· Public charity
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
Columbia university is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 414 grants below total $207,923,433 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $996,042,617 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $788,119,184 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 $10k30 grants · $217k
- $10k–50k110 grants · $2.7M
- $50k–250k125 grants · $14M
- $250k+149 grants · $191M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH CARE INC | $15,058,790 |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $10,983,372 |
| WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE | $6,911,928 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $4,789,021 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | $4,356,700 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVAN | $3,838,702 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $3,767,132 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $3,698,548 |
| MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $3,572,368 |
| BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STA THE | $3,189,219 |
| NEW YORK GENOME CTR INC | $3,175,195 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $3,037,493 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE U THE | $2,846,640 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $2,809,168 |
| KNIGHT FIRST AMENDMENT INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA | $2,741,621 |
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 (FY20–21, $281k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
601 repeat relationships — 345 still active in FY2025, 256 since wound down; 55 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M 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
- CUColumbia University Health Care Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $75M · revenue +64% · 37% of their budget
- RFRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $32M · revenue +70%
- TGThe George Washington University9× · 2017–2025 · $24M · revenue +30%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Washingtonone grant, 2023 · $1.9M
- NYNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2017 · $709k
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $651k · revenue +53%
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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 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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Health International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Usa-World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiatric Surgery. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
684 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. 684 of the 918 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 Columbia University Health Care Inc ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Reid Hall Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Albert Einstein College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
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: Cornell University · Yale University · West Harlem Development Corporation · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · American Chemical Society · University of Pittsburgh · The New York and Presbyterian Hospital · Johns Hopkins University · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · University of Southern California · University of Miami · President and Fellows of Harvard College
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 Trustees of Columbia University in the City 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.
- Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine — 100% of income from government
- Jhpiego Corporation — 65% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Medstar Health Research Institute Inc — 25% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Marine Biological Laboratory — 20% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% 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
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Christiana Care Health Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- The Cooper Health System a New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation — 0% 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.