How much does Project for Public Spaces Inc give?

Project for Public Spaces Inc reported 5 grants totaling $306,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Project for Public Spaces Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (50%), Education (17%), Arts & Culture (13%).

Who are Project for Public Spaces Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Hawthorne Social Service Association Inc ($100k), Women in Need Inc ($100k), Downtown Cleveland Alliance ($100k).

Does Project for Public Spaces Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Project for Public Spaces Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Walton Family Foundation Inc, The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation, Arvest Foundation.

Where is Project for Public Spaces Inc based?

Project for Public Spaces Inc is based in NY.

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New York · Public charity

Project for Public Spaces Inc

Project for public spaces co-creates outstanding gathering places with the people who use them every day, and supports public space champions through convening, learning opportunities, and advocacy.

$306k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 5
Grants FY2025: 7
Organizations funded FY2024: 100%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $70,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $70,000
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 7; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $571k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Project for Public Spaces Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $640k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	5	$306k	100%
FY2024	7	$640k	100%
FY2023	5	$390k	100%
FY2022	5	$330k	100%
FY2018	4	$100k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Community Improvement$785kEducation$260kArts & Culture$210kReligion$105kHousing & Shelter$100kRecreation & Sports$100k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Hawthorne Social Service Association Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Women in Need Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Downtown Cleveland Alliance	$100,000	1	1%
Marion Public Library	$100,000	1	n/a
City of Cleveland	$100,000	1	n/a
Rochester Downtown Development Corporation	$100,000	1	4%
Mount Sequoyah Center Inc	$80,000	1	4%
Farmington Public Library	$80,000	1	n/a
City of Springdale	$80,000	1	n/a
City of Siloam Springs	$80,000	1	n/a

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All grantees of Project for Public Spaces Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Hawthorne Social Service Association Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Women in Need Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Downtown Cleveland Alliance	$100,000	1	1%
Marion Public Library	$100,000	1	n/a
City of Cleveland	$100,000	1	n/a
Rochester Downtown Development Corporation	$100,000	1	4%
Mount Sequoyah Center Inc	$80,000	1	4%
Farmington Public Library	$80,000	1	n/a
City of Springdale	$80,000	1	n/a
City of Siloam Springs	$80,000	1	n/a
Fayetteville School District #1	$80,000	1	n/a
City of Pea Ridge	$80,000	1	n/a
Downtown Arlington Management Corp	$75,000	1	10%
Downtown Dayton Partnership Corp	$75,000	1	3%
Openplans Inc	$70,000	1	2%
Detroit Economic Growth Association	$70,000	1	1%
Atlanta Downtown Improvement District Inc	$70,000	1	n/a
City of San Antonio	$50,000	1	n/a
Springfield Cultural Partnership Inc Attn Karen Finn	$48,000	1	14%
Growhouse Design Development Group	$48,000	1	29%
Central Terminal Restoration Corp	$40,000	1	5%
Buffalo Heritage Carousel Inc	$40,000	1	9%
Michigan B'Nai B'Rith Hillel Foundation Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Repair the World	$25,000	1	0%
The Pewabic Society Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Motown Historical Musuem Inc	$25,000	1	1%

Project for Public Spaces Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Walton Family Foundation IncAR15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Arvest Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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About Project for Public Spaces Inc

How much does Project for Public Spaces Inc give?: Project for Public Spaces Inc reported 5 grants totaling $306,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Project for Public Spaces Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (50%), Education (17%), Arts & Culture (13%).
Who are Project for Public Spaces Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Hawthorne Social Service Association Inc ($100k), Women in Need Inc ($100k), Downtown Cleveland Alliance ($100k).
Does Project for Public Spaces Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Project for Public Spaces Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Walton Family Foundation Inc, The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation, Arvest Foundation.
Where is Project for Public Spaces Inc based?: Project for Public Spaces Inc is based in NY.