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AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC

AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $496,458 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($157,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$500k
Revenue FY2025
16
Funders on record
$496k
Grants received
$133k
Net assets
5/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($231k) Expenses 100 ($291k) Net assets 100 ($5k)2018 Revenue 233 ($539k) Expenses 185 ($539k) Net assets 55 ($3k)2019 Revenue 137 ($316k) Expenses 119 ($346k) Net assets -572 ($-26476)2020 Revenue 199 ($459k) Expenses 125 ($364k) Net assets 1484 ($69k)2021 Revenue 269 ($622k) Expenses 211 ($615k) Net assets 1653 ($77k)2022 Revenue 364 ($840k) Expenses 287 ($835k) Net assets 1677 ($78k)2023 Revenue 322 ($742k) Expenses 247 ($721k) Net assets 2074 ($96k)2024 Revenue 196 ($453k) Expenses 157 ($457k) Net assets 2010 ($93k)2025 Revenue 216 ($500k) Expenses 158 ($460k) Net assets 2864 ($133k)
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Revenue (216)Expenses (158)Net assets (2864)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 9% · 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$60k
17
$19
18
$30k
19
$95k
20
$7k
21
$6k
22
$22k
23
$4k
24
$39k
25
9.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $5k → $112k.

7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)53% 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 AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

95% 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 AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC.

32%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 51% · 2020 97% · 2021 86% · 2022 99% · 2023 46%diversifying over time.

“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

40% of AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 31% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

53% of AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $236k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 6 states.

IL
NY
IN
NJ
CO
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $261k 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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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.

Organizations like AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 35%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
0%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

80%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC: 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC?
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $496,458 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($157,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $496,458 in grants to AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $157,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC 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 16funders 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