· Public charity
Robin Hood Foundation
Robin hood supports the most effective poverty-fighting programs in nyc.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER NETWORK INC | $1,500,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $189.8M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
Youth represent uses legal services, policy advocacy, peer education, and other tools to build power and opportunity for black, latine, and other youth of color who the criminal legal system and other systems of oppression harm the most.…
Nyceec's mission is to deliver financing solutions and advance markets for energy efficiency and clean energy in communities.
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,…
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…
To be a leading provider of innovative services that enable individuals to become healthy, productive and self-sufficient.
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…
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.
How this is measured
870 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. 870 of the 946 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UKA FACILITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
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- 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 ↗
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- 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 ↗
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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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robin Hood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robin Hood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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