New York · Nonprofit
The Morningside Institute Inc
The Morningside Institute Inc (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,279,605 to it, the largest being Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education ($2,633,605). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $722k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $195k
What The Morningside Institute Inc does
Mission
The Morningside Institute brings scholars and students together to examine human life beyond the classroom and consider its deepest questions through the life of New York City. Through its work, Morningside allows students to experience the humanities not as dead or oppressive but rich and vital.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Efforts made to foster liberal learning across the disciplines of the modern university relating their intellectual work to human flourishing and the common good. Establishment of a community of scholars engaged in these efforts, and assist them with lectures, seminars and conferences. Research conducted in the humanities, for publication in formats available to the interested public, and for aiding in the educational offerings of the Institute.
$272,521 spent$2,264 earned by the program40% of program spendingThe Barry Center supports young scholars of exceptional talent, grit, and integrity, allowing them to pursue meaningful research in some of the most respected academic institutions in the United States and abroad. Through its work, the Barry Center at Morningside promotes the intellectual virtues of integrity, courage, civility, and friendship.
$402,249 spentof which $107,950 as grants60% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $674,770.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $136k to $915k (+574%).
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.
98% of The Morningside Institute Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Nathaniel Peters
Executive Director
Board chair
Donald W Landry
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $250k → $492k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Morningside Institute Inc’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 Morningside Institute Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 Morningside Institute Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 97% · 2022 70% · 2023 81% — 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
60% of The Morningside Institute Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
The Morningside Institute Inc draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Morningside Institute Inc has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Morningside Institute 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Morningside Institute Inc: 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 The Morningside Institute Inc?
- The Morningside Institute Inc (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,279,605 to it, the largest being Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education ($2,633,605). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Morningside Institute Inc have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $3,279,605 in grants to The Morningside Institute Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Morningside Institute Inc?
- Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education is the largest funder on record, with $2,633,605 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Morningside Institute 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 10 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing