Grantee Directory
Our grantees are our community partners; as New York City’s most effective poverty-fighting nonprofits, they have boots on the ground to create scalable solutions, strengthen communities, and make a lasting impact.
300+
Grantee community partner organizations across NYC's five boroughs
$118
M
Invested in NYC's most innovative poverty-fighting solutions in 2023
2
M+
New Yorkers living in poverty
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Grants Directory
(352)This directory represents all active grants to our current community partner grantee organizations as of 2024; some organizations will appear more than once in the instances where we have two or more active projects with the same organization.
This directory represents all active grants to our current community partner grantee organizations as of 2024; some organizations will appear more than once in the instances where we have two or more active projects with the same organization.
The Campaign Against Hunger
To support The Campaign Against Hunger’s efforts in increasing the number of households that enroll in benefits, including food and nutrition assistance (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), housing supports (rental assistance and eviction pre...
Grant amount: $150,000
The Child Center of New York
To increase the number of individuals and families that enroll in benefits, such as food and nutrition assistance, housing supports, income supports, and health-care programs.
Grant amount: $570,000
The Children's Agenda
To advance policy and system changes in New York State that reduces the rate of child poverty and increase family economic security through deepened coalition advocacy, research and policy analysis.
Grant amount: $400,000
The City University of New York
To build on faculty demand and successful integration of computational thinking in pre-service education by codifying and measuring impact on student teachers across all 15 schools of education at the City University of New York.
Grant amount: $500,000
The City University of New York
To drive innovation within the education sector by piloting an artificial intelligence capacity-building program for nonprofit managers who are alumni of the City University of New York.
Grant amount: $250,000
The City University of New York
To integrate the science of reading into pre-service teacher education courses across all schools of education at the City University of New York.
Grant amount: $1,350,000
The College Investment Project
To help the College Investment Project develop an individualized tool that allows students to compare the costs and likely outcomes of college choices.
Grant amount: $300,000
The Door
To help disconnected, low-income youth from across the city earn a G.E.D. and enroll in college or find employment.
Grant amount: $500,000
The Education Trust - New York
To build on Education Trust-New York’s early literacy policy blueprint toward state-level adoption of legislation in support of evidence-based literacy instruction.
Grant amount: $25,000
The Education Trust - New York
To provide general operating support to advance early childhood education, poverty reduction, and early literacy initiatives, advocate for systemic changes, support policy development, and implement programs addressing racial and economic inequities.
Grant amount: $600,000
The HOPE Program
To enroll 130 young adults who experience multiple barriers to employment in one of two sectoral job training programs: HOPE works (entry-level administrative jobs, security jobs and certified nurse assistants) and Sustainable South Bronx (green construc...
Grant amount: $525,000
The Inspired Community Project
To provide specialized child care for low-income children in the Bronx under the age of five, offering full-day child care integrated with developmental and behavioral health services.
Grant amount: $250,000
The Institute for College Access & Success
To mitigate harm for New York higher education students and borrowers emanating from changing federal policy landscape.
Grant amount: $200,000
The Institute for College Access & Success
To advance state policies that reduce the college affordability gap in New York State for low-income students and continue advocacy to remediate student loan default among low-income borrowers.
Grant amount: $300,000
The Knowledge House
To enroll 80 young adults into the Innovation Fellowship, a 12-month program that prepares disadvantaged individuals for career-pathway jobs in technology.
Grant amount: $250,000
The Leadership Academy
To co-develop with families and school and district leaders a blueprint for in-service leaders to adopt and implement a combined blended literacy and computational thinking model across their schools.
Grant amount: $600,000
The Legal Aid Society
To support the expansion of the Access to Benefits hotline and connect low-income New Yorkers to civil legal services.
Grant amount: $725,000
The Legal Aid Society
To provide legal services for approximately 5,000 households referred from more than 30 community-based organizations that are part of Robin Hood’s benefits access network.
Grant amount: $450,000
The Legal Aid Society
To continue ongoing advocacy effort to improve and expand CityFHEPS, New York City’s local rental assistance voucher for households at risk of and experiencing homelessness and build the case for a statewide voucher.
Grant amount: $150,000
The Legal Aid Society
To assist newly arriving migrants in pursuing immigration relief and to develop and disseminate community legal education resources.
Grant amount: $400,000
The New School
To enhance racial equity in local government by developing and applying a racial equity impact assessment that government can apply to their budget and policymaking.
Grant amount: $700,000
The New York Community Trust
To support the creation of a pilot project aimed at improving coordination of care for homeless individuals with a serious mental illness.
Grant amount: $200,000
The New York Community Trust
To contribute to the New York City Workforce Development Fund, enabling Robin Hood to jointly fund high-performing organizations and work in partnership with other foundations to advance a more effective citywide workforce development system.
Grant amount: $100,000
Throughline Learning
To support school-based staff and other community members in the Bronx to work as paid tutors in schools and enroll in higher education and teacher certification pathways.
Grant amount: $630,000
Truffle Health
To support Truffle Health’s platform, designed as an artificial intelligence (AI) powered assistant for medical bill management; addresses a critical and often overlooked aspect of poverty: medical debt.
Grant amount: $60,000
Truffle Health
To create an artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform that helps individuals manage medical bills, addressing a major contributor to financial insecurity and medical debt.
Grant amount: $30,000
Uncommon Schools
To support Uncommon Schools to provide low-income students in Brooklyn with a high quality education.
Grant amount: $1,150,000