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The Hunter College Foundation Inc

The mission of the hunter college foundation is to enhance hunter college's position as a premiere public educational institution.

$17M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7.3M
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$105MScience & Tech$3.2MHuman Services$141kReligion$123kHealth$65k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $15,054,220, the rows itemized in this filing. The $16,887,459 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,833,239 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.
$4,004,857
Median grant
1
States reached
$233M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY UNIVERSITY CONSTRUCTION FUND$7,303,663
CUNY CENTRAL OFFICE- OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY CONTROLLER$4,004,857
HUNTER COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$3,030,553
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$715,147
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 (FY17–24, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $121k → 9%MIXTECA ORGANIZATION: $20k → 20%Bloomingdale Aging in Place: $10k → 17%SERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC (SPOP): $10k → 17%VISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $10k → 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.
$108M · 6 repeat orgs$206k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$108M
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%
+33%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthOther
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

  • HC
    HUNTER COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $40M
  • CU
    CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $38M
  • CU
    CITY UNIVERSITY CONSTRUCTION FUND
    5× · 2019–2025 · $18M · revenue -10%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $121k · revenue +18%
  • MIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -14%
  • MM
    MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +59%
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
The Hebrew Home for Aged at Riverdale

To provide long term residential healthcare, short term rehab, assisted living, and alzheimer's care for older adults.

Health
2
Manhattan Eye & Ear Ophthalmology Alumni Foundation Inc
Health
3
Jewish Home of Central New York Senior Apartments Inc

Jewish home of central new york senior apartment's mission is to assure maximum independence and dignity offering a broad range of the highest quality of health, residential and community services. jewish home of central new york senior…

Housing & Shelter
4
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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5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital

Mission: to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. values: humanity, innovation, teamwork, diversity and equity - our values define our philosophy of care. they shape our actions and motivate and…

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
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
11
Stony Brook Orthopedic 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
12
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Village Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bloomingdale Aging in Place. 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

13 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. 13 of the 15 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUNTER COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $40,185,981 · OtherHUNTER COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORKCITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $38,157,949 · OtherCITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORKHCF RENOVATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,894,198 · OtherHCF RENOVATION FOUNDATION INC+3 more: $137,524 · OtherCITY UNIVERSITY CONSTRUCTION FUND: $17,893,340 · EducationCITY UNIVERSITY CONSTR…Research Foundation of the City University of New York: $3,879,905 · EducationResearch Foundation of…THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC: $120,798 · Human ServicesMIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesVISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $10,000 · Human ServicesSERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBLOOMINGDALE AGING IN PLACE: $10,000 · Human ServicesMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 · HealthJEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTAN: $10,000 · Health
Other$86,375,652Education$21,773,245Human Services$170,798Health$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCITY UNIVERSITY CONSTRUCTION FUND: $17,893,340 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHCF RENOVATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,894,198 over 4y, 100% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $3,879,905 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC: $120,798 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTAN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOMINGDALE AGING IN PLACE: $10,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetMARY MITCHELL FAMILY AND YOUTH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH ACTION OF STATEN ISLAND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Hyde and Watson F…The New York Communit…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Robin Hood FoundationNY15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robin Hood Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Hunter College Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hunter College Foundation Inc. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 15 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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