Funding search · economic mobility and poverty · New York
Who funds economic mobility and poverty work in New York
15 funders have a record of paying for economic mobility and poverty work by New York recipients: 187 grants totaling $180.0M, most recently in 2024 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Gates Foundation ($42.4M), Jpmorgan Chase Foundation ($13.1M) and The Joyce Foundation ($2.4M).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to New York recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Largest: $2.5M to COLERIDGE INITIATIVE INCORPORATED — postsecondary education; research and learning opportunities; u.s. economic mobility & opportunity
Largest: $1.4M to VIBRANT EMOTIONAL HEALTH — in support of creating economic mobility and career pathways
Largest: $50,000 to Economic Security Project Inc - Economic Security for Illinois — education & economic mobility
Largest: $4.0M to Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc — to support research on how k-12 schools can increase social and economic mobility for children across the us.
Largest: $241,798 to ECONOMIC MOBILITY CORPORATION — to support a randomized controlled trial of apprentice, a workforce development program that provides technology apprenticeships to increase access to higher earning careers.
Blue Meridian PartnersNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $32.7M · through 2023Largest: $12.9M to HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE — to support economic mobility
Largest: $1.5M to PER SCHOLAS INC — jobs and economic mobility
United Way WorldwideAlexandria, VACharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $544,588 · through 2023Largest: $135,000 to TREMENDOUS INC — economic mobility
Largest: $18.7M to BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC — core support for the justice and mobility fund to accelerate economic mobility through criminal justice reforms for people with convictions and incarceration histories
Largest: $50,000 to AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE — economic mobility
Largest: $100,000 to GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES — to support the next phase of economic mobility work across all gss programs
Largest: $80,000 to GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES — to support the c.r.i.b. (community resources in brooklyn) family enrichment center and the east new york community partnership in expanding economic mobility programming and deepen…
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