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CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC

CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,726,961 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($535,078). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$6.0M
Revenue FY2025
34
Funders on record
$2.7M
Grants received
$83M
Net assets
26/34 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%

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 ($5.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.7M) Net assets 100 ($46M)2018 Revenue 97 ($5.1M) Expenses 103 ($2.8M) Net assets 108 ($49M)2019 Revenue 93 ($5.0M) Expenses 110 ($3.0M) Net assets 113 ($52M)2020 Revenue 127 ($6.8M) Expenses 116 ($3.2M) Net assets 120 ($55M)2021 Revenue 112 ($6.0M) Expenses 122 ($3.3M) Net assets 147 ($67M)2022 Revenue 223 ($12M) Expenses 127 ($3.4M) Net assets 132 ($60M)2023 Revenue 80 ($4.2M) Expenses 132 ($3.6M) Net assets 145 ($66M)2024 Revenue 115 ($6.1M) Expenses 140 ($3.8M) Net assets 164 ($75M)2025 Revenue 113 ($6.0M) Expenses 170 ($4.6M) Net assets 181 ($83M)
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Revenue (113)Expenses (170)Net assets (181)

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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.6M
17
$2.3M
18
$1.9M
19
$3.6M
20
$2.6M
21
$8.4M
22
$647k
23
$2.3M
24
$1.4M
25
6.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $147k → $493k.

13 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)64% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $3.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Auxiliary Services Corporation of Suny Cortland). These are real filings, and they are not money CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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

CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

75% 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 CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC.

20%
largest funder
49%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 33% · 2019 25% · 2020 20% · 2021 32% · 2022 50% · 2023 29%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

67% of CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

64% of CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 $982k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from New York funders.

IL
WI
NY
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DE
NC
TX
FL

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

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21
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23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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. Your 34 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 19%Fundraising 7%

Governance

32
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

86%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Cortland College Foundation Properties Inc · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,726,961 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($535,078). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $2,726,961 in grants to CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $535,078 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 34funders 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