The Kornfeld Foundation is proud to celebrate Bobye List, former Executive Director of the Kornfeld Foundation, as the 2025 recipient of the American Cancer Society’s Pathfinder in Palliative Care Award.

We are proud to welcome Brooklyn Children’s Museum and Urban Design Forum as new grantee partners of the Kornfeld Foundation.

Over the course of 2024, the Kornfeld Foundation continued its work of supporting organizations that create equitable communities through arts and cultural participation, grassroots organizing, direct service, and advocacy efforts.

Kornfeld Foundation partner, Neighborhoods First Fund (NFF), announces grants of $1.42M in 2024 to support organizations leading efforts for housing justice in New York.

In 2024, we are pleased to renew our commitments to grantees serving and advocating for marginalized communities and organizations advancing arts education in NYC’s schools.

We are thrilled to welcome Rini Fonseca-Sabune as the new Project Lead Consultant to the Neighborhoods First Fund, a Kornfeld Foundation partnership collaboration.

As part of our ongoing commitment to arts education in New York City, we are pleased to announce renewed commitments to the Brooklyn Museum and Young Dancemakers Company.

The Kornfeld Foundation begins our 2023 grantmaking with a new partnership with the Neighborhoods First Fund for Community-Based Planning and three annual Directors’ Grants.

We are thrilled to announce grants to ten youth-serving and youth-led organizations as part of our partnership with the Youth Organizing and Culture Change Fund (YOCCF).

We conclude 2022 with grants to five organizations that support creativity in young people, teaching artists, and the NYC arts education community.

The Kornfeld Foundation welcomes two new grantees and two existing grantees to our civic engagement portfolio.

The Kornfeld Foundation has revised our funding application guidelines to be more flexible and transparent.