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New York Road Runners Inc

As a new york city based nonprofit, we're dedicated to transforming the health and well-being of our communities through inclusive and accessible running experiences, empowering all to achieve their potential.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$567k
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 2025.

Recreation & Sports$11MCommunity Improvement$510kEducation$303kArts & Culture$143kHealth$41kEnvironment$38kCivil Rights$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $126k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $459k
  • $250k+1 grant · $567k
$35,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$187M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ARMORY FOUNDATION$566,500
THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS$234,468
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$150,000
GREATER HARLEM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COMMUNITY FUND$75,000
OCEAN BREEZE PARK ALLIANCE INC$37,500
VAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE$35,000
CITY PARKS FOUNDATION$18,000
TOTAL APPLICATIONS LLC DBA BIBRAVE$15,000
GO NIKKI GO LLC$10,000
HARLEM RUN LLC$10,000
RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC$7,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BLACK GIRLS CODE INC: $25k → 10%the trust for public land: $1.0M → 10%OCEAN BREEZE PARK ALLIANCE INC: $38k → 11%GREATER HARLEM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COMMUNITY FUND: $90k → 17%PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $38k → 20%VAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE: $35k → 28%THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $25k → 14%RUNNING INDUSTRY DIVERSITY COALITION: $25k → 9%THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $750k → 10%GREATER HARLEM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COMMUNITY FUND: $75k → 17%VAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE: $30k → 28%THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $25k → 14%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $500k → 10%THE GREATER HARLEM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COMMUNITY FUND: $30k → 17%VAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE: $30k → 28%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $500k → 10%THE GREATER HARLEM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COMMUNITY FUND: $30k → 17%VAN CORTLANDT PARK CONSERVANCY: $30k → 28%THE GREATER HARLEM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COMMUNITY FUND: $28k → 17%van cortlandt park conservancy: $30k → 28%The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce community fund: $27k → 17%VAN CORTLANDT PARK CONSERVANCY: $30k → 28%THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $234k → 17%MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY: $100k → 17%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $175k → 17%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $150k → 17%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $145k → 17%central park conservancy inc: $145k → 17%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $145k → 17%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $100k → 17%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $75k → 17%CITY PARKS FOUNDATION: $115k → 17%city parks foundation: $100k → 17%CITY PARKS FOUNDATION: $65k → 17%city parks foundation: $50k → 17%City of New York Parks: $40k → 17%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $1.7M → 17%THE ARMORY FOUNDATION: $567k → 17%THE ARMORY FOUNDATION: $550k → 17%THE ARMORY FOUNDATION: $536k → 17%ARMORY FOUNDATION: $526k → 17%ARMORY FOUNDATION: $510k → 17%ARMORY FOUNDATION: $486k → 17%ARMORY FOUNDATION: $465k → 17%armory foundation: $450k → 17%ARMORY FOUNDATION: $278k → 17%NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $112k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of New York Road Runners Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

New York Road Runners Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 18 repeat orgs$350k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
10

Total granted

$11M
$295k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
-11%

Still filing today

78%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    5× · 2017–2021 · $4.5M · revenue +109%
  • TA
    THE ARMORY FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +36%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $935k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • NY
    New York Historical Society
    one grant, 2024 · $112k · revenue -31%
  • CO
    City of New York Parks
    one grant, 2017 · $40k
  • TA
    THE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -92%
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.

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Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
2
Madison Square Park Conservancy Inc

Madison square park conservancy is the nonprofit entrusted by the city of new york to operate madison square park, a 6.2-acre public space in the heart of manhattan. our mission is to conserve, maintain, and program this ever-evolving…

Environment
3
Battery Park City Parks Conservancy Corporation

The battery park city parks conservancy's mission is to manage, maintain, operate, repair, preserve and program activities to a world class standard for the residential parks, open space, and other public structures located on the 92 acre…

Recreation & Sports
4
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
5
Greenbelt Conservancy Inc

The Greenbelt Conservancy (the "Greenbelt"), the second of New York City's Flagship Parks, consists of over 2,800 acres of public and privatge land (greater than the combined acreage of Central Park and Prospect Park) in the center of…

Environment
6
Design Trust for Public Space Inc

The Design Trust for Public Space is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the future of public space in New York City. Our projects bring together city agencies, community groups and private sector experts to make a lasting impact -…

Environment
7
Alliance for Flushing Meadows Corona Park Corporation

The mission of the alliance for flushing meadows corona park is to support nyc parks to preserve, maintain, and improve flushing meadows corona park for the benefit and use of the surrounding communities and all new yorkers.

Environment
8
Friends of Hudson River Park Inc

Fundraising, marketing and communication and public policy for the hudson river park.

Recreation & Sports
9
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
10
Four Freedoms Park Conservancy Inc

Four freedoms park conservancy partners with nys parks to provide supplementary amenities and program support. public offerings advance president roosevelt's legacy by engaging the public in the ideals of the four freedoms.

Arts & Culture
11
The Partnership for New York City Inc

(a) the development, stimulation, encouragement, improvement and promotion of the business climate in new york city; (b) the fostering of trade and commerce in new york city and the promotion of the general welfare andprosperity of new…

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12
Fund for Park Avenue New York Inc

To improve and beautify park avenue in new york city by beautification activities that will contribute to the visual, aesthetic and architectural interest of park avenue.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Parks Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is New York Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ARMORY FOUNDATION: $4,367,767 · OtherTHE ARMORY FOUNDATIONTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $255,468 · Other+15 more: $411,826 · Other+15 moreTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $4,487,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND+1 more: $7,500 · EnvironmentCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $935,250 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CO…CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $380,450 · Recreation & SportsCITY PARKS FOUN…VAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE: $95,000 · Recreation & SportsVAN CORTLANDT P…PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $80,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more: $75,500 · Recreation & SportsGREATER HARLEM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COMMUNITY FUND INC: $279,065 · PhilanthropyNew York Historical Society: $112,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY: $110,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $75,000 · Social Science
Other$5,035,061Environment$4,495,000Recreation & Sports$1,566,200Philanthropy$279,065Arts & Culture$137,000Community Improvement$110,000Social Science$75,000

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 budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $4,487,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ARMORY FOUNDATION: $4,367,767 over 9y, 7.9% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $935,250 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $380,450 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $255,468 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $112,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY: $110,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE: $95,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRANDALL'S ISLAND PARK ALLIANCE INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORKERS FOR PARKS: $36,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK GIRLS CODE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRUNNING INDUSTRY DIVERSITY COALITION: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetWOMEN IN SPORTS AND EVENTS INC: $22,875 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK TRACK CLUB CORPORATION: $13,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetNEW YORK CITY TOURISM CONVENTIONS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY TOURISM FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAKTIV AGAINST CANCER INC: $5,951 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

May and Samuel Rudin …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Jewish Communal FundVerizon FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation IncNY19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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