New York · Nonprofit
THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND
THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND (New York) receives grants from 179 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,759,880 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($7,278,467). 97 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 179
- Grants received
- $35M
- Net assets
- $337M
What The Baruch College Fund does
Mission
The Baruch College Fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. Baruch college of the city university of new york.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The fund supports activities through grants to the bernard m. Baruch college of the city university of new york ("the college") for various educational purposes such as the support of the college's theater, publications, faculty, art gallery, and student services. Student services include activities such as the starr career development center, the schwartz communication institute, and the weissman center for international business, which service the entire student body. In addition to grants, the fund pays expenses, including certain compensation supplements, on behalf of the college to enable it to attract and retain the best talent to carry out its educational mission.
$14,179,057 spentof which $5,705,609 as grants74% of program spendingEither directly or indirectly (through bcf funds transferred to the city university of new york to reduce student tuition obligations), the bcf provided $4.86 million in scholarships and awards to 1,845 students in fiscal year 2025. All scholarship and awards recipients are selected by the college and approved for award based on individual scholarship and award fund criteria. Direct awards to 639 students include, but are not limited to funds distributed for study abroad programs, awards to recognize academic achievement and emergency funds distributed based on need due to hardship.
$4,858,916 spentof which $4,858,916 as grants26% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,037,973.
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 $223M to $296M (+33%).
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: 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% 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.
Board chair
Helen J Mills
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 79 funders, grant income fell $3.5M → $3.1M.
25 of 179 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 179 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
THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
58% 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 THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 46% · 2019 58% · 2020 67% · 2021 45% · 2022 11% · 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
49% of THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND'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
51% of THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND'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 $17M that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 22 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Bernard M Baruch College of Cuny · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust (1) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND?
- THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND (New York) receives grants from 179 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,759,880 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($7,278,467). 97 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND have?
- IRS filings report 179 organizations giving $34,759,880 in grants to THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND, 97 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,278,467 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND 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 179 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