· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- CCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELSone grant, 2023 · $651k · revenue +6%
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
How this is measured
685 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. 685 of the 918 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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