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The City College 21st Century Foundation Inc

An educational foundation supporting students and programs of the city college of new york, city university of new york.

$10M
Granted FY2021
3
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$5.7M
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172021.

Education$17MArts & Culture$18kOther$639k
02FY2021 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $5,755,757 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,009,159 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,253,402 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 · FY2021

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $250k+1 grant · $5.7M
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY$5,742,757
THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK$8,000
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE UNDOCUMENTED MIGRATION PROJECT INC: $5k → 14%COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND: $5k → 11%ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF CCNY: $17k → 17%GUERNICA INC: $13k → 20%OFFICE OF RECRUITMENT EXAMINATION & EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT OF STATE: $12k → 14%MACAULEY HONORS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $133k → 17%THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $116k → 17%THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $106k → 17%THE CITY COLLEGE STUDENT SERVICE CORP: $70k → 17%THE CITY COLLEGE STUDENT SERVICE CORP: $64k → 17%CITY COLLEGE FUND: $60k → 17%THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $57k → 17%CITY COLLEGE FUND: $37k → 17%CITY COLLEGE FUND: $32k → 17%THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $28k → 17%CITY COLLEGE FUND: $9k → 17%THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $8k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS: $10k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS: $5k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS: $5k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS: $5k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS: $5k → 17%THE AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES: $6k → 17%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $5.7M → 17%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $4.7M → 17%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $2.9M → 17%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $2.1M → 17%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $1.7M → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 5 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$18M
$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

60%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • RF
    Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    5× · 2017–2021 · $17M · revenue +22%
  • CU
    CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
    5× · 2017–2021 · $320k
  • TC
    THE CITY COLLEGE FUND
    4× · 2017–2020 · $138k · revenue -69%

Funded once

  • MH
    MACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $133k · revenue 0%
  • TA
    THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue -14%
  • GI
    GUERNICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +110%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
City University Construction Fund

The mission of city university construction fund ("cucf") is to manage the resources necessary for the design and construction of space required to support the educational mandate of the city university of new york.

Education
2
The Foundation for City College

An educational foundation supporting students and programs of the city college of new york, city university of new york.

Education
3
Cuny Graduate School Auxiliary Enterprise Corporation

The auxiliary enterprises supports the university's teaching, research, and public service mission. these business units provide cost-effective, innovative, creative services, and venues that support the lives of students, faculty, staff,…

Education
4
The City University of New York School of Law Foundation Inc

The foundation supports the law school in its mission to increase access to legal education to those from groups underrepresented in the profession and to prepare its graduates for public interest and public service practice.

Education
5
The City College Auxiliary Enterprises Corporation

To provide auxiliary enterprises, such as food services, a bookstore, etc., for the benefit of the city college campus community.

International
6
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
7
Cuny Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy Foundation Inc

The foundation shall be formed to support and advance the educational and research activities of the cuny graduate school of public health and health policy by raising funds and making contributions and grants to the graduate school of…

Education
8
The College of Staten Island Foundation Inc

The foundation was established to stimulate and strengthen community,corporate and foundation support for public higher education on staten island and to support the college of staten island in providing its students with the finest…

Education
9
United University Professions College Scholarship Fund

United university professions was organized to improve the terms and conditions of employment of those it represents; to promote mutual assistance and cooperation among the members of this organization; to advance education in a democracy…

10
The City College 21ST Century Foundation Inc

An educational foundation supporting students and programs of the city college of new york, city university of new york.

11
The American Assembly

A national non partisan public policy forum to illuminate issues of public policy.

12
Cuny School of Professional Studies Foundation Inc

The foundation is operated exclusively for the charitable purpose of supporting the school of professional studies, a constituent unit of the city university of new york, by disbursing scholarships and awards to eligible students.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The City College Student Services Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Undocumented Migration Projectinc. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Research Foundation of the City University of New York — $17,097,141 · EducationResearch Foundation of the City University of New York+2 more — $150,867 · EducationCITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK — $319,715 · OtherTHE CITY COLLEGE FUND — $138,179 · OtherTHE CITY COLLEGE STUDENT SERVICES CORPORATION — $133,722 · OtherAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS — $30,000 · Other+2 more — $17,500 · OtherGUERNICA INC — $13,450 · Arts & CultureUNDOCUMENTED MIGRATION PROJECTINC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$17,248,008Other$639,116Arts & Culture$18,450

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $17,097,141 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CITY COLLEGE FUND — $138,179 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CITY COLLEGE STUDENT SERVICES CORPORATION — $133,722 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetMACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $133,492 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK INC — $17,375 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGUERNICA INC — $13,450 over 1y, 24% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC — $5,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUNDOCUMENTED MIGRATION PROJECTINC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 The City College 21st Century Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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