· Public charity
Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc
To build power among low-income people affected by hiv/aids, the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness in order to create healthy and just communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $189k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $644k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VOCAL-NY ACTION FUND INC | $100,000 |
| NY COMMUNITIES FOR CHANGE | $95,000 |
| NEW YORK COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FUND INC | $88,350 |
| PUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK | $88,350 |
| COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD | $88,350 |
| THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $66,960 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NY | $66,960 |
| APPALSHOP INC | $50,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY | $35,000 |
| TIDES CENTER | $35,000 |
| NEIGHBORS TOGETHER CORPORATION | $35,000 |
| KENTUCKY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY | $25,000 |
| KENTUCKY HARM REDUCTION COALITION | $25,000 |
| NEW YORKERS DEFENDING DEMOCRACY | $14,000 |
| MAKE THE ROAD NY | $10,041 |
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 (FY22–24, $340k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 94% 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k 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
- CSCOMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK3× · 2022–2024 · $202k · revenue +53%
- TLTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY2× · 2023–2024 · $117k · revenue +17%
- AIAPPALSHOP INC2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- HSHester Street Collaborative Incone grant, 2021 · $181k · revenue -39%
- WOWOODSIDE ON THE MOVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +59%
- MNMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTYone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +6%
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.
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…
Our mission is to promote and protect affordable homeownership in new york so that middle- and working-class families are able to build strong, thriving communities.
Ncjw ny turns progressive ideals into action, impacting 8,000 new yorkers annually: we provide direct services to support and empower our neighbors in need today - people from all walks of life and all racial and religious backgrounds.…
Housing partnership development corporation functions to provide available low and moderate cost housing in the new york metro area through new housing production, preservation, rehabilitation, as well as the revitalization and…
Support housing cooperatives and condominiums
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…
Nyceec's mission is to deliver financing solutions and advance markets for energy efficiency and clean energy in communities.
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.
NeighborWorks Rochester collaborates with people and partners to strengthen, sustain and promote city neighborhoods. Our services are available to a wide spectrum of the community, including existing and potential homeowners, tenants and…
Legal services nyc-bronx is a not-for-profit corporation organized for the purposes of providing legal assistance to indigent persons in the new york city area in noncriminal proceedings or matters.
Provide advocacy for lower and working class new yorkers
Worker Justice Center of New York, Inc. (WJCNY) pusues juistice for those denied hian rights, with a focus on agricultural and other low-wage workers, through legal representation, community empowerment and advocacy for institutional…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metro Louisville Harm Reduction Task Force. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 23 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 Community Voices Heard Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Hester Street Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS TOGETHER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VOCAL-NY ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds APPALSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds New York Communities For Change Inc ↗
- Who funds St Joseph's House of Hospitality ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds METRO LOUISVILLE HARM REDUCTION TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds WOODSIDE ON THE MOVE INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
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: New York Foundation · North Star Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Make the Road New York · New Venture Fund · Public Policy and Education Fund of New York Inc · West Harlem Environmental Action Inc · People's Action Institute · The Scherman Foundation Inc · Working Families Organization Inc · Mertz Gilmore 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 organization Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc 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.
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