New York Community Trust and Attorney General Finalize $505,000 Pollinator Grant Round

The New York Community Trust, with New York State Attorney General Letitia James, has committed $505,000 to 28 community organizations in what the Trust identifies as the final grant round of the New York Pollinator Conservation Fund. The announcement, dated August 12, 2026, places all 28 recipients within historically underserved communities across New York State. For NYC nonprofit stakeholders, the figure closes a discrete funding pipeline rather than opens one.

Funding mechanics

Total commitment: $505,000. Number of awards: 28. Per-grantee average: $18,035, assuming equal allocation. The Trust's release does not publish individual award sizes, project scopes, recipient names, or sub-state geographic distribution. Disbursement history prior to this final round is not specified in the available material. The fund is jointly administered by the Trust and the Office of the Attorney General.

Sector signal

The Pollinator Conservation Fund now sits at terminal status. Termination removes one environmental-adjacent funding track from the Trust's active portfolio. The 28 grantees retain one-time capital without a documented renewal pathway through this vehicle. The Trust has not signaled replacement programming in environmental or conservation categories. The Attorney General's co-administration role points to continued involvement in environmental, settlement-derived grantmaking, but specific successor funds are not named.

For NYC-based organizations: this mechanism operated at the state level. Direct eligibility for city-only nonprofits requires verification of service geography, which the release does not disclose.

Tracking the closeout

• Query the Trust's 990 filings and grants ledger: confirm total dollars disbursed through the Pollinator Conservation Fund since inception and flag any unspent residual.
• Cross-reference the 28 grantees against the NYS Attorney General Charities Registry: verify current registration, Form 990 revenue scale, and reported program area.
• Flag any grantee that treats the $505,000 as recurring revenue rather than a one-time award in subsequent filings.
• Monitor the Trust's upcoming RFP cycle for any environmental or conservation successor fund.
• Track OAG press output for new co-administered philanthropy partnerships replicating the Trust-OAG structure.