· Community foundation
Fund for the City of New York Inc
The fund for the city of new york was created in 1968 by the ford foundation to be responsive to opportunities to improve the quality of life by working to improve the performance of government and nonprofit organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 33 grants below total $1,822,936 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,975,396 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $152,460 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY | $175,000 |
| YOUTH ACTION PROGRAMS AND HOMES | $150,000 |
| TECH KIDS UNLIMITED INC | $150,000 |
| LEAP INC DBA BROOKLYN WORKFORCE INNOVATIONS | $150,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $150,000 |
| CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES (CEO) | $150,000 |
| MARCY LAB INC | $150,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS | $100,000 |
| NEW SETTLEMENT APARTMENTS | $85,000 |
| FLATBUSH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $85,000 |
| GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER | $85,000 |
| CATHOLIC MIGRATION SERVICES | $85,000 |
| AT THE TABLE INC | $50,000 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUND FOR THE SUNY SPONSORED PROG | $30,000 |
| HARMONY HEALTHCARE LONG ISLANDLONG ISLAND PQHC INC | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Fund for the City of New York Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
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
- CPCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2021 · $1.5M · revenue +45%
- FDFLATBUSH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +42%
- GRGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $925k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- TNThe New School's Center for New York City Affairsone grant, 2017 · $125k
- SMSEAPORT MUSEUM NEW YORKgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +89%
- PPPUBLIC POLICY LAB INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $91k · revenue +147%
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 manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
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…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
Takeroot justice provides legal, participatory research and policy support to strengthen the work of grassroots and community-based groups in new york city to dismantle racial, economic and social oppression.
Please see schedule o for full mission statement
To transform our collective capacity to navigate complex legal systems and support safe, thriving, and engaged immigrant communities.
The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
Nyceec's mission is to deliver financing solutions and advance markets for energy efficiency and clean energy in communities.
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Oad strives to ensure that poor people convicted of felonies receive full and equal access to justice by providing exceptional appellate representation, improving the quality of indigent defense representation through education & training,…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for Public Housing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Edwin Gould Foundation for Children. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
142 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. 142 of the 148 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
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 THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLATBUSH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MIGRATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CRENULATED COMPANY LTD ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ACTION PROGRAMS AND HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds RISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds MARCY LAB INC ↗
- Who funds New York Taxi Workers Alliance ↗
- Who funds LEAP INC ↗
- Who funds TECH KIDS UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds Community Aid and Development Corp ↗
- Who funds Community Voices Heard Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds RED BULL THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds CITY LIVING NY INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON GUILDINC ↗
- Who funds AT THE TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds Bike New York Inc ↗
- Who funds SEAPORT MUSEUM NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN MANHATTAN IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING COURT ANSWERS INC ↗
- Who funds VOCES LATINAS CORPORATION ↗
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: 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
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 Fund for the City of New York Inc 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.
- American Littoral Society — 1% of income from government
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.