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NEW YORK FOUNDATION

NEW YORK FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,011,434 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($8,950,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.2M
Funders on record
39
Grants received
$18M
Net assets
$58M
20/39 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What New York Foundation does

Programs

  1. Neighborhoods first fund:supports community-based organizations in neighborhoods facing rezoning.

    $190,797 spent
  2. The foundation operates a capacity building program that includes direct support to nonprofits that provide one-on-one consultation to grantee partners, workshops, and a small grants program.

    $98,931 spent
  3. Engage new york: connects funders across new york state to increase support for community and resident engagement.

    $186,817 spent
  4. Youth organizing and culture change fund:empowers young people to build local community power and win change for communities of color through the arts in nyc.

    $343,318 spent

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($5.0M) Expenses 100 ($6.8M) Net assets 100 ($63M)2020 Revenue 122 ($6.1M) Expenses 115 ($7.8M) Net assets 99 ($62M)2021 Revenue 301 ($15M) Expenses 136 ($9.2M) Net assets 105 ($66M)2022 Revenue 154 ($7.7M) Expenses 155 ($10M) Net assets 83 ($52M)2023 Revenue 133 ($6.6M) Expenses 122 ($8.2M) Net assets 84 ($53M)2024 Revenue 187 ($9.3M) Expenses 135 ($9.1M) Net assets 87 ($55M)2025 Revenue 105 ($5.2M) Expenses 102 ($6.9M) Net assets 92 ($58M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (105)Expenses (102)Net assets (92)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $67M to $55M (−18%).

$63M
$62M
$67M
$55M
$55M
$57M
$59M
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

Board chair

George Suttles

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed26222122232021
Joined·+6+0+6+6+0+3
No longer listed·1015532
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 20 funders, grant income fell $2.4M → $2.1M.

8 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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: $391k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The New York Community Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money NEW YORK FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of NEW YORK FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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

NEW YORK FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

50%
largest funder
64%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 79% · 2019 71% · 2020 58% · 2021 79% · 2022 30% · 2023 19% — 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

25% of NEW YORK FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

94% of NEW YORK FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
OR
NJ
CA
MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
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’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $432k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like NEW YORK FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION?
NEW YORK FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,011,434 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($8,950,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NEW YORK FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $18,011,434 in grants to NEW YORK FOUNDATION, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK FOUNDATION?
THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEW YORK FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 39 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