The United Methodist City Society
New York, NY · EIN 13-5562419. Reported 102 grants totalling $6,117,284 to 47 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For The United Methodist City Society, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P200) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 28% 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.
- How much its list changes. 66% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than 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 $29,261. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $65,796; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $487,705. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Five Points Mission Ny | Cornwallonhudson, NY | $1,742,796 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Anchor House Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $914,121 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| United Methodist Center in Far Rockaway Inc | New York, NY | $407,689 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| New York Justice for Our Neighbors Inc | New York, NY | $390,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Immanuel First Spanish UMC | Brooklyn, NY | $292,238 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| New York Annual Confernce United Methodist | White Plains, NY | $244,427 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| Bethany United Methodist Church | Brooklyn, NY | $151,565 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Christ Church United Methodist | Beacon, NY | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Commack United Methodist Church | Commack, NY | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wakefield Grace | Bronx, NY | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Astoria Peoples United Methodist Chuch | Astoria, NY | $149,996 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Southbend United Methodist Church | Gainesville, GA | $135,996 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fenimore Street United Methodist Church | Brooklyn, NY | $132,840 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Brooks Memorial United Methodist Church | Jamaica, NY | $127,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Church of St Paul & St Andrew | New York, NY | $102,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Metropoliatan United Methodist Church | New York, NY | $93,412 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Butler Memorial UMC | Bronx, NY | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Salem UMC | New York, NY | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| First United Methodist Church in Central Islip | Central Islip, NY | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Pablo United Methodist Church | Astoria, NY | $59,375 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| First United Methodist Church of Jamaica | Jamaica, NY | $53,474 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chinese Methodist Center Corporation | New York, NY | $52,655 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Smithtown UMC | Smithtown, NY | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Grace United Methodist Church | St Albans, NY | $44,450 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St James UMC | St James, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Jerusalem United Methodist Church | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Paul's UMC | Hartsdale, NY | $29,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Dream UMC | East Norwich, NY | $21,800 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ghana Wesley UMC | Brooklyn, NY | $19,714 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Epworth UMC | Bronx, NY | $19,600 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Newman Memorial UMC | Brooklyn, NY | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Marks' United Methodist Church | Brooklyn, NY | $16,386 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Massapequa Community UMC | Massapequa, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Smithtown UMC | Smithtown, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bayside UMC | Bayside, NY | $10,400 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Brooks Senior Center | Jamaica, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Crawford Memorial United Methodist Church | Bronx, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hebrew Home for the Aged | Bronx, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pound Ridge Community Church | Pound Ridge, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trinity UMC White Plains | White Plains, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Union United Methodist Church | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| First UMC - Mt Vernon | Mt Vernon, NY | $9,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Calvary UMC | Bronx, NY | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Phoenicia UMC | Phoenicia, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Katonah UMC | Goldens Bridge, NY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Judson Memorial Church Inc | New York, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Tremont United Methodist Church | Bronx, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
19 of 47 (40%) 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Five Points Mission
see page 2, Form 990 Part III #4b - Anchor House Inc
Drug rehabilitation program - grant is to assist in programming. - Bethany United Methodist Church
To assist the church in doing evangelism and outreach to the community, via Capital Project. - Christ Church United Methodist
Grant to the church for Roof and Window Replacement Project, so that the church can continue to do evangelism and outreach to the community. - Wakefield Grace
To assist the church with a capital project so the church can continure to do evangelism and outreach to the community. - Commack United Methodist Church
Capital grant so that the church can continue with its evangelism and outreach to the community.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 4 of 47 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 24 | $1,560,847 | $22,400 |
| 2021 | 25 | $1,614,868 | $53,474 |
| 2022 | 17 | $931,205 | $27,655 |
| 2023 | 16 | $956,602 | $22,136 |
| 2024 | 20 | $1,053,762 | $11,000 |
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
98% 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.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $29,261 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- 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 The United Methodist City Society'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 19 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 25 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: 475 Riverside Dr 1922, New York, NY, 10115.
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