· Public charity
The Trustees of Princeton University
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students.
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 28 grants below total $14,673,325 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $620,310,685 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $605,637,360 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
- $10k–50k8 grants · $154k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+9 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUNICIPALITY OF PRINCETON | $5,304,000 |
| PRINCETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $2,886,800 |
| County of Mercer | $1,416,168 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY | $1,323,863 |
| MARY J GOREE LAS ANIMAS CTY SCHLRSHP | $788,469 |
| MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY | $657,267 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $410,550 |
| LEADERSHIP ENT FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA | $310,000 |
| PRINCETON MASS TRANSIT | $300,000 |
| PRINCETON FIRE DEPARTMENT | $200,000 |
| THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY | $168,249 |
| CLIMATE CENTRAL INC | $157,224 |
| Housing Initiatives of Princeton | $100,000 |
| 101 INC | $100,000 |
| WEST HARLEM ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION INC | $75,796 |
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 (FY17–24, $667k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +28% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k 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
- MJMARY JOHN GOREE LAS ANIMAS COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +172% · 73% of their budget
- LELEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA9× · 2017–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +145% · 63% of their budget
MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY9× · 2017–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +5%
Funded once
- PRPrinceton Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation Incone grant, 2021 · $378k · revenue -96% · 78% of their budget
- PUPRINCETON UNIVERSITY CLASS OF 2020one grant, 2021 · $272k
THE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMERone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -12%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Princeton Healthcare System Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mary John Goree Las Animas County Scholarship Foundation. 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 42 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
87 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. 87 of the 95 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
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 S&G FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Robertson Foundation For Government Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds MARY JOHN GOREE LAS ANIMAS COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds Witherspoon-Jackson Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds Triangle Club of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON FIRST AID AND RESCUE SQUAD ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT ↗
- Who funds The Petey Greene Program Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER TRENTON INC ↗
- Who funds Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE YWCA PRINCETON INC ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMER ↗
- Who funds 101 INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING INITIATIVES OF PRINCETON CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BROADMEAD SWIM CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER DBA CENTER FOR MODERN AGING PRINCETON ↗
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: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Tenacre Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Investors Foundation Inc · The J Robert & Barbara A Hillier Foundation Inc · The Burke Foundation Inc · Twin Chimney Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · The Losam 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 Trustees of Princeton University 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New Jersey Council for the Humanities — 100% of income from government
- Womanspace Inc — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
- New Jersey Symphony Orchestra — 21% of income from government
- Freedom Reads Inc — 12% of income from government
- United Way of Greater Mercer County — 8% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
- HomeWorks Trenton — 6% of income from government
- Arts Council of Princeton — 6% of income from government
- Princeton Nursery School — 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Period Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 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.