· Community foundation
The New York Community Trust
We foster & engage in enduring and innovative philanthropy with a vision (continued on schedule o).
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.
The 2,748 grants below total $193,792,844 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $201,499,581 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,706,737 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k338 grants · $2.4M
- $10k–50k1622 grants · $30M
- $50k–250k669 grants · $73M
- $250k+119 grants · $88M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $12,063,720 |
| THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $6,000,000 |
| ALLIED CLIMATE PARTNERS INC | $5,833,333 |
| NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC | $4,906,888 |
| THE VISCARDI CENTER | $2,500,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $2,500,000 |
| ACTIVATE GLOBAL INC | $2,500,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED | $2,074,850 |
| THE BHUTAN FOUNDATION | $1,750,000 |
| MULTIPLIER | $1,500,000 |
| BEYOND THE BOROUGHS | $1,195,000 |
| WNET | $1,174,230 |
| AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $1,028,160 |
| VARIETY CHILD LEARNING CENTER | $1,000,000 |
| OBAMA FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $22.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% 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 +13% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
1119 repeat relationships — 1119 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 394 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48M 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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $11M · revenue +4%
NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +60% · 36% of their budget
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED2× · 2023–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +79%
Funded once
- BMBERNARD M BARUCH COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2023 · $881k · revenue +1%
- CUCITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORKone grant, 2023 · $836k
- DCDISTRICT COUNCIL 37 NON-PROFIT EDUCATIONAL CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +761%
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.
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Delivering financing solutions and advancing markets for energy efficiency and clean energy.
Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…
To advance scientific knowledge and to increase the number of scientifically informed individuals.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunites for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groundwork Hudson Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sesame Workshop. 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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
1843 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. 1843 of the 2,000 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 Yale University ↗
- Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ALLIED CLIMATE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds THE VISCARDI CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds ACTIVATE GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds ECHOING GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds The Bhutan Foundation ↗
- Who funds BEYOND THE BOROUGHS INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN TO DEBATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds UNLOCAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VARIETY CHILD LEARNING CENTER ↗
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: Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · Altman Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · The New York Bar Foundation · New York Foundation · Marty and Dorothy Silverman Foundation
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 The New York Community Trust 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.
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Cast Inc — 15% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Ceres 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.