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The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City

Uniquely positioned to wed the incomparable reach of government withthe flexibility and entrepreneurial spirit of the private sector, themayor's fund leverages a deep well of civic goodwill to support newyorkers and new york city, in order to build innovative public-private partnerships that address critical city needs with the support…

$150k
Granted FY2021
3
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Human Services$302kEmployment$236kYouth Development$151kCommunity Improvement$71kCivil Rights$61kHealth$44kHousing & Shelter$30k
02FY2021 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DOOR$50,000
HOPE PROGRAM$50,000
RED HOOK INITIATIVE$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $265k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SAFE HORIZON INC: $52k → 17%HUDSON GUILD CHILDREN'S CENTER: $43k → 17%ARAB AMERICAN ASSOC OF NY: $34k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $86k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $50k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$435k · 3 repeat orgs$460k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$435k
$460k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
Human ServicesEmploymentCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TD
    THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $151k · revenue +36%
  • TH
    THE HOPE PROGRAM INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $149k · revenue +70%
  • RH
    RED HOOK INITIATIVE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $136k · revenue -24%

Funded once

  • HM
    HETRICK MARTIN INSTITUTE-NEW JERSEY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $61k · revenue -99%
  • SH
    SAFE HORIZON INC
    one grant, 2020 · $52k · revenue +4%
  • SI
    STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $46k · revenue +86%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Restore Nyc Inc

Restore nyc is focused on providing holistic long-term aftercare services for survivors of sex trafficking in new york city. this is accomplished through identifying individuals trafficked and offering counseling, case management, housing,…

Human Services
2
The Osborne Association Inc

The association's purpose is to provide services to defendants, incarcerated people, formerly incarcerated people and their families: to provide alternatives to incarceration; to provide job training and job placement; to provide reentry…

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3
Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services Inc

Cases' mission is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community. we believe…

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4
Leap Inc

Leap empowers low and moderate income people by helping them gain access to living-wage employment opportunities and career paths. we seek to develop programs that counter prevailing market inequalities and contribute to a broader movement…

Housing & Shelter
5
Wildcat Service Corporation

Our mission is to create opportunities for individuals impacted by the criminal legal system.

Employment
6
Getting Out and Staying Out Inc

Goso partners with people impacted by arrest and incarceration on a journey of education, employment and emotional wellbeing and collaborates with nyc communities to support a culture of nonviolence.

Crime & Legal
7
Nontraditional Employment for Women

See schedule onontraditional employment for women (new) prepares, trains, and places women in careers in the skilled construction, utility, and maintenance trades, helping women achieve economic independence and a secure future.

Employment
8
Fifth Avenue Committee Inc

Fifth avenue committee's mission is to advance economic, social and racial justice in new york city through its comprehensive community development programs and projects.

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9
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
10
Under 21

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…

Human Services
11
Covenant House

In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…

Human Services
12
Hot Bread Kitchen Ltd

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hope Program Inc; the most unlike its peers is Voces Latinas Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $136,000 · Human ServicesRED HOOK INITIATIVESAFE HORIZON INC: $52,200 · Human ServicesSAFE HORIZON INCHUDSON GUILDINC: $42,500 · Human ServicesHUDSON GUILDINCARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NY INC: $34,200 · Human ServicesARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NY I…THE HOPE PROGRAM INC: $148,800 · EmploymentTHE HOPE PROGRAM INCSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $45,800 · EmploymentSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INCCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $41,100 · EmploymentCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTU…THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $150,500 · OtherTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF …SHELTERING ARMS CHILDRENS SERVICE: $36,800 · OtherSHELTERING ARMS CHILDRE…CAMBA INC: $37,500 · Community ImprovementCAMBA INCNORTHERN MANHATTAN IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION: $33,900 · Community ImprovementNORTHERN …HETRICK MARTIN INSTITUTE-NEW JERSEY INC: $61,100 · Civil RightsVOCES LATINAS CORPORATION: $44,300 · HealthBedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation: $30,300 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$264,900Employment$235,700Other$187,300Community Improvement$71,400Civil Rights$61,100Health$44,300Housing & Shelter$30,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $150,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC: $148,800 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetRED HOOK INITIATIVE: $136,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHETRICK MARTIN INSTITUTE-NEW JERSEY INC: $61,100 over 1y, 11% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC: $52,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $45,800 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVOCES LATINAS CORPORATION: $44,300 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHUDSON GUILDINC: $42,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $41,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMBA INC: $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NY INC: $34,200 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNORTHERN MANHATTAN IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION: $33,900 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation: $30,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Fund for the City of …Robin Hood FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fund for the City of New York IncNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fund for the City of New York Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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