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Gotham Gives Inc

Gotham gives invests in initiatives that reflect the rich diversity of new york city and improve systemic equity by creating social, educational, and cultural opportunities for all new yorkers.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$650k
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, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$4.5MArts & Culture$3.9MEmployment$1.4MHousing & Shelter$725kHealth$270kYouth Development$89k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $1,354,722, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,498,968 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $144,246 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 · FY2024

  • $50k–250k4 grants · $455k
  • $250k+2 grants · $900k
$200,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STRIVE$650,000
MOUSE$250,000
FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING$200,000
FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS$116,222
TECH NYC FOUNDATION$88,500
THE HOSPITALITY PROJECT INC$50,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE: $150k → 17%MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE: $500k → 20%JED FOUNDATION: $270k → 17%FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2.5M → 17%THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $990k → 17%FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $116k → 17%FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING: $325k → 17%FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING: $200k → 17%FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING: $200k → 17%PERELMAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $500k → 17%THE SHED AT HUDSON YARDS: $3.2M → 17%THE HOSPITALITY PROJECT INC: $50k → 17%HUNTER COLLEGE: $200k → 17%TECH NYC FOUNDATION: $89k → 17%STRIVE: $650k → 17%STRIVE: $625k → 17%STRIVE: $25k → 17%MOUSE: $250k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 3 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$5.6M
$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $389k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEmploymentHousing & ShelterHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TF
    THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +339%
  • SI
    STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +68%
  • FF
    FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $725k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • SN
    SHED NYC INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3.2M · revenue +13%
  • ME
    MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +148%
  • WT
    WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +19%
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.

1
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
2
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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3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Technyc Inc

An engaged network of tech leaders working to foster a dynamic, diverse, and creative new york. we bring together new yorkers to support a successful technology ecosystem, attract and retain top-tier talent, and celebrate new york and the…

Community Improvement
5
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
6
Design Trust for Public Space Inc

The Design Trust for Public Space is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the future of public space in New York City. Our projects bring together city agencies, community groups and private sector experts to make a lasting impact -…

Environment
7
Workforce Professionals Training Institute

Wpti's mission is to build the capacities of people, programs, and organizations that provide job training, placement, and career guidance for individuals and to advocate for policies that promote economic opportunities for all.

Employment
8
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
9
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
10
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.

Education
11
Hudson Yards Development Corporation

See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…

Community Improvement
12
Openplans Inc

Open plans' mission is to transform how people experience new york city's streets. open plans uses grassroots advocacy and policy change to inspire structural reforms and cultural shifts. we promote a people-first street culture that…

Public Benefit
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 Shed Nyc Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $3,556,497 · OtherTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCMEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · OtherMEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION …HUNTER COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $200,000 · OtherSHED NYC INC: $3,229,921 · Arts & CultureSHED NYC INCWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTE…FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,300,000 · EmploymentSTRIVE INTERNA…HOSPITALITY PROJECT INC: $50,000 · EmploymentFUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC: $725,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE JED FOUNDATION: $269,705 · HealthMOUSE INC: $250,000 · EducationTECHNYC FOUNDATION: $88,500 · Philanthropy
Other$4,256,497Arts & Culture$3,879,921Employment$1,350,000Housing & Shelter$725,000Health$269,705Education$250,000Philanthropy$88,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $3,556,497 over 3y, 18% of budgetSHED NYC INC: $3,229,921 over 1y, 11% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,300,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetFUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC: $725,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $269,705 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMOUSE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTECHNYC FOUNDATION: $88,500 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetHOSPITALITY PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 27% 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.

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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 Gotham Gives Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gotham Gives Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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