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New York · Nonprofit
DEFYING LEGAL GRAVITY (New York) is funded by 2 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $51,000 in grants to it, the largest being SACKS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DEFYING LEGAL GRAVITY is better cushioned than half of the 4,518 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,518 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
$1k from 1 funders in 2024, up from $25k and 1 in 2021.
From the IRS filings of DEFYING LEGAL GRAVITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
DEFYING LEGAL GRAVITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2024 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
DEFYING LEGAL GRAVITY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 2funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. view filing