Fund For The City Of New York, Inc.

Fund For The City Of New York, Inc., a New York-based non-profit established in 1968, operates as a federal grant recipient (93% of recent awards as prime recipient) delivering community development, education, child welfare, historic preservation, and environmental sustainability programs across six federal grant programs and twenty-five distinct customer agencies. The organization is not a federal contractor and does not hold federal contract vehicles; its footprint is exclusively grant-funded.

Fund For The City operates across the Department of Justice (71% of awards by count), the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior, and the Department of Health and Human Services. The Department of Justice dominates by award frequency — the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Office on Violence Against Women, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention combined account for fifty-nine awards in recent activity. However, potential value is concentrated in a narrower set: the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons accounts for two awards with $35 thousand combined potential value, followed by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The discrepancy between award count and dollar value concentration reflects the mix of smaller competitive grants and larger cooperative agreements in Fund For The City's portfolio.

Representative prime grant work includes a $800 thousand Department of Education grant (CFDA 84.215, awarded June 1, 2026, completing June 1, 2029) supporting education and community engagement at Floyd Bennett Field through the Jamaica Bay Rockaway Parks Conservancy; a Department of Housing and Urban Development Economic Development Initiative community project funding award (August 13, 2024, completing August 31, 2032) for community development outcomes; a $50 thousand National Park Service Historic Preservation Fund grant (CFDA 15.904, awarded April 1, 2024, completing March 31, 2026) to amend the National Register of Historic Places nomination for the Hotel Chelsea to document LGBT cultural and social significance; an EPA Region 2 cooperative agreement (March 1, 2024, completing February 28, 2025) supporting youth-led waste reduction and environmental justice curriculum at NYC public schools; an Administration on Children Youth and Families cooperative agreement (September 30, 2023, completing December 8, 2025) funding a Peer Care Initiative to improve child welfare practices; and an EPA Region 2 cooperative agreement (April 1, 2022, completing December 31, 2023) supporting school cafeteria waste reduction pilots in partnership with NYC Department of Education.

In its sub-recipient role (7% of recent awards), Fund For The City has received federal pass-through funding from the New York State Education Department (two awards, October 14, 2025 and May 6, 2025, to create community learning centers), the University of North Dakota (November 27, 2024, Tribal Justice CTAS Training), the National CASA Association (October 25, 2024, Strategic Planning Demonstration), the NYS Office of Victim Services (October 1, 2024, Victim Assistance Program), the Hudson River Foundation (January 1, 2024, advancing infrastructure development), and the Fund For Public Health In New York Inc. (November 20, 2023, Community Health Worker teams). Activity has accelerated in the past three years — one award in 2022, two in 2023, eight in 2024 — with recent awards concentrated in education, child welfare, and environmental initiatives in New York City. The organization operates the National Center For Civic Innovation Inc. as a named subsidiary.