· Public charity
United Way of New York City
Uwnyc works with a coalition of trusted partners to unite community power with citywide possibility.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 210 grants below total $57,502,726 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $62,014,485 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,511,759 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k60 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k104 grants · $11M
- $250k+26 grants · $45M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DRISCOLL FOODS | $9,505,008 |
| JUSTICE INNOVATION INC | $7,735,406 |
| RISING GROUND INC | $3,376,810 |
| URBAN YOUTH ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL INC | $2,726,274 |
| THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC | $2,495,913 |
| SOMOS HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS INC | $2,190,293 |
| ACE ENDICO CORP | $2,054,423 |
| NEW YORK CITY CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCY | $1,943,358 |
| RISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP | $1,755,906 |
| CENTRAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER | $1,223,602 |
| LIVING REDEMPTION COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $1,198,942 |
| GROWNYC | $1,153,999 |
| INISTITUE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING | $913,174 |
| FUNCTIONAL FAMILY THERAPY (FFT LLC) | $766,149 |
| EVIDENCE BASED ASSOCIATES LLC | $699,534 |
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 (FY17–25, $46.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 22% 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, 67% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 57% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
317 repeat relationships — 131 still active in FY2025, 186 since wound down; 62 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.9M 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
- JIJUSTICE INNOVATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $21M · revenue +24%
- RGRISING GROUND INC5× · 2021–2025 · $12M · revenue +81%
- ESEAST SIDE HOUSE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $9.7M · revenue +44%
Funded once
- MLMartin Luther King Sr Community Resources Collaborativegraduatedone grant, 2023 · $958k · revenue +39% · 62% of their budget
- DADETROIT ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ORGANIZATIONSone grant, 2023 · $831k
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTONone grant, 2022 · $700k · revenue -2%
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.
Uwnyc works with a coalition of trusted partners to unite community power with citywide possibility. together, we meet today's most urgent needs while building transformative solutions for tomorrow - striving for health, opportunity, and…
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To provide a safe, affordable and comprehensive program of high-quality early childhood education, parental and family support, as well as academic enrichment and recreational programs.
Bcs partners with people to overcome obstacles on their pathway toward self-determination (see schedule o).
Cases' mission is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community. we believe…
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Please see schedule o for full mission statement
Nhn promotes racial justice while empowering low and moderate-income new yorkers to fight for, secure and maintain quality housing and build financial assets. nhn is a hud-certfied counseling agency based in brooklyn, new york.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chinese-American Planning Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grow Up Grow Out Junior Grow Up Grow Out Jr 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 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
351 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. 351 of the 658 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JUSTICE INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds RISING GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN YOUTH ALLIANCE INTERNATIONALINC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds RISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP WITH CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds New York Center for Interpersonal Development Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK EDGE INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds P2L PATHWAYS TO LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds BRONXWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Living Redemption Community Development Corp ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds ST NICKS ALLIANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Family Health International Inc ↗
- Who funds Leadership Council for Healthy Communities ↗
- Who funds SOMOS HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds EL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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: Food Bank for New York City · Robin Hood Foundation · City Harvest Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Altman Foundation · New York Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008
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 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.
- Nan Newark Tech World — 19% of income from government
- Center for Supportive Schools Inc — 9% 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.