How do I find funders for a human services nonprofit in New York?

Start with the funders already giving to human services in New York, currently The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc. Then look at who funds the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New York from out of state.

Who is the largest human services funder in New York?

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation gives the most to human services organizations in New York, $689M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to human services in New York?

$9.2B reached 3,605 human services organizations in New York, from 11,004 funders. 69% came from funders also based in New York.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · New York · Human services

Who funds human services in New York

$9.2B reached 3,605 human services organizations in New York, from 11,004 funders, with no single one dominating.

$9.2B

granted

3,605

organizations

69%

from in-state

The short version

11,004 funders gave $9.2B to 3,605 human services organizations in New York across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
69% of that came from funders also based in New York; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of human services in New York is The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, at $689M.
The human services organization drawing the most is Blue Meridian Partners Inc, at $1.9B.

Largest funders of human services in New York

The funders giving the most to human services organizations in New York, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation$689M 2Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc$647M 3Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc$537M 4Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$494M 5United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$481M 6Druckenmiller Foundation$326M 7National Philanthropic Trust$256M 8Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association Administrative Fund$239M 9Social Service Employees Union Local 371 Administrative Fund$196M 10Robin Hood Foundation$183M

Human services organizations in New York that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

3,595 other human services organizations$5.3B

Blue Meridian Partners Inc$1.9B Harlem Children's Zone Inc$521M Givedirectly Inc$419M

How to find human services funders in New York

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Start with the funders already active in New York
The funders giving the most to human services in New York are The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc. A funder already writing human services checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
31% of human services money in New York comes from funders elsewhere, so national human services funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in New York.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a human services nonprofit in New York?: Start with the funders already giving to human services in New York, currently The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc. Then look at who funds the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New York from out of state.
Who is the largest human services funder in New York?: The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation gives the most to human services organizations in New York, $689M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to human services in New York?: $9.2B reached 3,605 human services organizations in New York, from 11,004 funders. 69% came from funders also based in New York.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.