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METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY
METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY (New York) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,167,371 to it, the largest being THE HENRY & CAROLYN SUE ORENSTEIN FOUNDATION C/O CAROLYN SUE ORENSTEIN ($10,150,000). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $43M
- Funders on record
- 124
- Grants received
- $44M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty does
Mission
Metropolitan ny coordinating council is a not-for-profit organization which serves as a primary advocate for the social welfare needs of the poor, near-poor and elderly in the metro ny area. The entity is dedicated to the alleviation of social, economic, housing and any related problems of the poor, near-poor, working poor, elderly and recently arriving immigrants in the new york city area. Met council works toward the delivery of needed services by establishing links between various government agencies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The emergency food program helps families struggling to feed their children, new immigrants with little income, or frail elderly people without nutritious food, met council's kosher food program meets the needs of all who are hungry. Providing a holistic care program of food packages and emergency food vouchers, met council is meeting the complex needs of struggling new yorkers. All food provided is kosher, making met council a unique provider for the needy jewish population. At the same time, all nutritional resources are available to anyone in need, whether they keep kosher or not, regardless if they are jewish or not. For example, met council supplied over 30 halal food pantries with halal certified food for mostly immigrant clients across new york.
$18,329,423 spentof which $13,711,170 as grants$1,985,626 earned by the program59% of program spendingCrisis intervention services is a resource to help people when in serious need. Families who have no health insurance and must pay for medical bills; an elderly woman who loses her husband and faces eviction; a poor person discharged from the hospital with no place to go - the cases are endless and always varied. Additionally, our benefits enrollment program provides support to clients in both education and enrollment into new york city's public benefits programs, including medicaid, child & family health plus, and the supplemental nutrition assistance program. Met council has a specific expertise in supporting victims of family violence in insular communities as well as holocaust survivors.
$8,830,384 spent29% of program spendingHousing - met council and its affiliated housing companies provide housing for special needs populations: low income elderly, and homeless individuals in the city of new york. These programs and entities are primarily funded by government programs. The entities provide approximately 1,100 units of housing at 19 locations across nyc.
$2,326,241 spent8% of program spendingBenefits access & home repair services
$1,395,132 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,881,180.
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 2024 to 2025, from $80M to $90M (+13%).
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 17% · 2018 16% · 2019 16% · 2020 25% · 2021 22% · 2022 31% · 2023 14% · 2024 24% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
David Greenfield
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Richard Mack
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $6.1M.
17 of 124 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $60M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY raised.
From the IRS filings of METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 124 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
METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
28% 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 METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 53% · 2019 47% · 2020 19% · 2021 26% · 2022 26% · 2023 16% — diversifying over time.
“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
47% of METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
63% of METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY'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. $7.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$6.0M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.8M
- Department of Justice$500k
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 METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 29 related entities
- 141 East 23rd Streen Hdfc Inc · exempt
- 228 East 46th Street Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
- 231 East 77th Street Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
- 332 East 22nd Street Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
- 334 East 92nd Street Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY?
- METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY (New York) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,167,371 to it, the largest being THE HENRY & CAROLYN SUE ORENSTEIN FOUNDATION C/O CAROLYN SUE ORENSTEIN ($10,150,000). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY have?
- IRS filings report 124 organizations giving $44,167,371 in grants to METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY?
- THE HENRY & CAROLYN SUE ORENSTEIN FOUNDATION C/O CAROLYN SUE ORENSTEIN is the largest funder on record, with $10,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 124 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