New York · Public charity
Make the Road New York
Make the Road New York (mrny) builds the power of immigrant and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2024
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $125,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $290,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 41
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $73M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Make the Road New York funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $269k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $1.5M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $2.3M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $3.3M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $3.0M | 80% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $1.0M | 39% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $1.2M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $557k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $970k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make The Road States Inc | $1,415,250 | 5 | 5% |
| Center for Law and Human Values Inc | $1,245,500 | 3 | 75% |
| Make the Road Action Inc | $1,236,122 | 8 | 25% |
| New York Legal Assistance Group Inc | $1,190,173 | 6 | 1% |
| Unlocal Inc | $1,092,487 | 6 | 19% |
| MRNY QALICB Inc | $890,262 | 3 | 100% |
| New York Communities For Change Inc | $840,500 | 7 | 6% |
| Align the Alliance for a Greater New York Inc | $350,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc | $340,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Public Policy and Education Fund of New York Inc | $300,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 81 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Make the Road New York supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: New York Foundation · New York Immigration Coalition Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · The New York Community Trust · North Star Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Hispanic Federation Inc · The Scherman Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Research Foundation of the City University of New York
How this is measured
About Make the Road New York
- How much does Make the Road New York give?
- Make the Road New York reported 14 grants totaling $1,527,442 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Make the Road New York fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (23%), Crime & Legal (20%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Make the Road New York's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Make The Road States Inc ($1.4M), Center for Law and Human Values Inc ($1.2M), Make the Road Action Inc ($1.2M).
- Does Make the Road New York fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Make the Road New York?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New York Foundation, New York Immigration Coalition Inc, Robin Hood Foundation.
- Where is Make the Road New York based?
- Make the Road New York is based in NY.
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