Supported Charities

Charities Supported by the Seventh District Foundation

The Seventh District Foundation is proud to partner with a diverse array of organizations committed to enriching the lives of children across arts, culture, education, medical research, healthcare, and human services.

Each charity we support plays a pivotal role in driving positive change and providing essential services in our communities.

Explore the inspiring missions of these organizations and see how your contributions can help amplify their impact.

Arts & Culture

Ballet Tech Foundation Inc. is committed to introducing New York City public school children to the beauty, integrity, and joy of dance. Annually, we provide the rigorous dance training necessary to fulfill and nurture students’ intrinsic dance talents, all tuition free.

Loco-Motion Dance Theatre's primary purpose is to cultivate the development and appreciation of dance and theater arts among school age children of all backgrounds and levels of ability.

TDF sustains live theatre and dance by engaging and cultivating a broad and diverse audience and eliminating barriers to attendance.

Education

The mission of BUGS is to provide a hands-on, interdisciplinary education to young adolescents of all abilities and backgrounds, with a focus on real-world problem solving and the exploration of environmental, social, and economic sustainability.

Children of Bellevue is about equity. We want every child in New York City to have access to quality healthcare.

To help children with dyslexia learn to read and to reach their full potential; To help their families end the frustration, guilt and disruption caused by dyslexia; To help communities by developing Children's Dyslexia Centers to help children succeed in and out of school.

Premised on the belief that the arts are an effective vehicle for social transformation, Hook Arts Media® unites artists and community members as co-creators in dynamic cultural activities.

Mary McDowell Friends School is a K–12 college preparatory program dedicated to the success of students with learning disabilities. Grounded in the Quaker values of equality, integrity, and social responsibility, we cultivate a diverse and anti-racist community in which all students can reach their full potential.

The Maurer Foundation’s mission is to save lives through breast health education that focuses on breast cancer prevention, early detection, risk reduction and healthy lifestyle choices.

The mission of Storefront Academy Charter Schools (SACS) is to provide children of varied academic strengths a quality education option that, prepares them academically, socially and emotionally to become critical thinkers, high-achieving students, and well-rounded individuals.

The Safe Center's mission is to protect, assist and empower victims of family violence and sexual assault while challenging and changing social systems that tolerate and perpetuate abuse.

The Viscardi Center is a non-profit organization that educates, employs, and empowers children, adults, and veterans with disabilities or similar needs, so we can all discover the love of learning, the power of work, the freedom of independent living, and the self-confidence to fulfill our dreams.

Healthcare Institutions

At Northwell Health, our mission is to improve the health and quality of life of the communities we serve through world-class service and patient-centric care. That means you—and the ones you love—are at the heart of everything we do.

St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children, young adults, and families with medical complexity and special healthcare needs.

The mission of NYU Langone Health is to serve, to teach, and to discover. We are committed to making world-class contributions that place service to human health at the center of an academic culture devoted to excellence in research, patient care, and education.

The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages.

Human Services

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

BluePath provides autism service dogs, offering safety, companionship, and opportunities for independence.

Camp Turk is a non-profit residential summer camp for kids 7 to 16 years of age. We strive to create a wonderful experience for our campers, and every little bit helps. We are grateful for donations, both monetary and in-kind through our Amazon Wishlist.

We help children in poverty to succeed and thrive. We do this by providing comprehensive supports to children, youth, and their families in targeted high-needs New York City neighborhoods.

CBTF believes in the importance of being responsive to the needs of everyone in the brain tumor community regardless of their racial/ethnic background. We believe in the importance of a culture that values people of all racial/ethnic backgrounds. We value the many identities that an individual brings to the community and honor and appreciate the intersections of these identities.

ECHO is comprised of dedicated caring people whose sole purpose is to brighten a family’s path during a difficult journey. Our hope is that our assistance will make a difference to improve their current circumstances both financially and spiritually.

Guiding Eyes for the Blind provides guide dogs to people with vision loss. We are passionate about connecting exceptional dogs with individuals for greater independence.

We aim to help children and adults with developmental disabilities lead dignified and satisfying lives and reach their fullest potential all while assisting families in every step of their journey.

Located in the Mid-Hudson Region of New York, Jawonio supports children, adults, and families with intellectual/developmental disabilities, behavioral health challenges, and chronic medical needs.

Our mission is to break down racial, social, and economic barriers to health care, health, and well-being for young people by providing vital services—high quality, comprehensive, integrated, confidential, and at no cost to them—for all who come to us.

NAC’s mission is to provide innovative high quality services in support of birth, foster, and adoptive families caring primarily for medically complex children. NAC’s mission includes children with severe physical, emotional, and behavioral challenges and developmental disabilities.

For 28 years, The New York Center for Children has provided trauma-focused therapy services to victims of child abuse and their families, free of charge, for as long as their healing requires.

Year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-style sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.

The Family Center’s mission is to strengthen families affected by crisis, illness or loss to create a more secure present and future for their children.

The basic mission of the Marine Toys for Tots Program is to collect new unwrapped toys and distribute those toys to less fortunate children at Christmas.

Medical Research

The MMRI is dedicated to improving the health and quality of life for all humankind. The Institute’s primary mission is to conduct high quality basic biomedical and clinical research aimed at generating knowledge and information necessary for understanding molecular mechanisms of disease and development of medical cures and treatments of tomorrow.

The mission of NYU Langone Health is to serve, to teach, and to discover. We are committed to making world-class contributions that place service to human health at the center of an academic culture devoted to excellence in research, patient care, and education.