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Fordham Street Foundation at a glance

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Fordham Street Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.0MYouth Development$915kScience & Tech$595kHealth$475kCrime & Legal$405kHuman Services$395kArts & Culture$220kEnvironment$160kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION$40,000
FUNDS FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK$40,000
BARD COLLEGE$25,000
STEM PATHS INNOVATION NETWORK$20,000
ESKOLTA RESEARCH AND DESIGN INC$20,000
LET'S GET READY$20,000
XBOT ROBOTICS$20,000
BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK$20,000
GEEKING OUT KIDS OF COLOR$20,000
ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION$20,000
TEAM READ$20,000
SUMMER ON THE HILL$20,000
THE EAGLE ACADEMY FOUNDATION$20,000
LEGAL OUTREACH$20,000
GEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY$20,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $435k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUTHWEST YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $65k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $65k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $65k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 9%HORN OF AFRICA SERVICES: $20k → 9%KANDELIA: $20k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 9%KANDELIA: $20k → 9%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $20k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $20k → 17%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 9%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $20k → 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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.5M · 58 repeat orgs$505k to everyone else

58 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
12

Total granted

$7.5M
$380k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+73%

Still filing today

71%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • EA
    East African Community Services
    8× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +669%
  • BELONG Partners
    8× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +22%
  • RS
    RAINIER SCHOLARS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $295k · revenue +282%

Funded once

  • CU
    CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2020 · $70k
  • OW
    ONE WORLD NOWgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue +94%
  • RU
    REACH UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue ×22
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
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
2
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
3
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.

Education
4
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
5
Equal Opportunity Schools

Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…

Education
6
Trillium Academy

The mission of trillium academy is to break away from conventional schooling and celebrate the incredible capabilities of twice-exceptional (2e) students, providing them with the learning environment they need to discover and develop their…

Education
7
Read Alliance Inc

Read alliance, inc (read alliance) works to accelerate the educational trajectory of early elementary students through the power of teens who provide one-to-one literacy tutoring in under-resourced communities. read impacts two populations…

Education
8
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
9
College Summit Inc

College summit, inc. d/b/a peerforward (peerforward)'s mission is to unleash the power of positive peer influence to transform the lives of youth living in low-income communities by connecting them to college and careers. in low-income…

Education
10
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…

Education
11
Wallin Education Partners

To ensure college and career success for high-potential students from low-income backgrounds, and through our efforts help build diverse, equitable, and vibrant communities. we do this through a comprehensive model of financial aid and…

Education
12
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Educational Activities Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Horn of Africa Services. 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

52 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. 52 of the 75 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
32/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEGAL OUTREACH: $325,000 · OtherLEGAL OUTREACHTECHBRIDGE: $295,000 · OtherTECHBRIDGEEMODE LEARNING FOUNDATION: $195,000 · OtherEMODE LEARNING FOUNDATIONPARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC: $160,000 · OtherRESEARCH FOUNDATION CUNY: $160,000 · OtherCENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS: $160,000 · OtherHARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC: $155,000 · OtherESKOLTA RESEARCH AND DESIGN INC: $140,000 · OtherBEAM CENTER INC: $140,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $130,000 · OtherEDGE FOUNDATION: $315,000 · OtherEDGE FOUNDATIONSTREETSQUASH INC: $140,000 · Other+22 more: $1,010,000 · Other+22 moreRAINIER SCHOLARS: $295,000 · EducationRAINIER SCHOLARSLET'S GET READY INC: $295,000 · EducationLET'S GET READY INCGEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY: $230,000 · EducationGEORGE JACKSON ACADEMYFAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS: $180,000 · EducationFAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHO…RAR-MA INC: $140,000 · EducationRAR-MA INCSUMMER ON THE HILL INC: $120,000 · EducationAlliance for Education: $120,000 · EducationTeam Read: $120,000 · EducationMENTORING IN MEDICINE INC: $120,000 · EducationSOUND CHILD CARE SOLUTIONS: $114,500 · EducationSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $80,000 · Education+10 more: $465,000 · Education+10 moreBELONG Partners: $295,000 · Youth DevelopmentBELONG Pa…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE: $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS O…IMENTOR INC: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentIMENTOR I…EXALT YOUTH: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentEXALT YOU…NYC SALT INC: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentNYC SALT …WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentWASHINGTO…PARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION: $275,000 · PhilanthropyREADER TO READER INC: $255,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyEast African Community Services: $295,000 · Human ServicesTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesKANDELIA: $40,000 · Human ServicesHORN OF AFRICA SERVICES: $20,000 · Human ServicesSouthwest Youth And Family Services: $20,000 · Human ServicesTECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION: $230,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $120,000 · Community ImprovementBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT: $20,000 · Community ImprovementWENATCHEE RIVER INSTITUTE: $160,000 · Arts & CultureHUMANITIES WASHINGTON: $140,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR ART RESEARCH AND ALLIANCES INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,325,000Education$2,279,500Youth Development$675,000Philanthropy$570,000Human Services$435,000Community Improvement$370,000Arts & Culture$320,000

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 budgetEDGE FOUNDATION: $315,000 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetEast African Community Services: $295,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetBELONG Partners: $295,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS: $295,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetLET'S GET READY INC: $295,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION: $275,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetREADER TO READER INC: $255,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetGEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY: $230,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetTECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION: $230,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetFAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS: $180,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE: $160,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetPARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC: $160,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWENATCHEE RIVER INSTITUTE: $160,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetHARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC: $155,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetRAR-MA INC: $140,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetBEAM CENTER INC: $140,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSTREETSQUASH INC: $140,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetHUMANITIES WASHINGTON: $140,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetSUMMER ON THE HILL INC: $120,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $120,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAlliance for Education: $120,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTeam Read: $120,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetMENTORING IN MEDICINE INC: $120,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetSOUND CHILD CARE SOLUTIONS: $114,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREACH UNIVERSITY: $65,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBLUE ENGINE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetIMENTOR INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATIONAL VIDEO CENTER INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetEXALT YOUTH: $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNYC SALT INC: $60,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTEACHING MATTERS INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetXBOT Robotics: $50,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetWASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSTEM PATHS INNOVATION NETWORK: $40,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetEAST SIDE HOUSE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Eagle Academy Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE YWCA OF BROOKLYN INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKANDELIA: $40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTechbridge Girls: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCENTER FOR ART RESEARCH AND ALLIANCES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHORN OF AFRICA SERVICES: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 EDGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds East African Community Services ↗
  • Who funds BELONG Partners ↗
  • Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
  • Who funds LET'S GET READY INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION ↗
  • Who funds READER TO READER INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds TECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE ↗
  • Who funds PARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WENATCHEE RIVER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds RAR-MA INC ↗
  • Who funds BEAM CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds STREETSQUASH INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANITIES WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER ON THE HILL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
  • Who funds Alliance for Education ↗
  • Who funds Team Read ↗
  • Who funds MENTORING IN MEDICINE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUND CHILD CARE SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE WORLD NOW ↗
  • Who funds REACH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BLUE ENGINE INC ↗
  • Who funds IMENTOR INC ↗

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.

School's Out Washingt…Seattle FoundationGates FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Discuren FoundationMedina FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Pwc Foundation IncPinkerton FoundationLiberty Mutual Founda…Robin Hood FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…
School's Out WashingtonWA35.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: School's Out Washington · Seattle Foundation · Gates Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Discuren Foundation · Medina Foundation · United Way of King County · Pwc Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation

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 Fordham Street Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fordham Street Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Reader to Reader Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
24report 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 75 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home