New York · Nonprofit
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology (New York) receives grants from 484 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,557,323 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($55,061,548). 249 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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2B
- Funders on record
- 484
- Grants received
- $105M
- Net assets
- $2.3B
What Rochester Institute of Technology does
Mission
Rochester Institute of Technology (rit) shapes the future and improves the world through creativity and innovation. As an engaged, intellectually curious, and socially conscious community, rit leverages the power of technology, the arts, and design for the greater good.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction and Academic Support - Established in 1829, RIT is one of the world's premier universities with an innovative and creative student body from all fifty states and over 100 nations. RIT total enrollment in Fall 2024 was approximately 21,316, which included approximately 18,140 undergraduate and 3,176 graduate students. Approximately 17,166 students are enrolled at RIT's main campus and the remainder at international locations. RIT is comprised of nine colleges and two degree-granting academic units offering 206 graduate and undergraduate programs. NTID (National Technical Institute for the Deaf), one of RIT's colleges, is the world's first and largest technical institute college for deaf students with approximately 1,176 students from the United States and abroad. Over the preceding 10 years, enrollment has increased from 18,100 students in the Fall of 2014 to 21,316 students in the Fall of 2024, an increase of 17.8%.
$782,154,596 spentof which $408,573,726 as grants$764,470,162 earned by the program75% of program spendingStudent and Auxiliary Services - Student services provide students with additional enrichment and educational opportunities. Such services include student health, athletics, and other recreational activities. Auxiliaries provide essential services to students in support of RIT's educational mission. These services include housing operations and dining services. SURPLUSES FROM AUXILIARY SERVICES SUPPORT THE OPERATING BUDGET OF THE UNIVERSITY.
$163,198,526 spentof which $1,932,262 as grants$101,839,054 earned by the program16% of program spendingResearch and Public Support - RIT engages in public service activities that benefit the general community in which it resides, including training, postsecondary education for the deaf and hard of hearing, and K-12 programs. RIT also conducts research to advance the body of knowledge, enhance student and faculty learning and build its reputation in the scientific and technical communities in support of, or in concert with, the University's exempt mission, while providing positive returns to our sponsoring partners. As articulated in RIT's strategic plan, the University continues to place emphasis on its revenue growth in the research portfolio.
$96,472,120 spentof which $10,501,952 as grants$6,646,567 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,041,825,242.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.2B to $2.6B (+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 15% · 2018 13% · 2019 16% · 2020 16% · 2021 17% · 2022 17% · 2023 16% · 2024 16% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of Rochester Institute of Technology’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 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
Ersin Uzun
Katherine johnson endowed exec. Dir. Global cybersecurity institute
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 74 funders to 186 funders, grant income rose $3.8M → $9.6M.
58 of 484 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.
From the IRS filings of Rochester Institute of Technology’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 484 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
Rochester Institute of Technology leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 56%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 Rochester Institute of Technology.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 78% · 2019 79% · 2020 70% · 2021 67% · 2022 61% · 2023 14% — 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 Rochester Institute of Technology's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
64% of Rochester Institute of Technology'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 $38M that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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
Rochester Institute of Technology has grown faster than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Rochester Institute of Technology receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $392.6M on record — $391.6M federal, $925k state.
- National Science Foundation$119.7M
- Department of Education$100.5M
- Department of Health and Human Services$56.8M
- Department of Defense$56.6M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$22.1M
- Department of Commerce$6.0M
- CT$619k
- OR$233k
- DE$65k
- VT$8k
- NJ$5
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 Rochester Institute of Technology
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 21 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- 5257 W Henrietta Road LLC · disregarded
- Rit Venture Fund I LLC · disregarded
- Rit Vf Arc Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Rit Global Delivery Corporation · exempt
- Rit Campus Club Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rochester Institute of Technology: 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 Rochester Institute of Technology?
- Rochester Institute of Technology (New York) receives grants from 484 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,557,323 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($55,061,548). 249 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 Rochester Institute of Technology have?
- IRS filings report 484 organizations giving $104,557,323 in grants to Rochester Institute of Technology, 249 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rochester Institute of Technology?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $55,061,548 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rochester Institute of Technology 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 484 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