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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.

$78M
Granted FY2025still arriving
261
Grants FY2025still arriving
34
States reached
$2.2M
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, FY2024 to 2025.

Science & Tech$27MHealth$24MEducation$14MCrime & Legal$7.4MHuman Services$6.1MSocial Science$5.3MYouth Development$3.7MCommunity Improvement$2.2MOther$0
02FY2025 · 261 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 261 grants below total $42,368,826, the rows itemized in this filing. The $78,031,224 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,662,398 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 $10k20 grants · $151k
  • $10k–50k64 grants · $1.7M
  • $50k–250k141 grants · $17M
  • $250k+36 grants · $23M
$90,848
Median grant
34
States reached
$650M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STATEN ISLAND COMMUNITY JOB CTR INC: $248k → 11%ECLC PROGRAMS INCLAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLE: $630k → 13%STATEN ISLAND COMMUNITY JOB CTR INC: $152k → 11%ECLC PROGRAMS INCLAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLE: $500k → 13%JACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEMENT: $52k → 13%BRONX WORKS: $472k → 28%MIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC: $220k → 20%KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $192k → 28%MIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC: $171k → 20%FAITH IN HARM REDUCTION: $93k → 28%KOREAN CMMTY SRVICS OF METROPOLITAN NY INC: $275k → 13%SHOREFRONT-YM-YWHA OF BRIGHTON BEACH INC: $275k → 20%HOSTOS C C CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $534k → 28%CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S LAW AND POLICY: $55k → 14%KOREAN CMMTY SRVICS OF METROPOLITAN NY INC: $249k → 13%SHOREFRONT-YM-YWHA OF BRIGHTON BEACH INC: $105k → 20%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DSBLD IN NY IN: $590k → 17%JEWISH ASSOC FOR SERVICES FOR THE AGED: $275k → 17%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DSBLD IN NY IN: $227k → 17%HAITIAN AMERICANS UNITED FOR PROGRESS INC: $310k → 13%RISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $275k → 20%HAITIAN AMERICANS UNITED FOR PROGRESS INC: $281k → 13%JEWISH ASSOC FOR SERVICES FOR THE AGED: $105k → 17%RISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $105k → 20%UNITED SIKHS: $87k → 13%SAMUEL FIELD YM & YWHA INC: $352k → 13%LIFE OF HOPE: $255k → 20%SAMUEL FIELD YM & YWHA INC: $122k → 13%SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES: $275k → 13%HAITIAN CENTERS COUNCIL INC: $149k → 20%SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES: $105k → 13%NEW WOMEN NEW YORKERS INC: $88k → 17%CARIBBEAN WOMEN'S HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC: $144k → 20%MEXICAN COALITION FOR THE EMPOWERMENT OF: $87k → 28%BATTERED WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $69k → 20%UNLOCAL INC: $65k → 17%UNLOCAL INC: $50k → 17%CHINESE AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $220k → 17%CHINESE AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $84k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $275k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $105k → 17%TRANSNATIONAL VILLAGES NETWORK: $275k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $568k → 17%TRANSNATIONAL VILLAGES NETWORK: $105k → 17%VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM INC: $100k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $46k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT ASSN INC: $275k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT ASSN INC: $105k → 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

AK
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$83M · 173 repeat orgs$9.3M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

173
65

Total granted

$83M
$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+0%

Still filing today

69%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalCivil RightsSocial ScienceOther
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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +13%
  • BC
    BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +23% · 33% of their budget
  • JI
    JUSTICE INNOVATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • BRONXWORKS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $472k · revenue +5%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2024 · $456k
  • IP
    IPSOS PUBLIC AFFAIRS LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $206k
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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
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
3
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
4
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
5
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
6
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

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…

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7
University of New Haven

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…

Education
8
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
9
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
10
Fordham University

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.

Education
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for the City of New York Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

199 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
197/199
Grantees still filing
90/199
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MTX GROUP INC: $4,266,066 · OtherMTX GROUP INCH E L P USA INC: $4,028,057 · OtherH E L P USA INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK: $3,703,194 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW …+99 more: $35,487,509 · Other+99 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,710,464 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNI…New York University: $3,685,324 · EducationNew York UniversityTHE ANIMATION PROJECT INC: $1,725,854 · EducationTHE ANIMATION PROJECT INCICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,518,328 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT …BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INC: $1,393,439 · EducationBRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSO…The Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $1,157,537 · Education+35 more: $10,114,712 · Education+35 moreLAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CENTER PROGRAMS INC: $1,130,114 · Human ServicesLAGUARDIA CO…CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED IN NEW YORK INC: $817,506 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR I…COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $614,218 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SE…THE HAITIAN AMERICANS UNITED FOR PROGRESS INC: $590,783 · Human ServicesTHE HAITIAN …HOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $533,845 · Human ServicesKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC: $523,819 · Human ServicesCOMMONPOINT NY INC: $473,805 · Human ServicesBRONXWORKS INC: $472,071 · Human ServicesLA COLMENA NYC INC DBA LA COLMENA F/K/A STATEN ISLAND COMMUNITY JOB CENTER: $399,726 · Human ServicesMIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC: $391,140 · Human ServicesUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $380,376 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $380,376 · Human ServicesSHOREFRONT YM-YWHA OF BRIGHTON- MANHATTAN BEACH INC: $380,376 · Human ServicesTRANSNATIONAL VILLAGES NETWORK REDDE PUEBLOS TRASNACIONALES: $380,376 · Human ServicesRISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $380,376 · Human ServicesSOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $380,376 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR SERVICES FOR THE AGED: $380,376 · Human Services+11 more: $1,705,415 · Human Services+11 moreMake the Road New York: $1,728,425 · Crime & LegalJUSTICE INNOVATION INC: $1,301,910 · Crime & LegalCITIZENS CRIME COMMISSION OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $538,145 · Crime & LegalTHE BRONX DEFENDERS: $380,376 · Crime & LegalGETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC: $229,484 · Crime & Legal+4 more: $393,108 · Crime & LegalMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $706,342 · HealthPUBLIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS: $532,527 · HealthMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $489,621 · HealthTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $380,376 · HealthHEALTH RESEARCH INC: $353,608 · HealthMemorial Hermann Health System: $321,060 · HealthRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $242,616 · HealthAMIDA CARE INC: $239,584 · HealthMAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER: $149,265 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $135,895 · HealthBEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC: $1,882,814 · Social ScienceInstitute for Global Environmental Strategies Inc: $368,115 · Social ScienceITHAKA HARBORS INC: $218,725 · Social ScienceCOMMON JUSTICE INC: $206,721 · Social ScienceTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $205,572 · Social ScienceNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $153,620 · Social ScienceTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $416,727 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $380,376 · Community ImprovementNORTHERN MANHATTAN IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION: $380,376 · Community ImprovementCYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $380,376 · Community Improvement
Other$47,484,826Education$23,305,658Human Services$10,315,074Crime & Legal$4,571,448Health$3,550,894Social Science$3,035,567Community Improvement$1,557,855

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,710,464 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK: $3,703,194 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNew York University: $3,685,324 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC: $1,882,814 over 2y, 10% of budgetMake the Road New York: $1,728,425 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,518,328 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INC: $1,393,439 over 2y, 33% of budgetHUNGER FREE AMERICA INC: $1,322,045 over 2y, 20% of budgetJUSTICE INNOVATION INC: $1,301,910 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY LAB INC: $1,232,377 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $1,157,537 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CENTER PROGRAMS INC: $1,130,114 over 2y, 33% of budgetAtomic Trades & Labor Council: $1,066,363 over 2y, 22% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $1,055,325 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBMCC EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $923,594 over 2y, 31% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $891,527 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED IN NEW YORK INC: $817,506 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $760,131 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE: $733,656 over 2y, 23% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $706,342 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC: $681,344 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetAUXILIARY ENTERPRISE BOARD OF NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $674,054 over 2y, 22% of budgetJUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERS: $651,547 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND ASSOCIATION INC: $633,123 over 2y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $614,218 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAlbert Einstein College of Medicine: $601,814 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAITIAN AMERICANS UNITED FOR PROGRESS INC: $590,783 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetYEMENI AMERICAN MERCHANT ASSOCIATION INC: $539,126 over 2y, 28% of budgetCITIZENS CRIME COMMISSION OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $538,145 over 2y, 32% of budgetHOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $533,845 over 1y, 38% of budgetPUBLIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS: $532,527 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLSNY-BRONX CORPORATION: $532,527 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC: $523,819 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $509,147 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $489,621 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONPOINT NY INC: $473,805 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBRONXWORKS INC: $472,071 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $470,004 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $436,509 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC: $422,019 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPROJECT HOSPITALITY INC: $418,414 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $416,727 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $408,774 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA COLMENA NYC INC DBA LA COLMENA F/K/A STATEN ISLAND COMMUNITY JOB CENTER: $399,726 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetMIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC: $391,140 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $380,376 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $380,376 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $380,376 over 2y, 1.0% 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.

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.

Robin Hood FoundationThe Trustees of Colum…Mother Cabrini Health…Brooklyn Community Fo…The New York Communit…The Hyde and Watson F…Pinkerton FoundationNew York Immigration …United Way of New Yor…New York Women's Foun…Altman FoundationLily Auchincloss Foun…
Robin Hood FoundationNY87.4× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
55report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 312 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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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