New York City: Ongoing Competitive Grants (2026) supports nonprofits’ projects to improve policies, systems, and services that help New Yorkers lead healthy lives and build promising futures and thriving communities.
Funder: New York Community Trust
Due Dates: December 31, 2026 (Final application deadline) | Rolling (NYC proposals within the 2026 cycle)
Funding Amounts: About $50 million annually across the Trust’s broader competitive grants program
Summary: Supports nonprofit projects in New York City and renewals of projects previously funded by the National and International Environment Program.
Key Information: New National and International Environment Program projects must use separate funding opportunities.
The New York Community Trust’s ongoing competitive grants program accepts proposals from nonprofits for work in New York City. It supports projects that improve New Yorkers’ lives, emphasizing healthy lives, promising futures, and thriving communities. Applicants should explain the public policy or systemic service delivery problem they seek to address, how their activities will improve policies, systems, or services, and how they will measure results and sustain the work after Trust support ends.
This opportunity also accepts renewal requests for projects already supported by the Trust’s National and International Environment Program. New projects in that program follow separate funding opportunities rather than this application. Applicants should review the Trust’s nonprofit funding guidance to assess project fit before preparing a proposal.