· Private foundation
New York Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k79 grants · $294k
- $10k–50k69 grants · $2.5M
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWEST BRONX COMMUNITY AND CLERGY COALITION | $200,000 |
| CAAAV ORGANIZING ASIAN COMMUNITIES | $195,000 |
| FLANBWAYAN HAITIAN LITERACY PROJECT | $125,000 |
| DRUM - DESIS RISING UP & MOVING | $125,000 |
| THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC | $125,000 |
| EL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG | $125,000 |
| MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK | $125,000 |
| VOCAL-NY | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD | $85,000 |
| NEW YORK COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FUND | $80,000 |
| RED HOOK INITIATIVE | $70,000 |
| GOOD OLD LOWER EAST SIDE | $70,000 |
| CHHAYA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $70,000 |
| NEW YORK STATE TENANTS & NEIGHBORS INFORMATION SERVICE | $60,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
172 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2025, 101 since wound down; 17 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $477k 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
- MTMake the Road New York7× · 2019–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +19%
- CACommittee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +116%
- VOVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +171%
Funded once
- LILONG ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $225k
- VOVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INCone grant, 2024 · $112k · revenue 0%
- CHCYPRESS HILLS LDCone grant, 2023 · $70k
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.
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…
We join our clients in the struggle to organize, assert their rights and protect their homes. we work to ensure that community voices are centered in the decisions that impact their lives and neighborhoods.
To transform our collective capacity to navigate complex legal systems and support safe, thriving, and engaged immigrant communities.
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action or JFREJ) is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us.…
TheNorthern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights (NMCIR), is a non-profit organization, founded in 1982 to educate, defend and protect the rights of immigrants. Recognized by the Board of Immigration Appeals, NMCIR is committed to…
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…
Ncjw ny turns progressive ideals into action, impacting 8,000 new yorkers annually: we provide direct services to support and empower our neighbors in need today - people from all walks of life and all racial and religious backgrounds.…
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.
Nylpi's mission is to advance equality and civil rights, with a focus on health justice, disability rights and environmental justice, through the power of community lawyering and partnerships with the private bar.
CVH Power is working to make New York a model of democratic participation and progressive policies and programs to improve the lives of poor and working class families across New York
Community Governance & Development Council (CGDC) is a non-profit community organization aimed at empowering Southwest Yonkers through technology, participatory urban planning, and community leadership development.
Provide advocacy for lower and working class new yorkers
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harlem Renaissance Education Pipeline. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
226 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. 226 of the 316 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Voices Heard Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR NEIGHBORHOOD & HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD OLD LOWER EAST SIDE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHHAYA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RED HOOK INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds FLANBWAYAN HAITIAN LITERACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCACY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds New York State Tenants & Neighbors Information Ser ↗
- Who funds CITY LIMITS NEWS INC ↗
- Who funds EL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds Mekong Inc ↗
- Who funds West Harlem Environmental Action Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ECONOMY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FARM TRAINING COLLECTIVE NYC INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Global Justice Corp ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STATE YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT 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: North Star Fund Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Scherman Foundation Inc · New York Immigration Coalition Inc · The New York Community Trust · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Make the Road New York · United Way of New York City
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 New York Foundation 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.
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
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.