· Public charity
Cfa Institute
CFA INSTITUTE is the global, non-profit professional membership association that administers the chartered financial analyst (cfa) certificate, the certificate in investment performance measurement (cipm), and the certificate in esg investing and also provides professional learning courses.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k52 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+2 grants · $733k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CFA SOCIETY NEW YORK INC | $458,061 |
| CFA SOCIETY BOSTON INC | $274,734 |
| CFA SOCIETY CHICAGO | $238,415 |
| CFA SOCIETY OF LOS ANGELES INC | $169,126 |
| CFA SOCIETY SAN FRANCISCO | $166,372 |
| CFA INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $159,776 |
| CFA SOCIETY PHILADELPHIA INC | $134,822 |
| CFA SOCIETY WASHINGTON DC | $123,385 |
| CFA SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA | $102,815 |
| CFA SOCIETY DALLASFORT WORTH | $101,964 |
| CFA SOCIETY OF COLORADO | $100,416 |
| NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF FINANCIAL ANALYSTS INC | $97,771 |
| CFA SOCIETY OF SEATTLE | $96,516 |
| CFA SOCIETY OF ST LOUIS | $56,723 |
| CFA SOCIETY OF NASHVILLE | $52,925 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $11M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
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How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
80 repeat relationships: 69 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCFA SOCIETY BOSTON INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +42%
- CICFA INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +165% · 76% of their budget
- CSCFA SOCIETY CHICAGO8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +2%
Funded once
- CSCFA Society Salt Lakeone grant, 2018 · $163k
- GCGREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue +133%
- GRGREENWICH ROUNDTABLE INCone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -91%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 97 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Genan Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cfa Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cfa Institute. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
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