· Public charity
New York University
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 38 grants below total $1,434,033 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,015,533,547 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,014,099,514 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $359k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
- $250k+2 grants · $873k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Washington Square Park Conservancy Inc | $552,909 |
| NATIONAL CENTER OF PHILANTHROPHY AND THE LAW | $320,000 |
| Tall Wall Robotics Inc | $50,000 |
| EdenReforestationProjects | $50,000 |
| ViBiller | $50,000 |
| Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce | $25,000 |
| BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE (BRC) INC | $22,500 |
| United Way of New York City | $22,177 |
| American Academy of Nursing | $20,000 |
| myFace | $15,000 |
| Bric Arts Media Brooklyn Inc | $15,000 |
| Downtown Brooklyn Partnership | $15,000 |
| Village Alliance | $15,000 |
| Union Square Partnership Inc | $13,000 |
| University Settlement Society of New York | $12,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $303M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $342k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WSWASHINGTON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +43% · 46% of their budget
- UWUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY8× · 2017–2024 · $206k · revenue +37%
- BRBOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +169%
Funded once
- NDNYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2022 · $402k
- BBBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -38%
- TBTHE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -63%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
1. to unite in common organization those professionally engaged in real estate. 2. to protect and promote the mutual interests of its members. 3. to formulate and maintain ethical standards for the guidance of its members in their…
(a) the development, stimulation, encouragement, improvement and promotion of the business climate in new york city; (b) the fostering of trade and commerce in new york city and the promotion of the general welfare andprosperity of new…
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
Nyaa provides services to landlords including computerized rent registration of rent stabilized apartments with the new york state division of housing and community renewal in compliance with nys & nyc laws & regulations.
Operating as an integral part of the nyc health + hospitals ("h+h"), formerly the new york city health and hospitals corporation. nyda will further h+h's tax-exempt charitable, scientific, and educational purposes by enhancing the…
Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of New York City and the most unlike its peers is The Center for Architecture. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER ON PHILANTHROPY AND THE LAW INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE ALLIANCE DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Academy of Nursing ↗
- Who funds UNION SQUARE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds DUMBO DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Brooklyn Book Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BUILDING CONGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds EDEN PEOPLEPLANET ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Village Center for Care Fund ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED HOSPITAL FUND OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS ↗
- Who funds ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE COMMITTEE FOR THE JEFFERSON MARKET AREA INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS ↗
- Who funds THE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Robin Hood Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Isaac H Tuttle Fund · Tiger Baron Foundation Inc · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization New York University funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.