ABOUT THE TRUST - New York Community Trust

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As the City's community foundation, The Trust helps charitable New Yorkers make a real difference.

We offer donors a number of flexible, efficient, and rewarding ways to accomplish their charitable giving, now or later.
We work with lawyers and financial advisors to help their clients incorporate charity into their financial and estate plans.
Through the generosity of generations of New Yorkers, we support thousands of the City’s best nonprofits and the extraordinary people who help make our town a great place to live and work.

And with the belief that the best grantmaking is done locally, we have two suburban divisions:

The Long Island Community Foundation, and The Westchester Community Foundation.

Photo: Two 2005 grants to the Fund for Public Health in New York, totaling $275,000, supported school and after-school physical activity programs in four areas of the City with large numbers of obese children. Photograph by Michael Paras.

Donors Speak

Alan Patricof
"We’ve had a fund at The Trust for more than 25 years. It’s a donor-advised fund, the kind of fund where we recommend the grants. We hear about a good program; we want to support it; we ask The Trust to fund it. Easy as pie."

Peter G. Peterson
“My wife, Joan Ganz Cooney, and I have been delighted with our long relationship with The Trust, which dates from the 70s. In fact, as checkered as my career has been, I can say that The Trust has been one of the constants. Sure, steady, reliable—a sound charitable investment.”

Judith Turkel
"I feel confident referring my clients to The Trust. It’s an old and secure institution, with a highly competent, informed, and caring staff."

Davis Polk & Wardwell
"We have been delighted with the grants The Trust has made and we have been impressed with The Trust’s professionalism."

Dennis Paoli
“We are a relatively small fund, but The Trust has provided the advice and support we needed to shape and target our grants to be as effective, and appreciated, as possible."

Franny Eberhart
“...we've found the care with which The Trust scrutinizes each grantee we want to help to be immensely helpful."

William Donnell
"The staff at The Trust has helped me refine my personal response to the City's needs."

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