Recent Grants
2023 Grants
Housing & Homelessness
| Organization | Amount | Grant Purpose |
|---|---|---|
Alliance for Downtown New York | $175,000 | A renewal project grant to support street homeless outreach in Lower Manhattan, led by the Bowery Residents’ Committee, a subgrantee of the Alliance for Downtown New York. |
Breaking Ground HDFC | $500,000 | A project grant to a fund for expediting the move-in time frame for New Yorkers who are exiting homelessness and have been approved for a supportive housing unit by the New York City Human Resources Administration. |
Bridge Street Development Corporation | $200,000 | A project grant to increase the housing development capacity of Bridge Street Development Corporation to produce a range of housing types in its community. |
| Brooklyn Legal Services Corp A | $200,000 | A project grant to support legal services that help tenants remain in their homes and help homeowners avoid foreclosure. |
| Chhaya Community Development | $200,000 | A renewal project grant to continue the Housing Security Emergency Fund, a program that combines direct financial assistance with case management and wraparound services to prevent evictions and foreclosures for low- to moderate- income South Asian and Indo-Caribbean households in Queens. |
| City Report (THE CITY) | $300,000 | A renewal project grant to support The City’s news coverage of housing and homelessness issues, dissemination of practical information on housing programs, and community-based engagement with its readers. |
| Committee Against Anti Asian Violence (CAAAV) | $100,000 | A renewal project grant to support organizing and advocacy efforts that will help prevent illegal evictions and harassment of Asian residents of Chinatown, the Lower East Side, and Astoria. |
| Community Voices Heard (CVH) | $200,000 | A renewal project grant to support ongoing advocacy to reduce housing exclusions based on prior involvement with the justice system in public housing and government-supported affordable housing developments. |
| Enterprise Community Partners | $450,000 | A renewal project grant to support the organization’s policy work to expand fair housing protections in New York, secure funding for more supportive housing units, and develop an education program for the real estate industry on the housing needs of justice-involved people. |
| Fair Housing Justice Center | $150,000 | A project grant to support investigations, enforcement actions, and advocacy to prevent housing discrimination based on source of income and involvement in the criminal justice system. |
| Hetrick-Martin Institute | $200,000 | A renewal project grant to expand the LGBTQ Youth Homelessness Prevention Program, a unified and coordinated system of partnerships across service providers and city agencies to ensure that LGBTQ youth experiencing housing instability have access to essential services that will allow them to avoid homelessness. |
| Housing Justice for All | $300,000 | A renewal grant to expand the capacity of Housing Justice for All member organizations to advocate for policies that end homelessness and increase the number of low-income housing units. |
| Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing | $50,000 | A project grant to pilot the Interfaith Voucher Support Program to support individuals with housing vouchers that have not been able to secure a rental unit due to source of income discrimination. |
| The Ladies of Hope Ministries | $250,000 | A renewal project grant to support Hope House, the grantee’s signature housing program, and its continued replication as a housing model for justice-involved women across New York City. |
| Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter | $500,000 | A renewal project grant to support the development of a housing model to assist college students experiencing homelessness or housing instability. |
| New York Public Radio (Gothamist/WNYC) | $250,000 | A renewal project grant to support media coverage of housing and homelessness issues in New York City. |
| New York University Grossman School of Medicine | $100,000 | A project grant to build a hub of information on the connection between housing and health and to elevate the voices of people with lived experience. |
| NYC Youth & Family Homelessness Fund | $500,000 | A renewal project grant to support the New York City Youth and Family Homelessness Fund, a collaborative of philanthropic entities uniting to amplify and fund pilot programs, research, and narrative change to combat New York City’s homelessness crisis. |
| Open New York | $200,000 | A general operating grant to support a housing policy and advocacy organization focused on increasing development of all types of housing to address New York City’s affordability crisis. |
| Pa’lante Harlem | $180,000 | A project grant to expand the organization’s homelessness prevention program, enabling vulnerable and low-income residents of Upper Manhattan to remain stably housed. |
| Part of the Solution (POTS) | $150,000 | A project grant to increase the capacity of the organization’s legal services to prevent evictions for low-income Bronx residents who are at risk of becoming homeless. |
| Project Renewal | $100,000 | A project grant to support a Nurse Care Manager that will help ensure continuity of mental health care for Project Renewal’s clients. |
| Providence House | $600,000 | A renewal project grant to help women reentering society from incarceration solidify family bonds with their children. |
| Public Policy Lab | $184,000 | A project grant to analyze, propose, and implement changes to the New York City housing voucher system. |
| RESTORE NYC | $150,000 | A project grant to increase access to housing and wraparound services for survivors of human trafficking. |
| RiseBoro Community Partnership | $600,000 | A renewal project grant to expand anti-eviction and homelessness prevention services, including direct financial payments to households that are unable to access rental arrears assistance. |
| TakeRoot Justice | $350,000 | A renewal grant to expand the organization’s capacity to provide legal services and tenant organizing support to prevent the displacement of low-income and undocumented New Yorkers. |
| The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | $225,000 | A renewal project grant to support a research team, that will analyze New York City government data using a predictive research methodology to understand how to best prevent homelessness and assist homeless young adults and families. |
| Urban Homesteading Assistance (UHAB) | $150,000 | A project grant to support the Revolving Defense Fund, which provides escrow support for tenants who are suing landlords for extremely poor housing conditions that are significant violations of New York State’s Multiple Dwelling Law. |
| West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing (WSFSSH) | $150,000 | A project grant to support housing development activities that will produce affordable housing with on-site services for seniors. |
Leadership Development
| Organization | Amount | Grant Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Anglican Alliance | $750,000 | A project grant to support the development of the “Agents of Change” initiative, encompassing an eight-module course that would empower emerging Anglican leaders with vision and skills for asset-based community development |
| Christ Church Cranbrook | $600,000 | A project grant to expand the Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies to Atlanta to lay a foundation for a national program in pastoral leadership to support clergy serving diverse communities. |
| The Colossian Forum | $200,000 | A project grant to scale the WayFinder leadership program by developing denominational and regional deployment models with an emphasis on engaging Episcopal dioceses and parishes. |
| Cyclical Incorporated | $215,000 | A renewal project grant to support the creation of an online ecosystem for training early and mid-career leaders, both lay and ordained, to become faithful innovators. |
| Diocese of Olympia | $120,000 | A renewal project grant to create a new model of the congregational leadership development program offered by the College for Congregational Development by making materials more culturally relevant to diverse populations and adapting it to emerging forms of worship and community. |
| Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) | $370,000 | A renewal project grant to accelerate knowledge sharing and coalition building among civic and faith-based leaders through a public hackathon targeting inequality in housing, education, jobs, and entrepreneurship. |
| Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta | $100,000 | A renewal project grant to expand the successful pilot of a “train the trainers” model, developing lay leaders in small congregations across Province IV with the goal of scaling to a province-wide lay leadership development program. |
| Episcopal Parish Network | $345,000 | A project grant to support the design and delivery of a leadership development initiative that would identify, equip, and support new generations of lay leaders for parishes and cathedrals. |
| Episcopal Theological School at Claremont (Bloy House) | $100,000 | A renewal project grant to develop and offer the second round of new courses focused on practical leadership skills for emerging lay leaders as well as mentoring support for applying these skills in a congregational setting. |
| The FaithX Project | $300,000 | A renewal project grant to develop a research-based diocesan, or judicatory, vitality assessment tool and provide reduced-cost vitality improvement services to cohorts of small congregations and dioceses. |
| GreenFaith | $150,000 | A project grant to provide transformational training and a supportive community to people of faith for peaceful, religiously rooted public action for climate justice. |
| Hispanic Theological Initiative | $100,000 | A project grant for a two-year pilot to create digital training materials for faith leaders from different backgrounds to effectively minister to the growing Latinx population. |
| Interfaith America | $250,000 | A project grant to support the creation of “A Nation of Bridgebuilders” specifically for faith leaders. |
| Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities | $120,000 | A renewal project grant to create educational materials for training Anglican leaders and expand on the seminar approach successfully implemented in phase one of the project. |
| Learning Forte | $160,000 | A project grant to support the development and implementation of the Strategic Imagination (SI) Sandbox, a ten-month, cohort-based offering that equips leaders with the tools and methods they need to effectively innovate in their unique contexts. |
| Partnership for Renewal | $100,000 | A renewal project grant to develop a “train the trainers” model to enable the organization to expand its church leadership development and congregational vibrancy model beyond its current geographic limits. |
| Princeton Theological Seminary | $1,000,000 | A renewal project grant, shared among nine seminaries, dedicated to theologically forming and practically preparing students to lead social innovation and entrepreneurial ministries by integrating entrepreneurial perspectives into seminary degree programs. Services for this network are based at Princeton Theological Seminary, and almost 50% of this grant is to be re-granted to the eight seminaries participating in the network. |
| Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation | $100,000 | A project grant to update the organization’s educational programming for faith leaders by adding new perspectives from diverse communities. |
| The Society for the Increase of the Ministry | $400,000 | A project grant to fund a two-year grassroots engagement with Commissions on Ministry to lead local dioceses through a process of listening, learning, supporting, and visioning possible futures of the discernment process for ministry in The Episcopal Church. |
Mission Real Estate Development
| Organization | Amount | Grant Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Anglican Diocese of Tema, Ghana | $50,000 | A project grant to complete a feasibility study to assess market demand, financial and operational viability, and the overall development concept for a proposed ground-up multipurpose recreational center in Tema, a suburb of Accra, Ghana. |
| Bricks and Mortals | $50,000 | A new grant to fund a strategic planning process that would help build the organizational capacity for Bricks and Mortals—a non-profit organization that helps New York City congregations to maximize their real property to serve their communities. |
| Diocese of Central Zimbabwe | $100,000 | A renewal project grant to fund the feasibility and predevelopment studies required to build a new 5-megawatt solar power plant on 25 acres of farmland at St. Patrick’s Mission. |
| Diocese of Gitega, Burundi | $320,000 | A project grant to expand the capacity of the Gitega Anglican Conference Center from 20 rooms and 3 conference spaces to 39 rooms and 6 conference spaces. |
| Diocese of Harare, Zimbabwe | $100,000 | A renewal grant to fund capital improvements and infrastructure upgrades to increase the income-generating potential of Bishops Mount Center—an operational hotel and conference center in the capital city of Harare. |
| Diocese of Makamba, Burundi | $150,000 | A renewal project grant to complete the repositioning of a conference facility to a medical facility, with the potential to access government subsidies to support women’s and children’s health. |
| Diocese of Southwest Tanganyika, Tanzania | $270,000 | A project grant to fund the development costs of a hostel and retail center as the first phase of a larger mixed-use master plan in the rapidly growing town of Njombe, Tanzania. |
| Episcopal Diocese of Hawaiʻi, Hālau Waʻa Episcopal | $90,000 | A new project grant to support pre-development work to advance planning and development of a multi-building, multi-generational campus with a Montessori school and daytime elder care. |
| New York State Council of Churches | $225,000 | A renewal project grant to advise faith-based institutions in New York City on mission-driven real estate development opportunities. |
| St. Andrew's Episcopal Church | $50,000 | A project grant to assess the economic feasibility of developing affordable and mixed-income housing on underutilized parcels of St. Andrew’s campus in New Providence, New Jersey. |
| St. Mary's Episcopal Church Anchorage | $150,000 | A renewal project grant to support predevelopment work to advance the evaluation of a potential multifamily housing project that will increase financial sustainability for the church and address the shortage of affordable housing in Anchorage, Alaska. |
| St. Paul's Episcopal Church, King George, Virginia | $85,000 | A new project grant to validate the project concept and financial viability of a master-site plan by engaging community stakeholders, completing a market analysis, and developing early schematic designs to right-size the project and estimate the cost of construction. |
Racial Justice
| Organization | Amount | Grant Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| A Little Piece of Light | $70,000 | A renewal grant to support the grantee as one of ten community-based organizations partnering to cultivate restorative justice practices within victim services programs using New York City’s Blueprint on Restorative Justice. |
| Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) | $250,000 | A renewal grant to support statewide advocacy for progressive reform and policies to end mass incarceration and the school-to-prison pipeline. |
| Alliance of Families for Justice | $200,000 | A renewal general operating grant to continue supporting the grantee’s mission to support, empower, and mobilize families and individuals impacted by the criminal justice system so that they can marshal their collective power to create a just world. |
| American Friends Service Committee | $100,000 | A renewal project grant to continue support for the New York Healing Justice Program, a faith-based effort helping people who are serving long-term prison sentences to be safely released from prison to join family members who have gone through a process of healing and leadership development. |
| Arab-American Family Support Center | $70,000 | A renewal grant to support grantee as one of ten community-based organizations partnering to cultivate restorative justice practices within victim services programs using New York City’s Blueprint on Restorative Justice. |
| Avenues For Justice | $200,000 | A general operating grant to support the organization’s three-fold mission to intervene to divert and reclaim young people from lives of crime, to provide an overloaded court system a reliable alternative to incarceration and to make New York City a safer place for everyone. |
| Black Womens Blueprint | $70,000 | A renewal grant to support the grantee as one of ten community-based organizations partnering to cultivate restorative justice practices within victim services programs using New York City’s Blueprint on Restorative Justice. |
| Borough of Manhattan Community College | $450,000 | A renewal project grant to support an academic success program for students impacted by the justice system. |
| The Brotherhood Sister Sol (BroSis) | $600,000 | A renewal general operating grant to support the organization’s mission to provide comprehensive, holistic, and long-term support services to youth ages 8 to 22. |
| Center for Community Alternatives | $400,000 | A renewal project grant to support the Communities Not Cages campaign and other organizing and advocacy campaigns to decarcerate jails and prisons, end the criminalization of immigrants, and increase alternative-to-incarceration programs. |
| Center for Justice Innovation | $175,000 | A renewal grant to anchor a citywide collaborative that cultivates restorative justice practices and documents a model for violence prevention by incorporating restorative justice principles. |
| Children's Rights | $200,000 | A project grant to improve access to, and the availability of, critical mental and behavioral health services for New York City children. |
| Circle for Justice Innovations | $175,000 | A renewal grant to anchor a citywide collaborative that will cultivate restorative justice practices and document a model for violence prevention by incorporating restorative justice principles. |
| CONNECT | $70,000 | A renewal grant to support the grantee as one of ten community-based organizations partnering to cultivate restorative justice practices within victim services programs using New York City’s Blueprint on Restorative Justice. |
| Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation | $100,000 | A renewal project grant to support Future of Tomorrow, a youth-led community organizing and leadership initiative that focuses on dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline in New York City. |
| Drive Change | $100,000 | A renewal general operating grant supporting the grantee’s mission to provide workforce development and other reentry supports to formerly incarcerated youth. |
| Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM) | $125,000 | A renewal grant to support the organization’s mission to build the power of South Asian and Indo-Caribbean low-wage immigrant workers, youth, and families in New York City to attain racial justice and immigrant rights. |
| Elite Learners | $200,000 | A renewal project grant to support community-based anti-violence services for youth in Brownsville, Brooklyn. |
| Fountain House | $400,000 | A renewal project grant to support advocacy for, and public education on, nonpunitive community-based services for individuals living with serious mental illness who are involved in the criminal legal system. |
| Getting Out and Staying Out (GOSO) | $125,000 | A renewal general operating grant supporting the grantee’s mission to partner with people impacted by arrest and incarceration on a journey of education, employment, and emotional well-being and to collaborate with New York City communities to support a culture of nonviolence. |
| Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) | $300,000 | A renewal general operating grant toward the organization’s mission to work intergenerationally, through a Black feminist lens, to center the leadership of Black girls and gender-expansive young people of color in reshaping culture and policy through advocacy, youth-centered programming, and narrative shift to achieve gender and racial justice. |
| How Our Lives Link Altogether (HOLLA) | $70,000 | A renewal grant to support the grantee as one of ten community-based organizations partnering to cultivate restorative justice practices within victim services programs using New York City’s Blueprint on Restorative Justice. |
| Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison | $375,000 | A renewal project grant to continue supporting the organization’s Transitional Services program, which provides education and workforce development, mentoring, and other critical reentry services to its growing base of alumni. |
| Immigrant Defense Project | $125,000 | A renewal project grant to support the Immigrant Defense Project, a hub for policy, advocacy, and litigation at the intersection of the criminal legal and immigration systems. |
| Interfaith Center of New York | $150,000 | A renewal grant to provide general operating support for the faith organization’s mission to overcome prejudice, violence, and misunderstanding by activating the power of the city’s grassroots religious and civic leaders and their communities. |
| CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Data Collaborative for Justice | $30,000 | A project grant to support supplemental research analyses and communications activities to educate policy makers and the public about trends in criminal convictions in New York. |
| Justice Peer Initiative | $150,000 | A project grant to support the expansion of a new initiative that seeks to elevate peer support for individuals living with serious mental illnesses who are impacted by the criminal legal system. |
| Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI) | $300,000 | A renewal general operating grant in support of the organization’s mission to prevent and eliminate interpersonal violence in the lives of young people through advocacy, peer leadership, community mobilization, and social justice. |
| Living Redemption Community Development Corporation | $150,000 | A grant to support the organization’s mission to save lives and heal communities, one relationship at a time, through youth-focused, family-centered, and community-driven programs in Central and West Harlem. |
| The New School Institute for Transformative Mentoring | $150,000 | A project grant to create and implement a new initiative to support and develop credible messengers. |
| New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project | $70,000 | A renewal grant to support grantee as one of ten community-based organizations partnering to cultivate restorative justice practices within victim services programs using New York City’s Blueprint on Restorative Justice. |
| New York Communities for Change (NYCC) | $300,000 | A renewal project grant to support grassroots advocacy for continued decarceration and expanded housing options for New Yorkers affected by the criminal legal system. |
| New York Focus | $170,000 | A renewal grant to continue support of critical media coverage for decarceration, transparency, and accountability in New York’s criminal legal system. |
| New York State Immigrant Action Fund | $100,000 | A renewal project grant to strengthen political organizing and mobilization of immigrant communities to advocate for immigrant rights and protections in New York’s criminal legal and immigration systems. |
| New York Theological Seminary | $200,000 | A renewal grant to continue support of the Master of Professional Studies (MPS) theological education program at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility and to support the new program at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. |
| North Star Fund Let Us Breathe Fund | $175,000 | A renewal project grant to support the Let Us Breathe Fund, designed to build the capacity and power of Black-led grassroots groups working to reimagine community safety and hold statewide policymakers accountable. |
| Parole Preparation Project | $150,000 | A renewal project grant to support Survivors of the System, a program that provides services, fellowship, and mentorship to people returning home after spending decades in prison. |
| Release Aging People in Prison Campaign (RAPP) | $150,000 | A renewal project grant to support directly impacted leaders as they engage in a statewide grassroots campaign to promote fair and meaningful release opportunities for incarcerated people, as well as other decarceration efforts. |
| Rising Ground STEPS to End Family Violence | $70,000 | A renewal grant to support the grantee as one of ten community-based organizations partnering to cultivate restorative justice practices within victim services programs using New York City’s Blueprint on Restorative Justice. |
| Staten Island Urban Center | $100,000 | A general operating grant to support the organization’s mission to help multigenerational and multiethnic stakeholders build healthy neighborhoods and elevate their voices through community activism, arts, publications, and youth development. |
| Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project | $100,000 | A renewal project grant to produce and advance research-informed recommendations for community mental health services and alternatives to detention and incarceration in order to reduce jail incarceration of people with mental health concerns. |
| Urban Youth Alliance International - BronxConnect | $150,000 | A renewal project grant to support a Bronx-based, faith-led youth advocacy effort to keep young people out of jail and continue decarceration in New York City. |
| Vera Action | $200,000 | A renewal grant to support the Greater Justice New York initiative, which uses research, policy, education, and advocacy to reform the pretrial process, promote jail decarceration, and advance racial equity and systemic change in New York State’s criminal legal system. |
| Violence Intervention Program | $70,000 | A renewal project grant to support the grantee as one of ten community-based organizations partnering to cultivate restorative justice practices within victim services programs using New York City’s Blueprint on Restorative Justice. |
Special Opportunity
| Organization | Amount | Grant Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Citizens Committee for New York City | $200,000 | A renewal grant to fund the Neighborhood Business Grants Program below 14th Street to help economic recovery in Lower Manhattan. |
| Faith & Philanthropy Pooled Fund | $100,000 | A project grant as part of a funder collaborative to inspire attention and commitment to faith-rooted social justice work, through investments in small nonprofits serving and led by historically marginalized communities. |
| Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, in partnership with New York Disaster Interfaith Services (NYDIS) | $300,000 | A project grant to provide funding for capital improvements to New York City faith-based organizations that would enable the construction of showers for use by asylum seekers living onsite in temporary shelter. |