Grants

Year 2019

Urban Affairs $610,000

Abny Foundation Inc

Amount
$50,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support the development of a census public awareness campaign and messaging playbook.

Brennan Center for Justice

Amount
$50,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support the NY LEAD campaign.

Brooklyn Public Library

Amount
$50,310
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2019
Location
Brooklyn, NY

To support the hiring of four census navigators to provide census assistance in branches located in hard-to-count areas.

Citizens Housing and Planning Council

Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $105,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2019-2021
Location
New York, NY

To support the evaluation of New York City’s East New York Basement Conversion Pilot.

City Limits

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $70,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2019-2020
Location
New York, NY

To provide general operating support.

Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $150,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2019-2020
Location
New York, NY

To support the New York Community & Immigrant Media Sustainability Project.

Empire State Library Network

Amount
$88,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support census training efforts in libraries across New York State.

Institute for Nonprofit News

Amount
$20,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support Documented’s Wage Theft investigative project.

Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, Inc.

Amount
$60,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support JCRC-NY’s Get Out the Count efforts among Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in NYC.

Make the Road New York

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $75,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2018-2019
Location
New York, NY

To support its communication efforts on behalf of immigrant communities.

Museum of the City of New York

Amount
$15,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support the Museum of the City of New York’s Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by the Numbers exhibition.

New York Community Trust

Amount
$50,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support the Fund for New Citizens.

New York Community Trust

Amount
$51,690
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support census outreach and education initiatives in the highest-need areas of New York State.

New York Public Interest Research Group Fund, Inc.

Amount
$10,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support NYPIRG’s Straphangers Campaign in 2019.

ProPublica

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $240,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2018-2019
Location
New York, NY

To support an investigative reporting beat focused on New York’s public institutions, including accountability reporting on policies, practices, and program implementation.

Queens Borough Public Library

Amount
$50,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2019
Location
Queens, NY

To support the hiring of four census navigators to address language gaps across Queens.

Supportive Housing Network of New York

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $150,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2019-2020
Location
New York, NY

To support the Getting to 35K and Preservation Projects.

The Lenfest Institute for Journalism

Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $2,500,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2018-2020
Location
New York, NY

To support the establishment of THE CITY, a nonprofit news organization focused on public affairs journalism in New York City.

The Lenfest Institute for Journalism

Amount
$25,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support THE CITY to hire consulting support for applications for journalism awards (primary) and philanthropic and corporate funding (secondary).

The Marshall Project

Amount
$15,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support the “News Inside” project in New York.

University Neighborhood Housing Program

Amount
$25,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support the University Neighborhood Housing Program’s work on the Building Indicator Project database.

YMCA of Greater New York

Amount
$50,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support 2020 Census efforts.

Jewish Life $375,400

American Jewish Historical Society

Amount
$25,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support educational programming associated with the Emma Lazarus Project.

Citizen Housing and Planning Council

Amount
$20,400
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2019
Location
Israel

To support a study mission to Israel.

Hillel International

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $150,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2018-2019
Location
Washington, DC

To support the national infrastructure of Base Hillel for expanding movement of young rabbinic couples building home-based, grassroots, pluralistic Jewish communities in urban centers for post-college young adults.

IKAR

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $450,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2018-2019
Location
USA

To support the second cohort of the Jewish Emergent Network’s national fellowship for seven early-career rabbis and to contribute to the national conference in 2020.

Leading Edge Alliance Inc.

Amount
$25,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support Leading Edge in advancing its flagship programs and research.

New Israel Fund

Amount
$50,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2019
Location
Israel

To support The Arab Center for Alternative Planning’s work in affordable housing and community renewal policy and practice.

NLI USA INC

Amount
$30,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2019
Location
Israel

To support the transcription, cataloguing, and uploading in English and Arabic of Dr. Clinton Bailey’s Archive of Bedouin Culture – five decades of unique primary-source aural, written, and visual materials from the last generation of elderly Bedouin to come of age in the pre-modern period in the Sinai and Negev deserts of Israel.

P.E.F. Israel Endowment Funds Inc. [Co-Impact]

Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $300,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2019-2021
Location
Israel

To support Co-Impact’s programs that strengthen the recruitment pipeline of Arab-Israeli candidates for employment and retention in private sector companies.

P.E.F. Israel Endowment Funds Inc. [Edmond de Rothschild Partnerships]

Amount
$225,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2019
Location
Israel

To support the training program in affordable housing for Cadets and Cadet graduates in order to create a cross-sector cohort with the knowledge and access to plan and implement context-appropriate and feasible solutions to Israel’s housing crisis.

P.E.F. Israel Endowment Funds Inc. [Edmond de Rothschild Partnerships]

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $425,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2019-2020
Location
Israel

To support training and education programs in affordable housing and urban regeneration for student Cadets and Cadet graduates to build a network of expertise at the national and local government levels in addressing issues of housing and redevelopment in municipalities across Israel.

P.E.F. Israel Endowment Funds Inc. [Sikkuy]

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $150,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2019-2020
Location
Israel

To support implementation of housing and planning objectives of Israeli Government Resolution 922 in Arab Communities.

Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $150,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2019-2020
Location
USA

To support the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom’s capacity to meet the demand for more adult and teen chapters nationally; and to expand professional resources and training for chapter leaders and members to act against hate in their local communities.

The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $500,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2018-2019
Location
USA

To support the Muslim Leadership Initiative.

Biomedical Research $0

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc.

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $203,836
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2018-2019
Location
New York, NY

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science [Weizmann Institute of Science]

Amount
$0
Year 1 of four-year grant totaling $391,500
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2016-2019
Location
Rehovot, Israel

To support two-year awards for 9 Israeli women scientists with postdoctoral fellowships in the United States selected by the Weizmann Institute’s “Israel National Postdoctoral Program for Advancing Women in Science”.

American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science [Weizmann Institute of Science]

Amount
$0
Year 1 of four-year grant totaling $375,000
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2019-2022
Location
Rehovot, Israel

To support two-year awards for 9 Israeli women scientists with postdoctoral fellowships in the United States selected by the Weizmann Institute’s “Israel National Postdoctoral Program for Advancing Women in Science”.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $208,757
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2018-2019
Location
Cold Spring Harbor, NY

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $213,581
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2019-2020
Location
Cold Spring Harbor, NY

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $213,581
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2019-2020
Location
Cold Spring Harbor, NY

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

Columbia University

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $203,617
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2019-2020
Location
New York, NY

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

Columbia University Medical Center

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $200,014
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2018-2019
Location
New York, NY

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

Columbia University Medical Center

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $206,668
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2019-2020
Location
New York, NY

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $197,854
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2018-2019
Location
New York, NY

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

New York University

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $205,642
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2019-2020
Location
New York, NY

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

New York University School of Medicine

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $205,568
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2019-2020
Location
New York, NY

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

Rockefeller University

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $212,944
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2018-2019
Location
New York, NY

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

Rockefeller University

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $209,698
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2018-2019
Location
New York, NY

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

Rockefeller University

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $218,890
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2019-2020
Location
New York, NY

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $195,374
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2019-2020
Location
New York, NY

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

Yale School of Medicine

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $200,512
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2018-2019
Location
New Haven, CT

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

Yale School of Medicine

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $205,642
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2019-2020
Location
New Haven, CT

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

Yale University

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $200,512
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2018-2019
Location
New Haven, CT

To support a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellow in Biomedical Science.

Education $70,000

Brennan Center for Justice

Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $300,000
Category
Education
Years
2019-2021
Location
New York, NY

To support its election reform efforts in New York.

Brooklyn Public Library

Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $450,000
Category
Education
Years
2017-2019
Location
Brooklyn, NY

To support the NYC Culture Pass program.

Brooklyn Public Library

Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $272,664
Category
Education
Years
2018-2020
Location
Brooklyn, NY

To support the BKLYN Incubator.

Brooklyn Public Library

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $275,000
Category
Education
Years
2019-2022
Location
Brooklyn, NY

To support the expansion of the Making Space project.

Chalkbeat

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $150,000
Category
Education
Years
2019-2020
Location
New York, NY

To support Chalkbeat’s New York bureau.

Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY

Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $200,000
Category
Education
Years
2019-2020
Location
New York, NY

To support 6-10 Lisa Goldberg/Revson Scholars at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.

National Book Foundation

Amount
$10,000
Category
Education
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support the Book Rich Environments program in New York City.

New York University

Amount
$10,000
Category
Education
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support a conference on “Libraries as Places” at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge.

NYC FIRST

Amount
$40,000
Category
Education
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support the enhancement and expansion of NYC FIRST’s partnerships with NYC’s public library systems.

The Academy for Teachers

Amount
$10,000
Category
Education
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support the cost of honoraria for Master Class seminar leaders for New York City public school teachers in 2019.

Memberships $47,800

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc.

Amount
$15,000
Category
Memberships
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

For membership in the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues in 2020.

Candid

Amount
$12,000
Category
Memberships
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support the work of Candid in 2020.

Jewish Funders Network

Amount
$5,000
Category
Memberships
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

For Revson membership in 2020.

Nonprofit New York

Amount
$4,000
Category
Memberships
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To help support Nonprofit New York’s services to nonprofits and for membership in 2020.

Philanthropy New York

Amount
$11,800
Category
Memberships
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To help support Philanthropy New York’s services to grantmakers in the New York region and for the Foundation to receive membership services in 2020.

Trustee Discretionary Grants $120,000

Bowery Residents Committee

Amount
$7,500
Category
Trustee Discretionary Grants
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support the Horizons Workforce Development Program.

Harvard Scholars At Risk

Amount
$15,000
Category
Trustee Discretionary Grants
Year
2019
Location
Cambridge, MA

To support ten-month to year-long fellowships and related expenses for three to four Harvard Scholars at Risk fellows.

Harvard University

Amount
$7,500
Category
Trustee Discretionary Grants
Year
2019
Location
Cambridge, MA

To provide general operating support for the Center for Jewish Studies.

New York University

Amount
$15,000
Category
Trustee Discretionary Grants
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To provide general operating support for The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University (CBA) and support the growth of CBA’s individual giving program, the Center Circle.

PeaceWorks Foundation

Amount
$7,500
Category
Trustee Discretionary Grants
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To provide general operating support to the PeaceWorks Foundation.

Prospect Park Alliance

Amount
$15,000
Category
Trustee Discretionary Grants
Year
2019
Location
Brooklyn, NY

To provide general operating support to the Prospect Park Alliance’s Woodlands Youth Crew.

Stars of New York Dance, Inc.

Amount
$5,000
Category
Trustee Discretionary Grants
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To provide general operating support to The Stars of New York Dance.

The Academy for Teachers

Amount
$15,000
Category
Trustee Discretionary Grants
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support the cost of honoraria for Master Class seminar leaders for New York City public school teachers in 2019.

The Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance of New York, Inc.

Amount
$10,000
Category
Trustee Discretionary Grants
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support their educational programs.

The Jewish Museum

Amount
$7,500
Category
Trustee Discretionary Grants
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support the Young Patron Program.

WNET

Amount
$15,000
Category
Trustee Discretionary Grants
Year
2019
Location
New York, NY

To support season three of WNET’s Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work.

Total: $1,223,200