New York Foundation provides multi-year general operating support grants to grassroots organizing groups advancing racial, economic, gender, and climate justice in New York City.

At our June 2024 board meeting, we renewed continued support for twelve groups, and welcomed five new grantees building power in communities working on critical issues including civic participation, criminal justice reform, racial justice, disability rights, immigrant rights, economic justice, food insecurity, and more.

We are also pleased to announce the election of new executive leadership to our board, leaders who have extensive experience and commitment to New York Foundation’s mission and values.

We are pleased to share our 2023 Year in Review, offering a glimpse into our commitment to supporting grassroots organizing and power-building in communities and across New York City.

In 2023, NYF allocated nearly $6.5 million toward advancing racial, economic, gender, and climate justice in the city and state.

We are also excited to announce Rickke Mananzala’s promotion to President of the New York Foundation!

PNY Member Journeys: Our program officer Zabrina Collazo in conversation with Philanthropy New York about racial equity work at NYF: how we've made it actionable instead of aspirational, how internal equitable practices are just as important as external, and how every staff and board member is involved and accountable.

The New York Foundation is proud to be one of hundreds of foundations & individual donors signed onto the Philanthropy Open Letter for Humanity and Justice in Palestine and Israel demanding an immediate ceasefire. We answer this call from our grantees and communities here in NYC, and share the value that none of us are free until all of us are free.

Under the leadership of our Investment Committee and full board and staff, we are doubling down on our commitment to mission-aligned investing through a new partnership with the incredibly talented Bivium Capital and Westfuller.

Rickke Mananzala and George Suttles sat down with Community Capital Advisors to discuss how the foundation is aligning its investments with its mission and values – and the partnerships it sought out to do so; including hiring a Black-owned-and-founded investment advisor.

NYF provides multi-year unrestricted grants to groups organizing and advocating for our communities in New York City.

These five groups are led by people of color, queer people, and disabled people, and are working on critical issues including police reform, electoral accountability, youth organizing, and housing justice.

We are excited to welcome the New York Foundation’s six newest trustees! This great group reflects the communities and movements we aim to support and includes committed leaders with experience in organizing, advocacy, mission-aligned investing, capacity-building, & social justice philanthropy.

Organizations are facing burnout: high rates of staff turnover, dissatisfied team members, and stressed directors. How is philanthropy adding to the pressure? How can we as grantmakers support sustainable org culture for grantees?

Join us May 18th with All Due Respect, Robert Sterling Clark, and North Star Fund.

If the role of philanthropy is to advance social change, racial justice, and equity, how do we grapple with the systemic racism embedded in the nonprofit sector?

Rickke Mananzala and George Suttles in conversation with Hali Lee from Asian Women Giving Circle and Cynthia Heard from the Los Angeles Urban League.

We are pleased to share our 2022 Year in Review, which is a snapshot of our support for grassroots organizing and power-building in communities across NYC. Last year, NYF leveraged almost $7.5 million to advance racial, economic, gender, and climate justice in the city, state, and beyond.

NYF is proud to be a fiscal sponsor of YOCCF, which partners with young community and cultural leaders, artists, funders and narrative changemakers and provides relationships and resources to advance their vision for change, while building and scaling their power together.

What does the New York Foundation fund? What is the application process?

Watch a webinar with NYF staff as we discuss our criteria and priorities, our online application, the application process and timeline, and answer Q&A.