New York · Nonprofit
RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE
RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE (New York) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,230,565 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($13,001,494). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 115
- Grants received
- $63M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Right to the City Alliance does
Mission
The organization is a national alliance of racial, economic, and environmental justice organizations that, through shared principles, are building a national movement for racial justice, urban justice, human rights, and democracy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization is working against gentrification, displacement of low- income people of color from their historic neighborhoods, and the drastic fiscal and social policy changes imposed on cities across the country.
$11,880,759 spentof which $2,698,350 as grants$130,405 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,880,759.
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 2019 to 2020, from $4.1M to $14M (+251%).
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: 2021 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Dawn Phillips
Executive director
Board chair
Tomas Rivera
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $340k → $15M.
33 of 115 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: $165k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Right to the City Action Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE raised.
From the IRS filings of RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 115 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
RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
41% 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 RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 21% · 2019 19% · 2020 44% · 2021 28% · 2022 12% · 2023 41% — 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
43% of RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 63 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 63 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 1 related entity
- Right to the City Action Fund Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: 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 RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE?
- RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE (New York) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,230,565 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($13,001,494). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 115 organizations giving $63,230,565 in grants to RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,001,494 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 115 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