About New York Foundation
The New York Foundation funds community organizing and grassroots advocacy led by and for people who live in NYC, advancing racial, economic, gender, and climate justice.
Focus Areas
community organizinggrassroots advocacyracial justiceeconomic justicegender justiceclimate justicecivic engagement / nonpartisan democracy workhousing and tenant organizingimmigrant rightsworkers' rights / labor
Who They Fund
BIPOC organizers and leadersBronx residents (Black and Latinx communities)tenants, homeowners, and small landlords impacted by COVID-19
About New York Foundation
A defining feature of New York Foundation’s grantmaking is its support for community-led organizing across New York City and New York State, with grants that often back coalitions, grassroots campaigns, and long-term civic infrastructure. Recent awards show that they fund both large organizing platforms and smaller, specialized groups working on housing justice, tenant power, immigrant rights, racial and economic justice, and youth leadership. The foundation’s recent grant list includes major support for Vocal-NY, where a $290,000 grant backed Housing Justice for All, a fiscally sponsored project focused on organizing, outreach, and advocacy against evictions and homelessness. It also gave $275,000 to Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition to support ongoing engagement by Bronx-based groups working toward a 30-year vision for the Bronx centered on racial and economic justice. Other grants show similar emphasis on base-building and coalition work, including support for CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities, Make the Road New York, and Community Voices Heard. Across the portfolio, the pattern is not just issue funding but sustained organizational support for groups advancing community power. The foundation also backs cultural organizing and youth-led work, including arts-based civic education and campaigns tied to immigrant communities, housing, and public accountability.
What New York Foundation Funds
Housing justice is a major thread in New York Foundation’s grantmaking. The foundation gave $200,000 to Housing Justice for All to support organizing, outreach, and advocacy by its 100+ member organizations working to prevent evictions and homelessness and provide relief to tenants, homeowners, and small landlords impacted by COVID-19. It also supported Vocal-NY twice in the recent list, including a $100,000 grant for organizing and advocacy with 100+ member organizations around eviction prevention. Public housing and tenant accountability are another clear area. Community Voices Heard received $85,000 in 2024 to mobilize Black and Latinx residents around the NYCHA Preservation Trust and monitor RAD conversions. In neighborhood planning, the foundation gave $150,000 to Fifth Avenue Committee for independent facilitation of the Gowanus rezoning oversight task force. Immigrant rights and cultural organizing also appear repeatedly. DRUM received $80,000 to strengthen cultural arts and narrative change within its intergenerational organizing strategy and immigrant rights campaigns, while El Puente De Williamsburg received $80,000 to hire a youth organizer supporting cultural organizing across issue areas.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$3.9M
Total Assets
$58.8M
Total Revenue
$5.2M
Total Expenses
$6.9M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $8K and $48K, with a median of $25K.
25th Percentile
$8K
Median
$25K
75th Percentile
$48K
Geographic Reach
Local8 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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