Robin Hood Foundation

About Robin Hood Foundation

Robin Hood Foundation centers its grantmaking on poverty relief in New York City, with recent awards reaching public schools, universities, youth-serving nonprofits, health systems, and immigration-support organizations. The largest recent grant in the dataset was $7,405,702 to the Research Foundation of City University of New York, followed by $6,425,900 to The Fund for Public Schools Inc. Those awards fit a pattern of large institutional grants tied to education, public systems, and direct services for low-income New Yorkers. The foundation’s work is broad across anti-poverty issue areas, including child care, early childhood, K-12 and college education, health and mental health, housing and homelessness, hunger and emergency food, jobs and career advancement, financial stability, and legal services and case management for immigrants. Its program structure also includes initiatives such as School-Age Children, Young Adults, Capital Grants, and the Funds for the Newest New Yorkers. Recent grants also show support for organizations serving homeless residents, students, migrants, and young adults. Robin Hood Foundation is a public charity and also makes program-related investments. Its grant history reflects a local approach focused overwhelmingly on New York City organizations.

What Robin Hood Foundation Funds

Education is a major part of the foundation’s anti-poverty strategy. Recent grants include $4,157,500 to Relay Graduate School of Education for poverty relief, $2,600,000 to Kipp New York for poverty relief, and $2,100,000 to Achievement First in New Haven for poverty relief. The foundation also supports public systems and service providers that reach low-income residents at scale. It gave $2,385,290 to New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation for poverty relief and $2,160,000 to Center for Urban Community Services Inc for poverty relief. For immigrant and asylum-seeker support, Robin Hood Foundation backs the Funds for the Newest New Yorkers, an allied fund that supports legal services, case management, and stability services for newly arrived migrants and asylum seekers in New York City. It also funds technology-oriented work through Blue Ridge Labs’ Founder Fellowship, which supports early-stage founders with mentorship, research, hands-on support, and a $20,000 stipend.

How Robin Hood Foundation Gives