How much does Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc give?

Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc reported 85 grants totaling $4,854,081 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 87 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (50%), Employment (28%), Philanthropy (8%).

Who are Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City ($6.8M), City of Chicago ($4.7M), City and County of San Francisco ($2.5M).

Does Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National League of Cities Institute Inc, National Recreation and Park Association, The Recycling Partnership Inc.

Where is Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc based?

Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc is based in NY.

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Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc

See schedule othe cfe fund's mission is to leverage municipal engagement to improve the financial stability of households by embedding financial empowerment strategies into local government infrastructure. The cfe fund focuses programmatic, research, and policy efforts towards designing, embedding, and replicating financial empowerment…

$4.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 85
Grants FY2025: 87
Organizations funded FY2024: 41%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $280,000
Organizations funded a year: 41 to 87; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 32
Total assets, FY2025: $27M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEmploymentHousing & ShelterEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	66	$4.8M	33%
FY2024	87	$4.4M	41%
FY2023	41	$2.7M	22%
FY2022	63	$5.9M	25%
FY2021	86	$9.2M	34%
FY2020	52	$5.7M	29%
FY2019	68	$7.5M	68%
FY2018	42	$7.3M	71%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$27MEmployment$15MPhilanthropy$4.4MYouth Development$2.7MPublic Benefit$1.5MHuman Services$1.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$750kHousing & Shelter$744kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City	$6,806,500	9	3%
City of Chicago	$4,650,084	7	n/a
City and County of San Francisco	$2,450,000	6	n/a
City of Miami	$1,792,500	7	n/a
The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles	$1,665,000	7	9%
City of Rochester	$1,045,000	6	n/a
DC Public Schools	$947,750	4	n/a
City of Sacramento	$825,000	6	n/a
The City of Los Angeles Workforce Development Board	$769,897	2	65%
City of Dallas	$700,000	6	n/a

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All grantees of Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City	$6,806,500	9	3%
City of Chicago	$4,650,084	7	n/a
City and County of San Francisco	$2,450,000	6	n/a
City of Miami	$1,792,500	7	n/a
The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles	$1,665,000	7	9%
City of Rochester	$1,045,000	6	n/a
DC Public Schools	$947,750	4	n/a
City of Sacramento	$825,000	6	n/a
The City of Los Angeles Workforce Development Board	$769,897	2	65%
City of Dallas	$700,000	6	n/a
Economic Awareness Council	$696,390	8	42%
City of Akron	$660,000	5	n/a
DC Public Education Fund	$650,000	5	2%
City of Tulsa	$650,000	7	n/a
Polk County Iowa	$590,000	5	n/a
City of Jackson Tn	$565,000	5	n/a
Neighborhood Allies Inc	$560,000	5	3%
County Of Greenville	$555,000	7	n/a
City of Gaithersburg	$555,000	7	n/a
Columbus Public Health	$554,000	5	n/a
Louisville Zoological Gardens	$550,000	5	n/a
City of Shreveport	$545,000	7	n/a
City of Albuquerque	$515,000	6	n/a
City of Aurora Illinois	$500,000	5	n/a
MyPath	$477,603	5	6%
Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation	$431,500	6	0%
City of Pueblo	$425,000	3	n/a
City of Paterson Health Dept	$420,000	4	n/a
City of Detroit	$410,225	8	n/a
Earn Inc	$395,000	4	3%
City of Roanoke Va	$380,000	5	n/a
City of Milwaukee	$360,000	4	n/a
Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis	$360,000	4	6%
City of Saint Paul	$353,000	5	n/a
Orange County Government Fl	$350,000	2	n/a
Baltimore Civic Fund Inc	$345,000	3	1%
City of Racine	$340,000	5	n/a
United Way of Central New York Inc	$339,302	2	2%
County of Wayne Michigan	$337,275	1	n/a
Boston Local Development Corporation	$337,000	5	10%
Metro Nashville Parks and Recreatio	$335,000	5	n/a
City of Lansing	$330,000	4	n/a
New Haven Free Public Library	$320,000	4	n/a
City of Denver Colorado	$320,000	2	n/a
City of Philadelphia	$318,000	5	n/a
Little Rock Zoological Garden	$315,000	3	n/a
Stl Youth Jobs	$300,000	3	8%
Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc	$295,000	5	6%
Equal Justice Works	$280,000	1	n/a
City of Madison Parks Division	$265,000	4	n/a
City of Pittsburgh	$260,000	3	n/a
Invest Newark a New Jersey Nonprofit Corp	$256,000	1	9%
United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc	$255,000	4	0%
City of Charleston South Carolina	$245,000	3	n/a
Connect Detroit	$238,500	5	1%
City of Cleveland	$235,000	3	n/a
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency	$230,000	3	n/a
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc	$225,000	4	0%
City of South Bend	$220,000	2	n/a
Washtenaw County Office of Community and Economic Developement	$210,000	4	n/a
United Way Suncoast Inc	$207,500	4	0%
Allegheny County Department of Human Services	$200,000	2	n/a
County of Hawaii (Finance Director)	$195,275	4	n/a
Philadelphia Youth Network Inc	$190,000	5	0%
Goodwill Industries of North Floridainc	$185,000	3	0%
Connecticut Association for Human Services Inc	$175,000	5	7%
Covenant Community Capital Corporation	$170,000	5	2%
City of Houston	$170,000	2	n/a
City of St Louis	$170,000	2	n/a
City of Tempe	$165,000	2	n/a
Work2future Foundation	$160,000	6	38%
Mayor & City Council of Baltimore	$156,000	5	n/a
City of San Antonio	$155,000	2	n/a
City of Gainesville	$150,000	1	n/a
Urban Economic Development Association of Wisconsin Inc	$146,000	4	20%
Enrichmond Foundation	$140,000	3	1%
Rise Memphis Inc	$133,000	6	5%
City of Atlanta	$130,000	2	n/a
Redevelopment Agency	$125,000	1	n/a
Jefferson County Elderly Services	$120,000	2	n/a
City of Charlotte	$120,000	2	n/a
Neighborhood Partnership Housing Services Inc	$115,000	2	2%
United Way of Pueblo County Colorado Inc	$115,000	2	5%
United Way of Henry County & Martinsville	$115,000	2	4%
United Way of the Capital Area Inc	$115,000	2	4%
Greater Waco Collective Impact Initiative	$110,000	2	4%
Baltimore County Government	$102,000	1	n/a
City of Kansas City Missouri	$100,000	1	n/a
City of Birmingham	$100,000	1	n/a
City of Jacksonville - Adult Services Division	$100,000	1	n/a
City of Memphis	$100,000	1	n/a
Springfield Public Library	$100,000	1	n/a
The City of Savannah	$100,000	1	n/a
Philanthropy New York Inc	$100,000	4	1%
City of St Petersburg Florida	$100,000	1	n/a
Family Counseling Center of Mobile Inc	$100,000	2	n/a
Florida Prosperity Partnership Inc	$100,000	2	20%
Municipality of Anchorage	$100,000	2	n/a
South Sound Outreach Services	$100,000	2	7%
Milwaukee County Zoo	$100,000	1	n/a
United Way of Summit and Medina	$100,000	2	1%
Virginia Beach City Public Schools	$99,347	5	n/a
City of Norfolk	$95,000	2	n/a
City of Cincinnati	$95,000	2	n/a
Leon County Supervisor of Elections	$95,000	2	n/a
United Way of Greater Rochester Inc	$90,000	1	3%
Oklahoma Native Assets Coalition Inc	$90,000	1	21%
Dress for Success Phoenix	$90,000	1	4%
Prosperity Works	$90,000	1	15%
Kentucky Financial Empowerment Foundation	$90,000	1	80%
United Way of Northeast Louisiana Inc	$82,526	1	2%
Cny Works Inc	$82,500	1	2%
Fremont Family Resource Center Corporation	$80,000	1	9%
Heartland Human Care Services Inc	$80,000	1	0%
County of Los Angeles California	$80,000	1	n/a
Enterprise Community Partners Inc	$80,000	3	0%
City of Brunswick Ga	$80,000	1	n/a
County of Riverside Community Health Agency	$80,000	1	n/a
City of Hartford	$80,000	1	n/a
City of Topeka	$80,000	1	n/a
Quad County Urban League Inc	$75,000	2	1%
New Workforce Directions Inc	$75,000	2	3%
City of Rocky Mount	$75,000	1	n/a
City of Buffalo	$75,000	1	n/a
City of Mobile	$75,000	1	n/a
City of Monroe	$75,000	1	n/a
City of Indianapolis Dept Of Parks & Recreation	$75,000	1	n/a
City of Oakland OPRYD	$62,500	1	n/a
Ser-Jobs for Progress of the Texas Gulf Coast Inc	$60,000	2	2%
International Rescue Committee INC	$60,000	1	0%
The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center	$60,000	3	0%
Community Development Corporation of Brownsville Dba Come Dream Come Build	$53,675	1	0%
City of Syracuse	$52,500	2	n/a
United Way of the Plains Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Parachute Credit Counseling Inc	$50,000	2	1%
United Way of Greater St Louis Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Las Vegas Valley Interfaith Sponsoring Committee	$50,000	2	14%
The Ida and Asset Building Collaborative of North Carolina	$50,000	2	14%
Credit & Homeownership Empowerment Services	$50,000	2	1%
Rochesterworks Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Alabama Asset Building Coalition	$50,000	2	50%
Our House Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Towards Employment Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Lad Lake Inc	$45,000	1	0%
Goodwill Industries - Manasota Inc	$40,000	1	0%
The Hope Program Inc	$40,000	1	1%
Spartanburg County	$37,500	2	n/a
United Way of Northern California	$35,000	1	0%
City of Montgomery	$35,000	2	n/a
Junior Achievement of Central Maryland Inc	$35,000	1	1%
United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc	$30,000	1	2%
Human Resources Agency of New Britain Inc	$30,000	1	0%
Boulder Community Housing Corporation Inc	$30,000	2	n/a
City of Brownsville	$26,325	1	n/a
Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Matrix Human Services	$25,000	1	0%
Southwest Economic Solutions Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Branches Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Hennepin County Library	$25,000	1	n/a
United Way of the Bluegrass Inc	$25,000	1	1%
City of Allentown	$25,000	1	n/a
Wealth Watchers Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
United Community Housing Coalition	$25,000	1	1%
Advancing Connecticut Together Inc	$25,000	1	0%
United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley	$25,000	1	0%
The Capital City Chamber of Commerce	$25,000	1	10%
United Way of Southeast Louisiana	$25,000	1	0%
Washington Appleseed	$25,000	1	n/a
United Way of San Diego County	$25,000	1	0%
Financial Education of Minnesota	$25,000	1	26%
Aaa Fair Credit Foundation	$25,000	1	12%
Louisville Asset Building Coalition Inc	$25,000	1	10%
Financial Empowerment Network	$25,000	1	5%
United Way of Northwest Louisiana	$25,000	1	1%
Salt Lake Neighborhood Housing Services DBA Neighborworks Salt Lake	$25,000	1	0%
City of Evanston	$20,000	1	n/a
United Way of the Greater Capital Region	$20,000	1	0%
Employ Milwaukee Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Bronxworks Inc	$20,000	1	0%
City of Salinas-Sprung Shelter Services Program	$20,000	1	n/a
City of Santa Fe	$20,000	1	n/a
Project for Pride in Living Inc	$20,000	1	0%
City of Jackson Senior Services Division	$20,000	1	n/a
Jersey City Health Dept	$20,000	1	n/a
The Fund for Public Schools Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Waco-McLennan County Public Health District	$20,000	1	n/a
Director of Finance Howard County	$20,000	1	n/a
Alliance of Community Assistance Ministries Inc	$20,000	1	0%
City of Fort Worth	$20,000	1	n/a
East River Development Alliance Inc	$20,000	1	0%
201 Main Street Real Estate Corp	$20,000	1	n/a
Brooklyn Bridge Alliance for Youth	$20,000	1	n/a
City of Stamford	$20,000	1	n/a
City of Raleigh	$20,000	1	n/a
Adrc of Racine County	$20,000	1	n/a
Step Up Savannah Inc	$20,000	1	3%
Sarasota County Bocc	$20,000	1	n/a
El Paso Museum of Art	$20,000	1	n/a
City of Tallahassee	$20,000	1	n/a
Young Voices	$20,000	1	n/a
City of Clarksville Tn	$20,000	1	n/a
Bridgeyear	$20,000	1	1%
United Way of Greenville County Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Summit County Children Services	$20,000	1	n/a
The Portland Development Commission	$20,000	1	n/a
City of Tucson	$20,000	1	n/a
Cuyahoga County Office of Early Childhood	$20,000	1	n/a
City of South San Francisco	$20,000	1	n/a
City of New Orleans - Nopd	$20,000	1	n/a
Miami Dade Community Action & Human Services	$20,000	1	n/a
City of Chattanooga	$18,000	2	n/a
Ladder Up (F/K/A City-Wide Tax Assistance Program)	$17,500	1	1%
United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc	$15,000	1	0%
After School Matters Inc	$12,500	1	0%
National Collaborative for the Digital Economy	$10,000	1	1%
Innovative Changes	$10,000	1	4%
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The Mayor's Fund for Philadelphia	$10,000	1	n/a
Robert Morris University	$10,000	1	0%
People's Community Action Corporation	$10,000	1	0%
The United Way of Southeast Ms Inc	$10,000	1	1%
United Way of Denton County Inc	$10,000	1	0%
United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc	$10,000	1	0%
United Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/A United Way of Greater Newark	$8,000	1	0%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($248k), not named here.

Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 108 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 108.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National League of Cities Institute IncDC84.4× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc

How much does Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc give?: Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc reported 85 grants totaling $4,854,081 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 87 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (50%), Employment (28%), Philanthropy (8%).
Who are Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City ($6.8M), City of Chicago ($4.7M), City and County of San Francisco ($2.5M).
Does Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National League of Cities Institute Inc, National Recreation and Park Association, The Recycling Partnership Inc.
Where is Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc based?: Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc is based in NY.