· Private foundation
The Realty Foundation of New York Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of THE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $188k
- $250k+1 grant · $308k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUILDING SKILLS NEW YORK | $307,500 |
| CITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION | $20,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $18,000 |
| WIN | $17,960 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| NAACP NEW YORK STATE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| THE INNER CIRCLE | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| NYLCVEF | $11,500 |
| CITIZENS HOUSING & PLANNING COUNCIL | $11,000 |
| MAYORS FUND TO ADVANCE NYC | $10,431 |
| BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE | $10,000 |
| PFARIA | $10,000 |
| GRAND CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 8 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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
- CBCITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $146k · revenue +32%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART8× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +58%
- OPOUTREACH PROJECT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- DWDEA WIDOWS & CHILDREN FUNDone grant, 2019 · $126k
- GOGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $57k · revenue +234%
- AEALFRED E SMITH MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $28k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for Public Housing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Reap. 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 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 185 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
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 CITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE INNER CIRCLE OF NEW YORK POLITICAL JOURNALISTS INC D/B/A INNER CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CORO NEW YORK LEADERSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK TO STAY INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX) ↗
- Who funds GRAND CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds ABNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS HOUSING & PLANNING COUNCIL OF N ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK HOUSING CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds GOVERNORS ISLAND ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds EAST RIVER DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds UP FOR GROWTH ↗
- Who funds LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOMOS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLACK INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE HUNDRED BLACK MEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE LONG ISLAND CITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
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: Robin Hood Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Fisher Brothers Foundation Inc % Fisher Brothers · Abny Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · The New York Community Trust · Td Charitable Foundation · Walentas Foundation Ltd
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 Realty Foundation of New York Inc 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.
- Heroes to Heroes Foundation — 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.