New York · Nonprofit
CORNELL HILLEL
CORNELL HILLEL (New York) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,308,460 to it, the largest being HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ($1,026,996). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $0
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $0
What Cornell Hillel does
Mission
The mission of the organization shall be the furtherance of the spiritual, social, educational and other needs of jewish students, faculty, and staff of cornell university and of the cornell and ithaca communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Israel programs:Cornell Hillel believes that every jewish student should experience israel through a multifaceted lens, on the ground, and in person. Cornell Hillel builds relationships which allow for greater impact on campus by lowering barriers to access, creating a shared language, and sparking curiosity and creativity. In the past year, Cornell Hillel engaged students through israel-engagement events, including, but not limited to, a kindle club, meet-and-greets, and organizing a full start-up nation fair.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $4.4M to $0 (−100%).
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: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $473k → $274k.
8 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 CORNELL HILLEL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
CORNELL HILLEL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 CORNELL HILLEL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 56% · 2019 32% · 2020 40% · 2021 59% · 2022 23% · 2023 43% — 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
35% of CORNELL HILLEL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
CORNELL HILLEL draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is 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.
Organizations like CORNELL HILLEL
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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.
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CORNELL HILLEL: 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 CORNELL HILLEL?
- CORNELL HILLEL (New York) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,308,460 to it, the largest being HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ($1,026,996). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CORNELL HILLEL have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $3,308,460 in grants to CORNELL HILLEL, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORNELL HILLEL?
- HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE is the largest funder on record, with $1,026,996 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORNELL HILLEL 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 39 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing