New York · Nonprofit
Make the Road New York
Make the Road New York (New York) receives grants from 323 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,955,411 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($18,375,653). 167 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 323
- Grants received
- $96M
- Net assets
- $49M
What Make the Road New York does
Mission
Make the Road New York (mrny) builds the power of immigrant and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
High quality legal and health access services - our legal team provides legal services to low-income new yorkers. Our health team provides health access services to low-income new yorkers.
$7,122,496 spentof which $378,065 as grants32% of program spendingOrganizing projects (see schedule o for details)
$4,648,292 spentof which $345,483 as grants21% of program spendingHealth programs - the health department promotes the health and well-being of low-income community members through health access services.
$4,634,652 spentof which $316,202 as grants21% of program spendingSchool based programs
$1,102,733 spentof which $88,837 as grants5% of program spendingYOUTH Education
$1,392,048 spentof which $165,711 as grants6% of program spendingAdult Education
$3,177,488 spentof which $254,134 as grants14% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,077,709.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $17M to $39M (+121%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 41% · 2018 34% · 2019 44% · 2020 48% · 2021 52% · 2022 36% · 2023 51% · 2024 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Make the Road New York’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 46 funders to 114 funders, grant income rose $5.4M → $19M.
44 of 323 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.8M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Center for Popular Democracy Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Make the Road New York raised.
From the IRS filings of Make the Road New York’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 323 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Make the Road New York has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Make the Road New York.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 17% · 2019 19% · 2020 24% · 2021 17% · 2022 8% · 2023 55% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
34% of Make the Road New York's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
79% of Make the Road New York's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Make the Road New York's funding base is broadening — from 46 funders to 114 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Make the Road New York receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.0M
- Department of Justice$600k
- Department of Homeland Security$550k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Make the Road New York
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Children's Grove Park · exempt
- Mrny Qalicb Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Make the Road New York: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Make the Road New York?
- Make the Road New York (New York) receives grants from 323 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,955,411 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($18,375,653). 167 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Make the Road New York have?
- IRS filings report 323 organizations giving $95,955,411 in grants to Make the Road New York, 167 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Make the Road New York?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $18,375,653 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Make the Road New York find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 323 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing