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Lcu Fund for Women's Education Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$787k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Housing & Shelter$3.6MEducation$1.2MHealth$586kArts & Culture$548kReligion$235kPublic Benefit$14k
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $185k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $585k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SILVER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK$120,000
CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK$107,500
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING$100,000
LEHMAN COLLEGE$87,500
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK$60,000
PHILLIPS SCHOOL OF NURSING$55,000
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ARTS$55,000
BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION$45,000
NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL$40,000
JUILLIARD SCHOOL$40,000
NEW SCHOOL - MANNES COLLEGE OF MUSIC$25,000
BARUCH COLLEGE$25,000
JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$10,000
EMERGENCY RENT ASSISTANCE GRANTS 50$7,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $65k → 17%METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $55k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: $72k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: $60k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: $60k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: $60k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: $60k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: $60k → 17%JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $50k → 17%BARUCH COLLEGE: $67k → 17%PHILLIPS BETH ISRAEL SCHOOL OF NURSING: $56k → 17%BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $50k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SILVER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: $120k → 17%PHILLIPS SCHOOL OF NURSING: $55k → 17%BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $50k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SILVER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: $100k → 17%PHILLIPS SCHOOL OF NURSING: $54k → 17%BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $50k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SILVER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: $100k → 17%PHILLIPS SCHOOL OF NURSING: $54k → 17%BANK STREET COLL OF EDUCATION: $50k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SILVER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: $100k → 17%PHILLIPS BETH ISRAEL SCHOOL OF NURSING: $54k → 17%BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $50k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SILVER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: $90k → 17%PHILLIPS SCHOOL OF NURSING: $50k → 17%NYU SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: $80k → 17%NYU SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: $80k → 17%CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $108k → 17%CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $100k → 17%CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $100k → 17%CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $100k → 17%CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $100k → 17%CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $97k → 17%CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $95k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING: $110k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING: $100k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING: $100k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING: $100k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING: $90k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NURSING: $80k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING: $70k → 17%NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ARTS: $55k → 17%BARUCH COLLEGE: $70k → 17%BARUCH COLLEGE: $70k → 17%BARUCH COLLEGE: $70k → 17%BARUCH COLLEGE: $70k → 17%BARUCH COLLEGE: $65k → 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.
$4.9M · 19 repeat orgs$309k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
13

Total granted

$4.9M
$300k

Still filing today

32%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

  • BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $316k · revenue +31%
  • NY
    NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $295k · revenue +64%
  • NY
    NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART
    8× · 2017–2024 · $253k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CU
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NURSING
    one grant, 2017 · $80k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $67k
  • BS
    BANK STREET COLL OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 41 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $749,500 · OtherCITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORKLEHMAN COLLEGE: $595,000 · OtherLEHMAN COLLEGENEW YORK UNIVERSITY SILVER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: $540,000 · OtherNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SILVER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORKBARUCH COLLEGE: $452,000 · OtherBARUCH COLLEGENEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL: $295,000 · OtherNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOLPHILLIPS SCHOOL OF NURSING: $278,000 · OtherPHILLIPS SCHOOL OF NURSINGNEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $252,500 · OtherNEW YORK ACADEMY OF ARTJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $235,000 · OtherNYU SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: $160,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · Other+27 more: $772,600 · Other+27 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $994,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVER…BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $316,000 · EducationBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATIO…JUILLIARD SCHOOL: $233,000 · EducationJUILLIARD SCHOOLMETROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $165,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF NEW YOR…
Other$4,479,600Education$1,708,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $994,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $316,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL: $295,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetNEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $252,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $233,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $165,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 2y, 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 TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART ↗
  • Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lcu Fund for Women's Education Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lcu Fund for Women's Education Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%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 · 0–40%
    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.
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    How do I get to Lcu Fund for Women's Education Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Lcu Fund for Women's Education Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 41 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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