New York · Public charity
Right to the City Alliance
The organization is a national alliance of racial, economic, and environmental justice organizations that, through shared principles, are building a national movement for racial justice, urban justice, human rights, and democracy.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $255,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 36
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $26M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Right to the City Alliance funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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 | 46 | $2.6M | 41% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $2.4M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $2.1M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $2.0M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $1.5M | 12% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Joseph's House of Hospitality | $741,000 | 6 | 34% |
| United for a New Economy | $660,000 | 6 | 17% |
| Urban Revival Inc | $586,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Right to the City Action Fund | $530,000 | 2 | 30% |
| Housing Justice League Inc | $485,016 | 6 | 64% |
| Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative | $481,000 | 6 | 14% |
| Organizing Neighborhood Equity | $456,000 | 6 | 14% |
| Tenants Union of Washington | $450,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Tenants Together | $446,000 | 5 | 15% |
| Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia- United Renters for Justice | $426,000 | 6 | 9% |
Show all 69 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Right to the City Alliance supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Tides Foundation · Solidaire Network Inc · Windward Fund · Proteus Fund Inc · Health in Partnership · Impactassetsinc · Tides Center · Movement Strategy Center · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · Policylink
How this is measured
About Right to the City Alliance
- How much does Right to the City Alliance give?
- Right to the City Alliance reported 47 grants totaling $2,698,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Right to the City Alliance fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (56%), Civil Rights (9%), Community Improvement (8%).
- Who are Right to the City Alliance's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St Joseph's House of Hospitality ($741k), United for a New Economy ($660k), Urban Revival Inc ($586k).
- Does Right to the City Alliance fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Right to the City Alliance?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Common Counsel Foundation, Tides Foundation.
- Where is Right to the City Alliance based?
- Right to the City Alliance is based in NY.
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