21ST Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund
New York, NY · EIN 31-1593055. Reported 83 grants totalling $934,352 to 40 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. 21ST Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $9,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $12,500; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $69,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition | New York, NY | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Laborartsorg | New York, NY | $75,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Migration Policy Institute | Washington, DC | $73,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Working Theater | New York, NY | $59,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Concerts in Motion Inc | New York, NY | $54,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Probononet | New York, NY | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Playwrights Horizon | New York, NY | $45,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Washington Square Legal Services Inc | New York, NY | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Tenement Museum | New York, NY | $34,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Friends of Givat Haviva | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Garment Workers Center | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| International Rescue Committee | New York, NY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| St Patrick's Church | Nashua, NH | $24,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Accountability Research Ctr - American University School of Intl Service | Washington, DC | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Penn South Social Services Inc | New York, NY | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fordham University - Dept of History | Bronx, NY | $20,102 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gaudenzia Foundation Inc | Norristown, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| From the Heart Productions | Oxnard, CA | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Heartland Media Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Kindling Group Nfp | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New York Immigration Coalition | New York, NY | $13,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Soroka Medical Center | Scarsdale, NY | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Garment Workers Center | New York, NY | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Resources for Human Development | Philadelphia, PA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fordham University History Department | Bronx, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jewish Labor Committee | New York, NY | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New Immigrant Community Empowerment Inc | Queens, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs | Calabasas, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Student Labor Solidarity - Social Responsibility Network | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Third World Newsreel | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Asian American Federation | New York, NY | $8,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Council on Foreign Relations | New York, NY | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Center for Migration Studies | New York, NY | $5,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cornell University Press | Ithaca, NY | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Irvington Historical Society | Irvington, NY | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Nyu Press | New York, NY | $3,750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| CUNY School of Labor & Urban Studies Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Freedom House | New York, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Museum at Eldridge Street | New York, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Immigrant Justice Corps | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
24 of 40 (60%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 57%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Migration Policy Institute
SUPPORT RESEARCH, DATA ANALYSIS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE FEDERAL AND STATE/LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT; STREAMLINE PROCEDURES FOR PROCESSING ASYLUM CLAIMS AT THE US SOUTHERN BORDER; AND DEVELOP PROPOSALS THAT RECONCILE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES. - Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition
TO BUILD A PERMANENT PUBLIC MEMORIAL TO THOSE WHO PERISHED IN THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE OF 1911 - Laborartsorg
TO SUPPORT THE ANNUAL CLARA LEMICH AWARDS, WHICH HONOR WOMEN WHO HAVE SPENT THEIR LIVES WORKING FOR THE GREATER GOOD AND TO INSPIRE OTHERS TO FOLLOW IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS. AND TO PROMOTE AND COORDINATE EVENTS RELATED TO THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION OF THE 1982 GARMENT WORKERS' STRIKES AND RALLIES IN NEW YORK CITY'S CHINATOWN. - Concerts in Motion Inc
TO HELP PROVIDE A SERIES OF FORTY CONCERTS TO LOW INCOME HOMEBOUND ADULTS INCLUDING RETIRED GARMENT WORKERS AND VETERANS, IN BOTH VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON FORMATS THROUGH A NETWORK OF OVER 200 AGENCIES. MUSIC IS BROUGHT TO THESE POPULATIONS RESIDING IN SENIOR CENTERS OR OTHER FACILITIES IN NEW YORK CITY NEIGHBORHOODS. - Probononet
TO SUPPORT IRECLAMO!, AN INNOVATIVE DIGITAL TOOL THAT EMPOWERS LOW-WAGE WORKERS AND WORKER ADVOCATES TO IDENTIFY WAGE THEFT AND FILE CLAIMS TO RECOUP LOST WAGES - Friends of Givat Haviva
TO SUPPORT GIVAT HAVIVA'S HEBREW LANGUAGE ENRICHMENT PROGRAM "PLACING JEWISH TEACHERS IN ARAB MIDDLE SCHOOLS". THE VISION IS TO PROMOTE LINGUISTICALLY AND CULTURAL INTEGRATED CITIZENSHIP THAT PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADVANCEMENT IN SOCIETY AND THE JOB MARKET.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 50 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 24 | $234,500 | $7,750 |
| 2022 | 19 | $250,750 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 20 | $240,852 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 20 | $208,250 | $9,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
75% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $9,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from 21ST Century Ilgwu Heritage Fund's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 275 Seventh Avenue 7TH Fl, New York, NY, 10001. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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