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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 FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$10.0MCrime & Legal$3.8MEnvironment$1.7MRecreation & Sports$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.4MHuman Services$1.2MArts & Culture$1.1MEducation$929kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 35 grants below total $3,736,169, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,951,031 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $214,862 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $436k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $730k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.5M
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$208M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$1,425,000
NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC$850,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$275,000
NEW SETTLEMENT APARTMENTS$170,000
FLATBUSH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$170,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$150,000
RESOURCE MEDIA$140,000
CENTRAL AMERICAN REFUGEE CENTER$50,228
CORO NEW YORK LEADERSHIP CENTER$50,000
THE RESEARCH FOUND FOR THE SUNY SPONSORED PROG$40,000
FOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS$33,400
IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER$32,500
SUN RIVER HEALTH$28,931
LONG ISLAND PQHC INC$26,300
THE DOOR$25,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 10%Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island co The Coney Island Anti-: $15k → 20%MANO AMIGA SM: $10k → 10%LAREDO IMMIGRANT ALLIANCE: $10k → 21%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $33k → 10%CENTRAL AMERICAN REFUGEE CENTER: $50k → 6%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC: $7k → 9%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $17k → 10%DETENTION WATCH NETWORK: $8k → 14%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $14k → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $9k → 10%ALLEN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER INC: $5k → 13%DETENTION WATCH NETWORK: $6k → 14%THE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE: $55k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $89k → 17%Safe Horizon: $45k → 17%RISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $75k → 20%RISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $75k → 20%RISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $50k → 20%ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $53k → 20%Arab American Association of New York: $25k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $55k → 20%Red Hook Initiative: $31k → 20%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%THE BRIDGE: $10k → 17%YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK INC: $10k → 17%CITY LIVING NY: $100k → 20%WARM INC: $5k → 17%CITY LIVING NY: $10k → 20%NEW YORK TAXI WORKERS ALLIANCE: $100k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $107k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $73k → 17%Hetrick-Martin Institute: $60k → 17%NEW YORK TAXI WORKERS ALLIANCE: $50k → 17%Hudson Guild: $35k → 17%PEOPLE IN NEED: $5k → 20%COUNCIL OF PEOPLES ORGANIZATION: $5k → 20%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $24k → 17%THE COMMITTEE FOR HISPANIC CHILDREN AND FAM (CHCF): $51k → 17%The Committee for Hispanic Children and Fam (CHCF): $28k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of Fund for the City of New York Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Fund for the City of New York Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 65 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
81

Total granted

$13M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+8%

Still filing today

97%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CP
    CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $1.5M · revenue +45%
  • FD
    FLATBUSH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +42%
  • GR
    GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $925k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • LI
    LEAP INC
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue -47%
  • TK
    TECH KIDS UNLIMITED INC
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
  • ML
    MARCY LAB INC
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue -41%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Youth Represent Inc

Youth represent uses legal services, policy advocacy, peer education, and other tools to build power and opportunity for black, latine, and other youth of color who the criminal legal system and other systems of oppression harm the most.…

Crime & Legal
2
Legal Services Nyc

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…

Crime & Legal
3
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc

Please see schedule o for full mission statement

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4
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

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.

Community Improvement
5
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
6
Co-Counsel Nyc Inc

To transform our collective capacity to navigate complex legal systems and support safe, thriving, and engaged immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal
7
Community Development Project Inc

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.

Community Improvement
8
New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation

Nyceec's mission is to deliver financing solutions and advance markets for energy efficiency and clean energy in communities.

Environment
9
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc

Nylpi's mission is to advance equality and civil rights, with a focus on health justice, disability rights and environmental justice, through the power of community lawyering and partnerships with the private bar.

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10
Office of the Appellate Defender

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,…

Crime & Legal
11
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

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…

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12
New York Apartment Association Inc

Nyaa provides services to landlords including computerized rent registration of rent stabilized apartments with the new york state division of housing and community renewal in compliance with nys & nyc laws & regulations.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for Public Housing Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

160 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 160 of the 166 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
154/160
Grantees still filing
101/160
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $11,284,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF …+16 more: $1,392,190 · Education+16 moreGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $924,750 · OtherGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY …CATHOLIC MIGRATION SERVICES INC: $919,000 · OtherCATHOLIC MIGRATION SERVICES …YOUTH ACTION PROGRAMS AND HOMES INC: $270,000 · OtherTHE CRENULATED COMPANY LTD: $630,000 · OtherTHE CRENULATED COMPANY LTDNEO Philanthropy Inc: $255,792 · Other+88 more: $4,016,176 · Other+88 moreFLATBUSH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,269,000 · Community ImprovementNorthwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc: $577,250 · Community ImprovementNORTHERN MANHATTAN IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION: $99,000 · Community ImprovementCAMBA INC: $90,000 · Community Improvement+10 more: $127,500 · Community ImprovementCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $1,488,745 · Recreation & SportsBike New York Inc: $100,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsNATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC: $694,500 · EnvironmentAMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY: $257,720 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $220,792 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $155,792 · EnvironmentRESOURCE MEDIA: $140,000 · EnvironmentENERGY VISION: $80,000 · Environment+1 more: $7,500 · EnvironmentRISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $167,000 · Human ServicesNew York Taxi Workers Alliance: $150,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HORIZON INC: $134,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $121,500 · Human ServicesCITY LIVING NY INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesHUDSON GUILDINC: $108,000 · Human ServicesRED HOOK INITIATIVE: $86,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMITTEE FOR HISPANIC CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $79,000 · Human ServicesARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NY INC: $78,000 · Human ServicesTHE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL AMERICAN REFUGEE CENTER CARECEN NY: $50,228 · Human Services+13 more: $124,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $850,000 · HealthMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $197,936 · HealthVOCES LATINAS CORPORATION: $92,500 · Health+4 more: $48,931 · Health
Education$12,676,690Other$7,015,718Community Improvement$2,162,750Recreation & Sports$1,613,745Environment$1,556,304Human Services$1,462,728Health$1,189,367

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $11,284,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $1,488,745 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetFLATBUSH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,269,000 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $924,750 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCATHOLIC MIGRATION SERVICES INC: $919,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetNATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC: $694,500 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetTHE CRENULATED COMPANY LTD: $630,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetNorthwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc: $577,250 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $343,680 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $280,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetYOUTH ACTION PROGRAMS AND HOMES INC: $270,000 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetAMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY: $257,720 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $255,792 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $220,792 over 3y, 15% of budgetRISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $197,936 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $167,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $155,792 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEAP INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTECH KIDS UNLIMITED INC: $150,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetMARCY LAB INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Taxi Workers Alliance: $150,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $139,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Aid and Development Corp: $135,792 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetCommunity Voices Heard Inc: $135,792 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC: $134,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS: $133,400 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $122,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $121,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRED BULL THEATER INC: $110,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetCITY LIVING NY INC: $110,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetHUDSON GUILDINC: $108,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSEAPORT MUSEUM NEW YORK: $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBike New York Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAT THE TABLE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetNORTHERN MANHATTAN IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION: $99,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC: $98,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHOUSING COURT ANSWERS INC: $95,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetVOCES LATINAS CORPORATION: $92,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY LAB INC: $91,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCAMBA INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC: $90,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBATTERY DANCE CORPORATIN DBA BATTERY D: $90,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetSHELTERING ARMS CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $86,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRED HOOK INITIATIVE: $86,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWHITE WAVE RISING-YOUNG SOON KIM DANCE COMPANY INC: $85,000 over 5y, 11% of budget
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.

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.

Pinkerton FoundationThe Ford FoundationRobin Hood FoundationBrooklyn Community Fo…Lily Auchincloss Foun…The Hyde and Watson F…Amalgamated Charitabl…New York Women's Foun…Hispanic Federation I…New York FoundationThe Howard Gilman Fou…United Way of New Yor…
Pinkerton FoundationNY47× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fund for the City of New York Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fund for the City of New York Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • American Littoral Society: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 166 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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