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Robin Hood Foundation
Robin hood supports the most effective poverty-fighting programs in nyc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k82 grants · $12M
- $250k+161 grants · $114M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $5,356,000 |
| RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $4,157,500 |
| THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC | $3,146,951 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $2,943,760 |
| KIPP NEW YORK | $2,120,500 |
| NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION | $2,103,000 |
| CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY | $2,050,000 |
| HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC | $2,000,000 |
| ACHIEVEMENT FIRST | $1,700,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES | $1,670,000 |
| FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK | $1,650,000 |
| BRONXWORKS | $1,645,000 |
| ALL OUR KIN INC | $1,600,000 |
| LEAP INC | $1,526,000 |
| THE NEW SCHOOL | $1,500,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $189.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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 +46% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
423 repeat relationships — 201 still active in FY2024, 222 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.8M 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
- RFResearch Foundation of the City University of New York8× · 2017–2024 · $34M · revenue +22%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $20M · revenue +65%
- KNKIPP NEW YORK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $18M · revenue +254%
Funded once
- SCSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3.0M · revenue +33%
- JIJUSTICE INNOVATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.9M · revenue +232%
- NKNYC KIDS RISE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.1M · revenue +418% · 26% of their budget
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.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
Bronx parent housing network is committed to making a difference in solving the housing problem in new york city by transforming lives and creating holistic paths to employment so that individuals and families can secure safe, clean,…
Nyceec's mission is to deliver financing solutions and advance markets for energy efficiency and clean energy in communities.
To transform our collective capacity to navigate complex legal systems and support safe, thriving, and engaged immigrant communities.
Gotham health fqhc, inc., operating together with new york city health and hospitals corporation under a public entity model federally qualified health center, provides you and your family with access to primary and preventative healthcare…
We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…
Housing partnership development corporation functions to provide available low and moderate cost housing in the new york metro area through new housing production, preservation, rehabilitation, as well as the revitalization and…
To be a leading provider of innovative services that enable individuals to become healthy, productive and self-sufficient.
Path to jobs, inc. is a workforce development and job placement organization with a mission to provide personalized career-readiness skills training, coaching, case management, benefits counseling, support to enter/re-enter the workforce,…
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.
To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Access Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vfiles Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
870 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. 870 of the 946 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 UKA FACILITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SINGLE STOP USA INC ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KIPP NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds BENEFITS DATA TRUST ↗
- Who funds FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds The Eagle Academy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds BRONXWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds PARAPROFESSIONAL HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK DISASTER INTERFAITH SERVICES 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: Brooklyn Community Foundation · United Way of New York City · Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Altman Foundation · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Food Bank for New York City · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Research Foundation of the City University of New York · The New York Community Trust
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 Robin Hood 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.
- Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Achievement First Inc — 0% 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.