The New York Foundation is seeking applications for its 2025 Core Grants.
Donor Name: New York Foundation
State: New York
City: New York City
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/03/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Priorities
- Black Trans Media
- Are led by:
- Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color
- Trans and gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people
- Trans and cis women
- Are led by:
- Caribbean Equality Project
- Proactively center racial, economic, and gender justice
- Los Deliveristas Unidos
- Are emerging or newly formed organizations, especially those with limited access to institutional funding
- Good Old Lower East Side
- Work with overlooked and under resourced constituencies or neighborhoods, or on critical social justice issues that have not yet received public attention.
What Foundation looks for?
- Community-initiated and led: community, membership, or base identifies problems and solutions
- Power building: intentionally build community power through political activation, leadership development, base building, and collective action
- Systemic change: address the root causes of oppression to ensure the equitable distribution of resources, power, and rights
- Racial justice: address the harms caused by systemic and historical racism; creates intentional systems to support and sustain racial equity
- Collaborative: build alignment through coalition work with allies that have similar goals and values
Funding Information
New York Foundation Core Grants are $47,500 per year, up to 3 years for established groups and 5 years for emerging groups.
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible for funding from the New York Foundation, your organization must:
- Be based in NYC
- Be a 501(c)(3) organization or fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) organization
- Use community organizing & grassroots advocacy as primary strategies to address the root causes of oppression
- In addition to funds, grants include access to capacity building resources:
- Lawyers Alliance for New York: Probono legal services tailored to social change nonprofits
- Tides Advocacy: 501(c)(4) startup and strategizing
- Small Grants: Responsive grants up to $5,000 for organizational development goals and unanticipated needs
- Workshops: Monthly skills-building trainings combined with coaching.
Ineligible for Funding
- Direct services
- Individuals
- Capital campaigns
- Research studies
- Films, publications, documentaries
- Schools, universities, museums, arts institutions
- Conferences, events, galas
- Requests outside the United States
- Requests from organizations based outside New York City.
For more information, visit New York Foundation.
