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Ithaca College

Our mission is to educate, engage, and empower through theory, practice, and performance.

$127M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Religion$984kEducation$957kScience & Tech$326kCommunity Improvement$311kArts & Culture$19k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $231,649, the rows itemized in this filing. The $126,798,357 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $126,566,708 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $121k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $111k
$44,091
Median grant
1
States reached
$897M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ITHACA COLLEGE$55,277
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$55,247
HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGE$44,091
UTICA UNIVERSITY$43,418
ITHACA AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT$18,000
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$15,616
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Planetary Science Institute: $104k → 15%HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGE: $44k → 10%SUNY ESF: $44k → 14%UTICA UNIVERSITY: $52k → 16%TOMPKINS CORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15k → 16%THE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE: $17k → 9%Bowling Green State University: $13k → 12%Northeastern Illinois University: $44k → 14%Planetary Science Institute: $49k → 15%HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGE: $43k → 10%UTICA UNIVERSITY: $43k → 16%HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ITHACA COLLEGE: $240k → 16%Bowling Green State University: $12k → 12%Northeastern Illinois University: $35k → 14%PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE: $39k → 15%HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGE: $15k → 10%UTICA UNIVERSITY: $22k → 16%TOWN OF ITHACA NEW YORK: $165k → 16%NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%Planetary Science Institute: $31k → 15%UTICA UNIVERSITY: $13k → 16%HILLEL OF ITHACA COLLEGE: $131k → 16%NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY: $13k → 14%Hillel of Ithaca College: $118k → 16%National Merit Scholarship Corporation: $20k → 14%HILLEL OF ITHACA COLLEGE: $111k → 16%NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION: $14k → 14%Hillel of Ithaca College: $86k → 16%NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION: $13k → 14%HILLEL OF ITHACA COLLEGE: $73k → 16%UC Fellowship Protestant Comm at Ithaca: $64k → 16%UC Fellowship Protestant Comm at Ithaca: $61k → 16%Ithaca College Newman Foundation: $60k → 16%Ithaca College Newman Foundation: $60k → 16%HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ITHACA COLLEGE: $55k → 16%Cornell University: $50k → 16%Hillel of Ithaca College: $45k → 16%ITHACA AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $34k → 16%Cornell University: $30k → 16%Cornell University: $30k → 16%ITHACA AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $18k → 16%TOMPKINS COUNTY AREA DEVELOPMENT: $16k → 16%Tompkins County Area Development: $16k → 16%ITHACA AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $16k → 16%ITHACA AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $16k → 16%Tompkins County Area Development: $15k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 16%Tompkins County Area Development: $15k → 16%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 13 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$2.4M
$198k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
-1%

Still filing today

69%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & 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

  • HF
    HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ITHACA COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $858k · revenue +95% · 69% of their budget
  • TR
    The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    7× · 2018–2025 · $327k · revenue +56%
  • PS
    Planetary Science Institute
    4× · 2017–2021 · $223k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • TO
    TOWN OF ITHACA NEW YORK
    one grant, 2021 · $165k
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue -1%
  • TC
    TOMPKINS CORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
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
Ithaca College

Our mission is to educate, engage, and empower through theory, practice, and performance.

Education
2
Whittier College

Whittier College is a residential four-year liberal arts institution that prepares students from diverse backgrounds to excel in a complex global society. Through challenging, interactive courses, taught by accomplished professors,…

Education
3
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
4
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
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
7
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
10
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
11
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
12
Illinois Institute of Technology

To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornell University; the most unlike its peers is Planetary Science Institute. 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

10 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. 10 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ITHACA COLLEGE: $858,477 · OtherHILLEL FOUNDATION OF ITHACA COLLEGEPlanetary Science Institute: $223,408 · OtherPlanetary Science InstituteTOWN OF ITHACA NEW YORK: $165,000 · OtherTOWN OF ITHACA NEW YORKTOMPKINS COUNTY AREA DEVELOPMENT INC: $146,000 · OtherTOMPKINS COUNTY AREA DEVELOPMENT INCUNITED CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP PROTESTANT COMM AT ITHACA COLLEGE: $125,509 · OtherUNITED CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP PROTESTANT COMM AT ITHACA COLLEGEIthaca College Newman Foundation: $119,905 · OtherIthaca College Newman FoundationUniversity of Connecticut: $112,348 · OtherUniversity of Connecticut+2 more: $40,367 · OtherThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $326,944 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The St…UTICA UNIVERSITY: $130,368 · EducationUTICA UNIVERSITYCornell University: $125,000 · EducationCornell UniversityHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $107,983 · EducationHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGESNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $79,000 · EducationNational Merit Scholarship Corpora…+1 more: $17,298 · EducationCENTER FOR THE ARTS AT ITHACA INC: $19,380 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,791,014Education$786,593Arts & Culture$19,380

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 budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION OF ITHACA COLLEGE: $858,477 over 8y, 69% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $326,944 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPlanetary Science Institute: $223,408 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTOMPKINS COUNTY AREA DEVELOPMENT INC: $146,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetUTICA UNIVERSITY: $130,368 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $107,983 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $79,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR THE ARTS AT ITHACA INC: $19,380 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE: $17,298 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 HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds Planetary Science Institute ↗
  • Who funds TOMPKINS COUNTY AREA DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds UTICA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
  • Who funds National Merit Scholarship Corporation ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT ITHACA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE ↗

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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ithaca College funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ithaca College. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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