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New York University
New York University (New York) receives grants from 1618 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,313,514,475 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($143,049,039). 920 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11.6B
- Funders on record
- 1,618
- Grants received
- $1.3B
- Net assets
- $8.7B
What New York University does
Mission
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. Nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Patient care: nyu's academic medical programs are a major element of the university's mission, and its academic medical center - nyu langone health - is among the foremost healthcare institutions in the u.s. The nyu grossman school of medicine was established in 1841; from its earliest years, it has been at the forefront of advancing the medical profession and medical research, including participating in the process that led to the establishment of new york city's health department, establishing the first outpatient clinic, establishing the first laboratory devoted to teaching and research in bacteriology and pathology, creating the first department of forensic medicine, creating the first department of physical medicine and rehabilitation in the u.s., and establishing one of the first md-phd programs. It's faculty and graduates have included nobel laureates, the discoverer of the mosquito as the source of transmission of yellow fever, both creators of the polio vaccine, and the researchers who found (continued on schedule o)
$4,684,279,791 spent$4,758,906,000 earned by the program46% of program spendingEducation: founded in 1831, nyu is among the largest private not-for-profit research universities in the u.s., with 20 schools and institutes, approximately 5,000 full-time faculty members, and approximately 60,000 matriculating students. Nyu annually confers over 22,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees; it provides over $650 million per year in scholarship aid to undergraduates and since the fall of 2021 has met demonstrated need for incoming first-year undergraduates. Nyu has an unparalleled international presence with three degree-granting liberal arts research university campuses (in new york, abu dhabi, and shanghai) and 13 global academic sites (for study abroad) on six continents; sends more students to study abroad than any other u.s. College or university; and enrolls more international students than any other u.s. University.
$3,190,480,056 spentof which $953,640,000 as grants$3,597,701,000 earned by the program31% of program spendingResearch and scholarship: as a member of the association of american universities (aau) and classified as an r1 institution, nyu is a top-tier recipient of funding from the nih, nsf, and other major federal and private agencies. Nyu is a major research institution, with significant support from nih, nsf and other funders; it is a top 12 institution nationally in the nsf's annual higher education research and development survey (and #1 in new york state), and it is one of the select group of u.s. Universities with research expenditures exceeding $1 billion per year. The research and creative output of nyu's scholars have led to the receipt of nobel prizes; abel prizes; pulitzer prizes; guggenheims; the national medal of the arts; the national medal of science; the national medal of technology; nsf waterman awards; max planck awards; the kavli prize; membership for dozens of faculty in the national academies of sciences, engineering, and medicine; academy awards; tony awards; and grammy awards, among many other honors for the university's faculty. (continued on schedule o)
$1,423,066,657 spent$1,151,566,959 earned by the program14% of program spendingOther program services: student services; student aid; library; and operation and maintenance of plant.
$981,866,818 spentof which $104,106,164 as grants$1,234,764,984 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,279,693,322.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $14.6B to $17.2B (+18%).
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 9% · 2018 9% · 2019 10% · 2020 10% · 2021 10% · 2022 10% · 2023 11% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of New York University’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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 382 funders to 568 funders, grant income rose $109M → $167M.
78 of 1618 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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: $8.9B from 117 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Nyu Langone Hospitals); $38M from 2 payers (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest The Rory and Howard Meyers Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money New York University raised.
From the IRS filings of New York University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1618 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
New York University has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 19 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 19 funders to its left
46% 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 New York University.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 18% · 2019 16% · 2020 14% · 2021 12% · 2022 10% · 2023 12% — 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
36% of New York University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
New York University draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 48 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $340M arriving through sponsors registered in 27 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.
Against its field
New York University has grown faster than three-quarters of the 696 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 696 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding New York University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.4B on record — $5.4B federal, $1.5M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.4B
- National Science Foundation$410.8M
- Department of Education$176.2M
- Department of Defense$171.9M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$66.8M
- Department of Energy$49.0M
- NJ$1.1M
- DE$289k
- MA$38k
- CT$22k
- OR$11k
- FL$1k
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 New York University
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.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 11 states
Part of a family of 31 related entities
- National Center on Philanthropy and the Law · exempt
- New York University School of Law Foundation · exempt
- Nyu Imaging Inc · exempt
- Sir Harold Acton Trust · exempt
- Washington Square Legal Services Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for New York University: 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 New York University?
- New York University (New York) receives grants from 1618 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,313,514,475 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($143,049,039). 920 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does New York University have?
- IRS filings report 1618 organizations giving $1,313,514,475 in grants to New York University, 920 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of New York University?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $143,049,039 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New York University 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1618 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing