· Public charity
Research Foundation of the City University of New York
The Research Foundation of the City University of New York (the foundation) is a private, not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the state of new york in 1963.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of Research Foundation of the City University of New York’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 261 grants below total $42,368,826 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $78,031,224 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,662,398 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $151k
- $10k–50k64 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k141 grants · $17M
- $250k+36 grants · $23M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MTX GROUP INC | $2,151,487 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITIES SERVICES | $2,138,222 |
| HELP SOCIAL SERVICE CORPORATION | $1,752,407 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA IN THE CITY OF NY | $1,435,488 |
| MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK | $1,169,428 |
| BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE EARLY CHILDHOOD CTR | $1,048,286 |
| PUBLIC POLICY LAB INC | $982,875 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY-SPONSORED PRGMS | $879,528 |
| IDEAS42 | $734,156 |
| FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $683,388 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $629,124 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $625,102 |
| HOSTOS C C CHILDREN'S CENTER INC | $533,845 |
| BENNETT MIDLAND LLC | $508,881 |
| ECLC PROGRAMS INCLAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLE | $500,270 |
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 (FY24–25, $10.6M) 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
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.
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.
173 repeat relationships — 173 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 66 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.4M 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK2× · 2024–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +13%
- BCBRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +23% · 33% of their budget
- JIJUSTICE INNOVATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +4%
Funded once
BRONXWORKS INCone grant, 2024 · $472k · revenue +5%- TOTRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKone grant, 2024 · $456k
- IPIPSOS PUBLIC AFFAIRS LLCone grant, 2024 · $206k
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 educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
(see schedule o)
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Fernald Medical Screening & Union. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
199 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. 199 of the 312 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds BEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC POLICY LAB INC ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CENTER PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Atomic Trades & Labor Council ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BMCC EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED IN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds REEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC ↗
- Who funds AUXILIARY ENTERPRISE BOARD OF NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Albert Einstein College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds THE HAITIAN AMERICANS UNITED FOR PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds YEMENI AMERICAN MERCHANT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CRIME COMMISSION OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
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 Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · New York Immigration Coalition Inc · United Way of New York City · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Altman Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc
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 Research Foundation of the City University of New York 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.
- Marine Biological Laboratory — 20% of income from government
- Justice System Partners — 15% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
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.