About Us

Philanthropy New York is the principal professional community of philanthropic foundations based in the New York City region. Taken together, our 285 member organizations—including the leading private, corporate, family, and public grantmaking foundations in the world—each year provide support totaling more than four billion dollars to thousands of nonprofit organizations and NGOs located in New York, the U.S., and around the world, which in turn focus on an almost endless range of issues and concerns.

Our Mission

Created as a nonprofit organization in 1979 by New York City-based foundations, Philanthropy New York enhances and increases the ability of organizational and individual philanthropists located in the New York region, whose missions focus on New York, the United States, and around the globe, to serve the public good.

To this end, Philanthropy New York:

• Supports meaningful collaboration and knowledge-sharing among funders and their grantee organizations;
• Promotes effective, strategic philanthropy through programs, services, and resources;
• Informs and advances public policies that support effective philanthropy and a productive nonprofit sector;
• Fosters effective communications about the value of philanthropy and the philanthropic sector to the larger community; and
• Develops a diverse and capable group of future philanthropic leaders.
  

What we don’t do:

• Tell our member foundations where, to whom, or how to make their grants. Although Philanthropy New York members actively collaborate with each other, each is an autonomous organization that makes its own grantmaking policies and decisions.
• Help connect grantseekers and grantmakers or offer advice to grantseekers on how or to whom to apply for funding.