New York City Community Organizations with Geospatial Coordinates

Over 15 columns detail New York City community-based organizations, including their mission, address, and volunteer programs. The dataset is maintained by data.cityofnewyork.us and was last updated in January 2024. It provides structured information on nonprofit entities and their civic activities across the city's boroughs.

Use Cases

• Map organization density per Borough and Community Board using Latitude and Longitude coordinates.
• Analyze the correlation between Census Tract and the types of services described in the Mission field.
• Build a search tool for Volunteer Program descriptions filtered by Council District or Postcode.
• Identify organizations with specific service missions by parsing the Organization name and Mission columns.
• Join with demographic data using NTA or BBL identifiers to study community needs.

Strengths

• Contains precise geospatial identifiers including Latitude, Longitude, BIN, and BBL.
• Includes multiple address fields (Street Address, 2nd Address) and administrative boundaries (Borough, Council District).
• Provides descriptive fields for Mission and Volunteer Program description.

Limitations

• Sample data is unavailable, preventing assessment of data completeness and value distribution.
• The total number of rows (organizations) is unknown, making it difficult to gauge dataset scale.
• Potential for missing or outdated information in fields like website or Volunteer Program description.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofnewyork.us

Freshness

Last updated on 2024-01-25.

Geography

New York City, New York, USA