· Public charity
Food Bank for New York City
Food bank for nyc has been the city's major hunger-relief organization driven by our mission to empower every new yorker to achieve food security for good.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 62 grants below total $1,620,463 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $127,238,988 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $125,618,525 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k49 grants · $196k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $116k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY | $243,750 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK (CCCS) | $243,691 |
| NEW DIRECTION SERVICES INC | $170,751 |
| COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC | $165,000 |
| METROPOLITAN NY COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY | $142,500 |
| IRIS HOUSE A CENTER FOR WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV INC | $115,101 |
| HARVEST HOME FARMER'S MARKET INC | $113,750 |
| GAY MENS HEALTH CRISIS INC | $113,750 |
| TRINITYS SERVICES AND FOOD FOR THE HOMELESS INC | $35,000 |
| THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC | $35,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC | $21,990 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICESINC | $13,000 |
| WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE INC | $11,130 |
| LIFE TOGETHER WORKS INC | $9,800 |
| HOLY INNOCENT RC CHURCH | $9,750 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $10.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
255 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 200 since wound down; 7 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY4× · 2020–2024 · $6.2M · revenue +42%
- NYNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +103%
- TRTHE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +113%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES NEIGNBORHOOD SERVICES INCone grant, 2021 · $488k
- ECEVANGEL CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $296k · revenue -24%
- GCGRAND CENTRAL FOOD PROGRAM3× · 2018–2021 · $250k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide short term, transitional and permanent housing, homelessness prevention, personalized case management, mental health care, on-site nursing, vocational training, substance abuse counseling, recreational activities and other vital…
To provide a safe, affordable and comprehensive program of high-quality early childhood education, parental and family support, as well as academic enrichment and recreational programs.
diaspora community services is a social support service agency that empowers low income families and individuals to maximize their abilities to overcome obstacles to their well-being and self-sufficiency.
City relief provides fresh, nutritious meals and essential care items to individuals in need; as well as creating individualized action plans including connections to programs,offering support and encouragement.
Founded in 1991, community housing innovations, inc. (chi) is a not-for-profit organization serving several new york counties. chi's mission is to provide housing and human services that support social and economic independence. chi's…
Ywca is dedicated to empowering women and promoting peace, health, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
To assist and give aid to low-income and minority people in new york city, new york, including, but not limited to providing services for, and advocating on behalf of, new yorkers living in public housing.
Lantern community services' mission is to champion the independence and well-being of people who are impacted by or threatened with homelessness.
Sebco development inc. is a non profit community based organization committed to developing and maintaining affordable and safe housing in the city of new york. sebco strives to continually provide well maintained, secure housing along…
Since 1972, under 21, d.b.a. covenant house new york (chny) has been working with one of new york city's most vulnerable populations - youth experiencing homelessness, age 16-24, and their dependent children. chny provides young people…
Jewish home of central new york senior apartment's mission is to assure maximum independence and dignity offering a broad range of the highest quality of health, residential and community services. jewish home of central new york senior…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Bronx Senior Citizens Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ttee St Peters Prot Epis Church Uw. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
333 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 333 of the 481 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOSPITALITY INC ↗
- Who funds PART OF THE SOLUTION ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc ↗
- Who funds New Direction Services Inc ↗
- Who funds MASBIA OF BORO PARK ↗
- Who funds IRIS HOUSE - A CENTER FOR WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV INC ↗
- Who funds United Bronx Parents Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBA INC ↗
- Who funds GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH ACTION OF STATEN ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MASBIA OF FLATBUSH ↗
- Who funds MASBIA OF QUEENS ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOME FARMER'S MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds Harding Ford Vision Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN NEW YORK SECTION ↗
- Who funds ELMCOR YOUTH & ADULT ACTIVITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY'S SERVICES AND FOOD FOR THE HOMELESSINC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR FURTHERANCE OF JEWISH EDUCATION AND AFFILLIATES ↗
- Who funds CHRIST DISCIPLES INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: City Harvest Inc · United Way of New York City · Robin Hood Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Affinity Legacy Inc · Expanded Schools Inc · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Research Foundation of the City University of New York · The United Neighborhood Houses of New York Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Food Bank for New York City funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.