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The Foundation for City College

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

$21M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$12M
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, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$45MRecreation & Sports$750kCivil Rights$35kCommunity Improvement$28kEmployment$27kPublic Benefit$20kArts & Culture$19kScience & Tech$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $12,057,544, the rows itemized in this filing. The $20,689,381 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,631,837 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 $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $104k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $157k
  • $250k+1 grant · $12M
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$472M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY$11,767,074
NEW YORK FOOTBALL GIANTS INC$85,000
FLORIDA AGRICULTURAL & MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$71,686
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE$35,000
AARON DAVIS HALL INC$28,254
DEMOCRACY ALLIANCE$20,000
GOVEXEC HOLDINGS LLC$11,000
SAVE HARLEM NOW INC$10,000
LGBT VC$9,000
CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE$8,500
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS NEW YORK CHAPTER$7,000
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS$5,030
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LGBT VC: $9k → 13%NEW YORK STATE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $8k → 14%GREATER HARLEM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $12k → 17%GOVEXEC HOLDINGS LLC: $11k → 14%FAMU FOUNDATION INC: $150k → 19%NEW YORK FOOTBALL GIANTS INC: $445k → 7%THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $4.7M → 17%CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $35k → 14%FLORIDA AGRICULTURAL & MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $72k → 19%NEW YORK FOOTBALL GIANTS INC: $220k → 7%THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $2.3M → 17%DUMBARTON OAKS: $15k → 14%NEW YORK FOOTBALL GIANTS INC: $85k → 7%CCNY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $1.4M → 17%AARON DAVIS HALL INC: $28k → 17%AARON DAVIS HALL INC: $28k → 17%AARON DAVIS HALL INC: $24k → 17%AARON DAVIS HALL INC: $22k → 17%SAVE HARLEM NOW INC: $10k → 17%CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE: $9k → 17%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS NEW YORK CHAPTER: $7k → 17%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $11.8M → 17%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $10.8M → 17%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $8.3M → 17%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $5.5M → 17%CUNY SCHOOL OF LABOR: $27k → 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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46M · 6 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$46M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+4%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • RF
    Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    4× · 2022–2025 · $36M · revenue +29%
  • CU
    CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
    2× · 2022–2023 · $7.0M
  • TA
    THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • TF
    Trustees for Harvard University
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +4%
  • GH
    GREATER HARLEM HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -89%
  • NY
    NEW YORK STATE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +7%
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
Van Alen Institute Projects in Public Architecture

Van alen institute helps create equitable cities through community-led inclusive design.

Arts & Culture
2
Hudson Yards Development Corporation

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. 7 subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain…

Community Improvement
3
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
4
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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5
Atlantic Council of the United States Inc

The atlantic council, through its research and analysis, promotes constructive leadership and engagement in international affairs based on the central role of the atlantic community in meeting global challenges.

International
6
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
The Center for New York City Neighborhoods Inc

Our mission is to promote and protect affordable homeownership in new york so that middle- and working-class families are able to build strong, thriving communities.

Housing & Shelter
10
Aia Foundation

Architects use the power of design to solve problems, transform lives, and create a better world. the architects foundation inspires and empowers the next generation of designers and the diverse communities they serve. the architects…

Education
11
American Chemistry Council

The purpose of the council shall be the promotion of the interests of the business of chemistry in the united states of america, its territories and possessions and globally.

—
12
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Community Change; the most unlike its peers is American Society of Landscape Architects. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Research Foundation of the City University of New York: $36,328,132 · EducationResearch Foundation of the City University of New YorkTHE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK INC: $1,469,690 · Education+2 more: $236,686 · EducationCITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $7,018,005 · OtherCITY UNIVERSITY OF …NEW YORK FOOTBALL GIANTS INC: $750,000 · OtherNEW YORK FOOTBALL G…+5 more: $60,530 · OtherCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $35,000 · Community ImprovementLGBT VC: $9,000 · Community ImprovementSAVE HARLEM NOW INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureVisual Arts Research and Resource Center Relating: $8,500 · Arts & CultureGREATER HARLEM HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $12,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$38,034,508Other$7,828,535Community Improvement$44,000Arts & Culture$18,500Housing & Shelter$12,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $36,328,132 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK INC: $1,469,690 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetFlorida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Inc: $221,686 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS: $15,030 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees for Harvard University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVisual Arts Research and Resource Center Relating: $8,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK STATE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 The Foundation for City College funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Foundation for City College. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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
    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 16 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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