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THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York) receives grants from 2713 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,469,933,058 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($176,678,754). 1644 of them have funded it in more than one year. THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$1.2B
Recipients
916
Contributions on record
$2.5B
Donors on record
2,704
Payments out are 0.49x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
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.
- Lupus Research Alliance Incshared funders
- James P & Ruth C Gillroy Foundation Incportfolio match
- Rae Saltzman Scholarship 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.
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 16% · 2018 16% · 2019 17% · 2020 17% · 2021 17% · 2022 17% · 2023 18% · 2024 18% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 697 funders to 1041 funders, grant income rose $151M → $340M.
160 of 2713 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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: $74M from 3 payers (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest The Pindaros Foundation Inc); $500 from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Halperin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK raised.
From the IRS filings of THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 2713 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.
Where its funders are
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 45 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $577M arriving through sponsors registered in 35 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.
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 2713 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Lupus Research Alliance Incshared fundersNY · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- James P & Ruth C Gillroy Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rae Saltzman Scholarship Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Palen-Klar Uw Schisp Fdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arthritis Foundation Incshared fundersGA · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- Lehigh Universityshared fundersPA · backs 50 organizations that share your funders
- Institute of International Education Incshared fundersNY · backs 64 organizations that share your funders
- Brandeis Universityshared fundersMA · backs 50 organizations that share your funders
- University of Kansas Medical Center Research Instituteshared fundersKS · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphiashared fundersPA · backs 103 organizations that share your funders
- The Foundation for Surgical Fellowshipsshared fundersCA · backs 41 organizations that share your funders
- The Greenwall Foundationshared fundersDC · backs 46 organizations that share your funders
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 TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.7B on record — $9.7B federal, $585k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.7B
- National Science Foundation$973.0M
- Department of Defense$375.0M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$196.7M
- Department of Energy$170.7M
- Department of Education$85.5M
- NJ$328k
- MD$170k
- VT$57k
- CT$30k
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
Part of a family of 140 related entities
- Columbia Investment Mgt Company LLC · disregarded
- Cim I LLC · disregarded
- Cim II LLC · disregarded
- Cim III LLC · disregarded
- Cim IV LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: 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 TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK?
- THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York) receives grants from 2713 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,469,933,058 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($176,678,754). 1644 of them have funded it in more than one year. THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK have?
- IRS filings report 2713 organizations giving $2,469,933,058 in grants to THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 1644 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $176,678,754 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK 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 2713funders 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing