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Community Service Society of New York
The COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK (css) has worked with and for new yorkers since 1843 to promote economic opportunity and champion an equitable city and state. We power change through a strategic combination of research, services, and advocacy to make new york more livable for people facing economic insecurity. By expanding…
- $18M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 61
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $16M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $130,693
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,100,780
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 61
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $296M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Community Service Society of New York funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $969k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 65 | $16M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 61 | $12M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $12M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $10M | 95% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $72k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $82k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $126k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $147k | 75% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finger Lakes Community Health Inc | $3,228,280 | 4 | 3% |
| Medicare Rights Center Inc | $3,179,817 | 4 | 21% |
| AIDS Community Resources Inc D/B/A Acr Health | $3,146,226 | 4 | 11% |
| Adirondack Health Institute Inc | $2,711,855 | 4 | 2% |
| Public Policy and Education Fund of New York Inc | $2,470,214 | 4 | 10% |
| Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York Inc | $2,094,898 | 4 | 6% |
| Make the Road New York | $2,018,202 | 5 | 1% |
| Legal Assistance of Western New York Inc | $1,730,986 | 4 | 2% |
| Neighborhood Legal Services Inc | $1,631,382 | 4 | 3% |
| New York Legal Assistance Group Inc | $1,534,729 | 4 | 1% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Community Service Society of New York supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 75 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · New York State Health Fdn D/B/A New York Health Foundation · The New York Bar Foundation · Hunger Solutions New York Inc · The New York Community Trust · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · New York Immigration Coalition Inc · Health Foundation for Western & Central New York · American College of Bankruptcy Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation
How this is measured
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About Community Service Society of New York
- How much does Community Service Society of New York give?
- Community Service Society of New York reported 65 itemized grants totaling $15,724,455, out of $17,738,035 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 61 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Community Service Society of New York fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (44%), Crime & Legal (22%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Community Service Society of New York's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Finger Lakes Community Health Inc ($3.2M), Medicare Rights Center Inc ($3.2M), AIDS Community Resources Inc D/B/A Acr Health ($3.1M).
- Does Community Service Society of New York fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Service Society of New York?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc, Robin Hood Foundation, New York State Health Fdn D/B/A New York Health Foundation.
- Where is Community Service Society of New York based?
- Community Service Society of New York is based in NY.
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