We offer grants, fiscal sponsorship, and design support for people who care for local parks and green spaces across the city. Looking for seed funding or other forms of financial support? Interested in receiving help designing a publication or website for your community group? Learn about the various grants we offer as well as our fiscal sponsorship and design support resources.
In response to the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the NYC Green Relief & Recovery Fund is offering grants of $500 to $12,500 to groups with experience working in NYC’s open spaces and supporting community health and wellness with annual operating budgets up to $50,000.
The NYC Green Relief & Recovery Fund is intended to respond to the most urgent needs facing the stewardship organizations managing the City’s parks and open spaces and provide adequate funding to maintain and improve them, while spurring policy-makers to address ongoing systemic challenges that prevent adequate funding for parks overall within the City’s operating budget.
Priority will be given to organizations with demonstrated experience working in NYC’s open spaces and annual operating budgets under $50,000 per year. Groups do not need to be a 501(c)(3) organization. Since 501(c)3 status is not required, applicants may utilize a fiscal sponsor.
Past grantees must have submitted at least an interim report prior to applying for additional funding.
Past grantees must have submitted the final report prior to receiving a new award.
Examples of eligible applicants include:
Examples of eligible expenses include:
Grant funds may be used to support spaces that are open to the public the majority of the time. This includes funding for:
We do not fund: Electioneering, lobbying, litigation, general liability insurance, fundraisers, or local travel.
Funding decisions will be based on:
Questions? Contact the NYC Green Fund administration team at nycgreenfund@cityparksfoundation.org.
Are you an NYC Green Fund grant recipient? Raise funds for your NYC park or open space and have the amount you raised doubled through an ioby crowdfunding campaign! The NYC Green Fund Crowdfunding Challenge provides up to $2,500 in matching funds to approved community projects that are hosted through ioby.
To be eligible for the NYC Green Fund Crowdfunding Challenge, projects must:
We do not fund:
Eligible expenses include any cost required to implement a specific project, including, but not limited to:
Projects can be a continuation from your NYC Green Fund grant or they can be brand new. The projects will fall under several categories:
Get funding for your community group’s ideas and efforts to improve New York City’s parks from our Capacity Fund Grant. If you are an active community group supporting an NYC Parks property in any of the five boroughs, you may be eligible to apply for a small grant of up to $3,000 for park projects and supplies including events, tools, and outreach materials.
The Partnerships for Parks (PfP) Capacity Fund Grant provides up to $3,000 to strengthen the outreach, membership, and program-planning capacity of community groups who care for their neighborhood parks in all five boroughs of New York City.
El programa Capacity Fund Grant (Subsidios para Financiar la Capacitación de la Comunidad) de Partnerships for Parks provee pequeños subsidios de hasta $3,000 para fortalecer la difusión, la membresía y la capacitación en planificación de programas de los grupos comunitarios que se preocupan por los parques de su vecindario en los cinco distritos de la ciudad de Nueva York.
The application process should not begin with submitting the proposal. Below are some ways to prepare:
Siga estos pasos cuando comience el proceso de solicitud:
El proceso de solicitud no debe comenzar con la presentación de la propuesta. A continuación se muestran algunas formas de prepararse:
Who is eligible?
We do not fund:
¿Quién es elegible?
No financiamos:
Funding decisions will be based on:
Las decisiones de financiación se basarán en:
Examples of eligible expenses include:
Ejemplos de gastos elegibles incluyen:
Examples of past grantees include:
Algunos ejemplos de beneficiarios anteriores incluyen:
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November 1, 2020 – View November 2020 Grantees here.
March 15, 2020 – View March 2020 Grantees here.
November 15, 2019 – View November 2019 Grantees here.
February 15, 2019 – View February 2019 Grantees here.
October 1, 2018 – View October 2018 Grantees here.
February 1, 2018 – View February 2018 Grantees here.
Generous private support is provided by The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, Altman Foundation and the MJS Foundation. Public support is provided by the NYC Council through the Parks Equity Initiative. Presenting sponsor TD Bank.
GREEN / ARTS LIVE NYC is a fund that provided small grants, production support, and other guidance to artists, arts organizations, and community groups to produce free arts and culture performances in neighborhood parks, plazas, and community gardens in the summer and fall of 2021.
Work with our art director to create a publication or website. More information will be available soon.
Partnerships for Parks (PfP), through City Parks Foundation, offers fiscal sponsorship to community groups supporting NYC parks and green spaces. Fiscal sponsorship allows community groups who do not have their 501c3 status to build their organizational and financial capacity without having to allocate valuable time and resources required of a nonprofit organization. We will begin accepting applications in early 2022.
We bring New Yorkers together in their parks by offering free programs. Although our programming is temporarily suspended, parks remain open to find solace, to exercise, and to stay healthy. Please give now if you can so that we can be back in parks soon.