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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 FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$290k
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.

Civil Rights$3.3MCrime & Legal$2.8MHuman Services$1.5MPublic Benefit$1.0MEmployment$1.0MArts & Culture$890kCommunity Improvement$864kHealth$861kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $934k
  • $250k+2 grants · $555k
$125,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$73M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Make The Road States Inc$290,000
MRNY QALICB Inc$264,947
New Yorkers for Equal Rights Inc$200,000
MAKE THE ROAD ACTION$200,000
NEW YORK LEGAL$155,973
UNLOCAL INC$133,100
Bangladeshi American Community Development & Youth$125,000
CYPRESS HILLS LDC$60,000
Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition$60,000
THE FUND FOR THE CITY OF NY$11,500
Tri-State Transportation Campaign$10,000
Columbia County Sanctuary Movement Inc$7,500
Worker Justice Center of New York Inc$7,500
VOCAL New York$7,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TIDES CENTER: $11k → 10%Lifeworks Community Action Inc: $20k → 7%Community Resource Center: $40k → 9%Columbia County Sanctuary Movement Inc: $90k → 11%Korean Community Services of Metropolitan NY: $23k → 13%Workers Center of Central New York: $45k → 14%Proyecto Faro Inc: $8k → 14%Ulster Immigrant Defense Network: $8k → 16%Make The Road States Inc: $666k → 20%Elmont Cultural Center Inc: $10k → 6%Community Resource Center: $25k → 9%Columbia County Sanctuary Movement Inc: $78k → 11%Staten Island Community Job Center Inc: $8k → 11%Korean Community Services of Metropolitan NY: $23k → 13%Workers Center of Central New York: $33k → 14%CENTRAL AMERICAN REFUGEE CENTER NY: $40k → 6%Community Resource Center: $10k → 9%Columbia County Sanctuary Movement Inc: $63k → 11%Workers Center of Central New York: $15k → 14%Make The Road States Inc: $294k → 20%Make The Road States Inc: $290k → 20%Haitian American Family of LI Inc: $8k → 6%Transnational Villages Network: $30k → 28%Transnational Villages Network: $8k → 28%SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL: $23k → 13%SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL: $23k → 13%Make The Road States Inc: $140k → 20%MinKwon Center for Community action Inc: $10k → 13%African Communities Together Inc: $117k → 17%African Communities Together Inc: $20k → 17%Make The Road States Inc: $25k → 20%UNLOCAL INC: $354k → 17%UNLOCAL INC: $244k → 17%UNLOCAL INC: $207k → 17%UNLOCAL INC: $133k → 17%UNLOCAL INC: $90k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $30k → 20%UNLOCAL INC: $65k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $8k → 20%CHURCHES UNITED FAIR HOUSING: $40k → 20%CHURCHES UNITED FAIR HOUSING: $15k → 20%CHURCES UNITED FAIR HOUSING: $10k → 20%Asian American Federation Inc: $117k → 17%CHURCES UNITED FAIR HOUSING: $10k → 20%CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING: $10k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NY: $25k → 17%Caribbean Womens's Health Assoc Inc: $117k → 20%Laundry Workers Center Inc: $48k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 45 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
33

Total granted

$13M
$945k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+8%

Still filing today

89%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsPublic BenefitCrime & LegalEmploymentOther
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

  • MT
    Make The Road States Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +136%
  • CF
    Center for Law and Human Values Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +682% · 75% of their budget
  • MT
    MAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue ×22

Funded once

  • CW
    CARIBBEAN WOMEN'S HEALTH ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $117k · revenue -33%
  • AA
    ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $117k · revenue +51%
  • NY
    New York Communities Organizing Fund Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $110k · revenue +84%
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
Co-Counsel Nyc Inc

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

Crime & Legal
2
Nyc Nowc Inc

The NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives is dedicated to sharing and cultivating the educational, financial, and technical resources of its members and supporting the growth of worker cooperatives for social and economic justice. We offer…

Community Improvement
3
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
4
Women Empowerment Coalition of Nyc

Wecnyc builds unity and power among communities of diverse immigrant women through education, collective support, direct services and practicing civic engagement.

Human Services
5
Caaav Voice Inc

CAAAV Voice is a grassroot organization aiming to empower Asian immigrant communities by organizing against gentrification, tenant rights and promote social justice.

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6
Center for the Women of New York

The center for the women of new york helps women overcome financial, violence,social, wellness, and legal issues by raising awareness and advocating for full gender equality for women.

Human Services
7
New York Justice for Our Neighbors

Immigration law & justice new york welcomes immigrants into our communities with compassion dignity and love by providing free high-quality immigration legal services offering education to communities of faith and the public and engaging…

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8
Western Ny Coalition of Farmworker Serving Agencies Inc

To promote justice, dignity, and equity for migrants and farmworkers through advocacy, education, outreach, and direct services. We empower our communities to achieve self-sufficiency by fostering collaboration among partners.

Human Services
9
New York State Youth Leadership Council Inc

New York State Youth Leadership Council, Inc. (NYSYLC or the Organization) works to empower immigrant youth through leadership development, grassroots organizing, educational advancement, and self-expression. NYSYLCs goal is to give…

Human Services
10
Council On American-Islamic Relations of New York

Through legal advocacy, education, media relations, civic engagement and grassroots mobilzation, cair-ny empowers the american muslim community against discrimination.

Civil Rights
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Colmena Nyc Inc Dba La Colmena F/K/a Staten Island Community Job Center; the most unlike its peers is Northeast New York Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health 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

74 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. 74 of the 82 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/74
Grantees still filing
49/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Make The Road States Inc: $1,415,250 · Human ServicesMake The Road States IncUNLOCAL INC: $1,092,487 · Human ServicesUNLOCAL INCCOLUMBIA COUNTY SANCTUARY MOVEMENT INC: $237,840 · Human ServicesCOLUMBIA COUNTY SANCTUARY MOVE…AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $136,500 · Human Services+20 more: $854,625 · Human Services+20 moreMAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC: $1,236,122 · Civil RightsMAKE THE ROAD ACTION…New York Communities For Change Inc: $840,500 · Civil RightsNew York Communities…NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK: $284,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL DAY LABORER…JUSTICE FOR MIGRANT FAMILIES WNY: $85,000 · Civil Rights+3 more: $90,000 · Civil RightsNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC: $1,190,173 · OtherNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE G…NEW YORK COMMITTEE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH INC: $265,000 · OtherNEW YORK COMMITTEE FOR OCCU…ROCKAWAY YOUTH TASK FORCE INC: $188,500 · OtherROCKAWAY YOUTH TASK FORCE I…FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC: $180,000 · OtherFIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INCURBAN JUSTICE CENTER: $170,000 · OtherCYPRESS HILLS LDC: $120,000 · OtherALIGN THE ALLIANCE FOR A GREATER NEW YORK INC: $350,000 · OtherALIGN THE ALLIANCE FOR A GR…LONG ISLAND JOBS WITH JUSTICE INC: $115,000 · OtherWorker Justice Center of New York Inc: $218,000 · OtherWorker Justice Center of Ne…+26 more: $544,763 · Other+26 moreCenter for Law and Human Values Inc: $1,245,500 · EducationCenter for…MRNY QALICB Inc: $890,262 · PhilanthropyMRNY QALI…BANGLADESHI AMERICAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & YOUTH SERVICE CORP: $250,000 · PhilanthropyBANGLADES…Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc: $340,000 · Community ImprovementNorthwest…CYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $240,000 · Community ImprovementCYPRESS H…NEW YORKERS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS INC: $200,000 · Community ImprovementNEW YORKE…DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc: $175,000 · Community ImprovementDRUM Desi…New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc: $110,000 · Community ImprovementNew York …+3 more: $71,000 · Community Improvement+3 morePUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $300,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc: $230,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $173,563 · Public BenefitFISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $80,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $16,000 · Public Benefit
Human Services$3,736,702Civil Rights$2,535,622Other$3,341,436Education$1,245,500Philanthropy$1,140,262Community Improvement$1,136,000Public Benefit$799,563

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 budgetMake The Road States Inc: $1,415,250 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetCenter for Law and Human Values Inc: $1,245,500 over 3y, 75% of budgetMAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC: $1,236,122 over 8y, 25% of budgetNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC: $1,190,173 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetUNLOCAL INC: $1,092,487 over 6y, 19% of budgetMRNY QALICB Inc: $890,262 over 3y, 100% of budgetNew York Communities For Change Inc: $840,500 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetALIGN THE ALLIANCE FOR A GREATER NEW YORK INC: $350,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetNorthwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc: $340,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $300,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK: $284,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMITTEE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH INC: $265,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetBANGLADESHI AMERICAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & YOUTH SERVICE CORP: $250,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetCYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $240,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOLUMBIA COUNTY SANCTUARY MOVEMENT INC: $237,840 over 4y, 51% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $230,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWorker Justice Center of New York Inc: $218,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetROCKAWAY YOUTH TASK FORCE INC: $188,500 over 4y, 19% of budgetFIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC: $180,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetDRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc: $175,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $173,563 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN JUSTICE CENTER: $170,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $136,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCARIBBEAN WOMEN'S HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $116,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC: $116,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLONG ISLAND JOBS WITH JUSTICE INC: $115,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $110,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc: $110,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetWorkers' Center of Central New York Inc: $93,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetJUSTICE FOR MIGRANT FAMILIES WNY: $85,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetFISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $80,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING INC: $75,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetHISPANIC RESOURCE CENTER OF LARCHMONT/MAMARONECK INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $49,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLaundry Workers Center Inc: $48,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL AMERICAN REFUGEE CENTER CARECEN NY: $40,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetDAMAYAN MIGRANT WORKERS ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHester Street Collaborative Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $28,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC: $27,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

New York FoundationNew York Immigration …Robin Hood FoundationThe New York Communit…North Star Fund IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Mother Cabrini Health…New York Women's Foun…Hispanic Federation I…The Scherman Foundati…Brooklyn Community Fo…Research Foundation o…
New York FoundationNY56.7× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Make the Road New York funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Make the Road New York. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    32report 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 82 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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