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
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Invested in NYC's most innovative poverty-fighting solutions in 2023
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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.
Chinese American Planning Council
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: $400,000
Chinese American Planning Council
To provide intensive one-on-one counseling and additional supports to help 450 low-income, predominately A.A.P.I. and Latinx young adults to enroll, persist in and graduate from college
Grant amount: $400,000
Chinese American Planning Council
To expand Undo Poverty: Flushing Collaborative’s narrative change campaign through the wider distribution of the “Cost of Living” documentary and community-led discussions that accompany the screenings to shift perceptions of poverty in the Flushing comm...
Grant amount: $110,000
Citizens Housing and Planning Council of New York, Inc.
To support research and technical assistance activities aimed at preserving public housing and operationalizing new resident decision-making requirements
Grant amount: $261,250
Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York
To support leveraging research, civic engagement, and advocacy to address widening disparities from the pandemic, focusing on lifting incomes, stabilizing housing, enhancing early care and education access, and addressing behavioral health crises
Grant amount: $500,000
City Harvest
To distribute 81 million pounds of food to 400 food pantries and soup kitchens in New York City.
Grant amount: $750,000
City Limits
Support City Limits’ reporting on New York’s housing and homelessness crisis, with a focus on how policy decisions impact the lives of the city’s most vulnerable populations.
Grant amount: $125,000
Claimant
To support Claimant's platform that simplifies the process of applying for federal disability benefits. It helps individuals with disabilities gather their digital medical records, uses AI to identify relevant evidence of
Grant amount: $60,000
Claimant
To support Claimant's mission using AI to simplify the process of applying for federal disability benefits, with a specific emphasis on enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of medical evidence collection, which is firmly aligned with the mission of impr...
Grant amount: $30,000
Coalition for Community Schools Excellence
To preserve and develop more high-quality schools serving low-income students by elevating community voice and ensuring that families and students are represented in school and citywide strategy development.
Grant amount: $300,000
Coalition for the Homeless
To prevent eviction and achieve housing stability, and to provide crisis and ongoing services to homeless and unstably housed households.
Grant amount: $400,000
CollegeBound Initiative
To boost the rate of college matriculation for high school students and to implement a near-peer college advising and persistence program across four-year and two-year colleges.
Grant amount: $580,000
Columbia University Population Research Center
To continue novel research examining the returns on social policy program investments and conduct quick turnaround analysis of antipoverty effects of policy changes.
Grant amount: $595,000
Columbia University Population Research Center
Continue the Poverty Tracker survey of NYC households for 12 months to study income poverty, material hardship, health issues, and disadvantage; analyze families from the original Early Childhood Poverty Tracker with new reports and data linkages.
Grant amount: $114,850
Columbia University Population Research Center
Continue the longitudinal Poverty Tracker survey of NYC households for 12 months to study income poverty, material hardship, health issues, and disadvantage; continue analyzing families in the original Early Childhood Poverty Tracker
Grant amount: $1,885,150
Commission on Economic Opportunity
To support the replication of mini-pilot projects that support single parent college completion through providing housing, financial assistance, child-care, and workforce access opportunities in Northeast Pennsylvania.
Grant amount: $1,580,000
CommonLit
To scale CommonLit’s English Language Arts (E.L.A.) curriculum and leverage artificial intelligence (A.I.) technology to develop new product features that would facilitate greater personalization, ultimately leading to
Grant amount: $150,000
Commonpoint Queens
To support at-risk youth in one of two postsecondary pathways: college access and success or sectoral job training.
Grant amount: $400,000
Commonpoint Queens
to support the costs of providing comprehensive case management services to new arrivals who are primarily based in shelters.
Grant amount: $230,000
Communities Resist
To support community-based legal services to prevent eviction and advocacy aimed at preventing the displacement of low-income communities of color in Brooklyn and Queens.
Grant amount: $350,000
Community and Economic Development Association of Cook County
To support a pilot project focused on youth (ages in Harvey, Illinois that will address mobility gaps by bringing together a suite of age-appropriate programs focused on skill-building, mentoring, financial literacy, and
Grant amount: $1,580,000
Community and Economic Development Association of Cook County
To support a planning process in suburban Cook County, specifically the township of Harvey, to develop community-driven solutions to address mobility gaps.
Grant amount: $125,000
Community Service Society of New York
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
Comprehensive Youth Development
To provide supportive services to transfer school youth to earn their high school diploma and to leave high school prepared for postsecondary success.
Grant amount: $112,500
Coney Island Prep
To support Coney Island Prep’s elementary, middle and high schools to prepare young people for college access and success.
Grant amount: $750,000
Consortium for Policy Research in Education
Conduct qualitative and quantitative research in to high-poverty New York City schools to evaluate the impact on student literacy achievement of combining a blended and personalized approach with content-rich literacy
Grant amount: $1,000,000
Consortium for Policy Research in Education
To conduct qualitative and quantitative research to evaluate the impact on student academic achievement and socioemotionallearning of the Accelerating Student Success initiative.
Grant amount: $500,000