A strong and resilient nonprofit sector is essential to the work of the Altman Foundation and to our colleague funders, both private and public. We are only as good as our grantees. In this overarching program area, the Foundation provides support to achieve the results aligned with the objectives outlined below. Please note that the "Results Sought" reflect the specific outcomes of interest to us.

The Foundation provides support to achieve the following:

Results Sought:

  1. Significantly enhance the ability of key umbrella organizations to help their member or constituent agencies address critical community issues in the Foundation's areas of interest
  2. Measurably improve organizational effectiveness or program quality of community-based or other organizations working in the Foundation's areas of interest
Grants 2024

Advocates for Children of New York, Inc.
$100,000 (over two years)
To provide direct assistance, information and training to low-income, vulnerable New York City families who are trying to obtain the support and services their children need to succeed in school

Center for Fair Futures
$100,000 (over fourteen months)
For the Center for Fair Futures as it launches a Coaching & Training Institute

Civic News Company (aka Chalkbeat Inc.)
$50,000
To support Chalkbeat New York

Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, Inc.
$150,000 (over two years)
For general operating support

CUNY Office of K-16 Initiatives
$75,000
For the CUNY Office of K-16 Initiatives for the Network for College Success

The Education Trust
$50,000
To help support the second cohort of its NY Early Childhood Policy and Advocacy Lab

Grand Street Settlement, Inc.
$100,000 (over two years)
To support the initial implementation of its five-year strategic plan (FY25-29)

Hester Street Collaborative, Inc.
$100,000 (over two years)
To help support strategic plan development and implementation

Lawyers Alliance for New York
$100,000 (over two years)
To provide business and transactional legal services to nonprofits serving low-income New Yorkers

The New York Community Trust (Fund for New Citizens)
$100,000
To support the Fund for New Citizens collaborative fund, and grantmaking to small community-based immigrant-led and immigrant-serving nonprofits

The New York Community Trust (Fund for the Newest New Yorkers)
$250,000 (over two years)
To support services and supports for newly arrived migrants and asylum seekers through the Fund for the Newest New Yorkers, a collaborative fund

The New York Immigration Coalition, Inc.
$300,000 (over three years)
For organizing, technical assistance, training, rapid response, public education, and policy advocacy to advance and protect immigrants, asylum seekers, and the community organizations that serve them

New Yorkers United for Child Care, a project of United Neighborhood Houses of New York, Inc.
$35,000
To support New Yorkers United for Child Care

Nonprofit New York, Inc. (FKA Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York, Inc.)
$90,000 (over eighteen months)
For programming and services that strengthen the NYC nonprofit sector, and to develop and implement new services

Red Hook Initiative
$130,000 (over two years)
To provide capacity building support

Resources for Children with Special Needs, Inc. (dba INCLUDEnyc)
$100,000 (over two years)
To support efforts to bring free, comprehensive supports to young people with disabilities and their families, with a particular focus on BIPOC and traditionally underserved communities

Support Center for Nonprofit Management, Inc.
$35,000
To support management and leadership at small to medium sized nonprofit organizations in New York City

United Neighborhood Houses of New York, Inc.
$80,000 (over two years)
To support UNH’s capacity to strengthen New York neighborhoods by enriching and supporting settlement houses

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