· Private foundation
Washington Square Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE INC | $25,000 |
| GLOBAL KIDS INC | $25,000 |
| PUBLICOLOR INC | $25,000 |
| GEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| RED HOOK INITIATIVE INC | $25,000 |
| VARIETY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB QUEENS | $25,000 |
| HARLEM ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF NYC | $25,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF NYC | $25,000 |
| NEW SETTLEMENT APARTMENTS | $25,000 |
| SEARCH & CARE INC | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $555k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 37% of Washington Square Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 61%.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY5× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +111%
- GKGLOBAL KIDS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +76%
- QCQUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- VBVARIETY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2023 · $25k
- LOLATINAS ON THE VERGE OF EXCELLENCE- LOVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +27%
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.
School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…
We enhance the life for children and families in some of nyc's most devastated neighborhoods.
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…
Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.
Bigs & littles nyc mentoring is a nonprofit community-based organization which transforms the lives of vulnerable nyc children and strengthens families through professionally guided one-to-one mentoring, life skills programming, and…
The mission of girls incorporated of long island, is to inspire girls to be strong, smart, and bold. the organization provides school and community based programming that serves the unique needs of girls, ages 5-18, living in the nassau…
To advance students' economic and social mobility by improving public education.
To ensure each scholar reaches individual academic and personal success through a nurturing scholar-centered approach.
The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.
Founded to educate and inspire gifted and precocious learners who require special social, emotional, executive function and academic supports to realize their high potential, in the greater new york city area, for students grades 1 through…
The east harlem school challenges students to develop a balanced physical, moral, and intellectual strength that they will use to adapt to change and for the final purpose of creating and sharing lives of deep meaning, dynamic actions, and…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 15 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
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 RED HOOK INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SEARCH AND CARE INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLICOLOR INC ↗
- Who funds FORESTDALE INC ↗
- Who funds Day One of New York Inc ↗
- Who funds VARIETY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF QUEENS INC ↗
- Who funds UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LATINAS ON THE VERGE OF EXCELLENCE- LOVE 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.
Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Credit Suisse Americas Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Amazin' Mets Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Washington Square Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Washington Square Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
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