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New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency
Metro works to create a sustainable culture of creativity, collaboration, and open exchange for libraries, archives, museums, and cultural institutions in the metropolitan new york region and around the world.we accomplish our mission through leadership, grantmaking, resource sharing, professional learning, research, technology services,…
- $320k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $63k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $63k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $113k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $165k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $1.3M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $78k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $148k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $127k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $219k | 41% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn Public Library | $316,608 | 3 | 0% |
| The Queens Borough Public Library | $180,369 | 1 | 0% |
| Westchester Library System | $179,870 | 1 | 2% |
| The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations | $166,050 | 1 | 0% |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $108,585 | 8 | 0% |
| School Library Systems Assoc of Ny | $106,835 | 1 | n/a |
| Katonah Village Library | $89,377 | 1 | 8% |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine Inc | $81,462 | 9 | 0% |
| Yonkers Public Library | $81,029 | 1 | n/a |
| Ny Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Ctrnysna Retiree Medic Al Plan Trust | $65,250 | 5 | 2% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency
- How much does New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency give?
- New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency reported 9 itemized grants totaling $62,750, out of $320,252 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (51%), Health (41%), Arts & Culture (3%).
- Who are New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Brooklyn Public Library ($317k), The Queens Borough Public Library ($180k), Westchester Library System ($180k).
- Does New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Reach Out and Read of Greater New York Inc, The New York Community Trust, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
- Where is New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency based?
- New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency is based in NY.
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