New York · Nonprofit
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,116,707 to it, the largest being THE SWYER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($6,396,604). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL has grown faster than half of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- American Chemical Societyshared funders
- Conrad H & Anna B Gillen Scholarship Fundportfolio match
- Guenther Scholarship Fund the 003307portfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 4% · 2022 4% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of ALBANY LAW SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $56k → $673k.
11 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALBANY LAW SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALBANY LAW SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 96% · 2019 73% · 2020 47% · 2021 88% · 2022 66% · 2023 74% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
48% of ALBANY LAW SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
97% of ALBANY LAW SCHOOL's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 46 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- American Chemical Societyshared fundersDC · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- Conrad H & Anna B Gillen Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Guenther Scholarship Fund the 003307portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Law School Admission Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wilkes-Desmond Educational Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gould Norman & Anna Schol Fdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deloitte Foundationshared fundersCT · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- Gazin Norbert L Education Pfdn 101-0628960portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Burton and Wemple Scholarship Fund Uwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tuw Alice Koon FBO Scholastic Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kanitz Louis J & Golda I Main Acportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eleanor Dillenbeck Scholarship 001138portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ALBANY LAW SCHOOL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of Education$1.2M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ALBANY LAW SCHOOL
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- University Heights Association Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALBANY LAW SCHOOL: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ALBANY LAW SCHOOL?
- ALBANY LAW SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,116,707 to it, the largest being THE SWYER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($6,396,604). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALBANY LAW SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $11,116,707 in grants to ALBANY LAW SCHOOL, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALBANY LAW SCHOOL?
- THE SWYER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,396,604 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALBANY LAW SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 46funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing