· Public charity
Cornell University
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 338 grants below total $126,740,262 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $925,439,427 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $798,699,165 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $163k
- $10k–50k98 grants · $2.5M
- $50k–250k110 grants · $14M
- $250k+108 grants · $110M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr | $5,662,436 |
| Columbia University | $4,528,279 |
| University of Illinois | $3,377,591 |
| Johns Hopkins University | $3,118,394 |
| Regents Univ of California Los Angeles | $3,061,949 |
| The Research Foundation of SUNY | $2,946,593 |
| Yale University | $2,827,780 |
| ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY | $2,811,192 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $2,627,221 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $2,597,658 |
| Regents of the University of California | $2,540,089 |
| Stanford University | $2,251,168 |
| Rutgers State Uni of NJ | $2,096,794 |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst | $1,962,448 |
| University of Pittsburgh | $1,917,279 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $185M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions, $180M to organizations and $5.4M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Medical Research Services · Research-Electrical/Electronic & Communications Engineering
Stated purpose: Medical Research Services · Research-Biological & Biomedical Sciences · Research-Civil Engineering
Stated purpose: Medical Research Services · Research-Law · Research-Agricultural SCI & MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Stated purpose: Medical Research Services · Research-Health Sciences · Research-Geological & Earth Sciences
Stated purpose: Medical Research Services · Research-Life Sciences & AGRICULTURAL SVCS · Research-Biological & Biomedical Sciences
Stated purpose: Medical Research Services · Research-Agricultural Sciences
Stated purpose: Medical Research Services · Research-Health Sciences · Research-Law
Stated purpose: Research-Agricultural Sciences · Research-Biological & Biomedical Sciences · Student Travel Grant/Fellowship
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
460 repeat relationships — 276 still active in FY2025, 184 since wound down; 47 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $35M · revenue +121%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $20M · revenue +64%- RARUTGERS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION5× · 2018–2023 · $14M · revenue +4%
Funded once
- NANORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.3M · revenue +77% · 31% of their budget
- TATexas A & M Universityone grant, 2023 · $732k
- EIENGENDERHEALTH INCone grant, 2018 · $427k · revenue +1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Highstead Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
347 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 347 of the 628 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds BOYCE THOMPSON INSTITUTE FOR PLANT RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Yale University · Johns Hopkins University · University of Pittsburgh · Washington University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Trustees of Boston University · American Chemical Society · Emory University · The George Washington University · Mayo Clinic · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cornell University funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine — 100% of income from government
- Jhpiego Corporation — 65% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Inc — 23% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- American Fisheries Society — 9% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 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
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.