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New York · Nonprofit
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION (New York) is funded by 305 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $495,888,596 in grants to it, the largest being NATIONAL EQUITY FUND INC ($114,360,000). 167 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 35 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 35 community improvement nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 21%. Grants only — government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (15% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
$6.8M from 12 funders in 2025, up from $21M and 39 in 2017.
79 of 305 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 305 funders by total. Association, not causation.
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 37% · 2019 37% · 2020 20% · 2021 37% · 2022 21% · 2023 30% · 2024 24% · 2025 29% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
33% of LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year.
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside New York — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 35 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. Your 305 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
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.
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $314.5M on record — $295.2M federal, $19.3M state.
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.
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.
88% of spending goes to programs.
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 28 states
Part of a family of 343 related entities
Every figure is 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 305funders 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