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THE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC

THE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,250 to it, the largest being KPMG US FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$402k
Net assets
$2.4M
4/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What The Realty Foundation of New York Inc does

Programs

  1. Rebny fellows leadership program helps the real estate sector cultivate diverse talent and build a leadership pipeline that brings new ideas, experiences and relationships to the table to fuel growth and innovation.

    $295,372 spent
  2. Internship program rebny & nyc summer youth employment program (syep) provides real estate industry internships aimed at cultivating diverse talent for exposure to real estate oriented careers.

    $151,911 spent
  3. Members in need program provides grants restricted to residential brokers and salespeople, who are members of rebny, are in financial need and meet other criteria for approval by the selection committee.

    $76,634 spent

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($756k) Expenses 100 ($698k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 112 ($850k) Expenses 114 ($797k) Net assets 113 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 111 ($837k) Expenses 120 ($838k) Net assets 121 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 144 ($1.1M) Expenses 117 ($820k) Net assets 151 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 64 ($483k) Expenses 119 ($832k) Net assets 161 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 294 ($2.2M) Expenses 188 ($1.3M) Net assets 225 ($2.5M)2023 Revenue 185 ($1.4M) Expenses 282 ($2.0M) Net assets 196 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 172 ($1.3M) Expenses 247 ($1.7M) Net assets 220 ($2.4M)2025 Revenue 157 ($1.2M) Expenses 221 ($1.5M) Net assets 215 ($2.4M)
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Revenue (157)Expenses (221)Net assets (215)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.6M to $3.1M (+21%).

$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.7M
$2.1M
$2.5M
$2.6M
$3.1M
$3.5M
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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

Douglas Durst

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

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No longer listed·00420021
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $25k.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Gershwind Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC raised.

From the IRS filings of THE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

THE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

29% 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 THE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC.

25%
largest funder
61%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 71% · 2019 43% · 2020 69% · 2021 47% · 2022 33% · 2023 80% — 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

11% of THE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

71% of THE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 THE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC

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

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05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC?
THE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,250 to it, the largest being KPMG US FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $402,250 in grants to THE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC?
KPMG US FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC 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 16 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing