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Fund for the City of New York Inc
The fund for the city of new york was created in 1968 to be responsive to opportunities to improve the quality of life for all new yorkers, and for people and communities beyond new york, by working to improve the performance of government and nonprofit organizations.
- $4.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.7M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,425,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 50
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $208M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Fund for the City of New York Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $636k 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 | 30 | $2.0M | 60% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $1.7M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $1.8M | 43% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $1.6M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $1.5M | 63% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $1.8M | 44% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $1.6M | 26% |
| FY2018 | 50 | $2.7M | 28% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Parks Foundation Inc | $1,488,745 | 4 | 4% |
| Flatbush Development Corporation | $1,269,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Goddard Riverside Community Center | $924,750 | 8 | 1% |
| Catholic Migration Services Inc | $919,000 | 8 | 3% |
| New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc | $850,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Natural Areas Conservancy Inc | $694,500 | 4 | 7% |
| The Crenulated Company Ltd | $630,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc | $577,250 | 7 | 4% |
| The Research Foundation for The State University of New York | $343,680 | 6 | 0% |
| Billion Oyster Project Inc | $280,000 | 2 | 5% |
Show all 164 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Fund for the City of New York Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 141 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: Pinkerton Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Hispanic Federation Inc · New York Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · United Way of New York City
How this is measured
About Fund for the City of New York Inc
- How much does Fund for the City of New York Inc give?
- Fund for the City of New York Inc reported 35 itemized grants totaling $3,736,169, out of $3,951,031 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fund for the City of New York Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Crime & Legal (16%), Environment (7%).
- Who are Fund for the City of New York Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City Parks Foundation Inc ($1.5M), Flatbush Development Corporation ($1.3M), Goddard Riverside Community Center ($925k).
- Does Fund for the City of New York Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fund for the City of New York Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pinkerton Foundation, The Ford Foundation, Robin Hood Foundation.
- Where is Fund for the City of New York Inc based?
- Fund for the City of New York Inc is based in NY.
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