· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $47k
- $50k–250k41 grants · $4.4M
- $250k+22 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER | $1,100,780 |
| FINGER LAKES MIGRANT HEALTH CARE PROJECT INC | $1,049,591 |
| ADIRONDACK HEALTH INSTITUTE INC | $817,108 |
| MAKE THE ROAD NY | $707,338 |
| PUBLIC POLICY & EDUCATION FUND | $689,474 |
| AIDS COMMUNITY RESOURCE | $544,598 |
| CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED NY | $512,309 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC | $503,688 |
| LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF WESTERN NY | $491,405 |
| WESTCHESTER DISABLED ON THE MOVE | $444,846 |
| EMPIRE JUSTICE CENTER | $439,875 |
| WESTERN NEW YORK INDEPENDENT LIVING INC | $439,551 |
| NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP | $430,479 |
| SOUTHERN ADIRONDACK INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER | $405,839 |
| HEALTH & WELFARE COUNCIL OF LI INC | $403,583 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $9.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
67 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $781k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MRMEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC4× · 2022–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +31%
- ACAIDS COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC D/B/A ACR HEALTH4× · 2022–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +12%
- CFCENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED IN NEW YORK INC4× · 2022–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +31%
Funded once
- UJURBAN JUSTICE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $105k · revenue +30%
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +24%- TITHE INNER CIRCLE OF NEW YORK POLITICAL JOURNALISTS INC D/B/A INNER CIRCLEone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -832%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Home care services (under contract with various mco organizations)
Ny statewide plan for independent living responsible for the joint development, monitoring and evaluation of the three year new york statewide plan for independent living.
Advance care alliance of new york, inc. (acany) is dedicated to providing the support and services for you or your loved one with an intellectual or developmental disability need to lead an active, healthy, and fulfilling life. acany was…
Accesscny offers personcentered services that empower individuals of all ages and abilities to reach their full potential as part of our shared community. services are provided with dedication, compassion, innovation, and commitment. the…
Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…
To promote and enhance the quality and accessibility of health care and support at home.
Provide individual legal assistance, information referral, and legal advocacy to individuals with disabilities. drny is the designated protection and advocacy system for persons with disabilities in new york.
The agency operates community residences and supported housing programs and provides other outpatient, vocational rehabilitation & clinical services to individuals with mental illness.
To empower all people with disabilities while creating an inclusive society through the elimination of social and architectural barriers.
Legal services nyc-bronx is a not-for-profit corporation organized for the purposes of providing legal assistance to indigent persons in the new york city area in noncriminal proceedings or matters.
Legal services of central new york (lscny) is a 501c3 non-profit law firm that helps people and communities in central new york change law, policy, and systems to promote equity and create pathways out of poverty.
Leadingage new york represents not-for-profit, mission-driven and public continuing care providers, including nursing homes, senior housing, adult care facilities, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living and community…
How this is measured
80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 82 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FINGER LAKES COMMUNITY HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AIDS COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC D/B/A ACR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK HEALTH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED IN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER DISABLED ON THE MOVE INC ↗
- Who funds GLENS FALLS INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY CAPITAL DISTRICT INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Legal Services of Long Island ↗
- Who funds SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW YORK INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN TIER INDEPENDENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CITY LIMITS NEWS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN SERVICES COALITION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH AND WELFARE COUNCIL OF LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds COORDINATED CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN HEALTH PLAN INC ↗
- Who funds BRONXWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS FOR EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION A ↗
- Who funds Action for Older Persons Inc ↗
- Who funds EMERALD ISLE IMMIGRATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds KOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH ACTION OF STATEN ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES OF CORTLAND COUNTY INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Community Service Society of New York funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Service Society of New York. Bigger dots raise more.
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