Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor, NY · EIN 11-2013303. Reported 120 grants totalling $37.0M to 43 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the IRS classifies it under science & technology rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE U500) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 43 distinct organizations, with 22% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 80% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $145,436. Half of what it reported fell between $61,127 and $372,574; the smallest was $5,707 and the largest $4,654,258. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broad Institute Inc | Cambridge, MA | $8,063,037 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $4,723,675 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| North Shore-Lij Occupational Medicine Pc | Westbury, NY | $2,179,231 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research | Westbury, NY | $1,868,708 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $1,765,695 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| New York Genome Center Inc | New York, NY | $1,729,434 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $1,693,382 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $1,525,974 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $1,496,503 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $1,331,303 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $1,293,131 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jackson Laboratory | Bar Harbor, ME | $1,165,582 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Allen Institute | Seattle, WA | $892,045 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Massachusetts | Newton, MA | $775,597 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $764,322 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc | Ithaca, NY | $728,425 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of California Davis | Davis, CA | $513,701 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $443,115 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| State University of New York- Binghamton | Binghamton, NY | $324,005 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Missouri | Columbia, MO | $305,179 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $295,437 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $269,089 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New York Botanical Garden | Bronx, NY | $243,102 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Yeshiva University | New York, NY | $242,940 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $241,424 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $232,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | $207,882 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $203,094 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $198,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | $195,006 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Oregon State University Foundation | Corvallis, OR | $187,127 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | $178,245 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst Foundation Inc | Amherst, MA | $170,804 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $99,233 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | Saint Louis, MO | $87,629 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cornell University Medical College Alumni Association | New York, NY | $86,495 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $74,876 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Mount Holyoke College | South Hadley, MA | $74,383 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Stony Brook Foundation Inc | Stony Brook, NY | $73,087 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Georgia Research Fdn | Athens, GA | $61,209 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| James Madison University | Harrisonburg, VA | $23,366 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | $10,197 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Society of Plant Biologists | Rockville, MD | $7,201 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
33 of 43 (77%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 of 43 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 35 | $13.0M | $148,919 |
| 2022 | 32 | $13.5M | $166,846 |
| 2023 | 28 | $6,138,056 | $154,566 |
| 2024 | 25 | $4,361,362 | $84,839 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
42% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $145,436 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 25 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 100 One Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724.
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