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The Hastings Center Inc
The Hastings Center Inc (New York) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,997,790 to it, the largest being ADELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,050,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $13M
What The Hastings Center Inc does
Mission
The center produces scholarship and publications on ethical questions in medicine, science, and technology that help inform policy, practice, and public understanding.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The scholars at The Hastings Center examined a wide range of ethical, legal, and social questions in biological science, medicine, and health, including dementia, community health care, housing policy for aging populations, xenotransplantation, genome editing, sociogenomics, and assistive technologies for people with disabilities. Projects led by the scholars on these topics aimed at improving scholarly and public understanding of issues at stake in them, developing recommendations for policy, and training students and early-career scholars. Research methods included work group-based analysis, literature reviews, and qualitative research. Products included one book (on living well with disability); two reports (on facing dementia and on genomics) published as supplements to the Center's journal the Hastings Center Report; 32 articles in scholarly journals, 8 commentaries or opinion pieces, and 57 talks and lectures for scholarly and nonscholarly audiences. Researchers also spoke with journalists at national and international media outlets and served on review panels, boards, and advisory committees for hospitals, private foundations, federal agencies, professional societies, and…
$2,775,719 spent78% of program spendingIn 2024, the hastings center report, a bioethics journal published by the center, featured discussions of deep brain stimulation and identity theft, what prospective parents owe their children, conscientious provision of care, poverty and physician aid in dying, organ stewardship, and many other topics in medical care, health policy, biological research, and biotechnology. Six issues of the report appeared, containing a mixture of scholarly analysis and expert commentary. The report also published two supplements, on end-of-life choices and improving practices and policies for people with dementia (with the january-february issue) and on increasing fairness in genomics (with the november-december issue). The report was distributed by john t. Wiley and sons, primarily in online form, to libraries and other institutions, with 4,063 subscribing through wiley online library or holding a traditional subscription, 4,260 having access to content at least a year old thorugh an ebsco arrangement, and 4,514 having access through a philanthropic initiative. There were 568,718 full-text views of items in the journal. Ethics & human research, a journal devoted to issues involving the ethics…
$423,737 spent$334,331 earned by the program12% of program spendingThe communications and engagement department is responsible for informing and engaging diverse audiences, including journalists, policymakers, clinicians, and the general public. To achieve these goals, the department produces a newsletter, oversees and continuously updates the hastings center's website, edits and publishes hastings bioethics forum, engages audiences on social media, writes press releases about hastings research and other activities, pitches story ideas to journalists, works with hastings research scholars to develop and place op-eds and other commentaries, and produces public events. In 2024, the hastings center produced a webinar in partnership with the knight science journalism program at mit on trust in science. Also in partnership, the hastings center co-presented a webinar on prenatal genetic screening with the museum of science boston and harvard university. We returned to in-person events with a panel discussion in new york city on disinformation, trust, and the role of ai. All told, hastings bioethics forum and our other website content, social media channels, and our public events reached hundreds of thousands of people in 2024. (expenses $ 15,798…
$326,418 spent9% of program spendingThe hastings center's programs for students and visiting scholars offer a range of remote, hybrid, and in-person opportunities for learning, discussion, and career development for students and professionals, with a focus on creating opportunities and sharing knowledge in the interdisciplinary field of bioethics. In 2024, the hastings center produced its third annual summer bioethics program, a weeklong online learning opportunity for undergraduates interested in bioethics issues and careers. Admission to this program is by application. In 2023, the hastings center's fourth cohort of sadler scholars was selected and began a one-year period of focused work with the program director and advisors. The sadler scholars is a professional development program for advanced doctoral students in bioethics research. Admission to this remote program is by application. Also in 2024, the hastings center continued its series of invited monthly work-in-progress discussions by early-career and mid-career scholars. Additionally, in 2024 the hastings center launched our new approach to our residential visiting scholar program, which now focuses on writing residencies for early-career and mid-career…
$15,798 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,541,672.
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 2018 to 2019, from $8.7M to $14M (+65%).
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 23% · 2018 20% · 2019 12% · 2020 25% · 2021 31% · 2022 26% · 2023 35% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Vardit Ravitsky
President & CEO
Board chair
Joseph J Fins
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.6M.
16 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 Hastings Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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 Hastings Center Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
36% 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 Hastings Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 22% · 2019 18% · 2020 21% · 2021 13% · 2022 12% · 2023 15% — 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
47% of The Hastings Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
65% of The Hastings Center 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. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Government funding The Hastings Center Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$6.3M
- National Science Foundation$1.2M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$566k
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.
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Hastings Center Inc?
- The Hastings Center Inc (New York) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,997,790 to it, the largest being ADELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,050,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Hastings Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $14,997,790 in grants to The Hastings Center Inc, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Hastings Center Inc?
- ADELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Hastings Center 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 58 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