A single broad alert can produce dozens of items a week and still miss the grant announcement that matters. That is the central failure in NYC philanthropy news tracking. Volume is not coverage…
NYC City Council hearing testimony preparation begins with a distinction that nonprofit teams often discover too late…
Here's the dirty little secret of nonprofit research in the five boroughs: there is no single, tidy database that hands…
Only 29% of nonprofits reported having a written succession plan in BoardSource’s 2021 Leading With Intent survey. The…
Most nonprofit teams do not have a news-monitoring problem. They have a filtering problem.
New York City’s default de minimis indirect cost rate is 10%. That number is often treated as a reimbursement floor. It…
Most fiscal sponsorship mistakes are made before the first donation arrives. A founder sees “501(c)(3) umbrella,” a…
There is a particular kind of anxiety that settles over private-foundation offices in New York every spring. It has…
Here’s a number that should make every NYC nonprofit CFO twitch: $5,000. That’s the annual threshold that turns a…
For New York City nonprofits, the cyber insurance application is no longer a simple questionnaire about whether the…
Corporate giving in America crossed $44 billion in 2024, up from the year before, and your mid-sized Bronx youth…
New York’s Executive Order 38 compliance limits are no longer operative. The $199,000 ceiling on executive compensation…
New York has no shortage of maps. It has maps that can show a neighborhood’s rent burden, health outcomes, household…
A federal 501(c)(3) determination does not create an NYC nonprofit lease property tax exemption. In New York City, the…
When a small arts collective in the South Bronx or a housing-services nonprofit in central Brooklyn sits down to pursue…
Federal tax-exempt status and New York State charity registration are two different machines, and the state's machine…
New York City has 59 community districts, but a search for a nearby service rarely begins with a clean district-level…
In the spring of 2026, executive directors across the five boroughs are sitting with their finance committees and doing…
Here is the math that should keep every executive director in this city up at night: when Candid's 2025 Foundation…
NYC City Council discretionary funding clearance is not a single approval. It is a chain of compliance events. A…
A nonprofit listing can look deceptively simple from the outside: organization name, mission, contact person, perhaps a…
Here’s the uncomfortable truth about New York philanthropy: most donors pick a giving vehicle the way they pick a…
The dividing line is $1,000,000. A New York charity with gross annual revenue and support above that figure must submit…
On January 17, 2024, New York City's public hospital system did something that quietly reshaped how social care moves…
Pick the wrong corporate vehicle for advocacy work in New York City, and you will learn the difference between a filing…
A directory error is not a minor interface defect. It is a failed referral. In research on mental health provider…
profits Directories: Which Database Fits Your Needs?
New York City nonprofits employed an estimated 662,025 people before the pandemic. That was 18 percent of all private…
Insurance vs. Board Indemnification: What NYC Nonprofits Actually Get When They Pay for Protection…
A strong advocacy campaign can unravel long before anyone questions its policy argument. It can unravel when a…
New York Foundation typically makes about five new core grants in a cycle while receiving hundreds of requests. Its…