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.
295
Grantee community partner organizations across NYC's five boroughs
$140
M
Invested in NYC's most innovative poverty-fighting solutions in 2025
2.2
M+
New Yorkers living in poverty
Grants Directory
(423)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 Legal Aid Society
To fund the development of AI technology to enhance the organization's Housing Justice Helpline.
Grant amount: $1,000,000
The Legal Aid Society
To continue ongoing advocacy effort to improve and expand CityFHEPS, New York City’s local rental assistance voucher, ensure proper implementation of state voucher pilot, and build the case for expansion of statewide voucher.
Grant amount: $100,000
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 general operating support to the leading legal services provider supporting low-income families in New York City.
Grant amount: $425,000
The New School
To build on Robin Hood’s prior investment in racial equity scoring by helping move the work from theoretical framework to practical implementation in New York City.
Grant amount: $500,000
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
Thimble.io
To support the development and scaling of an accessible, classroom-ready STEM learning platform that expands hands-on engineering and coding opportunities.
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
Uncommon Schools
To support Uncommon Schools’ network-wide integration of computational thinking and computer science into core science curricula across the full K-12 curriculum, with a focus on K-8.
Grant amount: $400,000
Uncommon Schools
To provide low-income students in Brooklyn with a high quality education.
Grant amount: $1,150,000
United for Brownsville
To support a community coalition that increases access to Early Intervention programs and public benefits critical to improving child and family well-being for families in Brownsville.
Grant amount: $320,000
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
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.
Grant amount: $175,000
Upchieve
To support an expansion of its on-line tutoring and college counseling program across school partnerships citywide.
Grant amount: $300,000
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
Upwardly Global
To place college-educated and highly skilled immigrant professionals into jobs in high-growth sectors, such as health care, finance and technology.
Grant amount: $225,000
Urban Homesteading Assistance Board
To support a revolving fund aimed at combating dangerous and unhealthy conditions while simultaneously preventing the eviction of tenants living in buildings with these violations.
Grant amount: $135,000
Urban Homesteading Assistance Board
To expand staff capacity to undertake an ambitious rental to affordable cooperative conversion project.
Grant amount: $150,000
Urban Institute
To update Robin Hood’s benefit-cost framework and to conduct a planning grant to define the scope, process and partners that would collaborate to create the Data Collaborative.
Grant amount: $500,000
Urban Institute
To study the equity impacts and build awareness of New York State’s mandate that all schools in New York City lower class sizes by 2028.
Grant amount: $100,000
Urban Institute
To estimate benefits for four new program areas and create comprehensive documentation for multiple audiences.
Grant amount: $465,000
Urban Justice Center
To provide civil legal services around housing, immigration, benefits/income maintenance, and other areas to low-income households.
Grant amount: $420,000
Urban Upbound
To enroll New Yorkers in government benefits, focusing primarily on tax preparation assistance.
Grant amount: $150,000
Vera Institute of Justice
To support the Greater Justice New York project, focused on leveraging data and policy analysis to reduce NYC's carceral footprint and increase investment in evidence-based solutions that help those touched by the criminal legal system.
Grant amount: $400,000
