New York · Grantmakers

Foundations That Fund Civil Rights & Social Justice in New York

Imperigo has identified 1,106 funders that made 8,610 grants totaling $2.1B to 402 civil rights & social justice organizations in New York, with a median grant of $26K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Civil Rights & Social Justice Funding in New York

Total granted $2.1B
Funders 1,106
Grants 8,610
Organizations funded 402

Top Funders — page 2 of 4

26. Brooklyn Community Foundation
63 grants to 22 organizations · largest $125K · through 2023 · 3.8% of their giving
$2.1M
27. 128 Collective Initiatives Inc
9 grants to 2 organizations · largest $175K · through 2024 · 9.5% of their giving
$720K
28. Groundswell Fund
33 grants to 10 organizations · largest $150K · through 2024 · 2.9% of their giving
$2.2M
29. Robin Hood Foundation
32 grants to 18 organizations · largest $800K · through 2024
$6.4M
30. Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Mercer Inc
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $211K · through 2024 · 8.9% of their giving
$705K
31. Saidoff Foresight Foundation
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $512K · through 2020 · 6.9% of their giving
$814K
32. Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego
19 grants to 8 organizations · largest $5.0M · through 2024
$6.4M
33. Give Lively Foundation Inc
38 grants to 12 organizations · largest $453K · through 2025 · 2.2% of their giving
$2.4M
34. Impactassetsinc
87 grants to 32 organizations · largest $1.2M · through 2024
$8.4M
35. Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma
63 grants to 23 organizations · largest $2.1M · through 2024
$5.5M
36. Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
87 grants to 46 organizations · largest $3.2M · through 2024
$10.2M
38. Luesther T Mertz Charitable Trust
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.1M · through 2021 · 2.7% of their giving
$1.9M
43. Charities Aid Foundation America
79 grants to 25 organizations · largest $1.4M · through 2024
$9.0M
45. The New York Community Trust
87 grants to 42 organizations · largest $375K · through 2024
$6.2M
52. Corporation for Public Broadcasting
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $3.5M · through 2023
$10.7M
57. Inatai Foundation
10 grants to 4 organizations · largest $750K · through 2024 · 1.1% of their giving
$2.2M
58. The San Francisco Foundation
74 grants to 22 organizations · largest $297K · through 2024
$5.2M
61. Seattle Foundation
139 grants to 14 organizations · largest $500K · through 2024
$3.9M
66. The Blackbaud Giving Fund
39 grants to 26 organizations · largest $657K · through 2024
$5.4M
69. The Bessemer Giving Fund C/O Bessemer Trust Company Trustee
26 grants to 10 organizations · largest $998K · through 2024
$3.0M
71. Jewish Federation of Cleveland
15 grants to 3 organizations · largest $1.1M · through 2024
$2.6M
73. United Way Worldwide
12 grants to 8 organizations · largest $1.2M · through 2020
$1.8M
79. Greater Houston Community Foundation
32 grants to 11 organizations · largest $970K · through 2024
$3.5M
83. Greater Washington Community Foundation
48 grants to 12 organizations · largest $381K · through 2024
$2.4M
106. The Pew Charitable Trusts
7 grants to 5 organizations · largest $1.0M · through 2024
$2.0M

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to civil rights & social justice work in New York, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 20 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.

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About This Data

A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering civil rights & social justice work, with an address in New York. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.

Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable civil rights & social justice funding in New York, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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