Right to the City Alliance
Brooklyn, NY · EIN 94-3462187. Reported 124 grants totalling $8,038,116 to 50 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 Right to the City Alliance, the IRS classifies it under civil rights rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE R20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 50 distinct organizations, with 8% 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. 75% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $70,000. Half of what it reported fell between $30,000 and $80,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $500,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Josephs House of Hospitality of Rochester N Y Federal Station | Rochester, NY | $641,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Right to the City Action Fund | Brooklyn, NY | $530,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Housing Justice League Inc | Atlanta, GA | $400,016 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tenants Union of Washington | Seattle, WA | $350,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United for a New Economy | Commerce City, CO | $330,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative | New Orleans, LA | $326,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tenants Together | San Francisco, CA | $321,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Organizing Neighborhood Equity | Washington, DC | $311,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia-United Renters for Justic | Minneapolis, MN | $281,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chainbreaker Collective | Santa Fe, NM | $241,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Urban Revival Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $231,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Canopy Young Adult Community House | Lexington, KY | $225,900 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Committee Against Anti Asian Violen Ce | New York, NY | $201,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Justice Project Inc | Miami, FL | $201,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ironbound Community Corporation | Newark, NJ | $201,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Miami Workers Center Inc | Miami, FL | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Urban Habitat Program | Oakland, CA | $190,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Struggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated | Miami, FL | $176,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Met Council Research & Educational Fund Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $171,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Centro Cultural De Mexico En El Condado De Orange | Santa Ana, CA | $160,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Neo Philanthropy Inc | New York, NY | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | Calabasas, CA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Causa Justa Just Cause | Oakland, CA | $140,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Chinatown Community Land Trust Inc | Boston, MA | $140,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chinatown People Progressive Association Inc | Boston, MA | $140,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Dare Direct Action for Rights & Equality Inc | Providence, RI | $130,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Podemos Movement | Tucson, AZ | $130,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Third Sector New England Inc | Boston, MA | $120,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid Inc | Mercedes, TX | $111,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| North Bay Organizing Project | Santa Rosa, CA | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Esperanza Peace and Justice Center | San Antonio, TX | $108,700 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cooperation Jackson of Mississippi | Jackson, MS | $101,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Community Alliance of Tenants | Portland, OR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Public Interest Law Center | Philadelphia, PA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Alternatives for Community and Enviroment Inc | Roxbury, MA | $96,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Community Labor United Incorporated | Boston, MA | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco Inc | San Francisco, CA | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Black Leadership Organizing Collaborative | Akron, OH | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Kheprw Institute | Indianapolis, IN | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| San Francisco Study Center Inc | San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Beyond Impact | W Hollywood, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black Clergy Collaborative of Memphis | Memphis, TN | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Health in Partnership | Oakland, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New England United for Justice | Dorchester, MA | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Firecracker Foundation | Lansing, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| El Sereno Land Trust | Los Angeles, CA | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tenemos Que Reclamar Y Unidos Salvar La Tierra-South La | Los Angeles, CA | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Earthlodge Center for Transformation | Long Beach, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc | Norcross, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grassroots Global Justice | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
37 of 50 (74%) 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 40 of 50 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 | 25 | $1,471,000 | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 32 | $2,031,000 | $30,500 |
| 2023 | 36 | $2,097,500 | $65,000 |
| 2024 | 31 | $2,438,616 | $70,000 |
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
21% 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
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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 $70,000 -- 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 Right to the City Alliance'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 30 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 388 Atlantic Ave 2ND Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11217.
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