New York Foundation

New York Foundation is a US private foundation based in New York, NY.

Profile derived from the foundation's IRS Form 990-PF filings (TY2025, TY2024, TY2023) and its website, with every statement checked against those sources. Sources read on 7 October 2026.

Priority Areas

New York Foundation funds community organizing and grassroots advocacy led by and for people who live in NYC. It supports movement-building and grassroots initiatives that build power to confront systemic barriers and advance racial, economic, gender and climate justice. Its Core Grants support eligible organisations based in NYC that are 501(c)(3) organisations or fiscally sponsored by one, and use community organising and grassroots advocacy as primary strategies. The foundation values community-initiated and community-led work, power-building through political activation, leadership development, base-building and collective action, and collaboration. It prioritises groups led by Black, Indigenous and people of colour; trans, gender-nonconforming and nonbinary people; and trans and cis women, particularly emerging organisations with limited access to institutional funding and groups working with overlooked or under-resourced communities or on critical social justice issues.

Themes

• Community organizing
• Grassroots advocacy
• Movement-building
• Racial justice
• Economic justice
• Gender justice
• Climate justice

Geographic Focus

NYC.

What They Don't Fund

• Direct services
• Individuals
• Capital campaigns
• Research studies
• Films, publications, documentaries
• Schools, universities, museums, arts, and religious institutions
• Conferences, events, galas
• Requests outside the United States
• Requests from organizations based outside New York City

The foundation provides an Application Portal Guide to help applicants with the application process.

Deadlines: Applications are due in early March.

• Repeat giving: In its TY2025 filing, 88% of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded in its TY2023 or TY2024 filing.
• Grant size: Across its TY2023, TY2024 and TY2025 filings, half of its 538 grants to organisations were $15,000 or less.

What the foundation says:

• The foundation looks for community-initiated and -led work, where the community, membership or base identifies problems and solutions.
• The foundation values power-building through political activation, leadership development, base-building and collective action.
• It prioritises work addressing systemic change and racial justice, and collaborative work with allies who share similar goals and values.
• It prioritises groups led by Black, Indigenous and people of colour; trans and gender-nonconforming and nonbinary people; and trans and cis women.
• It favours emerging or newly formed organisations, particularly those with limited access to institutional funding.
• Applicants fitting the foundation’s criteria and priorities may be asked for further information; staff schedule site visits and request additional materials.