· Private foundation
The Handshake Foundation Trust Thomas R Appleton Et Al Trustees
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREGAMOS COMMUNITY THEATER | $4,000 |
| THE EARTH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| GRANDMA'S LOVE INC | $3,000 |
| NORTH EAST COMMUNITY CENTER | $3,000 |
| RETI CENTER FBO BROOKLYN BLUEGREEN JOBS FOR YOUTH AND ENVIRONMENT | $3,000 |
| BROOKLYN WATERFRONT ARTISTS COALITION | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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
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 +1% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RHRED HOOK ART PROJECT INC2× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +48%
- BCBEAM CENTER INC3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +167%
- BWBirthday Wishes Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- NINEW IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -7%
- JFJUNTA FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION FBO TURTLE VILLAGEone grant, 2024 · $4k
- VAVENEZUELANS AND IMMIGRANTS AID INCone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -6%
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.
Hot bread kitchen creates economic opportunity through culinary job skills training and placement, food entrepreneurship, and an ecosystem of support for individuals who face barriers to meaningful careers.
To provide workforce development and other programs to empower immigrant women to obtain meaningful employment or pursue higher education in nyc. to offer a safe, inclusive space where immigrant women can build community and share their…
Bigs & littles nyc mentoring is a nonprofit community-based organization which transforms the lives of vulnerable nyc children and strengthens families through professionally guided one-to-one mentoring, life skills programming, and…
Since 1972, under 21, d.b.a. covenant house new york (chny) has been working with one of new york city's most vulnerable populations - youth experiencing homelessness, age 16-24, and their dependent children. chny provides young people…
diaspora community services is a social support service agency that empowers low income families and individuals to maximize their abilities to overcome obstacles to their well-being and self-sufficiency.
The Caribbean Equality Project is an NYC-based community organization that empowers, advocates for, and represents Afro and Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrants in New York City.
From classrooms to careers, studio in a school expands access to visual arts education and professions in the arts by partnering with practicing artists, schools, and cultural institutions.
Our mission is to empower newcomer refugee, asylee and immigrant youth through soccer and mentorship; we achieve this by providing a positive space where refugee, asylee and immigrant youth can connect with their peers in a safe and…
The Harlem Art''s Foundation''s Mission Is To Showcase And Preserve Harlem''s Tradition Of Rich Culture And Community By Working With Our Local Partners To Strategically Shape The Physical And Social Opportunities Of Our Neighborhood…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 28 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
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 RED HOOK ART PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GRANDMAS LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds BEAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds VENEZUELANS AND IMMIGRANTS AID INC ↗
- Who funds TALLER SALUD INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN WATERFRONT ARTISTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds Birthday Wishes Inc ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HAITI MARYCARE ↗
- Who funds Tomorrows Leaders NYC ↗
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 · The New York Community Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Handshake Foundation Trust Thomas R Appleton Et Al Trustees funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Handshake Foundation Trust Thomas R Appleton Et Al Trustees. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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