Make the Road New York
Jackson Heights, NY · EIN 11-3344389. Reported 124 grants totalling $10.2M to 64 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Make the Road New York, the IRS classifies it under crime & legal rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE I80) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 64 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 51% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $37,500. Half of what it reported fell between $8,125 and $110,000; the smallest was $6,625 and the largest $666,250. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Make the Road States Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $1,275,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Center for Law and Human Values Inc | Ridgewood, NY | $1,245,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New York Legal Assistance Group Incorporated | New York, NY | $1,040,172 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Unlocal Inc | New York, NY | $938,363 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mrny Qalicb Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $890,262 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Make the Road Action Fund Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $695,940 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New York Communities for Change Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $358,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| National Day Laborer Organizingnetwork | Pasadena, CA | $284,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development & Youth Service Corp | Brooklyn, NY | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Columbia County Sanctuary Movement | Hudson, NY | $237,840 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Neo Philanthropy Inc | New York, NY | $230,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Worker Justice Center of New York Inc | Rochester, NY | $218,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New Yorkers for Equal Rights Inc | Albany, NY | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Drum-Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc | Jackson Heights, NY | $175,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Urban Justice Center | New York, NY | $170,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| African Communities Together | New York, NY | $136,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cypress Hills Ldc | Brooklyn, NY | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc | Bronx, NY | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Asian American Federation Inc | New York, NY | $116,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Caribbean Womens Health Association Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $116,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jobs With Justice Education Fund | Hauppauge, NY | $115,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $110,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New York Immigration Coalition Inc | New York, NY | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Workers Center of Central New York Inc | Syracuse, NY | $93,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Justice for Migrant Families | Buffalo, NY | $85,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hispanic Resource Center of Larchmont Mamaroneck Inc | Mamaroneck, NY | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fiscal Policy Institute | Brooklyn, NY | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Laundry Workers Center Inc | New York, NY | $48,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York Inc | Bayside, NY | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| South Asian Council for Social Serv Ices Inc | Flushing, NY | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tides Center | San Francisco, CA | $41,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Churches United for Fair Housing Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Damayan Migrant Workers Association | New York, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hester Street Collaborative Inc | New York, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Transnational Villages Network- Redde Pueblos Trasnacionales | New York, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Transformative Action | Ithaca, NY | $28,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Voices of Community Activists & Leaders-Vocal-Ny-Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $27,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | Calabasas, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Workplace Project Inc | Hempstead, NY | $22,625 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lifeworks Community Action Inc | Ballston Spa, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Yes on 134 | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Catholic Charities Community Services Archdiocese of New York | New York, NY | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cgdcny Inc | Yonkers, NY | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Don Bosco Workers Inc | Port Chester, NY | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrants Rights | New York, NY | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sepa Mujer Inc | Patchogue, NY | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United Community Center of Westchester | New Rochelle, NY | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Northeast New York Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health Inc | Albany, NY | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Haitian American Family of Long Island Inc | Freeport, NY | $14,625 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rural & Migrant Ministries | Cornwall Hdsn, NY | $14,625 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| S T R O N G Youth Inc | Uniondale, NY | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Elmont Cultural Center | Elmont, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| International Union United Auto Aerospace Agriculture Workers | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Minkwon Center for Community Action Inc | Flushing, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tri-State Transportation Campaign | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| El Centro Del Inmigrante | Staten Island, NY | $8,125 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Center for Popular Democracy | Washington, DC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| La Colmena Nyc Inc | Staten Island, NY | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Proyecto Faro Inc | Stony Point, NY | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tompkins County Workers Center Inc | Ithaca, NY | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ulster Immigrant Defense Network Inc | Kingston, NY | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| We Are Unchained Inc | Syracuse, NY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Hour for Women and Children Li Inc | Brentwood, NY | $6,625 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
36 of 64 (56%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- New York Legal Assistance Group
IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES - Neo Philanthropy Inc
Workplace Justice Organizing - New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc
Workplace Justice/Civic Engagement
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 52 of 64 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 42 | $3,031,318 | $29,000 |
| 2022 | 39 | $3,290,697 | $22,500 |
| 2023 | 29 | $2,351,417 | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 14 | $1,532,520 | $92,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
96% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $37,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Make the Road New York's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 13 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 92-10 Roosevelt Avenue, Jackson Heights, NY, 11372.
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