Where bookings go

Every Navi experience commits to one regenerative outcome. This ledger groups those commitments by theme so you can see where bookings concentrate. A few honest caveats: the counts here are experiences, not dollars, and there are no revenue figures in this view. Each theme reflects what a host says a booking supports, not an audited result. The point is to show the pattern, not to sell it.

Heritage preservation

10 experiences contribute

Tour fees directly fund the DUMBO Improvement District's archival and preservation work on the neighborhood's remaining nineteenth-century warehouse structures.
Delores has spent twenty years transcribing her grandmother's handwritten recipe cards. Every class booking contributes to digitizing and publishing that archive for the community.
Tour proceeds support the Harlem Brownstone Conservancy, which provides pro bono legal and architectural assistance to homeowners facing displacement.
Eleni's family has run a Greek pastry shop in Astoria for forty years. Booking a class directly funds the shop's operating costs as foot traffic declines.
Every tour fee is shared equally among the five participating bodega owners, none of whom charge Navi any booking commission.
Tour fees fund a volunteer project recording the stories of Chinatown's oldest residents before they're lost.
Session fees help digitize a private archive of Harlem jazz recordings so the music stays accessible to the next generation.
A share of each ticket funds the nonprofit that documents Coney Island's past and runs free exhibits under the boardwalk.
The regulars keep these public courts swept, free, and in steady use, so the neighborhood's decades-old handball scene stays alive.
A share of each booking goes to a neighborhood fund that helps long-running LES family shops keep their storefronts.

Education and youth programs

5 experiences contribute

The small contribution covers the center's utility costs, which keeps its English classes and elder lunches free for the Flushing community.
A share of every booking funds free chair-yoga sessions for older neighbors at the Inwood library branch.
Bookings keep our Saturday running clinic free for kids at two Harlem rec centers.
A share of every intro session funds the gym's program that trains local teens to set routes and earn a first paycheck.
We build from donated fabric remnants, and leftover materials go back to a local school's art room each month.

Food security

4 experiences contribute

Every ticket is a donation. All stall revenue goes directly to the participating small businesses, mostly immigrant-owned and family-run.
Your afternoon's work helps a volunteer-run garden hold its plot against development pressure and keep growing free produce for the block.
Navi charges no commission on the tastings, so the full food budget goes to the family-run stalls on the route.
The walk steers steady business to long-running family restaurants squeezed by rising rents along the 74th Street corridor.

Environment and ecology

10 experiences contribute

A share of every ride funds the Prospect Park Alliance's tree care program, which maintains the park's 30,000 trees year-round.
Part of each fee goes to the volunteer crew restoring native plants around Van Cortlandt Lake.
Your fee helps pay for community days pulling invasive plants along the Bronx River banks.
Every table here resells, repairs, or rehomes goods that would otherwise get tossed, and a cut of stall fees funds the neighborhood's free repair cafe.
A share of every booking goes to the volunteer crew that clears invasive vines from Inwood's last natural forest.
Part of every booking supports the LIC waterfront cleanup that keeps these riverside vantage points walkable.
A share of every ticket goes to the Billion Oyster Project, which rebuilds the reefs that filter New York Harbor.
This paddle is hosted by a volunteer boathouse that monitors water quality and pushes for cleanup of the Newtown Creek Superfund site.
The crawl steers your money toward resale and consignment shops that keep usable clothing in circulation instead of the landfill.
You leave able to repair what you already own, which keeps clothes in use and cuts the churn of fast fashion.

Arts funding

8 experiences contribute

Every ticket flows directly to the Caribbean-owned venues and DJs hosting the event, with no platform middlemen.
Each booking sustains a Black-owned jewelry workshop in Bed-Stuy that trains apprentices from the neighborhood.
Tour fees are split directly with the artists whose work you see. No gallery cut, no middleman.
Every ticket goes straight to the night's musicians at a club that pays a real door split instead of exposure.
The route favors galleries showing early-career artists, so your visit puts eyes and word of mouth where they're needed most.
Tour fees are shared with the artist-run spaces on the route, the kind that operate without commercial backing.
Tour fees are shared with the writers whose walls you visit, treating graffiti as the commissioned work it is.
Your ticket helps cover rent on a collective where eleven local potters share kilns and tools they couldn't afford alone.