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Hope for New York

New York, NY · EIN 13-3713484. Reported 209 grants totalling $13.9M to 50 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

50organizations funded
$52,785median reported grant
$13.9Mgranted, 2020-2024
95%of grantees funded again the next year
8%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Hope for New York, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30J).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 50 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 95% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $52,785. Half of what it reported fell between $30,000 and $87,750; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $307,603. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
33 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
57 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
69 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
43 grants
$250,000 Or More
2 grants

40 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $550,482 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Christian Herald Assn IncNew York, NY$1,108,231552024
City Relief IncClifton, NJ$811,599552024
Campus Crusade for Christ IncOrlando, FL$729,1231052024
The Salvation ArmyWest Nyack, NY$722,505552024
Restore Nyc IncNew York, NY$620,844552024
Avail NycNew York, NY$593,540552024
Urban Hope IncStaten Island, NY$585,672552024
A House on Beekman IncBronx, NY$580,497552024
Fathers Heart MinistriesNew York, NY$567,958552024
Young LifeColorado Spgs, CO$512,324552024
Safe Families for Children AllianceChicago, IL$503,710552024
Operation Exodus-Inner City IncNew York, NY$473,500552024
Mission LazarusNashville, TN$433,676552024
Open Door Njny IncGuttenberg, NJ$353,727552024
Dream Center NycLong Is City, NY$349,395552024
Center for All Abilities IncNew York, NY$291,465552024
St Pauls House IncNew York, NY$286,760552024
Hope Christian CenterBronx, NY$284,810552024
Open Hands Legal Services IncNew York, NY$280,579552024
Youth for Christ USA IncParker, CO$273,870552024
New Beginnings Centers of Hope IncValley Stream, NY$273,091552024
Trinity Grace ChurchBrooklyn, NY$270,470442024
Garden of Hope IncFlushing, NY$251,778552024
Graffiti 2 Community MinistriesBronx, NY$245,520552024
All Angels' Church IncNew York, NY$238,500552024
Do for One NycNew York, NY$232,320552024
Camp Shiloh IncWoodridge, NY$202,285552024
Chinese Christian Herald Crusades IncFlushing, NY$190,222552024
Graffiti Community Ministries IncNew York, NY$176,595552024
Teen ChallengeBrooklyn, NY$166,200552024
New Life Community Development CorporationElmhurst, NY$151,067552024
Prison Fellowship MinistriesLansdowne, VA$121,000222021
9 Million Reasons IncLong Island, NY$115,044222024
Gifted HandsNew York, NY$113,153552024
Hillside Center for Education IncNew York, NY$98,200552024
Habitat for Humanity-New York IncNew York, NY$92,244442023
Brooklyn Arab American Friendship CenterBrooklyn, NY$85,000442024
Living Waters Fellowship IncBrooklyn, NY$70,000552024
20 20 Vision for Schools IncBrooklyn, NY$66,750442024
Rhow Brooklyn IncBrooklyn, NY$59,000442023
Community Connections for Youth IncBronx, NY$57,000332024
Code for Life USA IncNew York, NY$40,760222024
New Life of New York City IncNew York City, NY$38,446112024
Reach Family and Education CenterBrooklyn, NY$34,000222023
Park Slope Christian TabernacleBrooklyn, NY$32,575112021
Relume Foundation IncFar Rockaway, NY$32,359112024
Viva UptownNew York, NY$19,490222024
Redemption Church IncBrooklyn, NY$16,644112024
New York City International Project IncNew York, NY$13,454112024
Exodus Transitional Community IncNew York, NY$7,184112024

44 of 50 (88%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 43 of 50 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
16 orgs
Religion
7 orgs
Education
5 orgs
Crime & Legal
4 orgs
Youth Development
3 orgs
International Affairs
1 org
Community Improvement
1 org
Mental Health
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202039$3,198,597$65,000
202139$2,904,734$64,000
202242$2,688,258$51,400
202343$2,852,539$45,000
202446$2,230,008$42,866

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

73% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

New York
$10.1M
New Jersey
$1.2M
Colorado
$786K
Florida
$729K
Illinois
$504K
Tennessee
$434K
Virginia
$121K

Down to the city

New York, NY
$5.3M
Bronx, NY
$1.2M
Clifton, NJ
$812K
Brooklyn, NY
$801K
Orlando, FL
$729K
West Nyack, NY
$723K

Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one

26 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 65 grants totalling $1,071,009 to Hope for New York. That is 52% of the 50 funders we can see giving to it. Those 26 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a grantmaking organization.

15 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.

What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.

FoundationStateReportedGrantsYearsLast
The Grace and Mercy Foundation IncNew York$340,000332023
Robinwood Foundation IncNew Jersey$250,000112025
Kauffmann Family Foundation IncGeorgia$125,000552025
The Harold C Smith Foundation toIllinois$100,000112023
The Warburg Pincus FoundationNew York$57,000332023
The Hultquist FoundationFlorida$50,000552025
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNew York$22,533652025
GEN122 Foundation IncNew York$20,000222024
The Pfizer Foundation IncNew York$17,676542024
Tufenkian Foundation IncNew York$16,000332023

The 10 largest by reported dollars, of 26.

A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.

Every foundation in the table above files Form 990-PF, which reports every grant it made and asks outright whether it funds only organizations it picks. That answer is what puts it on this list; no other form asks the question. The grants this organization reports making are on Form 990 Schedule I, which only requires listing recipients paid more than $5,000. Two different populations, so the money in and the money out on this page are not two halves of one figure and must not be added or compared.

Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund28 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc23 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc22 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program15 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc13 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust12 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $52,785 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Hope for New York's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 46 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 1500 Broadway 700, New York, NY, 10036.

EIN 13-3713484 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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