A useful NYC tenant database for in-person advocacy does not merely tell you where to find a housing hotline. It helps answer the questions that determine whether a tenant campaign has leverage: Who…
A New York City nonprofit can lose more money through lease language than through rent. Property taxes may represent…
New York nonprofits do not face a shortage of philanthropic language. They face a shortage of unrestricted cash.
The NYC Council discretionary funding process has two distinct stages that are often treated as one. The first is…
Almost every New Yorker who has relied on emergency food has experienced the strange, exhausting gap between what an…
A 1099 form does not establish independent contractor status in New York. It records a payment method. The legal…
I have spent enough years working alongside executive directors, board chairs, and program managers across the five…
Federal tax-exempt status does not extend to New York State sales tax. An organization holding an IRS 501(c)(3)…
New York City releases roughly 23,000 people from its jails in a year. That is not a small administrative task; it is a…
A directory of fiscal sponsors records 415 sponsors overseeing more than 20,000 projects across the United States and…
There's a specific moment in the life of almost every advocacy-minded nonprofit when the work you've been doing for…
New York City’s main afterschool network spans more than 800 COMPASS locations. BEACON adds more than 80 school-based…
New York State and New York City do not generally require a nonprofit corporation to carry directors and officers…
The first hurdle in an NYC family-foundation application is often not the proposal. It is a pre-application gate…
A New York nonprofit can lobby. The law does not require charitable organizations to sit quietly while legislators…
The Legal Aid Society assists hundreds of thousands of individuals and families each year through civil legal services…
The cheapest bookkeeping model is often the one that looks cheapest on a spreadsheet. That is how nonprofits end up…
For a qualifying 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the reimbursable employer option under NYS unemployment insurance can replace…
New York City does not have a shortage of mental health organizations. It has a shortage of usable information about…
Only 29% of nonprofit boards have adopted a written succession plan or policy for an executive director or CEO. Sector…
New York’s charitable solicitation rules do not divide organizations neatly into two groups—those that register and…
A $20 million annual reduction from the original $54 million Indirect Cost Rate funding pool changed the operating…
New York City has no shortage of people who want to move money toward public good. It has a shortage of agreement about…
PASSPort replaced New York City’s paper-based VENDEX system in 2017. It now serves as the city’s digital procurement…
A directory record can be legally valid, financially current, and operationally useless.
When I sit down with executive directors across the five boroughs, the conversation about donor-advised funds almost…
The four NYC immigrant service directories that exist today don't talk to each other. They were built by separate…
The New York Community Trust marked its centennial in 2024 with roughly $3.5 billion in assets and a Rolodex of more…
I want to start with a date that should already be on your radar but, in my experience working alongside…
There is no single, fully verified New York City social-service directory. Anyone promising one is selling boardroom…
When New York enacted Not-for-Profit Corporation Law Section 715-b, effective July 1, 2014, the legislature drew a…
A matching grant can multiply a fundraising result, but the multiplier applies only to eligible dollars. The Staten…
When an organization decides it needs to change its purpose clause, expand its geographic scope, or simply modernize…
Most New York City nonprofits are buying cyber insurance in the wrong order. They're shopping for premiums…
Nine percent. That is the fee Philanthropy New York charges on new income received by a project under its…
You have an idea. You have a small coalition, a couple of early funders, maybe a Kickstarter track record. You do not…
When a community-based organization in the Bronx sits down with a client who has just lost their housing, the first…
Employment-related claims are among the most serious sources of litigation involving nonprofit leadership. Wrongful…
New York State’s transition from the Grants Gateway to the Statewide Financial System changed more than the login…
For New York nonprofits, the CHAR500 is no longer a paper exercise that can be assembled, signed, and mailed from the…
Let’s not dress this up. Too many New York City charities are operating on financial infrastructure that would not…
Forty-three organizations appeared in 2025 state lobbying records but not in the corresponding New York City…
More than 300 older adult centers and affiliated sites operate across New York City's five boroughs. The network that…
A nonprofit line of credit and a working capital loan solve the same ugly problem from opposite directions: money…
Roughly 70% of the more than 87,000 active independent, community, and corporate foundations in the United States do…
Most New York City charities that lobby do not actually know what the law allows them to lobby about. They think they…
When one of the most rigorous academic audits of New York City's emergency food network found that only half the…
For a New York charity, the difference between a CPA review and an independent audit is not simply a difference in…
For a New York City nonprofit, PASSPort registration is not a single online form; it is the point where governance…
Forty-one distinct Neighborhood Development Areas. Seventeen targeted NYCHA developments. More than 1,400 free datasets…
When I sit down with executive directors across the five boroughs, the question of board rotation tends to surface in…
Nonprofits receive 2.2 times more donor-advised fund gifts when they ask for them. The figure exposes a basic…
A New York nonprofit can cross the lobbying registration threshold without hiring a professional lobbyist, signing a…
New York City does not have one social-service database. It has a crowded bazaar of referral tools, public-benefit…
According to New York City’s Hazard Mitigation Plan, every $1 invested in hazard mitigation can save an estimated $6 in…
For New York City nonprofits, the Freelance Isn’t Free Act is not a regulation that applies only to commercial…
Within six months of integrating Findhelp into its Epic electronic medical record, NYC Health + Hospitals reported an…
A crisis rarely arrives in the form your board imagined. It may begin with a service interruption at a program site, a…
A nonprofit can lose an NYC property tax exemption through a missed January 5 renewal, while a first-time applicant has…
If you are trying to find an immigration lawyer, English class, employment program, case manager, or neighborhood-based…
A whistleblower policy that lives in a board portal, gets signed once, and is never mentioned again is not a control…
A single broad alert can produce dozens of items a week and still miss the grant announcement that matters. That is the…
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…
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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…