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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.

$579k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$308k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Employment$1.1MHuman Services$728kArts & Culture$278kCivil Rights$273kPublic Benefit$266kCommunity Improvement$248kHousing & Shelter$236kHealth$180kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $188k
  • $250k+1 grant · $308k
$9,550
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GRAND CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP$10,000
BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE$10,000
PFARIA$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING: $2k → 20%NEW YORK TO STAY INC: $25k → 17%NEW YORK TO STAY INC: $25k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $250 → 17%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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 64 repeat orgs$999k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
112

Total granted

$2.8M
$930k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+28%

Still filing today

59%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementEducationHousing & ShelterHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • CB
    CITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $146k · revenue +32%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    8× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +58%
  • OP
    OUTREACH PROJECT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • DW
    DEA WIDOWS & CHILDREN FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $126k
  • GO
    GIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $57k · revenue +234%
  • AE
    ALFRED E SMITH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $28k
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
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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2
Hudson Yards Development Corporation

See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…

Community Improvement
3
The Real Estate Board of New York Inc

1. to unite in common organization those professionally engaged in real estate. 2. to protect and promote the mutual interests of its members. 3. to formulate and maintain ethical standards for the guidance of its members in their…

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4
The Partnership for New York City Inc

(a) the development, stimulation, encouragement, improvement and promotion of the business climate in new york city; (b) the fostering of trade and commerce in new york city and the promotion of the general welfare andprosperity of new…

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5
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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6
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
9
New York Foundation
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10
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
11
New York Apartment Association Inc

Nyaa provides services to landlords including computerized rent registration of rent stabilized apartments with the new york state division of housing and community renewal in compliance with nys & nyc laws & regulations.

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12
The Economic Club of New York

The economic club of new york is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonpolitical organization dedicated to the promotion of the study and discussion of social, economic and political questions. for more than a century, the club has served as the…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for Public Housing Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 185 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/76
Grantees still filing
55/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUILDING SKILLS NEW YORK: $1,041,000 · OtherBUILDING SKILLS NEW YORKNAACP NEW YORK STATE: $150,200 · OtherDEA WIDOWS & CHILDREN FUND: $126,324 · Other+148 more: $1,524,111 · Other+148 moreHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $50,250 · Community ImprovementGRAND CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $42,500 · Community ImprovementCITIZENS HOUSING & PLANNING COUNCIL OF N: $36,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,337 · Community ImprovementTHE LONG ISLAND CITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $15,500 · Community Improvement+5 more: $21,500 · Community ImprovementOUTREACH PROJECT INC: $71,158 · HealthGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $57,151 · HealthLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $24,250 · Health+3 more: $9,000 · HealthNew York University: $68,900 · EducationGREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX): $49,000 · EducationTHE BLACK INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · EducationPROJECT REAP: $10,000 · Education+5 more: $13,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $132,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM: $25,270 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION INC: $145,695 · Public BenefitCITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION INC OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $11,520 · Public BenefitTHE INNER CIRCLE OF NEW YORK POLITICAL JOURNALISTS INC D/B/A INNER CIRCLE: $109,850 · PhilanthropyABNY FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $4,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,841,635Community Improvement$191,087Health$161,559Education$160,900Arts & Culture$159,270Public Benefit$157,215Philanthropy$151,350

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 budgetCITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION INC: $145,695 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $132,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNER CIRCLE OF NEW YORK POLITICAL JOURNALISTS INC D/B/A INNER CIRCLE: $109,850 over 8y, 39% of budgetOUTREACH PROJECT INC: $71,158 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetNew York University: $68,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $57,151 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCORO NEW YORK LEADERSHIP CENTER: $56,700 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $50,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK TO STAY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX): $49,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetGRAND CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $42,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetABNY FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetCITIZENS HOUSING & PLANNING COUNCIL OF N: $36,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNEW YORK HOUSING CONFERENCE INC: $32,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetGOVERNORS ISLAND ALLIANCE: $27,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,337 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM: $25,270 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetEAST RIVER DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUP FOR GROWTH: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $24,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BLACK INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSOMOS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $19,666 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetONE HUNDRED BLACK MEN INC: $17,250 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE LONG ISLAND CITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $15,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $11,730 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION INC OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $11,520 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGOVERNORS ISLAND CORPORATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT REAP: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BUILDING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE: $6,643 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPublic Housing Communities: $6,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetHANYC FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE BOROUGH OF QUEENS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK EDGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKLYN NAVY YARD DEVELOPMENT CORP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAYS TO APPRENTICESHIP INC: $4,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MANN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 6.3% 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.

  • 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 THE BLACK INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOMOS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE HUNDRED BLACK MEN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LONG ISLAND CITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗

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.

Robin Hood FoundationBrooklyn Community Fo…Fisher Brothers Found…Abny Foundation IncThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundThe Hyde and Watson F…May and Samuel Rudin …United Way Miami IncThe New York Communit…Td Charitable Foundat…Walentas Foundation L…
Robin Hood FoundationNY26.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Realty Foundation of New York Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Realty Foundation of New York Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Heroes to Heroes Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 185 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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