The New York Women's Foundation

Annual Report
Report 2016

A Message from the Board Chair and President & CEO

The New York Women’s Foundation had a successful year—complete with many “first-of-its kind” initiatives and advancements—made possible by your generous support and the incredible work and dedication of our grantee partners. We are grateful to have you with us, standing with all the women of New York City: community leaders who work on the frontlines of poverty, violence, and racial and ethnic discrimination; women who tirelessly work to uplift themselves and their families; and women who donate to and volunteer at The Foundation. The change our work creates simply would not be possible without our cross-cultural alliance of women from every borough and background. Together, we create a better New York City for all.

In 2016, The New York Women’s Foundation distributed $7.61 million, a significant increase of $1.6 million over last year. The growth is a reflection of The Foundation’s strategic creation, housing, and management of The NYC Fund for Girls and Young Women of Color. This increase in grants aims to address a continuum of complex needs faced by women and families in underinvested communities, facing poverty and economic insecurity.

During the year, The Foundation achieved broader impact through our work and the work of 90 grantee partners across the five boroughs. Indeed, we expanded our visibility and influence, and most notably saw our local successes inspire national change: We partnered with White House Council on Women and Girls to share our work on the Young Women’s Initiative of New York City and in doing so, we inspired 7 other women’s foundations across the nation to begin their own initiatives for young women. We co-founded Prosperity Together, a first-of-its- kind partnership with 27 public U.S. women’s foundations committing $100 million in funding over five years to create economic security for women and families across the nation, which in its first year distributed $29 million—46 percent higher than projected.

As we mark our 30th anniversary in 2017, the lives of underinvested women and families in New York City are more important and challenged than ever. We are here, as we have been for the past three decades, taking bold action to support justice and economic security for the women and families who need it most.

Thank you for your commitment and for putting your trust, resources, and hope in us. As we continue our mission to make a better New York City for all, we know we can count on your support.

Warm regards,

Ana L. OliveiraPresident & CEO
Yvonne QuinnChair

WHAT THE FOUNDATION DOES LIKE NO OTHER

Over the past three decades our $58 million of grants have helped establish a network of more than 350
grantee partners—most of which continue to flourish today. In collaboration with our grantee partners, we bolster
the safety, health and economic security of women and families across the five boroughs. We transform individual
lives, strengthen families and communities, and create a better New York City for all.

Back

Our Giving

Philanthropy is more than an act of giving. It is a highly participatory and broadly influential engine for social change that shapes the world.

The year 2016 was one of expansion and engagement for The New York Women’s Foundation.

The Foundation distributed more grants than ever before: a total of $7.61 million with $6 million from The Foundation and $2.11 million via The NYC Fund for Girls and Young Women of Color. This investment propels us forward in removing barriers and creating opportunities for women, girls and families living at or below the poverty level in our city.

Our Supporters: The Foundation has brought together an alliance of women from all backgrounds and means since its founding in 1987. They have stood stronger together, pooling resources to achieve bigger, more lasting results. We ask all to come as they are and do what they can. We are proud to report that more women are standing together than ever for all of the women of New York City. In 2016, we increased our number of donors by 14 percent—our highest yet.

BREAKDOWN

Our inclusive approach encompasses our participatory grantmaking approach, ensuring that communities we serve play a vital role in what we fund. Volunteers participating in The Foundation’s Grants Advisory Committee work in teams reviewing proposals, conducting site visits and making recommendations for funding. This unique approach allows us to leverage the talents of local women in finding and supporting effective programs, keeping grantmaking transparent and close to the community.

In 2016, our participatory grantmaking approach was expanded to include girls through our innovative Girls Ignite! Grantmaking initiative with our grantee partner, YWCA of the City of New York. The program empowers the next generation of philanthropists by providing fellowships to 15 teenage girls and gender-fluid youth of varying racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds from across the city, to explore social justice issues, leadership, advocacy, peer group dynamics, community engagement, and financial decision making. This unique nine-month program affords participants the opportunity to work as a team to distribute The Foundation’s youth grantmaking funds to local, youth-led nonprofit organizations or projects selected by the group.

Learn more about our participatory grantmaking approach

Participatory Grantmaking
35% Increase in women volunteering

We also made targeted investments in communities and on issues to accelerate change.

Through our Partnership for Women’s Prosperity initiative, now in its fourth year, The New York Women’s Foundation invested in 10 organizations in Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx as part of a localized effort to expand access and overcome obstacles to middle-level and living wage jobs and other income generating opportunities faced by low-income women in these neighborhoods. Investments are focused on education, job training and placement, business development and entrepreneurship, asset building and financial literacy, and work supports.

The Foundation has also embarked on a partnership to advance the health, welfare, and economic potential of immigrant women and families working in racing and backstretch jobs at Belmont Park, Aqueduct Raceway, and the Saratoga Race Course. The Belmont Backstretch Workers Project is engaging three existing nonprofit organizations that serve this community: The Backstretch Employee Service Team, The Belmont Childcare Association, and the NY Racetrack Chaplaincy to expand their impact. Together, they provide a range of services including mental health, substance use and reproductive health care services, support groups, community social events, and early childhood education.

Our Impact

The New York Women’s Foundation accelerated the progress of important economic security advancements in 2016 by supporting grantee partners’ work to create change that will improve conditions for people in New York and beyond.

Fairness

Mayoral executive order eliminating salary history as a requirement for NYC government jobs.

Access

Mayoral executive order granting people access to public facilities that correspond with their gender identity.

Expansion

State expansion of H.I.V. Benefits in NYC to include public assistance for housing, transportation and food.

Well-being

U.S. Department of Labor rule ensuring 1.15 million people who work on federal contracts can earn paid sick time.

Equality

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (in cooperation with the Department of Labor) tool to root out unlawful pay discrimination in our nation’s workplaces.

Empowerment

Smartphone app for day laborers to rate employers, document worker rights violations and prevent wage theft at New York Day Labor Centers.

Fairness

Access

Expansion

Well-being

Equality

Empowerment

Progress

We furthered our critically important work on criminal justice reform, because we know that overcriminalization of women is a major contributor to economic insecurity and vulnerability of women.

Examples include:

The Foundation supported the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in research resulting in a report titled, Women In Justice: Gender and the Pathway to Jail in New York City. The report aims to bridge information gaps to help criminal justice reform experts better understand the unique needs of women, and to help those steeped in women’s services to better understand the context of the criminal justice system.
This year, President & CEO Ana Oliveira was named to The Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform, which is exploring the possibility of closing Rikers Island amongst other issues.

The Foundation and the Impact Center for Public Interest Law at New York Law School partnered with Sara Bennett, a former criminal defense attorney and photographer, on a month-long display of her photo portrait series of formerly incarcerated women, Life After Life in Prison. A panel was held on the experiences of women in the prison system with Ms. Bennett; Soffiyah Elijah, former Executive Director of Correctional Association of NY; Vivian Nixon, Executive Director of College and Community Fellowship; Keila P., pictured in Life After Life in Prison; and moderator Adele Bernhard, Adjunct Professor and Director of the New York Law School Post-Conviction Innocence Clinic.

The Foundation released the third report from our Voices from the Field series, Blueprint for Investing in Girls Age 0-8, which makes key recommendations on how nonprofit, public sector, and philanthropic entities can better support NYC’s young girls, their mothers, and caretakers.

Blueprint for Investing in Girls Age 0-8

Among the report’s findings:

Low-income mothers in NYC have highly-limited access to the basic guidance, support, respite and childcare resources needed to be effective nurturers and first teachers.
Low-income women of color are overwhelmingly both the main/sole wage earners and the main/sole caregivers for their families.
Low-wage working women overwhelmingly hold service and retail jobs characterized by minimal pay scales, erratic hours and total lack of flexibility.
Workers staffing NYC’s subsidized childcare programs are predominantly women of color earning salaries that put them barely over the poverty line.
Informal caregivers – often the only available to low-income mothers -- have limited access to ongoing training, support, feedback and supervision that their work merits and requires.

The Foundation held several public education events, covering topics from women’s incarceration to the role of women in building healthier communities.

Exciting new data was presented by bipartisan pollsters, Celinda Lake and Vince Breglio. Additionally, a panel of community organizers shared insights from their work: Ana Orozco, UPROSE; Angela A. Tovar, The Point CDC; and Marcia Bystryn, New York League of Conservation Voters.

Building Healthier Communities: Environment, Energy, and the Role of Women

featured a robust discussion on the role of women in driving the adoption of renewable energy in communities, in partnership with the Civil Society Institute.

We brought together leading journalists Maria Hinojosa, Anchor and Executive Producer of NPR’s Latino USA and Founder, President & CEO of Futuro Media Group; Jodi Kantor, Reporter, The New York Times; and Feminista Jones, writer & activist, for a spirited conversation.

In Focus: Election Outcomes & the Future for Women

featured a conversation about the future for women guided by the possible outcomes for the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, in partnership with Latham & Watkins’s Women Enriching Business.

The panel included Reshmi Sengupta, Sakhi for South Asian Women; Chanda Hill, SCO Family of Services; Dawn DeCosta, Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School; and Jocelyn Rodriguez, Committee for Hispanic Children and Families. Journalist Soledad O’Brien, founder of Starfish Media Group, moderated.

Blueprint for Investing in Girls Age 0-8

report release and panel discussion convened a group of experts to discuss the report.

The Foundation increased its visibility and secured coverage and op-eds in outlets including:

From the Grassroots Up: Leadership Lessons From Women Community Leaders

Huffington Post, July 13, 2016

Lippman announces members of criminal justice commission

Politico, March 17, 2016

NYC Just Launched Its Most Progressive Initiative Yet for Women and Girls of Color

Mic News, May 17, 2016

Study shows NYC girls from low-income backgrounds face early poor health outcomes

New York Daily News, November 28, 2016

Support Women to Support Communities

The New York Times, June 2, 2016

Local Action to National Influence

In an effort to accelerate change for women and girls on a larger scale, The Foundation sparked partnerships across sectors and saw its local successes inspire efforts across the country.

Young Women's Initiative

The Young Women’s Initiative of New York City (YWI), which The Foundation co-chaired, completed its work and released recommendations in 2016. Founded by NYC City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, YWI is the nation’s first-ever effort to create a long-term blueprint for investing in young women of color by creating policy and funding recommendations in support of their success. As a philanthropic partner, The Foundation took a leadership role in this partnership of visioning and creating the framework for improving the lives of young women and girls.

The National Young Women's Collaborative

The Foundation’s work in New York City on YWI inspired the launch of seven new Young Women’s Initiatives by sister foundations and organizations around the nation. Together, this group has created The National Young Women’s Collaborative to support this important work. Ana Oliveira, President & CEO of The New York Women’s Foundation, announced the expansion to seven new locales at The White House United State of Women Summit in June.

Prosperity Together

In 2016, The New York Women’s Foundation joined 27 public U.S. women’s foundations, along with the Women’s Funding Network, in announcing Prosperity Together (PT), a five-year, $100 million funding initiative to create opportunities and break down barriers to women’s economic security across the United States. In 2016, PT members collectively invested more than $29 million, exceeding the expected investment of $20 million for the first year. PT builds on the more than 30 years of expertise and leadership of U.S. women’s foundations to fund programs including job training, child care, and research that have proven effective nationwide.

The NYC Fund members include: Andrus Family Fund, Brooklyn Community Foundation, Cricket Island Foundation, Ford Foundation, Foundation For A Just Society, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, Ms. Foundation for Women, New York Community Trust, The New York Foundation, The New York Women’s Foundation, North Star Fund, NoVo Foundation, Pinkerton Foundation, Scherman Foundation, Schott Foundation, Surdna Foundation, and Third Wave Fund.

The NYC Fund for Girls and Young Women of Color

The NYC Fund for Girls and Young Women of Color, co-founded and managed by The Foundation, is the first of its kind in the United States and is unique in its specific mission to transform the lives of young women of color—breaking generational cycles of poverty, abuse, and disinvestment. In 2016, The Fund distributed a total of $2.11 million to 28 nonprofit organizations throughout the five boroughs.

The Fund, is an example of collaborative philanthropy where organizations pool resources to achieve more than what one foundation can do alone. Launched by The New York Women’s Foundation and NoVo Foundation in 2014, it was formed to increase philanthropic resources available to organizations that advance the leadership of New York’s girls and young women of color and address longstanding issues that inhibit opportunity and provoke inequity.

Partnership for Women's Prosperity

The Foundation is a member of the Partnership for Women’s Prosperity (PWP), a national partnership with five other women’s funds working to strengthen opportunities for economic security for low-income women. Our funding through PWP is supporting our work in the Bronx and Upper Manhattan with resources aimed to meet the needs of low-income women with a unique and comprehensive package of supports that are necessary to create a stable life, which may include help with English language proficiency, access to vocational and higher education, rights as caregivers and overcoming histories of criminal justice involvement, substance abuse and intimate partner violence.

Meet Our Grantee Partners

We invest to remove barriers and create opportunities in each of the areas listed below. In addition, The Foundation uses targeted strategies to further propel positive change for underinvested women and girls.

Economic Security

The New York Women’s Foundation promotes the economic security and independence of women and
girls by supporting programs that provide greater access to education, job training, employment, and
financial resources while also working to achieve economic justice.

Click here to meet our 2016 grantee partners

Meet Jada Girls Write Now

Jada still remembers the moment she knew writing was going to change her life for the better. She was sitting alongside her mentor Linda, a freelance writer and journalist, at a Girls Write Now writing workshop, where mentor-mentee pairs hone their skills, listen to experts in the field, and support each other as a community.

The workshop inspired Jada. “I told myself, I’m going to write each day,” she tells us. Linda has been a solid support figure in Jada’s life, writing alongside her at Girls Write Now workshops, encouraging her through the college application process, and nudging her to apply for The Princeton University Summer Journalism Program. Linda says, “Jada wasn’t going to apply at first but I said, ‘What do you have to lose?’— and she got in!” Linda and Jada’s special bond was particularly helpful this past year when Jada’s life took a sudden turn: her mother, sister, and brother had to move into a housing shelter. Linda and Jada continue to meet once a week for their pair session, no matter the distance. “We meet all over,” Linda reports. “I’ve been to the Bronx to meet Jada. Sometimes we have dinner after a workshop and write. I’ve gone to her school when she has a free period, and we write then. We’re making it work.”

Jada’s dedication to her craft recently earned her a highly coveted scholarship from The New York Times College Scholarship Program, which will give her up to $15,000 per semester toward tuition, a laptop, and a summer job at The New York Times. She graduated as valedictorian in her class at Preparatory Academy for Writers, was recently published in (R)evolution: The Girls Write Now 2016 Anthology, won an Honorable Mention in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, performed at The Girls Write Now Awards in May, and appeared on Fox News with Linda to talk about their experiences. Jada is now attending Connecticut College and tells Girls Write Now, “I am excited at the prospect of beginning a new chapter of my life in college — and to have Linda by my side.”

About Girls Write Now

Girls Write Now (www.girlswritenow.org) is New York’s first and only writing and mentoring organization for girls. Girls Write Now mentors underserved high school girls from throughout New York City’s five boroughs — over 90 percent high need and 95 percent girls of color — who must rise above the race and income-based inequalities of the city’s public school system and the nation’s workforce. Through one-to-one mentoring with professional women writers and media makers, writing and technology workshops, and leadership, college preparation, and professional development opportunities, Girls Write Now inspires women to share their craft and empowers girls to find their voices and tell their stories.

Our
Grantmaking

Anti-Violence
and Safety

Anti-Violence and Safety

The New York Women’s Foundation supports programs that address the immediate needs of women, girls, and transgender people who suffer physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. They also confront root causes and work to create lasting changes in institutions and beliefs that perpetuate gender-based violence.

Click here to meet our 2016 grantee partners

Meet Regina Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP)

I am an asylum seeker in search of a safe and secure place I can call home. As a Transgender Black woman, I was attacked on many occasions back in my country, Guyana. Being a trans woman has always been difficult in my home country—the society does not understand what it means to be Transgender. On December 9, 2014, I made the decision to flee to avoid further discrimination and prejudice.

Once here, I had no idea where to turn for help. I decided to visit the LGBTQ Center in Manhattan, and began to attend the meetings of immigration support and social action groups. These groups exposed me to social and cultural activities, and during my time there I was introduced to another amazing organization, Queer Detainee Empowerment Project.

I was fortunate to have QDEP take an immediate interest in helping me in any way they could. I explained my situation to Jamila, and she went right to work. I was placed in a program with ROC New York (Restaurant Opportunity Center), where I was exposed to front and back of the house professional restaurant training. I received three certificates while I was there.

I am presently employed as a live-in nanny with a very nice family in Brooklyn. I was connected to the family through Jamila at QDEP and I am glad to say that I feel very safe and happy. All of these accomplishments were made possible because of the dedicated people at QDEP. Through this amazing organization, I was able to secure health insurance, legal representation, work authorization, work training, clothing, food, and now employment and housing. I am part of a QDEP weekly support group, where I have a chance to connect and network with other LGBTQ folks. QDEP continues to do wonders in my life and many other LGBTQ folks.

About Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP)

The Queer Detainee Empowerment Project assists folks coming out of immigration detention in securing structural, health/wellness, educational, legal, and emotional support and services. We work to organize around the structural barriers and state violence that LGBTQI detainee/undocumented folks face related to their immigration status, race, sexuality, and gender expression/identity.

Economic
Security

Health, Sexual Rights, and
Reproductive Justice

Health, Sexual Rights, and Reproductive Justice

The New York Women’s Foundation supports programs that help women, girls, and gender-fluid individuals take control of their health and sexual rights, and to obtain quality healthcare, including the full range of reproductive services.

Click here to meet our 2016 grantee partners

Meet Shatia Fellow, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH)

This past May I officially joined NLIRH as the New York Latina Advocacy Network (NY LAN) fellow. I initially became involved with NLIRH in September 2012 when I joined their Young Parent’s cohort. At that time, I was approximately seven months pregnant and in the process of learning about my rights and how to advocate for myself.

Since that time, I have become a fierce advocate for the rights of other young parents. Through my work with the NY LAN and NLIRH, I have had the opportunity to share my personal story with the New York City Council and with congressional staff in Washington, DC, as a spokesperson for NLIRH’s Young Parents’ Dignity Agenda. Last fall, I was invited to join the Young Women’s Advisory Council for the Young Women’s Initiative, which was started by Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito. The Young Women’s Initiative is the first initiative in the nation to specifically target and address systemic disparities that young women face. In this role, I serve as a youth expert for the Young Woman’s Initiative’s Community Support and Opportunity Workgroup which addresses the needs of young women and girls living in poverty, including those in the foster care system.

About National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH)

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH) builds Latina power to guarantee the fundamental human right to reproductive health, dignity, and justice. We elevate Latina leaders, mobilize our families and communities, transform the cultural narrative, and catalyze policy change.

Antiviolence
and Safety

Capacity
Building

Capacity Building

As an early funder of emerging, women-led, community-based nonprofits, The Foundation is fiercely committed to ensuring our grantee partners’ programmatic and organizational sustainability, as well as strengthening the leadership of their staff at all levels.

Click here to meet our 2016 grantee partners

Meet Beverly Tillery Executive Director, Anti-Violence Project (AVP)

The New York Women’s Foundation was the first philanthropic institution to provide AVP with significant, sustained funding support. The Foundation has been particularly helpful in supporting the development of new and appropriate leadership for AVP.

The Foundation enrolled me in a training program for emerging women leaders of color that was nothing less than lifesaving. It equipped me to think strategically about the challenges that I was encountering as AVP’s first black female executive director. It provided me with an invaluable support network of fierce fellow women leaders and it clarified the need to focus on self-care as we negotiate the isolation and stresses of simultaneously juggling service, advocacy, and management tasks while also defending our positions as women of color.

The Foundation’s grants have helped us to proactively reach out to young trans individuals and LGBTQ women of color; helped us to educate our own board and staff about the particular situations and potential of those populations; and helped us raise consciousness within the organizations with which we regularly collaborate. Perhaps most importantly, their support has allowed us to begin nurturing a robust cohort of young leaders within those two populations—to tap the authentic talents and perspectives that AVP so vitally needs for its ongoing progress.

The connections between leadership development and systemic change are inseparable. You can’t change deeply imbedded societal views and structures without supporting the individual leaders best positioned to bring about those changes. You can’t separate structural progress from individual and institutional progress. And no one understands those interrelationships better than The New York Women’s Foundation.

About Anti-Violence Project (AVP)

Anti-Violence Project works to address and end all forms of violence through organizing and education and supports survivors through counseling and advocacy. Beverly is an experienced thought leader, advocate, and national organizer with nearly three decades of experience working in social justice movements.

Health, Sexual Rights, and
Reproductive Justice

Our
Grantmaking

2016 Capacity Building Initiative
2016 Capacity Building Grants
2016 Capacity Building Partnerships
2016 New York Capacity Building Funder’s Collaborative
2016 Strategic Discretionary Grants
Partnership for Women’s Prosperity
The Catalyst Fund at Groundswell Fund

2016 Capacity Building Initiative

In 2016, The Foundation provided a total of $260,000 in capacity-building support that leveraged the expertise of a variety of technical assistance supports in New York City. This disbursement enabled one-on-one consulting services and cohort learning opportunities for our grantee partners. In addition, grantee partners could apply for individual capacity-building grants to pursue customized technical assistance services from consultants of their choosing. Grantee partners were also provided access to a variety of workshops and trainings through The Foundation’s continued partnership with the New York City Capacity Building Funder’s Collaborative.

2016 Capacity Building Grants

The Foundation awarded a total of $139,000 in capacity-building grants to 26 grantee partners to strengthen organizational infrastructure and increase the effectiveness of their programmatic activities. Organizations requested assistance in the following areas: board development, communications, evaluation, fundraising, information technology, program development, and strategic planning. Please visit our grantee partner directory to learn more.

2016 Capacity Building Partnerships

The Foundation provides capacity building support to grantees through strategic partnerships with nonprofit consulting firms. Through these partnerships, 33 of The Foundation’s grantee partners participated in structured peer learning opportunities, combined with one-on-one consultations, to increase their programmatic capacities in leadership and organizational development, strategic planning, and fundraising.

Cause Effective provided a series of workshops and one-on-one consultations for grantee partners to strengthen individual donor development and increase overall fundraising capacity.
The Omega Women’s Leadership Center at the Omega Institute provided an intensive leadership development retreat and support for grantee partners to explore their unique leadership values, vision, and voice as women leaders.
The Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living provided grantee partners the opportunity to participate in a weeklong immersion program to unlock their innate capacity for stress resilience and optimal performance through mindfulness tools and practices.

The Citizens Committee for New York City provided micro-grants, project planning assistance, and resources to projects that are helping women address the unique needs they face in New York City’s low-income neighborhoods.

2016 New York Capacity Building Funder’s Collaborative

The New York City Capacity Building Funder’s Collaborative strengthens the leadership and management capacity of our grantee partners through a series of participatory workshops and trainings on a variety of topics such as fundraising, board development, financial management, and communications. Workshops and trainings typically range in length from a half day to a series of full-day sessions. Individual follow-up consultations are often conducted at the end of each series.

In addition to learning new skills and strategies for building organizational capacity, the trainings provide an excellent opportunity for grantees to share experiences, increase their knowledge base, build learning partnerships, and form valuable relationships. NYWF’s aim is to provide grantee partners with the resources to improve service delivery and advocacy to low-income women and girls in New York City.

In 2016, The Foundation partnered with the New York City Capacity Building Funder’s Collaborative to offer grantees the following workshops and trainings:

Leadership Transition
Media Training
Weathering the Storms: Protecting Your Organization Against Opposition Attacks
Women of Color & Gender Nonconforming Leaders Empowerment Series
Direct Action Campaigning
Financial Management
Effective Community Organizing
Storytelling
Grassroots Fundraising
City Hall Advocacy

2016 Strategic Discretionary Grants

The New York Women’s Foundation understands that there are emerging issues or immediate needs that fall outside the scope, size, or timing of NYWF’s fall and spring guidelines that are in accordance with our mission. Our Strategic Discretionary grants allow NYWF to support these efforts.

In 2016, NYWF awarded $478,400, including the following organizations:

ACTMFor enhanced community engagement activities
African Women's Development FundFor enhanced community engagement activities
AICHFor support of Native American youth organizing efforts in New York City
Asian American Impact FundFor support to small and emerging organizations working with underinvested Asian-American and Pacific Islanders in NYC
Association of Fundraising ProfessionalsFor the Real Time Grantmaking Education Session at Fundraising Day New York
Athena Film FestivalFor support of the 2016 Athena Film Festival
Black Women in Medicine (URU)For multimedia educational program that celebrates the history, status, and future of women of color in medicine
Black Women’s BlueprintFor support of the 2016 Truth and Reconciliation Commission
BLK ProjekFor the 2016 Not Just Talk Summit

CAAAVFor enhanced community engagement activities
Center for Popular DemocracyFor enhanced community engagement activities
CHCFFor enhanced community engagement activities
Cidadao GlobalFor enhanced community engagement activities
Civic NationFor the White House United State of Women Summit
Columbia University Institute for Research in African-American Studies For support of the Black Girl Movement Conference
Cornell University Workers InstituteFor research efforts on the domestic worker industry
CREAFor literacy and leadership development activities for immigrant women in East Harlem
The National Crittenton FoundationFor the Girls @ the Margin National Alliance

Extreme KidsFor expansion of community center space for children and families with disabilities in Queens
FELPSFor their Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Public Service program
Fiscal Policy InstituteFor enhanced community engagement activities
Futuro MediaFor work to support diversity in journalism in New York City
Girls Leadership Institute For the national study Closing the Gap, Understanding How Girls of Color Become Leaders
GRITtvFor coverage of the 2016 political process from the perspective of grassroots women and community leaders
Iris HouseFor the annual Women as the Face of AIDS Summit
Jews for Racial and Economic JusticeFor outreach, engagement, and training opportunities for women and LGBTQ communities in NYC
JFREJFor their executive leadership transition
JustLeadershipFor enhanced community engagement activities

Latino Leadership InstituteFor work leadership training, community dialogues, and voter education efforts for the Latino community in NYC
Latino Leadership InstituteTo support civic engagement and leadership development opportunities for women in NYC
League of Professional Theater WomenFor support of their strategic planning process
Mayor's Fund to Advance New York CityFor 2016 Women in Politics forum
National Conference on Puerto Rican WomenFor enhanced community engagement activities
New Leaders Council For enhanced community engagement activities
New Leaders CouncilFor outreach, engagement, and training opportunities for women and LGBTQ communities in NYC
New Sanctuary CoalitionFor a speakers bureau training efforts for undocumented immigrant women in NYC
New Yorkers for ChildrenFor the 2016 Girls Matter! Forum
NY Archival SocietyFor the Women's Suffrage Centennial
Osborne AssociationFor research efforts on needs of women at Rose M. Singer Center of Rikers Island

PACE CenterFor the 2017 All About Girls Summit
Participatory Budgeting ProjectFor enhanced community engagement activities
Protect our DefendersFor efforts to convene coalition of female veterans of color who have survived military sexual assault and harassment
QDEPFor enhanced community engagement activities
SakhiFor enhanced community engagement activities
SCO Family of ServicesFor enhanced community engagement activities
SPARKS/FootstepsFor work to provide mothers and families suffering from Postpartum Depression and other perinatal disorders
The New SchoolFor support for emerging women of color writers
The Williams InstituteFor the LGBTQ Poverty Collaborative's work in New York City
Thurgood Marshall Lower School Academy For enhanced community engagement activities
Transgender Legal Defense and Education FundFor enhanced community engagement activities

Vote Run LeadFor the 2016 Dare to Lead New York event
Washington Area Women's FundFor support of nationwide Prosperity Together initiative
Washington Area Women's FundFor support of expansion efforts of the Young Women's Initiative nationally
Women for Afghan WomenFor enhanced community engagement activities
Women's City ClubFor enhanced community engagement activities

Partnership for Women’s Prosperity

As a participant in the Partnership for Women’s Prosperity (PWP)–a national partnership with five other women’s foundations–NYWF is working to boost the economic power of women across the USA, community by community. The collective goal is to support economically-vulnerable women and girls to become financially secure through advancements in education, job training and employment, and innovative strategies in workforce development.

NYWF grantee partners funded under this initiative use strategies that range from basic skills development to career advancement across many sectors and within high-demand industries that provide meaningful and livable wages.

NYWF is achieving the goals of the PWP partnership through grantmaking, collaboration in a learning community, research, and the development of best practices and strategies that build women’s long-term financial self reliance and economic security.

The PWP grant supported NYWF by deepening our investment in grantee partners serving women living at or below the federal poverty level, including immigrant women, parenting teens, formerly incarcerated women, victims of violence and abuse, and women on public assistance. PWP is supported by the Walmart Foundation.

Please visit our grantee partner directory for more information.

The Catalyst Fund at Groundswell Fund

In 2015, NYWF partnered with The Catalyst Fund at Groundswell Fund, to increase investments and visibility of the vital contributions of women of color who are leaders in the reproductive justice movement. The Foundation awarded grants to the following local community-based, women-of-color led reproductive justice organizations:

Please visit our grantee partner directory for more information.

Capacity
Building

Economic
Security

Donor Lists and Financials

We are so grateful for the support and partnership of our donors. Your generosity makes it possible for us to create better lives for women and families in our city.

Donor List Click to view our full donor list

$100,000+

Hyatt Bass
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Citi Community Development
Anne E. Delaney
Estate of Loti G. Gaffney
The Ford Foundation
Foundation for a Just Society
Groundswell’s Catalyst Fund
Laurie M.Tisch Illumination Fund
Live Oak Foundation
NoVo Foundation
Yvonne S. Quinn
Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
Surdna Foundation
The Walmart Foundation

$50,000-$99,999

Tory Burch Foundation
Civil Society Institute
Ginny and Sean Day
Ernst & Young LLP
Agnes Gund
InMaat Foundation
The Lucretia Philanthropic Fund, Inc.
Smart Family Foundation, Inc.
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

$25,000-$49,999

Anonymous (1)
Brooklyn Community Foundation
The Capital Group Companies, Inc.
Susan C. Coté
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
Abigail E. Disney
Barbara and Eric Dobkin
Goldman Sachs & Co.
Cathy and Walter Isaacson
Jack & Dorothy Kupferberg Family
Foundation
Dorothy Lichtenstein
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley Foundation

Michèle Penzer
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Janet Prindle Seidler
The Scherman Foundation, Inc.
Select Equity Group Foundation
Jean and Martin Shafiroff
Joan and Donald Sherman
Stifel
The Janet Prindle Seidler Foundation
U.S. Trust Company of New York
Barbara Manfrey Vogelstein
Joan Melber Warburg
Women’s Bond Club of New York

$10,000-$24,999

Anonymous (2)
Grainne McNamara
Susan R. Cullman
Janet M. Riccio
Latham & Watkins LLP
Tracey Schusterman
Margaret A. Morrison
FactSet Research Systems, Inc.
Bezos Family Foundation
The Cricket Island Foundation
Mildred Anna Williams Fund
North Star Fund
Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP
The Pinkerton Foundation
Shawna Wilson
Karen Choi

Astoria Bank
Dinny R. Joffe
Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s
Standard & Poor’s
Helene R. Banks
Karen Bigman
Joyce B. Cowin
Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc.
Penguin Random House LLC
Susan Sawyers
The Caroline and Sigmund Schott Fund
The Sister Fund
Barbara Brizzi Wynne
KPMG LLP
Estate of Susanne Schnitzer
Renée Landegger
Geoffrey Brewer
Northern Trust

Carolyn Rossip Malcolm
Rhonda Joy McLean
Mary Caracappa
W Magazine
PEPSICO Foundation
Jamie Kramer
XL Catlin
Allen & Overy
Beyond Mom
Fiona Druckenmiller
The Eberstadt Kuffner Fund, Inc.
Diana Elghanayan
EmblemHealth
Lisina M. Hoch
Hudson’s Bay Company
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
InVNT Productions
Ann F. Kaplan

Marion S. Kaplan
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
Limestone Foundation
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Ms. Foundation for Women
Theresa Nedelman
Yoko Ono
Larry and Nancy Pantirer Family
Foundation, Inc.
Katheryn Patterson Kempner
Mary Dillon Reynolds
Shearman & Sterling LLp
Time Warner Inc.
Ann Tisch
WeiserMazars LLP
Marissa C. Wesely
Beyond Mom

$5,000-$9,999

Anonymous (2)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Kyra T. Barry
Helen Benham
Bloomberg L.P.
Andrea R. Bozzo
Jessica Brackman
Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents, Inc.
Laura E. Butzel
Capalino+Company
Community Foundation for Southeastern
Michigan
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
Covington & Burling LLP
Lovelight Foundation and Julie Fisher
Cummings
Elizabeth B. Dater
Dawkins Charitable Trust

Caroline F. Delaney
Patricia Eng
Ernst & Young Foundation
Eliza Factor
Julie R. Fenster
Debra Fine
Founders Entertainment
Frankfurt, Kurnit, Klein, and Selz P.C.
Marcy Grau
Judith L. Hall
Hartan Brokerage, Inc.
Anne Hess
Gail B. Hochman
Katherine A. Homans
Betty C. Jones
Sarah S. Kovner
Nancy Marks

Clare Tweedy McMorris
Jeanne B. Mullgrav
Eileen Murray
Ana L. Oliveira
Camille Orme
Susan T. Rodriguez
Beth Rudin DeWoody
May and Samuel Rudin Family
Foundation, Inc.
Elizabeth A. Sackler
Sheri Cyd Sandler
Annabelle M. Selldorf
Karen Reynolds Sharkey
The Susan Stein Shiva Foundation
Carolyn B. Sicher
Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts
Cornelia Small

Valerie Spencer
Carrie Spengler
Gillian V. Steel
SterlingRisk Insurance
Susannah Taylor
The Catherine C. Marron Foundation
Colleen Tierney
UBS Financial Services, Inc.
Union Theological Seminary
Elizabeth H. Wang
Kathryn Weill
Beth N. Werwaiss
Winston & Strawn LLP
World Wings International, Inc.

$2,500-$4,999

291 Foundation
The Loreen Arbus Foundation
Morgan Brill
Lisa S. Cashin
John & Margo Castimatidis Foundation
Cathy McNamara, Inc.
Kristen Chard Rabsatt
Svetlana Danovich
Delaware North Companies, Inc.
Angela M. DiMatteo
The James and Judith K. Dimon
Foundation
Vivian H. Donnelley
EILEEN FISHER
EisnerAmper LLC
Mary Ellen Geisser
Maria Gelormini
GMHC

Google Inc.
Katherine Grover
Colette Haider
Gay Hartigan
Hilary R. Hatch
Michelle A. Henry
Adria S. Hillman
Ipreo LLC
Deborah Jackson
Alice Jacobs
Jujamcyn Theatres
Robert M. Kaufman
Eileen Kelly
Amy Kuehner
LaGuardia Community College
Susan B. Lindenauer
Tracy Lovatt
Lowes Corporation

Hazel-Ann Mayers
Nancy Meyer and Marc Weiss
MonSai Jewelry
Elba I. Montalvo
Yvonne L. Moore
Morrison & Foerster Foundation
Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens
Neiman Marcus Group
Susan A. Noonan
Jane B. O’Connell
Alison Overseth
Priscilla Painton
Silda Palerm
Allison Pease
Marian S. Pillsbury
The PIMCO Foundation
Ellen Polansky
Proteus Fund

Sharon Gigante Pushie
Margarita Rosa
Jordan Roth
Elizabeth Sabin
Melissa Salten
Pam B . Schafler
Scholastic Trade Publishing
Sara Lee Schupf
Penny Shane
Ann Short
Muriel F. Siebert Foundation
Muriel Siebert
Patricia J. Simpson
Julie Sissman
Jonathan M. Tisch
Sue Ann Weinberg
Women’s Foundation of Minnesota
Linda Zambelli
Suzanne Zywicki

$1,000-$2,499

Anonymous (1)
1199SEIU Child Care Corporation
AARP NY
Janice E. Abert
Stephanie L. Ackler
Joseph P. Addabbo Famly Health Center,
Inc.
Denise Adler
Priscilla Almodovar
The Altman Foundation
E. Sherrell Andrews
Frances M. Barrett
Mercedes T Bass
Lisa G. Beckerman
Claire Behar
Susan Beller
Fabiola Bergi
Susan Bernfield
Nancy Bernstein
Christine Beshar
Bethpage Federal Credit Union
Lori and Bret Black
Madeline Blinder
Susan Ellen Block
Peggy Blumenthal
Bon Iver
Kelly and Scott Bookmyer
Jean Bortner
Shumita Bose
Susan Burden
Kwanza R. Butler
Elizabeth Cash
Anita T. Channapati
Whitney A. Chatterjee
Deborah Cohen
Ellen B. Corenswet
Valerie Coster
Olivia H. Cousins
Stacey Cumberbatch
Elizabeth Cuthrell
Pamela J. Damsky

Agathe David-Weill
Kimberly Davis
Barbara Debs
DeSantis Breindel, Inc.
Jeannie H. Diefenderfer
Christine DiGuiseppi
Kathleen M. Doyle
Eileen Fisher Foundation
Laura Evans
Jason Factor
Lily M. Fan
Forestdale, Inc.
Karla Frieders
Ann Friedman
Barbara T. Friedman
Andrea Gellert
Margery Grace
Stacey A. Guardino
Nohra Haime
Antoinette Hamilton
Suhana S. Han
Ryan Hawke
Julia Henig
Alexandra A. Herzan
Marjorie Hill
Madeline and David Holder
Lisa M. Holton
Alice Hsu
CUNY Hunter College General Fund
Jennifer A. Jackson
Gloria Jarecki
Mary E. Johnston
Rachel Judlowe
Ann G. Jurdem
Marilyn Katz
Yukako Kawata
Charles Kerr
Kwanghee Kim
Kite Key Foundation
Arthur Knapp
Alexandra Korry

Antoinette E. La Belle
Sandra A. Lamb
Francine LeFrak
Susan W. Leicher
Jane Lerner
Nina Lesavoy
Jennifer Leuba
Susan J. Lewis
Judith Lief
Doreen Lilienfeld
Sharon Love
Helen T. Lowe
Kerrie MacPherson
Karen Magee
Daniel Maguire
Jeanette Mall
Rosa Mazzone
Terri McCullough
Eleanor McGee
Vincent McGee
Joan A. McKay
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Erica Steinberger McLean
Teri S. Meissner
Jennifer Milacci
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, & McCloy LLP
Vizhier Mooney
Rosevelie Márquez Morales
Jeannie Mun
Gail B. Nayowith
Neuberger Berman LLC
Kate O’Brian
Omega Women’s Leader Center
Open Society Foundations
Michelle Ores
Stephanie Oster
Carmel Owen
Jennifer Parkinson
Liz Peek
Ann Marie Petach
Phillip & Tracey Riese Family Foundation

Lisa L. Philp
Leslie A. Puth
Christina Ramelli
Linda E. Rappaport
Talatha Reeves
Diana W. Reid
Christina K. Ren
Rachel F. Robbins
Susan M. Roberts
Irma E. Rodriguez
Janet C. Ross
Marcy Russo
Samuel J. & Ethel LeFrak Charitable Trust
Jean Scannell
Ellen Schall
Jacqueline M. Schinnerer
James W. Sewell
Lisa Sherman
Tarnisha L. Smart-Santiago
Courtney Smith
Soapbox Strategists
Muriel Soenens and Justin Haythe
Diana Solash
Brande Stellings
Ann Temkin
Ann Tenenbaum
Judith Thurman
Sandra S. Tully
Barbara J. Turk
Cynthia S. Van Osdol
Wagner College
John L. and Sue Ann Weinberg Foundation
Ashley R. Wessier
Bradford Wilson
Dee Winokur
Withers Bergman LLP
Olivia Wolfe
Cynthia Young Eberstadt
Mary N. Young
Beverley Zabriskie

$500-$999

Humera Afridi
Alpha Theory
Susan Alt
Alyson Andrus
The David Aronow Foundation
Alexa Aviles
Major Ulrich Baer
Bank of America
Christine Curtain Barnes
Lilliam Barrios Paoli
Jane Baum
Debra Bednar-Clark
Max Berger
Taina Bien-Aimé
Maura Bluestone
Dana Lombardo Bober
Rachel Brandenburger
Emily Braun
Regina Bronson
Donna Bryan
Carol Buckler
Sharon Callahan
Martha Caron
Caitlin M. Cassaro
Sarah L. Cave
CCS Fundraising
Arlette Cepeda
Erin Ceynar
Naraporn Chan-o-Cha
Laura Cheng
Christine Choi
Judy Choi
Amy Chou
Kathleen Chrisman
Research Foundation of the City
University of New York
Michelle Coffey
Sarah E. Cogan
Carrie H. Cohen
Eva W. Cole
Molly Cole
Cornerstone Capital Group
Patricia Crown
Noreen Culhane
Joyce Cumberbatch
Elizabeth L. Daniels
Nancy Davis
Deneille Dewar
Maureen Dillon
Tara DiLullo
Olivia W. Douglas

Catherine J. Douglass
Jacqueline Ebanks
Joshua Edelson
Dorothy M. Ehrlich
Eight Square, Inc.
Lauren Embrey
Empire Bluecross Blueshield HealthPlus
Margaret M. Enloe
Jennifer Enslin
Christina Evans
Interior Construction Corp
Karen Fairbanks
Winnie Feng
Martha M. Ferry
Jennifer E. Fiori
Elizabeth Fishman
Christine Fitzgibbons
Sarah J. Foley
Karen J. Freedman
Sasha Galantic
Lee Galvis
Mary Rose. Gasner
Cecilia Miguel
Tonya Gayle
Rosalie Genevro
Brands Group
Grand Street Settlement
Penny Grant
Kate Graziano
Carin and Richard Guarasci
Laura Guthrie
Donna Hall
Richard Hall
Lana Harber
Liliane A. Haub
Jodi E. Hecht
Anne D. Herrmann
Hetrick-Martin Institute
Teresa Hohl
Housing Plus Solutions, Inc.
Erin Hunter
Patricia Isen
J.K. Group Inc.
Weslie Resnick Janeway
Carine Jocelyn
Courtney D. Johnson
Katherine S. Kahan
Rhoda Kanaaneh
Kristina W. Karnovsky
Anne Keating
Kimberlee Keller

Sharon Callahan Kennedy
Elaine Kessel
Arleen Kestenbaum-Buckley
Moira Kilcoyne
Bomsinae Kim
Susan Maltz Kingsolver
Robert Klotz
Melissa Ko
Jamie L. Kogan
Ida Kristensen
Eric Kutcher
Danielle Moss Lee
Hali Lee
David Levine
Patti S. Lieberman
Rachel Loeffler
Marilyn Z. Lubell
Christiane MacArthur
Elizabeth Maclean
Macquarie Group
Marjorie Magner
New York Marriott Marquis
Marisa Matays
Michele Mayes
Molly McGowan
Deborah H. McManus
Patricia Meier
The Janis & Alan Menken Foundation
Janis Menken
Mary Metz
Ketly Michel
Deborah S. Millman
Nadine Mirchandani
MM.LaFleur
Jacklyn S. Monk
Ann B. Moore
Evangeline Morphos
Gigi Mortimer
Janet Mulligan
Stephanie G. Myers
Sharon Althea Myrie
Sarah Pacheco Najarian
Janet A. Nelson
Jennifer Nevins
New York Institute of Technology
Susan D. Newton
Inosi Nyatta
Jeanne O’Brien-Ebiri
Jeannie Park
Deborah Parker
Pearl Pell

Perri Peltz
Juliana Pereira
Eden Perry
Pershing Advisor Solutions LLC
Karen A. Phillips
Shawn Pride
Pearl B. Rabinowitz
Virginia Reticker
Mollie Richardson
Karen Robards
Lynda Rodolitz
Benjamin M. Rosen
Hannah Ross
Rosina Rubin
Isis Sapp-Grant
Julie Scelfo
Michelle Schiano
Lynn C. Schulman
Celia Seigerman-Levit
Archana Shah
Lindsay D. Shea
Tara Sher
Mary M. Shuford
Florina Shutin
Rashidah Siddiqui
Michelle Siegel
Silverleaf Foundation
Erika Smilevski
Smith, Gambrell & Ru ssell, LLP
Melissa P. Sobel
Bonnie and Tom Strauss
Elizabeth Stubenbord
Zena Tamler
The Bachmann Strauss Family Fund, Inc.
Dorothy Q. Thomas
Judith R. Thoyer
Michele Van Lieu
Lee and Cynthia Vance Foundation
The Velshi Wachs Foundation, Inc.
The Lothar Von Ziegesar Foundation, Inc.
Andrew Wallerstein
Lou-Anne Walters
Sharon J. Weinberg
Mariet Westermann
Stacy Westreich
Debra Alligood White
Catherine A. Williams
Ruth A. Ziegler
Jane Zimmy

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Statements of Activities Statements of Financial Position

Summarized Financial Statements

Statements of Activities Year Ended December 31, 2016 with Comparative Totals for 2015

Year Ended December 31				2016	2015
	Unrestricted	Temporarily Restricted	Permanently Restricted	Total	Total
Support and Revenue:
Contributions & grants	$ 1,190,715	$ 2,291,087	-	$ 3,481,802	$ 16,454,428
Special events	2,242,890	173,200	-	2,416,090	2,642,246
Donated goods and services	134,709	-0	-	134,709	90,425
Investment (losses) gains, net	408,814	170,173	-	578,987	-399,885
Other income	38,296	-0	-	38,296	167,263
Net assets released from restrictions	8,109,393	-8,109,393	-	0	0
Total support and revenue	12,124,817	-5,474,933	-	6,649,884	18,954,477

Expenses:
Grants, research, public education & leadership development	$ 10,549,874	-	-	$ 10,549,874	$ 8,571,563
Administration	740,860	-	-	740,860	598,475
Fundraising	1,982,466	-	-	1,982,466	1,884,711
Total expenses	13,273,200	-	-	13,273,200	11,054,749
Change in net assets	-1,148,383	-5,474,933	-	-6,623,316	7,899,728
Net assets - January 1	9,880,898	11,573,995	1,799,595	23,254,488	15,354,760
Net assets - December 31	$ 8,732,515	$ 6,099,062	$ 1,799,595	$ 16,631,172	$ 23,254,488

Sources of Revenue

Contribution & Grants

$ 3,481,802

57.4%

Special Events

$ 2,416,090

39.8%

Other Income

$ 38,296

0.6%

Donated Goods and Services/Other Income

$ 134,709

2.2%

6,070,897

100%

Excluded: investment

578,987

Total Revenue

$ 6,649,884
Expenditures

Programs

$ 10,549,874

79.5%

Fundraising

$ 1,982,466

14.9%

Admin

$ 740,860

5.6%

Total Expenditures

$ 13,273,200

100%
Grantmaking

Economic Security

$ 3,440,550

45%

Anti-Violence and Safety

$ 1,408,400

19%

Health, Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice

$ 384,450

5%

Capacity Building and Strategic Discretionary

$ 266,600

4%

The New York City Fund for Girls and Young Women of Color

$ 2,110,000

28%

Total Grantmaking

$ 7,610,000

100%

Statements of Financial PositionAs of December 31, 2016, and 2015

Assets	2016	2015
Cash and cash equivalents	$5,434,453	$ 6,441,052
Investments	8,180,061	8,135,651
Pledges receivable, net	3,724,860	9,034,350
Prepaid expenses	105,248	92,445
Property and equipment, net	100,179	148,795
Other assets	127,728	102,532
	$17,672,529	$23,954,825

Liabilities and Net Assets
Accounts payable and accrued expenses	$351,039	$272,657
Grants payable	476,800	139,950
Deferred rent liability	158,018	160,730
Funds received in advance	55,500	127,000
Total liabilities	1,041,357	700,337

Net Assets:
Unrestricted:
Current	2,571,412	3,808,594
Board designated endowment	6,161,103	6,072,304
Total unrestricted	8,732,515	9,880,898
Temporarily restricted	6,099,062	11,573,995
Permanently restricted	1,799,595	1,799,595
Total net assets	16,631,172	23,254,488
	$17,672,529	$23,954,825

A Message from the Board Chair and President & CEO

Ana L. OliveiraPresident & CEO

Yvonne QuinnChair

WHAT THE FOUNDATION DOES LIKE NO OTHER

We:

Fund.

Invest.

Measure.

Spark.

Gather.

Engage.

Fund.

Invest.

Measure.

Spark.

Gather.

Engage.

Our Giving

The year 2016 was one of expansion and engagement for The New York Women’s Foundation.

BREAKDOWN

Participatory Grantmaking 35% Increase in women volunteering

Our Impact

Fairness

Access

Expansion

Well-being

Equality

Empowerment

Fairness

Access

Expansion

Well-being

Equality

Empowerment

Progress

Examples include:

Sharing Knowledge

The Foundation released the third report from our Voices from the Field series, Blueprint for Investing in Girls Age 0-8, which makes key recommendations on how nonprofit, public sector, and philanthropic entities can better support NYC’s young girls, their mothers, and caretakers.

Among the report’s findings:

The Foundation held several public education events, covering topics from women’s incarceration to the role of women in building healthier communities.

Building Healthier Communities: Environment, Energy, and the Role of Women

In Focus: Election Outcomes & the Future for Women

Blueprint for Investing in Girls Age 0-8

The Foundation increased its visibility and secured coverage and op-eds in outlets including:

Local Action to National Influence

Young Women's Initiative

The National Young Women's Collaborative

Prosperity Together

The NYC Fund for Girls and Young Women of Color

Partnership for Women's Prosperity

Meet Our Grantee Partners

Economic Security

Meet Jada Girls Write Now

Anti-Violence and Safety

Meet Regina Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP)

Health, Sexual Rights, and Reproductive Justice

Meet Shatia Fellow, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH)

Capacity Building

Meet Beverly Tillery Executive Director, Anti-Violence Project (AVP)

2016 Capacity Building Initiative

2016 Capacity Building Grants

2016 Capacity Building Partnerships

2016 New York Capacity Building Funder’s Collaborative

2016 Strategic Discretionary Grants

Partnership for Women’s Prosperity

The Catalyst Fund at Groundswell Fund

Donor Lists and Financials

Donor List Click to view our full donor list

$100,000+

$50,000-$99,999

$25,000-$49,999

$10,000-$24,999

$5,000-$9,999

$2,500-$4,999

$1,000-$2,499

$500-$999

Summarized Financial Statements

Statements of Activities Year Ended December 31, 2016 with Comparative Totals for 2015

Sources of Revenue

Contribution & Grants

Participatory Grantmaking
35% Increase in women volunteering