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PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION HOUSING CORP

PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION HOUSING CORP (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,470,000 to it, the largest being PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION HOUSING CORP ($1,720,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$6.0M
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$2.5M
Grants received
$7.0M
Net assets
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 66%

Against its field

PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION HOUSING CORP runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,881 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve4.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,881 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.8M) Expenses 100 ($5.1M) Net assets 100 ($4.1M)2018 Revenue 101 ($4.8M) Expenses 100 ($5.1M) Net assets 93 ($3.8M)2020 Revenue 82 ($3.9M) Expenses 72 ($3.7M) Net assets 108 ($4.5M)2021 Revenue 43 ($2.1M) Expenses 58 ($3.0M) Net assets 86 ($3.6M)2022 Revenue 100 ($4.8M) Expenses 68 ($3.5M) Net assets 117 ($4.8M)2023 Revenue 108 ($5.2M) Expenses 83 ($4.3M) Net assets 138 ($5.7M)2024 Revenue 108 ($5.2M) Expenses 93 ($4.8M) Net assets 148 ($6.1M)2025 Revenue 125 ($6.0M) Expenses 100 ($5.1M) Net assets 169 ($7.0M)
'17'18'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (125)Expenses (100)Net assets (169)Peer revenue range

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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

13% of PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION HOUSING CORP’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,227 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$341k
17
$290k
18
$239k
20
$913k
21
$1.3M
22
$892k
23
$392k
24
$883k
25
4.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $350k → $1.4M.

From the IRS filings of PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION HOUSING CORP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION HOUSING CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

70%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100%broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

Where its funders are

100% of PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION HOUSING CORP's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

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

20
21
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

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 PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION HOUSING CORP

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

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

94%

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 4 related entities

  • Purchase College Foundation · exempt
  • Purchase Housing Corporation II · exempt
  • Purchase College Advancement Corporation · exempt
  • Purchase Senior Learning Community Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION HOUSING CORP: 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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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 PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION HOUSING CORP?
PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION HOUSING CORP (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,470,000 to it, the largest being PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION HOUSING CORP ($1,720,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION HOUSING CORP have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,470,000 in grants to PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION HOUSING CORP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION HOUSING CORP?
PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION HOUSING CORP is the largest funder on record, with $1,720,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION HOUSING CORP 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 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing