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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

The organization conducts research in the biological sciences with a particular emphasis on basic research in molecular biology and genetics.

$4.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$767k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$41MScience & Tech$34MEducation$12MYouth Development$1.3MEnvironment$431kSocial Science$326k
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $4,361,362, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,514,319 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $152,957 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $159k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.8M
$84,839
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWELL HEALTH$766,507
JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$569,417
MASS INST OF TECHNOLOGY$457,780
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS$410,842
NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$337,510
FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH$269,950
NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC$237,165
BOYCE THOMPSON INSTITUTE$211,425
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$198,500
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$148,753
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$91,272
DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER$87,629
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS$84,839
EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$74,876
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$68,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Broad Institute Inc: $8.5M → 8%FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $1.4M → 6%SUNY at Stony Brook: $645k → 7%Boyce Thompson Institute: $353k → 16%NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $434k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $784k → 11%ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN: $384k → 9%The State University of NJ Rutgers: $440k → 8%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $614k → 19%Jackson Laboratory: $531k → 11%THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC: $4.7M → 8%FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $1.1M → 6%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $486k → 11%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $569k → 19%JACKSON LABORATORY: $502k → 11%The Broad Institute: $3.2M → 8%University of California San Diego: $391k → 11%Feinstein Institute for Medical Research: $1.0M → 6%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $424k → 11%John Hopkins University: $556k → 19%JACKSON LABORATORY: $458k → 11%THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC: $3.1M → 8%Feinstein Institute for Medical Research: $584k → 6%John Hopkins University: $468k → 19%JACKSON LABORATORY: $395k → 11%THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC: $3.0M → 8%Jackson Laboratory: $375k → 11%THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC: $429k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $504k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $411k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $500k → 14%University of Southern CA: $814k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $373k → 14%NORTHWELL HEALTH: $767k → 6%Harvard University: $3.4M → 8%University of Southern CA: $747k → 14%NORTHWELL HEALTH: $515k → 6%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $2.3M → 8%NORTHWELL HEALTH: $466k → 6%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $2.1M → 8%NORTHWELL HEALTH: $432k → 6%Harvard University: $2.1M → 8%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $1.6M → 8%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $786k → 8%Harvard University: $369k → 8%NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $593k → 17%NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $592k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $471k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$69M · 53 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
10

Total granted

$69M
$886k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+56%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $273k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthScience & TechEnvironmentSocial ScienceOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TB
    The Broad Institute Inc
    6× · 2018–2023 · $23M · revenue +89%
  • TF
    THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +42%
  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    7× · 2017–2023 · $3.7M · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • PR
    Pew Research Center
    one grant, 2019 · $326k · revenue -1%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $198k · revenue +85%
  • University of Arizona Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $171k · revenue +20%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
5
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
6
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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9
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
10
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
11
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
12
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Boston University; the most unlike its peers is Ohio State University Research Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 71 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
36/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Broad Institute Inc: $22,901,911 · HealthThe Broad Institute IncTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $4,579,820 · HealthTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCHMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $3,682,013 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERNorth Shore-LIJ Occupational Medicine PC: $2,630,621 · HealthNorth Shore-LIJ Occupational Medicine PCTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $2,625,247 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORYNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $1,761,512 · Health+4 more: $1,489,316 · HealthPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $12,650,444 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,348,759 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,535,879 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyNew York University: $1,940,769 · EducationNew York UniversityUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,903,392 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIADUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,693,382 · EducationOregon State University Foundation: $1,588,718 · Education+18 more: $6,569,996 · Education+18 moreREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $1,673,071 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UN…REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $1,525,974 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF C…RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,343,910 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $1,304,081 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NOR…UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $775,597 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAS…CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $629,946 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $615,169 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $559,224 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS CENTER FOR BRAINHEALTH: $514,794 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $464,420 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $447,506 · Other+20 more: $3,481,425 · Other+20 moreBOYCE THOMPSON INSTITUTE FOR PLANT RESEARCH INC: $1,809,204 · Science & TechDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $241,077 · Science & TechJ CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $85,403 · Science & TechNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $430,904 · EnvironmentPew Research Center: $325,890 · Social Science
Health$39,670,440Education$32,231,339Other$13,335,117Science & Tech$2,135,684Environment$430,904Social Science$325,890

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $22,901,911 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $12,650,444 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $4,579,820 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $3,682,013 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,348,759 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Shore-LIJ Occupational Medicine PC: $2,630,621 over 7y, 78% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $2,625,247 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,535,879 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $1,940,769 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,903,392 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYCE THOMPSON INSTITUTE FOR PLANT RESEARCH INC: $1,809,204 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $1,761,512 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,693,382 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $1,588,718 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetALLEN INSTITUTE: $1,272,356 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $952,529 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $766,416 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University Medical College Alumni Association Inc: $667,964 over 8y, 41% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $617,769 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $553,679 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $454,908 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $450,647 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $447,506 over 3y, 25% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $430,904 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC: $396,091 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $364,801 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $346,694 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPew Research Center: $325,890 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $286,089 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $241,424 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $241,077 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $198,373 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC: $184,026 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $171,068 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLANT BIOLOGISTS: $156,262 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCornell University: $142,941 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $140,391 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $128,552 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $126,960 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJ CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $85,403 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEmory University: $74,876 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $74,383 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $15,647 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds North Shore-LIJ Occupational Medicine PC ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds BOYCE THOMPSON INSTITUTE FOR PLANT RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ALLEN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University Medical College Alumni Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Pew Research Center ↗

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.

Johns Hopkins UniversityMD20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University · Cornell University · Yale University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · American Cancer Society Inc · Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn · Mayo Clinic · President and Fellows of Harvard College · Washington University · University of Pittsburgh · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • American Society of Plant Biologists: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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