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New York STEM Cell Foundation Inc

The new york stem cell foundation ("nyscf") is a not-for-profit organization that was incorporated in the state of new york on may 19, 2005.

$6.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$600k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$35MHealth$18MScience & Tech$7.7MRecreation & Sports$1.5MReligion$122k
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $5,799,139, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,699,139 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $900,000 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

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $256k
  • $250k+16 grants · $5.5M
$300,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$62M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$600,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$600,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$361,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$361,000
HARVARD COLLEGE$361,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$300,000
MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER$300,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$300,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$300,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$300,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL$300,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$300,000
THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$300,000
BROAD INSTITUTE$300,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$299,604
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BROAD INSTITUTE: $300k → 8%BOSTON'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL: $900k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $300k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $1.8M → 7%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $300k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $600k → 10%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $600k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $600k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $300k → 13%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $300k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $600k → 9%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $300k → 14%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $900k → 11%BROAD INSTITUTE: $300k → 8%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $600k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $300k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $1.5M → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $900k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $300k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $600k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $600k → 9%BOSTON'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL: $600k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $1.5M → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $900k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $600k → 9%BOSTON'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL: $600k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $1.2M → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $900k → 10%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $307k → 8%BOSTON'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL: $600k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $900k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $600k → 10%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $600k → 7%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $385k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $361k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $361k → 17%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $600k → 16%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $600k → 17%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $600k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $600k → 14%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $600k → 17%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $361k → 16%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $600k → 17%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $361k → 16%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $361k → 17%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $361k → 16%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $361k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $361k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
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MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
AZ
NC
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $900k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$600k · 67% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GRANTS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$300k · 33% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GRANT

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$42M · 30 repeat orgs$522k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
4

Total granted

$42M
$522k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-4%

Still filing today

60%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthCommunity ImprovementScience & TechRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    8× · 2018–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +8%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    8× · 2018–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +78%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • TS
    The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
    one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue -4%
  • SI
    STORYLINE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -10% · 46% of their budget
  • NY
    NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $61k · revenue +10%
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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
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
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
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
6
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
7
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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11
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
12
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornell University; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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

29 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. 29 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
24/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $7,977,919 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSIT…The Trustees of Princeton University: $5,100,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton UniversityPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $5,077,823 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $2,700,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,588,539 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2,400,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYYale University: $2,148,074 · EducationYale UniversityNew York University: $1,609,522 · Education+7 more: $3,996,730 · Education+7 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $3,600,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BER…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $3,183,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPO…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $2,100,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $1,800,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPO…REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $1,500,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $900,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $900,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN…NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $750,000 · Other+7 more: $1,057,547 · Other+7 moreChildren's Hospital Corporation: $4,200,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,257,942 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL…The Broad Institute Inc: $1,200,000 · HealthThe Broad Institute…UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS: $1,200,000 · HealthUT SOUTHWESTERN HEA…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,134,500 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETT…MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER: $900,000 · HealthMONELL CHEMICAL SEN…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $600,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer …+1 more: $316,700 · HealthNorthwestern University: $1,500,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $299,533 · Science & TechMEDICAL STAFF OF HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $180,000 · Community Improvement
Education$33,598,607Other$15,790,547Health$10,809,142Recreation & Sports$1,500,000Science & Tech$299,533Community Improvement$180,000

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $7,977,919 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $5,100,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $5,077,823 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $4,200,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $2,700,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,588,539 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2,400,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $2,148,074 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $1,609,522 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $1,500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,257,942 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $1,200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS: $1,200,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,134,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $900,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER: $900,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $853,381 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $668,312 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $600,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $494,362 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $441,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $320,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $319,175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $316,700 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $299,533 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC: $193,784 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL STAFF OF HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $180,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetSTORYLINE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetNEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $61,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
  • Who funds ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL STAFF OF HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds STORYLINE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK MEDICAL 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.

Breakthrough T1dThe Trustees of Colum…American Cancer Socie…Johns Hopkins Univers…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Breakthrough T1dNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Breakthrough T1d · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · American Cancer Society Inc · Johns Hopkins University · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 STEM Cell Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New York STEM Cell Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% 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
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report 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 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 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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