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Van Alen Institute Projects in Public Architecture
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What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k1 grant · $46k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BED-STUY GATEWAY BID | $100,000 |
| URBAN DESIGN FORUM | $45,905 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 90% of your 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 +61% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- BSBEDFORD STUYVESANT GATEWAY DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $379k · revenue +43%
- 8S82nd Street District Management Association Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $109k · revenue +8%
- NBNorthwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $109k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $79k
- AAASIAN AMERICANS FOR EQUALITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +38%
- BKBANANA KELLY COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONINCone grant, 2021 · $24k · revenue +24%
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 Organization is commited to the preservation, development, and management of affordable housing and home ownership opportunities:community and economic development initiative and human services to effect social change in central…
Develop and provide affordable housing
To improve neighborhood conditions in the west village business improvement district and to enhance the cleanliness, safety and enjoyment of the district.
Brooklyn Heights Association, Inc (BHA) is a Not-For-Profit organization, founded in 1910 and later incorporated in the state of New York in 1948. BHA's primary purpose is the preservation, protection and enhancement of the quality of life…
Provide plants, trees, lighting, fountain and general clean up to public areas in bronxville, ny for the benefit of the entire community.
Economic development
The organization provides supplemental sanitation, streetscape improvement, visitor information and commercial support services to property owners, businesses and residents of an area established as a business improvement district.
Provide assistance to downtown brooklyn ny residents. Created to enhance quality of life in NYC and Brooklyn NY promotes a healthier enviornment through community outreach promote developed in the community benefits agreement and NETS…
The organization provides supplemental sanitation, public safety, streetscape improvement, visitor information and commercial support services to property owners, businesses and residents of an area established as a business improvement…
To promote the growth of local businesses located in the business improvement district and enhance the overall appearance of the business community.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
The corporation is organized exclusively for the purpose of perserving and creating, on a non-profit basis, housing projects for persons of low and moderate income. in addition to promoting affordable housing opportunities, it seeks to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is 82nd Street District Management Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 11 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 BEDFORD STUYVESANT GATEWAY DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation ↗
- Who funds 82nd Street District Management Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEAGUE OF THE HEIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds CREATE IN CHINATOWN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORUM FOR URBAN DESIGN ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS FOR EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds BANANA KELLY COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
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: Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · The Ford Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Van Alen Institute Projects in Public Architecture 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.
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.