Fordham University
Bronx, NY · EIN 13-1740451. Reported 92 grants totalling $5,730,164 to 56 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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 Fordham University, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B430) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 56 distinct organizations, with 36% 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. 54% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $27,187. Half of what it reported fell between $19,699 and $52,276; the smallest was $5,472 and the largest $659,922. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $2,055,609 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pilnet | New York, NY | $626,069 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Central Connecticut State University | New Britain, CT | $208,704 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Universidad Politecnica De Puerto Rico Inc | San Juan, PR | $207,156 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Tennessee Technological University | Cookeville, TN | $202,890 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Tennessee | Chattanooga, TN | $199,380 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of North Texas | Denton, TX | $141,619 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Metropolitan State University of Denver Foundation Inc | Denver, CO | $133,224 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| New Jersey City University | Jersey City, NJ | $126,896 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| North Carolina A&t State University | Greensboro, NC | $118,546 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Bronx, NY | $104,133 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Haverford College | Haverford, PA | $102,982 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of North Florida | Jacksonville, FL | $84,873 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | New Orleans, LA | $84,125 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Auburn University | Auburn, AL | $75,261 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $74,649 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grambling State University | Grambling, LA | $72,752 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Riverside | Riverside, CA | $52,858 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $52,157 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Houston-Clear Lake | Houston, TX | $45,579 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $43,523 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $42,655 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Corporation of Gonzaga University | Spokane, WA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Creighton University | Omaha, NE | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Loyola University Maryland Inc | Baltimore, MD | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College | Santa Clara, CA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Xavier University | Cincinnati, OH | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Rhode Island Hospital | Providence, RI | $38,998 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Marquette University | Milwaukee, WI | $37,336 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Research Foundation of the City University of New York | New York, NY | $37,044 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oklahoma State University | Stillwater, OK | $32,677 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA | $32,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| San Diego State University Foundation | San Diego, CA | $31,942 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Missouri | Columbia, MO | $29,960 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| New Mexico State University | Las Cruces, NM | $29,372 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA | $28,176 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Dillard University | New Orleans, LA | $27,954 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fenway Community Health Center Inc | Boston, MA | $25,976 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kentucky Comm & Techn College (bluegrass) | Lexington, KY | $25,454 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Baylor University | Waco, TX | $24,055 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Texas A&m University Health Science Center | College Station, TX | $24,043 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $22,342 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Adams State University | Alamosa, CO | $21,046 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Csu Bakersfield Auxiliary for Sponsored Programs Administration | Bakersfield, CA | $20,583 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Calvin University | Grand Rapids, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $17,409 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Texas A&m Agrilife Research | College Station, TX | $17,397 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Opinion Research Center | Chicago, IL | $16,034 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| California State University East Bay Foundation Inc | Hayward, CA | $11,213 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | $11,176 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Virginia State University | Petersburg, VA | $11,070 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Massachusetts | Boston, MA | $10,257 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Connecticut | Storrs, CT | $10,138 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Childrens Hospital of Orange County | Orange, CA | $5,472 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
25 of 56 (45%) 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 31 of 56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 14 | $960,470 | $20,552 |
| 2021 | 24 | $1,497,732 | $37,976 |
| 2022 | 24 | $1,731,611 | $33,313 |
| 2023 | 30 | $1,540,351 | $27,633 |
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
50% of its giving went to organizations in New York. 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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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $27,187 -- 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 New York.
- 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 Fordham University's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 30 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: 441 E Fordham Road Fmh 512, Bronx, NY, 10458.
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