New York · Nonprofit
La Fuerza Unida Community Development Corporation
La Fuerza Unida Community Development Corporation (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,689,445 to it, the largest being OPPORTUNITY FINANCE NETWORK ($625,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $635k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $713k
What La Fuerza Unida Community Development Corporation does
Mission
Our mission is to promote sustainable economic growth in Long Island by providing low-income entrepreneurs access to capital, business development services and other tools which will create jobs, community wealth, and long-term prosperity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Organization's mission is to promote sustainable economic growth in Long Island by providing minority and women owned enterprises access to capital, business development services and other tools which will create jobs, community wealth and long-term prosperity.
$336,770 spent$614,672 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $336,770.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $837k to $1.6M (+88%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 87% · 2018 81% · 2019 54% · 2020 24% · 2021 40% · 2022 40% · 2023 66% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of La Fuerza Unida Community Development Corporation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Patricia Kielawa
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25k → $83k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of La Fuerza Unida Community Development Corporation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
La Fuerza Unida Community Development Corporation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund La Fuerza Unida Community Development Corporation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 41% · 2021 49% · 2022 38% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
La Fuerza Unida Community Development Corporation draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $400k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
La Fuerza Unida Community Development Corporation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,990 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,990 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding La Fuerza Unida Community Development Corporation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $442k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$442k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like La Fuerza Unida Community Development Corporation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for La Fuerza Unida Community Development Corporation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds La Fuerza Unida Community Development Corporation?
- La Fuerza Unida Community Development Corporation (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,689,445 to it, the largest being OPPORTUNITY FINANCE NETWORK ($625,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does La Fuerza Unida Community Development Corporation have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,689,445 in grants to La Fuerza Unida Community Development Corporation, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of La Fuerza Unida Community Development Corporation?
- OPPORTUNITY FINANCE NETWORK is the largest funder on record, with $625,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like La Fuerza Unida Community Development Corporation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 funders 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. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing