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

Grants Directory

(349)

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.

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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 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, protect students from predatory practices and support degree completion for low-income students in New York State.

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 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

Uncommon Schools

To support Uncommon Schools’ network-wide integration of computational thinking and computer science into core science curriculum across the full K-12 continuum, with a focus on K-8.

Grant amount: $250,000

University Settlement Society

To promote social-emotional outcomes of children ages zero to five by supporting the integration of mental health consultation and mental health services in center-based child care.

Grant amount: $1,100,000

University Settlement Society

To continue improving the quality of home-based licensed child-care settings using the CHILD/IT-CHILD assessment tool and its related Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation program, and to support the expansion of the Butterflies mental health...

Grant amount: $600,000

UnLocal, Inc.

To respond to the recent influx of asylum seekers by expanding “pro se”, or self-representation, immigration legal services.

Grant amount: $750,000

Unlock NYC

To improve the quantity and quality of source-of-income discrimination reports in order to house more New Yorkers with a housing subsidy and increase accountability for discriminating landlords and real estate agents.

Grant amount: $125,000

Upsolve

To provide general operating support which will help fund litigation challenging New York State law that says non-lawyers cannot provide legal advice to individuals who have been sued by debt collectors.

Grant amount: $500,000