· Public charity
Hope for New York
HOPE FOR NEW YORK's mission is to provide volunteers, grants and capacity building support to strengthen organizations serving poor and marginalized communities in new york city.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 45 grants below total $2,086,014 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,247,707 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $161,693 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 $10k3 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $720k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BOWERY MISSION | $124,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY GREATER NEW YORK DIVISION | $113,448 |
| CITY RELIEF | $105,000 |
| A HOUSE ON BEEKMAN | $100,000 |
| AVAIL NYC | $89,879 |
| RESTORE NYC | $85,700 |
| THE FATHER'S HEART MINISTRIES | $78,900 |
| OPERATION EXODUS INNER CITY INC | $75,970 |
| OPEN HANDS LEGAL SERVICES | $75,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE GOTHAM CITY | $74,700 |
| SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE | $67,960 |
| DREAM CENTER | $64,800 |
| BEACON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $63,500 |
| URBAN HOPE | $60,000 |
| THE OPEN DOOR NYNJ | $55,680 |
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 (FY17–25, $8.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% 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 +37% since the first grant, against -93% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
- CHChristian Herald Association Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +56%
- CRCITY RELIEF INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +115%
- ANAVAIL NYC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +222%
Funded once
- NYNew York City Rescue Missionone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -93%
- NYNEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $51k
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.
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…
The organization engages in the teaching and training of urban ministry in new york city and other urban areas.
Interdenominational christian ministry reaching men, women, and youth with the gospel message of jesus christ; providing spiritual and material needs in the metropolitan ny area, national and international communities.
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.
The mission of Faith in New York is to equip congregations and develop grassroots leaders to move significant public policy change that supports our leaders vision of a more just New York City with excellent public schools, violence-free…
Life of hope center is a multifaceted community-based organization which fosters greater opprotunities for youths, adults and families in central brooklyn, with a focus on immigrants.
The Mission is dedicated to sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ in word and deed. The ministries of the City Mission of Schenectady seek to comprehensively meet the needs of the poor in a manner that dignifies and strengthens the…
To provide shelter and supportive services to underserved individuals and families.The org operates culturally-sensitive emergency and transitional housing forhomeless individuals and families and a residential reentry center for…
At city living ny, our mission is to empower youth aging out of foster care to successfully transition into adulthood. we start by providing clients with urgently needed items such as dishes and bedding to turn their apartment into a home.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Life of New York City Inc and the most unlike its peers is 9 Million Reasons Inc. 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 22 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 52 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 Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds AVAIL NYC ↗
- Who funds RESTORE NYC INC ↗
- Who funds A HOUSE ON BEEKMAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FATHER'S HEART MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds OPERATION EXODUS-INNER CITY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Open Hands Legal Services Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds The Open Door NJNY Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ALL ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION LAZARUS INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER NYC ↗
- Who funds ST PAULS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CHRISTIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Do For One NYC ↗
- Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAFFITI COMMUNITY MINISTRIESINC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CHRISTIAN HERALD CRUSADES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INC ↗
- Who funds New Beginnings Center of Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds GARDEN OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Graffiti 2 Community Ministries ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NEW YORK CITY AND WESTCHERSTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GIFTED HANDS ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ARAB AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds New York City Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE CENTER FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds 20 20 Vision For Schools 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: Robin Hood Foundation · Redeemer City To City · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Grace and Mercy Foundation Inc · Women's Bible Society of New York · American Express Foundation · Food Bank for New York City · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · Open Society Institute · Pinkerton Foundation · The Tapestry Foundation 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 Hope for New York 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.
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