Funding search · EIN 470824753 · Hurley, NY

Novo Foundation

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

2,212
grants reported
$769.2M
total given
2022–2024
filing years
$150,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

indigenouskingstonnativewomencentercommunityjustice

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

  • Girls' and women's leadership, safety, and anti-violence organizing
  • Kingston and Ulster County place-based capital, housing, food, media
  • Indigenous-led sovereignty, land, language, and knowledge holders
  • Regenerative agriculture, land stewardship, and perennial food systems
  • New economy, cooperative development, and local democratic ownership
  • Restorative justice, transformative education, and youth programs

Typical grant

Median grant is $150,000, with the middle half between $75,000 and $250,000. The eight-figure checks go to fiscal sponsors and donor advised vehicles (Tides, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors) and to Kingston-area capital projects like RUPCO housing and Radio Kingston; the $75,000 to $350,000 range is where individual nonprofits sit. Giving repeats heavily, roughly four grants per recipient across three years, so this is a portfolio of ongoing relationships rather than one-time awards.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

  • GENERAL SUPPORT
  • CAPITAL SUPPORT
  • ADVANCING GIRLS FUND
  • INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE HOLDERS FUND
  • SEED SOVEREIGNTY

Positioning adjacent work

  • Tie work to Kingston, Ulster County, or the mid-Hudson Valley; that geography absorbs the largest local checks.
  • Ask for general operating support at $150,000 to $500,000; they fund unrestricted far more than projects.
  • Frame Indigenous or land work as sovereignty and knowledge holders, not service delivery or research subjects.
  • If unincorporated, note fiscal sponsorship; Tides and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors carry a large share of their grants.

Worth knowing: NY recipients outnumber every other state more than four to one, and Kingston specifically draws the capital gifts, so out-of-region asks need an unusually strong Indigenous or girls-and-women hook. A handful of intermediaries (Tides Foundation, Tides Center, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley) move hundreds of millions, which means much of the real decision-making happens through relationships and regranting rather than direct solicitation.

2 grants matching “archeology · $120,000

  • $60,000

    Suny New Paltz Foundation · New Paltz, NY · 2022

    Project support: archeology project for the african burial ground

  • $60,000

    Suny New Paltz Foundation · New Paltz, NY · 2022

    Project support: archeology project for the african burial ground

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • Tides Foundation452 grants · $223.7M
  • Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors24 grants · $73.4M
  • Tides Center22 grants · $43.8M
  • Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley57 grants · $39.3M
  • Women Building Up1 grant · $20.0M
  • Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples12 grants · $9.6M
  • Rsf Social Finance13 grants · $9.4M
  • Rupco7 grants · $8.6M
  • The Land Institute4 grants · $6.0M
  • The Democracy Collaborative Foundation4 grants · $5.5M

Giving over time

$389.0M
2022
$169.4M
2023
$210.8M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 2,212 grants.

  • $24.4M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

    Project support: advancing girls fund

  • $24.4M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

    Project support: advancing girls fund

  • $22.9M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2023

    Project support : advancing girls fund

  • $20.0M

    Women Building Up · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    Women building up

  • $19.3M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

    Advancing girls fund

  • $15.1M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2023

    Project support: the life story initiative

  • $14.0M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

    Donor advised fund

  • $10.0M

    Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    One generation

  • $10.0M

    Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Project support: "women building up"

  • $10.0M

    Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Project support: "women building up"

  • $8.3M

    Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley · Poughkeepsie, NY · 2024

    Radio kingston

  • $6.0M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2023

    Donor advised fund

  • $5.7M

    Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley · Poughkeepsie, NY · 2022

    Project support: radio kingston

  • $5.7M

    Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley · Poughkeepsie, NY · 2022

    Project support: radio kingston

  • $5.0M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

    Donor advised fund

  • $5.0M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

    Donor advised fund

  • $5.0M

    Rupco · Kingston, NY · 2024

    Housing support

  • $4.6M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022

    Project support: social emotional learning support phase v

  • $4.6M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022

    Project support: social emotional learning support phase v

  • $4.5M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

    Spirit aligned leadership program

  • $4.5M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2023

    Project support: spirit aligned leadership program

  • $4.5M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022

    Project support: spirit aligned leadership program

  • $4.5M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022

    Project support: spirit aligned leadership program

  • $3.4M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

    Donor advised fund

  • $3.0M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

    V-day

  • $3.0M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2023

    Project support : v-day

  • $3.0M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

    Project support: southern black girls & women's consortium

  • $3.0M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

    Project support: grantmakers for girls of color

  • $3.0M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

    Project support: grantmakers for girls of color

  • $3.0M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

    Project support: southern black girls & women's consortium

  • $2.8M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

    Donor advised fund

  • $2.7M

    The Institute for Family Health · New York, NY · 2024

    Pine street family health center clinic construction

  • $2.5M

    Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Project support: one generation

  • $2.5M

    Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Project support: one generation

  • $2.3M

    Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples · Eureka, CA · 2024

    General support

  • $2.3M

    Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples · Eureka, CA · 2023

    General support

  • $2.2M

    Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples · Eureka, CA · 2022

    General support

  • $2.2M

    Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples · Eureka, CA · 2022

    General support

  • $2.2M

    Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley · Poughkeepsie, NY · 2023

    Project support: radio kingston

  • $2.2M

    Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley · Poughkeepsie, NY · 2024

    Radio kingston

  • $2.0M

    Makeway Foundation · 2024

    General support

  • $2.0M

    Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York · Latham, NY · 2024

    Capital support

  • $2.0M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

    Donor advised fund

  • $2.0M

    Civilization Research Initiative · Encinitas, CA · 2023

    General support

  • $2.0M

    The Magic Canoe · Portland, OR · 2023

    General support

  • $2.0M

    Bardavon 1869 Opera House · Poughkeepsie, NY · 2022

    General support

  • $2.0M

    Bardavon 1869 Opera House · Poughkeepsie, NY · 2022

    General support

  • $2.0M

    Kingston Library · Kingston, NY · 2022

    Capital fund support: capital project

  • $2.0M

    Kingston Library · Kingston, NY · 2022

    Capital fund support: capital project

  • $1.9M

    Kashif Incubator · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

    General support

  • $1.9M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

    Project support: kashif incubator: equity for filmmakers

  • $1.9M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

    Project support: kashif incubator: equity for filmmakers

  • $1.8M

    Equality Now · New York, NY · 2022

    General support

  • $1.8M

    Equality Now · New York, NY · 2022

    General support

  • $1.6M

    The Democracy Collaborative Foundation · Shaker Heights, OH · 2022

    General support

  • $1.6M

    The Democracy Collaborative Foundation · Shaker Heights, OH · 2022

    General support

  • $1.5M

    Samadhi Center · Kingston, NY · 2024

    General support

  • $1.5M

    The Land Institute · Salina, KS · 2024

    General support

  • $1.5M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2023

    Project support: just beginnings collaborative

  • $1.5M

    The Land Institute · Salinas, KS · 2023

    General support

  • $1.5M

    Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Project support: one generation

  • $1.5M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2023

    Project support : purposeful productions: amplifying a movement for girls and their allies in sierra leone

  • $1.5M

    Movement Strategy Center · Oakland, CA · 2022

    Project support: resonance network

  • $1.5M

    Movement Strategy Center · Oakland, CA · 2022

    Project support: resonance network

  • $1.5M

    The Land Institute · Salinas, KS · 2022

    General support

  • $1.5M

    The Land Institute · Salinas, KS · 2022

    General support

  • $1.5M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

    Project support: kashif incubator

  • $1.5M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

    Project support: purposeful productions: amplifying a movement for girls and their allies in sierra leone

  • $1.5M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

    Project support: kashif incubator

  • $1.5M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

    Project support: purposeful productions: amplifying a movement for girls and their allies in sierra leone

  • $1.3M

    The Democracy Collaborative Foundation · Shaker Heights, OH · 2023

    General support

  • $1.3M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2023

    Project support: social emotional learning support phase v

  • $1.3M

    Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley · Poughkeepsie, NY · 2024

    Mid-hudson energy transition

  • $1.3M

    Mid-Hudson Energy Transition · Shokan, NY · 2022

    General support

  • $1.3M

    Mid-Hudson Energy Transition · Shokan, NY · 2022

    General support

  • $1.3M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

    Donor advised fund

  • $1.2M

    First Nations Development Institute · Longmont, CO · 2022

    General support

  • $1.2M

    First Nations Development Institute · Longmont, CO · 2022

    General support

  • $1.1M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

    Akwesasne seed sovereignty

  • $1.1M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2023

    Project support : native american food sovereignty alliance: akwesasne seed sovereignty

  • $1.1M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

    Project support: akwesasne seed sovereignty

  • $1.1M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

    Project support: akwesasne seed sovereignty

  • $1.1M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2023

    Project support : worldwide indigenous science network

  • $1.0M

    Rupco · Kingston, NY · 2022

    General support

  • $1.0M

    Rupco · Kingston, NY · 2022

    General support

  • $1.0M

    Ashokan Center · Olivebridge, NY · 2024

    Capital support

  • $1.0M

    Bard College · Annandaleonhudson, NY · 2024

    General support

  • $1.0M

    First Nations Development Institute · Longmont, CO · 2024

    General support

  • $1.0M

    Global Greengrants Fund · Boulder, CO · 2024

    General support

  • $1.0M

    People'S Place · Kingston, NY · 2024

    Capital support

  • $1.0M

    Rsf Social Finance · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Indigenous knowledge holders fund

  • $1.0M

    Rsf Social Finance · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Pawanka fund

  • $1.0M

    The Democracy Collaborative Foundation · Shaker Heights, OH · 2024

    General support

  • $1.0M

    Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Women & justice project

  • $1.0M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

    Warm data & complex living systems

  • $1.0M

    Tides Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

    Donor advised fund

  • $1.0M

    Bard College · Annandaleonhudson, NY · 2023

    General support

  • $1.0M

    First Nations Development Institute · Longmont, CO · 2023

    General support

  • $1.0M

    Global Greengrants Fund · Boulder, CO · 2023

    General support

  • $1.0M

    Omega Institute for Holistic Studies · Rhinebeck, NY · 2023

    General support

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