Nonprofit & Philanthropies

How data and maps help organizations address disparities in housing, nutrition, health, and beyond.

Use PolicyMap to track neighborhood health and stability, articulate your grant’s impact, and report to key stakeholders. Visualize, measure, and quantify the positive outcomes your organization provides to the community you serve.

PolicyMap began as a small division of the Reinvestment Fund, a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). Our easy-to-use mapping platform grants organizations access to over 75,000 indicators, quickly informing community and housing needs assessments, strengthening grant applications, and targeting strategic interventions. Our vast geographic data warehouse includes data from over 150 authoritative public and private data sources, spanning cross-sector areas including housing, federal program eligibility, nutrition access, demographics, health risks and outcomes, jobs, and more. We curate and standardize the catalog to ensure layers and points are current and accurate.

PolicyMap offers customers a streamlined acquisition approach through participation in government contract vehicles and academic consortia. To purchase through the GSA Schedule or another contract vehicle, learn more.

Good Data, Smart Decisions.

We’ve curated all of the information you need about a place. PolicyMap organizes the data you need by the topics you care about:

Demographics

Population, race and ethnicity, age, sex, languages, foreign born, migration and immigration, households, families, homelessness, elections, religion

Incomes & Spending

Incomes, poverty, tax returns, federal benefits, bankruptcies, housing burdens, consumer spending, medical spending

Housing

Home sales, rents, building permits, residential & commercial vacancy, subsidized households, public housing, LIHTC

Lending

Mortgage originations, government insured loans, refinance loans, mortgages by race, ethnicity, income, bank branches, credit unions, Historic Lending Boundaries

Quality of Life

Crime, broadband access, time to work, heating fuel types, food access, farmers’ markets, environmental hazards, libraries, museums, parks, disaster risk

Economy

Jobs, unemployment, wages, small business, employment, workforce characteristics, oil and gas production

Education

School enrollment, educational attainment, graduation rates, school performance, cost of college, student loan debt, school locations, college locations, head start locations

Health

Infectious diseases, opioid use, chronic conditions, access to health care, health insurance, health risk factors, federal health programs, health facility locations, food access

Federal Guidelines

NMTC eligibility & investments, Opportunity Zones, persistent poverty, CDBG eligibility, housing opportunity index, CRA eligible areas, SBA HUB Zones, Promise Zones

Data available through PolicyMap is authoritative and current. See what’s new.

PolicyMap is an analyst’s best friend; a fusion of easy-to-use mapping with an intuitively organized, comprehensive library of datasets that will save any organization an absurd amount of time and effort.

— Corporate Planning, Performance and Strategy, Neighborworks America

Make maps with your data and ours.

Visualize your organization’s impact or your community’s needs with our exclusive data.

Upload your own data.

Use our unlimited self-service data loader to overlay your address-level data PolicyMap’s social, economic and health data.

Download our data.

Use our data in your research, mapping and presentation tools.

Gain insights with reports.

Instantly run community profiles for your community or a custom area.

Find areas with overlapping criteria.

Analyze your community with multi-layer maps for hot spots, or to identify gaps in service.