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New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency

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$320k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
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.

Education$1.2MHealth$998kArts & Culture$76kScience & Tech$56kMembership Benefit$41k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $62,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $320,252 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $257,502 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

  • Under $10k7 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY$10,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$10,000
THE FIELD LIBRARY$9,750
THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$5,500
MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER$5,500
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BROOKLYN$5,500
ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$5,500
WEILL CORNELL IMAGING AT NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN$5,500
MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL$5,500
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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Internet Archive: $5k → 10%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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 31 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
29

Total granted

$1.4M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+5%

Still filing today

84%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
HealthEducationArts & CultureCivil RightsMembership BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $109k · revenue +121%
  • LI
    LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER
    6× · 2017–2022 · $59k · revenue +62%
  • TN
    The New York and Presbyterian Hospital
    3× · 2022–2024 · $51k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • TQ
    THE QUEENS BOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2022 · $180k · revenue +16%
  • WL
    WESTCHESTER LIBRARY SYSTEM
    one grant, 2022 · $180k · revenue 0%
  • TN
    The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundationsgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $166k · revenue +63%
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
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
8
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
10
John T Mather Memorial Hospital

John t. mather memorial hospital ("mather") is a non-profit community hospital that is part of northwell health. mather strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical…

Health
11
Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital

Mission: to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. values: humanity, innovation, teamwork, diversity and equity - our values define our philosophy of care. they shape our actions and motivate and…

Health
12
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Newyork-Presbyterianbrooklyn Methodist; the most unlike its peers is The Urban Memory Project Inc. 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 62 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
37/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $316,608 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARYTHE QUEENS BOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY: $180,369 · EducationTHE QUEENS BOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARYThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $166,050 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and …SCHOOL LIBRARY SYSTEMS ASSOC OF NY: $106,835 · EducationSCHOOL LIBRARY SYSTEMS ASSOC OF NYICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $41,121 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $32,900 · Education+7 more: $103,191 · Education+7 moreMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $108,585 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CE…LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER: $59,066 · HealthLONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTERThe New York and Presbyterian Hospital: $50,500 · HealthThe New York and Presbyterian Hosp…The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $49,281 · HealthThe Hospital for Special Surgery F…MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $44,593 · HealthMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTERWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $37,060 · HealthST JOHNS RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL ANDRUS PARKCARE & DOBBS FERRY: $34,912 · HealthSTATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $32,794 · HealthEPISCOPAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $30,788 · HealthBROOKDALE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $30,024 · HealthNEWYORK-PRESBYTERIANQUEENS: $28,710 · HealthJAMAICA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $25,131 · HealthLenox Hill Hospital: $24,930 · HealthMAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER: $24,719 · Health+13 more: $145,795 · Health+13 moreWESTCHESTER LIBRARY SYSTEM: $179,870 · OtherWESTCHESTER LIBRARY SYSTEMKATONAH VILLAGE LIBRARY: $89,377 · OtherKATONAH VILLAGE LIBRARYALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC: $81,462 · OtherALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF ME…YONKERS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $81,029 · OtherYONKERS PUBLIC LIBRARYNEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION: $45,550 · OtherNEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSP…NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIANBROOKLYN METHODIST: $35,310 · OtherNEWYORK-PRESBYTERIANBROOKLYN …SUNY DOWNSTATE HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY: $24,100 · Other+10 more: $96,951 · Other+10 moreNY PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CTRNYSNA RETIREE MEDIC AL PLAN TRUST: $65,250 · Membership BenefitNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureInternet Archive: $5,435 · Human ServicesLESBIAN HERSTORY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,100 · Civil Rights
Education$947,074Health$726,888Other$633,649Membership Benefit$65,250Arts & Culture$32,000Human Services$5,435Civil Rights$5,100

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 budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $316,608 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE QUEENS BOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY: $180,369 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTCHESTER LIBRARY SYSTEM: $179,870 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $166,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $108,585 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKATONAH VILLAGE LIBRARY: $89,377 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC: $81,462 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNY PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CTRNYSNA RETIREE MEDIC AL PLAN TRUST: $65,250 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetLONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER: $59,066 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York and Presbyterian Hospital: $50,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $49,281 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $44,593 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $41,121 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $37,060 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEWYORK-PRESBYTERIANBROOKLYN METHODIST: $35,310 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHNS RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL ANDRUS PARKCARE & DOBBS FERRY: $34,912 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $32,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $32,794 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEPISCOPAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $30,788 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKDALE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $30,024 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEWYORK-PRESBYTERIANQUEENS: $28,710 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJAMAICA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $25,131 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLenox Hill Hospital: $24,930 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER: $24,719 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNYCPM OF TOURO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $24,244 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND MEDICAL CENTER: $23,180 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $21,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRATT INSTITUTE: $20,195 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWYCKOFF HEIGHTS MEDICAL CENTER: $18,230 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST BARNABAS HOSPITAL: $17,560 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLUSHING HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $17,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC: $12,025 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEILL CORNELL IMAGING AT NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Field Library Inc: $9,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GROLIER CLUB OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $9,737 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE & ART: $9,571 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8,455 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBERNARD M BARUCH COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INC: $8,346 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMontefiore Health System Inc: $7,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN BRONX MEDICAL ASSOCIATES PC: $6,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $5,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternet Archive: $5,435 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALVARY HOSPITAL INC: $5,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLESBIAN HERSTORY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,100 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.

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.

Reach Out and Read of…The New York Communit…The Trustees of Colum…Robin Hood FoundationMother Cabrini Health…Cornell UniversityGreater New York Hosp…Caipa Foundation IncUnited Hospital Fund …Guardians of the Ange…Altman FoundationNew York State Health…
Reach Out and Read of Greater New York IncNY22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Reach Out and Read of Greater New York Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Robin Hood Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Cornell University · Greater New York Hospital Foundation Inc · Caipa Foundation Inc · United Hospital Fund of New York · Guardians of the Angeles Charitable Foundation · Altman Foundation · New York State Health Fdn D/B/A New York Health 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 New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 62 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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