New York · Nonprofit
QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 149 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,705,108 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,531,633). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 149
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $124M
What Queens College Foundation Inc does
Mission
The foundation's primary purpose is to solicit, manage, and administer contributions made by private donors to the college. As an integral part of its mission of maintaining and strengthening the academic excellence of the college, the foundation administers funds, the proceeds of which are used to support the college's services and activities not fully funded by state and city tax levies, as well as educational needs such as scholarships, special academic programs and other activities. The foundation also manages restricted and endowed gift accounts and allocates such income as prescribed by the respective donors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Queens college foundation was founded in 1980 for the purpose of developing and increasing resources at queens college to provide more extensive educational opportunities to students and services to faculty. It receives gifts and grants with which it finances research in fields of intellectual inquiry that are in keeping with the college's educational objectives in its constituent schools. It awards and administers scholarships and fellowships, and engages inexperimental educational activities and projects.
$10,331,028 spentof which $3,702,153 as grants$50,432 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,331,028.
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 2020 to 2021, from $86M to $104M (+21%).
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 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 4% · 2022 3% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Laurie Dorf
Executive director
Board chair
Chaim Z Wachsberger
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 57 funders, grant income rose $690k → $2.1M.
29 of 149 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 149 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
QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
42% 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 QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 19% · 2019 20% · 2020 17% · 2021 15% · 2022 14% · 2023 18% — 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
43% of QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
59% of QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 20 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Queens College Cuny · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 149 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,705,108 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,531,633). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 149 organizations giving $14,705,108 in grants to QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC, 81 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,531,633 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like QUEENS 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 149 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