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The Community Church of New York (ccny.org) scores 72 out of 100 on Brand Analyzer, placing it in the Brand-Ready tier among Non-profit brands, Other brands, in the 38th percentile of 28827 Non-profit brands.
The Community Church of New York is a liberal religious congregation located in Manhattan, founded in 1847. It describes itself as a home for progressive spirituality, justice-based values, and freedom of expression, with a mission to grow as a caring, justice-making, anti-racist, diverse, spiritual community. The church combines spiritual practice with active social justice advocacy, positioning itself against fascism, economic disenfranchisement, and urban inequity, and serves individuals and families in New York City seeking an inclusive, activism-oriented spiritual home.
| Brand Name | The Community Church of New York |
|---|---|
| Domain | ccny.org |
| Industry | Non-profit, Other |
| Founded | 1847 |
| Headquarters | New York City |
| Parent Company / Owner | City University of New York |
| Main Competitors | All Souls Unitarian Church NYC (75/100), The Riverside Church (60/100), Judson Memorial Church (80/100), Fourth Universalist Society, First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn |
The Community Church of New York appears on Wikipedia but without a dedicated company entity, so AI models can confuse it with similarly named subjects.
The homepage meta description reads "A home for liberal religious community, justice-based values, and freedom of expression in the heart of Manhattan. Our Mission is to grow as a caring, justice-making, anti-racist, …" (Meta description: 30 words (ideal length). OG description present and descriptive) - this is the summary AI engines are most likely to quote.
Structured data on the homepage: 1 JSON-LD block(s), Breadcrumb/Website schema, og:title, og:description, og:image, og:type, Twitter cards, canonical. Adding Organization and FAQ schema would further help AI crawlers parse the brand's identity.
AI-crawler access: robots.txt mentions GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended - all allowed - robots.txt controls whether engines like GPTBot and ClaudeBot can read the site at all.
Detected tech stack: Squarespace.
Social footprint: verified profiles on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter); no detected presence on LinkedIn, GitHub - consistent profiles reinforce the brand's identity across the web.
0 Reddit mentions - community discussion signals real-world reputation to AI models.
Live results from asking a general-purpose AI assistant about the brand, checked November 2026.
When asked "What is The Community Church of New York?", Claude could identify the brand as of November 2026. The Community Church of New York is a historic Unitarian Universalist congregation founded in 1919 by John Haynes Holmes, known for its strong emphasis on social justice, interfaith dialogue, and progressive activism in New York City. Best known for its deep ties to early 20th-century social justice movements, including connections to the founding of the ACLU and NAACP through its minister John Haynes Holme.
When asked "Best brands similar to The Community Church of New York?", Claude would recommend The Community Church of New York as of November 2026. It's a notable example of a socially progressive, historically significant congregation if someone is looking for churches or non-profits with a strong activist legacy.
Common questions people ask in Google, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI search engines.
The Community Church of New York's main competitors in Non-profit: All Souls Unitarian Church NYC (75/100), The Riverside Church (60/100), Judson Memorial Church (80/100).
Sources: Brand Analyzer scan
The Community Church of New York has limited AI-search visibility, scoring 36/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI visibility composite (visibility 35, trust 15, recommendation 61). This estimates how likely AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity are to know, trust, and recommend the brand.
The Community Church of New York was founded in 1847. The Community Church of New York operates in the Non-profit category. It is analyzed by Brand Analyzer across seven brand dimensions and AI-search visibility.
Sources: Wikidata
The Community Church of New York is headquartered in New York City. The Community Church of New York operates in the Non-profit category.
Sources: Wikidata
The Community Church of New York scores 61/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI recommendation signal, indicating it is reasonably likely to be surfaced when AI assistants like ChatGPT suggest Non-profit options. Recommendation depends on crawlability, structured data, and category authority; a Wikipedia presence helps.
The Community Church of New York can improve AI discoverability by strengthening structured data (Organization and FAQ schema), maintaining an accurate Wikipedia/Wikidata entity, earning authoritative citations, and keeping content crawlable for AI bots. Brand Analyzer measures these as visibility, trust, and recommendation signals.
The Community Church of New York is owned by or part of City University of New York. The Community Church of New York operates in the Non-profit category.
Sources: Wikidata
The Community Church of New York is a liberal religious congregation based in Manhattan, founded in 1847. It identifies as a justice-making, anti-racist, diverse, and spiritual community that blends traditional religious practice with progressive social values and activism.
The Community Church of New York scores 36/100 for AI visibility - how well ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews can discover, identify and cite the brand.
The Community Church of New York has a weak AI-visibility profile at 36/100 - a proxy for how readily ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews can recognise and cite it. Its strongest area is recommendation likelihood (61/100) and its weakest is trust (15/100). It benefits from a Wikidata knowledge-graph entry and open access for AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, etc.). The main gaps holding it back: no clear Wikipedia entity to anchor it in LLM training data, thin schema.org structured data and no llms.txt to steer AI to its best pages. In a live check, Claude could already identify The Community Church of New York from memory (November 2026) - a sign these signals are paying off.
The score combines seven dimensions - name quality, digital presence, visual identity, messaging clarity, trust foundation, AI discoverability, and brand authority - into a single objective benchmark.
Ranked closest to The Community Church of New York: Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) (72/100), Business Chamber Queensland (72/100), CCSA (72/100), Diocese of Brownsville (72/100).
A step up - brands to learn from: ZNetwork (81/100), ZLTO (81/100).
Category leader: Change.org (97/100).
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