New York · Nonprofit
THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,496,491 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($711,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY's revenue grew 67% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 131 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared funders
- Mental Research Instituteportfolio match
- Milton Carpenter Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
96% of THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $50k → $20k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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: $423M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Open Society Institute). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 64% · 2019 100% · 2020 82% · 2021 92% · 2022 60% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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
50% of THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
66% of THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY'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. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 81 organizations that share your funders
- Mental Research Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Milton Carpenter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ls Wood Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dune Foundation a Nj Nonprofit Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mabel Glidden Smith Tr Uwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Allen J Shafer Irrev Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Polish National Alliance School Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- M Verna Butterer Educational Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Irving W Mershon Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Surf Club of Quogue Scholarshipportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hermance a D Tw Scholarshipsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Agency for International Development$1.0M
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 THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- The Central European University Foundation of Budapest (Ceu Bpf) · exempt
- Kozep-Europai Egyetem (Ceu Kee) · exempt
- Ceu Educational-Service (Ceu Osz) · exempt
- Ceu Academic Non-Profit Private Foundation Academy at (Ceu Vief) · exempt
- Ceu Gmbh (Ceu Pu) · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN 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.
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 THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY?
- THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,496,491 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($711,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,496,491 in grants to THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY?
- CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK is the largest funder on record, with $711,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing