Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$30,324,371

Total expenses

$8,938,350

Contributions and grants received

$28,797,956

Grants paid

$4,537,404

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$1,526,291

Other revenue

$124

Total assets, end of year

$143,554,891

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,440,615

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$142,114,276

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$8,409,446

Management and general expenses

$341,295

Fundraising expenses

$187,609

Program service expenses (Part III)

$8,409,446

Program services were 94.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• SEE SCHEDULE O:THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1983 AS AN INDEPENDENT NOT-FOR-PROFIT ENTITY THAT IS COMMITTED TO PROMOTING AND SAFEGUARDING THE SUCCESS OF THE GRADUATE CENTER. AS THE SOLE CHANNEL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROGRAMS, CENTERS AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE GRADUATE CENTER, THE FOUNDATION WORKS WITH THE PRESIDENT AND PROVOST OF THE GRADUATE CENTER ON INSTITUTIONAL PRIORITIES SUCH AS STUDENT HOUSING, CAREER PLANNING AND COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH, AND WITH PROGRAM LEADERS ON TARGETED SCHOLARSHIPS AND STIPENDS, TRAVEL AND CONFERENCE AID, AND COMMUNICATING TO AND FROM ALUMNI. THE FOUNDATION ALSO MANAGES AND INVESTS DONATIONS FOR USE BY THE GRADUATE CENTER.THE CUNY GRADUATE CENTER, A LEADER IN PUBLIC GRADUATE EDUCATION, IS COMMITTED TO DOCTORAL AND MASTER'S EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD. INNOVATIVE RESEARCH, RIGOROUS SCHOLARSHIP, AND COLLABORATIVE AND INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING DEFINE GRADUATE EDUCATION HERE, PREPARING STUDENTS WITH THE CREATIVE, PROBLEM-SOLVING EXPERTISE NECESSARY TO THRIVE IN AND BEYOND THE ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE.LOCATED IN THE HEART OF MANHATTAN AND SET WITHIN THE LARGE AND MULTI-CAMPUS CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE GRADUATE CENTER FOSTERS ADVANCED GRADUATE EDUCATION, ORIGINAL RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP, INNOVATIVE UNIVERSITY-WIDE PROGRAMS, AND VIBRANT PUBLIC EVENTS THAT DRAW UPON AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMPLEX COMMUNITIES OF NEW YORK CITY AND BEYOND.THROUGH A BROAD RANGE OF NATIONALLY PROMINENT DOCTORAL PROGRAMS, THE GRADUATE CENTER PREPARES STUDENTS TO BE SCHOLARS, TEACHERS, EXPERTS, AND LEADERS IN THE ACADEMY; IN THE ARTS; AND IN THE PRIVATE, NONPROFIT, AND GOVERNMENT SECTORS. COMMITTED TO CUNY'S HISTORIC MISSION OF EDUCATING THE CHILDREN OF "THE WHOLE PEOPLE," THE GRADUATE CENTER PROVIDES ACCESS TO GRADUATE EDUCATION FOR DIVERSE GROUPS OF HIGHLY TALENTED STUDENTS, INCLUDING THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN UNDERREPRESENTED IN HIGHER EDUCATION.THREE LARGEST PROGRAM SERVICE ACHIEVEMENTS FOR ARE:A. CUNY RECEIVED A $50 MILLION GRANT FROM THE SIMONS FOUNDATION. THE FUNDING ALLOWS CUNY TO CREATE A NEW MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAM, HIRE NEW FACULTY, AND CREATE WORKFORCE OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS AND FACULTY AT THE NATION'S LARGEST AND MOST DIVERSE URBAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITY. THE PROGRAM, HOUSED AT THE CUNY GRADUATE CENTER, WILL STRENGTHEN THE UNIVERSITY'S RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CAPABILITIES AND WILL BUILD NEW CAREER PATHWAYS INTO THE ADVANCED COMPUTER INDUSTRY.B. THE CUNY GRADUATE CENTER RECEIVES A $10 MILLION GIFT FROM THE LEON LEVY FOUNDATION TO ENDOW THE LEON LEVY CENTER FOR BIOGRAPHY. THIS DONATION IS THE ONE OF LARGEST IN THE GRADUATE CENTER'S HISTORY AND BRINGS THE LEON LEVY FOUNDATION'S TOTAL GIVING TO THE GC TO $22.8 MILLION. ESTABLISHED WITH A GENEROUS GIFT FROM THE LEON LEVY FOUNDATION IN 2007, THE LEON LEVY CENTER FOR BIOGRAPHY AT THE CUNY GRADUATE CENTER SUPPORTS WORKING BIOGRAPHERS THROUGH ITS PRESTIGIOUS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM AND CULTIVATES IMPORTANT DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE ART AND CRAFT OF BIOGRAPHY THROUGH LECTURES AND EVENTS WITH ESTEEMED BIOGRAPHERS. IT ALSO SUPPORTS THE GRADUATE CENTER'S BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR MASTER'S PROGRAM.C. BASED AT THE CUNY GRADUATE CENTER, THE ANDREW MELLON FOUNDATION CONTINUES TO SUPPORT THE SOCIAL PRACTICE CUNY PROJECT. THROUGH A GRANT OF $600,000, THE SPCUNY PROJECT IS DESIGNED TO CREATE A NEW GENERATION OF CULTURAL LEADERS IN NYC WHO ARE DIVERSE AND COMMITTED TO BRINGING SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH ART, DRAWING ON THE STRENGTHS OF INTERDISCIPLINARY MFA PROGRAMS. SPCUNY WORKS TO CONNECT STUDENTS AND FACULTY WORKING IN SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART ACROSS ALL OF THE CUNY CAMPUSES, WITH A FOCUS ON INTERDISCIPLINARY MFA PROGRAMS AT THE SENIOR CUNY COLLEGES.

  Expenses $8,409,446 · Grants $4,537,404

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• HUNTER COLLEGE

  $16,062

  NURSING PROGRAM

• FH LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

  $15,000

  INTEGRATE GRADUATE RESEARCH, UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING AND MENTORING, INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN AND ISNTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY

• CUNY GRADUATE CENTER

  $6,416

  GRADUATE CENTER HUMANITIES CHAIR SUPPLEMENTS

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION HOUSING CORPORATION

  501(C)(3) · CREATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR STUDENTS & FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE CENTER · NY · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC

• GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION HOUSING CORPORATION LIC

  501(C)(3) · CREATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR STUDENTS & FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE CENTER · NY · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

30 April 2026

IRS schema version

2024v5.5

Source object

202601259349303065

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