· Community foundation
The New York Community Trust
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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.
How this is measured
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 |
| ADIRONDACK COMMUNITY TRUST | $1,000,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC | $1,000,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $22.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% 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 +14% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
1115 repeat relationships: 1115 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 396 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
1843 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. 1843 of the 2,000 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 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 THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VARIETY CHILD LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The New York Community Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The New York Community Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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