $202k
$10k–50k68 grants · $1.7M
$50k–250k104 grants · $11M
$250k+25 grants · $28M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$52M

Total assets

Largest grants

JUSTICE INNOVATION INC$5,548,036
DRISCOLL FOODS$5,026,798
RISING GROUND INC$2,187,594
URBAN YOUTH ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL INC$1,686,351
DRISCOLL FOODS$1,576,641
NEW YORK CITY CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCY$1,103,415
LEADERSHIP COUNCIL FOR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES$988,684
MARTIN LUTHER KING SR COMMUNITY RESOURCES COLLABORATIVE INC$958,000
THE DETROIT ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ORGANIZATIONS INC$830,500
RISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP$742,378
GROWNYC$727,028
EVIDENCE BASED ASSOCIATES LLC$723,281
WHENLOVEWORKS INC$716,000
HEADWATER FOODS INC$671,142
LIVING REDEMPTION COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$561,753

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $27.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 10%. 79% 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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 61% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 63% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITYlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$195M · 226 repeat orgs$21M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

226 repeat relationships — 132 still active in FY2023, 94 since wound down; 78 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

226

195

Total granted

$195M

$8.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+34%

Still filing today

55%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther

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

ES
EAST SIDE HOUSE SETTLEMENT INC
6× · 2018–2023 · $7.4M · revenue +39%
TC
THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY
4× · 2018–2021 · $5.9M · revenue +33%
NY
NEW YORK COMMUNITY LEARNING SCHOOL INITIATIVEUFT
4× · 2018–2021 · $5.1M · revenue +37%

Funded once

YO
YMCA OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON
one grant, 2022 · $700k · revenue -4%
RR
RIVER REGION UNITED WAY
one grant, 2022 · $502k · revenue -12%
DF
D FRASER ASSOCIATES LLC
one grant, 2022 · $500k

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

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 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

Urban Pathways Inc

Urban pathways (up) is a non-profit, social service and supportive housing organization serving the city's homeless adults through outreach, assessment, shelter-based settings and transitional and permanent housing.

Housing & Shelter

N Y C Mission Society

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

Human Services

Legal Services Nyc

Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…

Crime & Legal

Nyc Nowc Inc

The NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives is dedicated to sharing and cultivating the educational, financial, and technical resources of its members and supporting the growth of worker cooperatives for social and economic justice. We offer…

Community Improvement

Broadway Housing Communities Inc

Bhc provides low-income housing to the underserved in west harlem and washington heights new york.

Human Services

Ny Community Fridge Corp

Using the power of volunteers and community partnerships to expand dignified access to food in the heart of disadvantaged communities.

Food & Nutrition

Brooklyn Community Pride Center Inc

Bcpc provides services and support to brooklyn's lgbtq+ community through original programming and partnerships with other organizations.

Civil Rights

New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc

Empower low and moderate income new yorkers to help themselves through public education, advocacy, research, and direct services.

Community Improvement

Citizens Committee for New York City Inc

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

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Housing & Economic Development and the most unlike its peers is Teachers College Columbia University. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.6%3/491

the rest of the field

10%

7,722/74,605

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.

06the grantee network

274 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)

267/274

Grantees still filing

217/274

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$134,558,989Human Services$27,168,642Crime & Legal$15,583,029Education$13,938,763Recreation & Sports$10,714,721Community Improvement$9,795,312Youth Development$4,642,085

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.

Food Bank for New York CityNY146.9× affinity119 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Food Bank for New York City · Robin Hood Foundation · City Harvest Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Altman Foundation · New York Women's Foundation Inc · New York Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc

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 UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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: BROWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 562629114 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 BROWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 75% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 United Way of New York City?

Find your warmest path to United Way of New York City 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.

UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

274 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of New York City?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

274 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of New York City?

More from the funding graph