Strengthening Communities

The Foundation has an historic interest in ensuring that individuals and families living in the city have access to the services and resources they need to pursue and sustain successful lives. The Foundation invests in organizations, programs, and projects that achieve results aligned with the objectives outlined below. Please note that the "Results Sought" reflect the specific outcomes of interest to us.
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2025

Objective 1

Build and preserve economic security and independence among low-income individuals and families.

Results Sought:

  1. Increase the number of low-income New Yorkers who are placed in and retain jobs that support economic independence
  2. Increase the number of low-income New Yorkers enrolled in public benefits that complement work
  3. Enable vulnerable populations (e.g., the elderly) to remain in their own homes and communities, with a focus on systemic efforts to address barriers to independence
Grants 2025

Make the Road New York
$150,000 (over eighteen months)
To support organizational and client-support needs, activities, and programs in New York

Per Scholas Inc.
$50,000
To deepen and cultivate local and state public sector relationships in New York

Phipps Neighborhoods, Inc.
$75,000
To support the Career Network programs in Healthcare and Building Services

Objective 2

Promote and sustain the availability of, and equitable access to, essential community resources needed to support stable, healthy communities, with an emphasis on systemic efforts.

Results Sought:

  1. Preserve and/or increase the quality and amount of affordable housing
  2. Preserve and/or increase the quality and availability of well-maintained parks and open spaces, and other essential community resources
Grants 2025

The Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development, Inc.
$250,000 (over two years)
To support its efforts to combat housing discrimination, exclusionary zoning, and the affordability crisis in NYC

City Parks Foundation, Inc. (NYC Green Fund)
$350,000 (over two years)
To support the NYC Green Fund and Partnerships for Parks

The Fifth Avenue Committee, Inc.
$150,000 (over two years)
To support two critical senior staffing transitions and further build its asset management finance, and IT capacity

Natural Areas Conservancy
$75,000 (over eighteen months)
To establish a practitioner network devoted to natural areas care in New York City

Neighborhoods First Fund for Community Planning
$350,000 (over two years)
To help support the Neighborhoods First Fund

Van Cortlandt Park Alliance (FKA Friends of Van Cortlandt Park)
$150,000 (over two years)
For capacity building support