How much does Hope for New York give?

Hope for New York reported 45 itemized grants totaling $2,086,014, out of $2,247,707 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Hope for New York fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Religion (24%), Youth Development (9%).

Who are Hope for New York's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Christian Herald Association Inc ($2.3M), City Relief Inc ($1.5M), Campus Crusade for Christ Inc ($1.1M).

Does Hope for New York fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Hope for New York?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Robin Hood Foundation, Redeemer City To City, The Hyde and Watson Foundation.

Where is Hope for New York based?

Hope for New York is based in NY.

Hope for New York

Hope for New York at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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.

$2.2M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$125k

Largest

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 2025.

Human Services$6.6MReligion$5.4MYouth Development$2.1MFood & Nutrition$1.9MHealth$1.6MEducation$1.3MCrime & Legal$1.3MInternational$569kOther$0

02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 45 grants below total $2,086,014, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,247,707 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $161,693 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 · $26k
$10k–50k25 grants · $720k
$50k–250k17 grants · $1.3M

$43,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$22M · 46 repeat orgs$230k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against -93% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$22M

$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

-93%

Still filing today

76%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalReligionHealthOther

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

CH
Christian Herald Association Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +60%
CR
CITY RELIEF INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +115%
AN
AVAIL NYC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +198%

Funded once

NY
New York City Rescue Mission
one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -93%
NY
NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION
one grant, 2020 · $51k

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.

Give Life Ny

Health

Under 21

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…

Human Services

Bigs & Littles Nyc Mentoring Inc

Bigs & littles nyc mentoring is a nonprofit community-based organization which transforms the lives of vulnerable nyc children and strengthens families through professionally guided one-to-one mentoring, life skills programming, and…

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Fostering Hope Ny Inc

Human Services

City Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.

Human Services

Covenant House New Jersey Inc

To provide shelter, food, medical and mental health care, legal services, educational and vocational services and an array of housing options, including transitional and permanent housing opportunities, for youth facing homelessness and…

Human Services

Life of Hope

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.

Human Services

Covenant House

In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…

Human Services

Diaspora Community Services Inc

diaspora community services is a social support service agency that empowers low income families and individuals to maximize their abilities to overcome obstacles to their well-being and self-sufficiency.

—

City Seminary of New York

The organization engages in the teaching and training of urban ministry in new york city and other urban areas.

Education

Community Housing Innovations Inc

Founded in 1991, community housing innovations, inc. (chi) is a not-for-profit organization serving several new york counties. chi's mission is to provide housing and human services that support social and economic independence. chi's…

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Argus Community Inc

Argus community's mission is to provide innovative programs which help severely disadvantaged teens and adults to free themselves from poverty and drug abuse and build new lives based on responsibility, work, and hope. argus provides a…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Herald Association Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 52 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/41

Grantees still filing

28/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$8,732,657Other$5,612,417Religion$3,300,314Youth Development$1,410,720Education$1,334,990Crime & Legal$1,029,550Health$725,248

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

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.

Robin Hood FoundationNY24.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hope for New York funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hope for New York. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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