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
(373)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 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: HOPEworks (entry-level administrative jobs, security jobs and certified nurse assistants) and Sustainable South Bronx (green construct...
Grant amount: $525,000
The Institute for College Access & Success
To provide support for continued advocacy to remediate student loan default and reduce borrowers’ economic precarity by strengthening the student loan safety net and develop a grant proposal addressing the college
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 build upon the racial equity scoring in government framework the Brookings and New School team’s developed through their Power Fund grant, by applying the framework to assess the racial equity impact of proposed and
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 develop a community educators fellowship in the Bronx that will train school-based staff and family/community members to tutor students in schools and provide the tutors with a pathway to pursue college credits and
Grant amount: $100,000
Truffle Health
To support Truffle Health’s platform, designed as an 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 support Truffle Health’s platform, designed as an AI-powered assistant for medical bill management, addresses a critical and often overlooked aspect of poverty: medical debt. Medical expenses are the leading cause of bankruptcy in the U.S., with a hig...
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 socioemotional outcomes of children ages zero to five by increasing the quality of home-based licensed child-care settings using the CHILD/IT-CHILD assessment tool and its related Infant/Early Childhood Mental
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
Unlock NYC
To support Your sponsored project Unlock NYC work with New Yorkers impacted by housing discrimination to build technology that makes it easier to identify, record, and report unfair treatment.
Grant amount: $270,000
Unlocked Labs
To leverage AI to empower justice-involved individuals with transformative education and workforce readiness, breaking cycles of poverty and incarceration.
Grant amount: $100,000
Untapped Solutions
To support Untapped Solutions transformative job search platform designed for the justice-impacted community, by providing efficient pathways to reentry services through technology.
Grant amount: $50,000
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
Upstream USA
To expand access to contraceptive care in New York City by providing technical assistance to primary care clinics
Grant amount: $1,000,000