Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$6,755,470

Total expenses

$8,957,407

Contributions and grants received

$5,501,980

Grants paid

$3,813,064

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$1,233,021

Other revenue

$20,469

Total assets, end of year

$64,986,118

Total liabilities, end of year

$301,199

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$64,684,919

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$8,564,957

Management and general expenses

$227,672

Fundraising expenses

$164,778

Program service expenses (Part III)

$8,564,957

Program services were 95.6% 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 · 2022

• 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 SUPPORT, CAREER PLANNING AND COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH, AND WITH PROGRAM LEADERS ON TARGETED SCHOLARSHIPS AND STIPENDS, TRAVEL AND CONFERENCE SUPPORT, AND COMMUNICATING TO AND FROM ALUMNI. THE FOUNDATION ALSO MANAGES AND INVESTS DONATIONS FOR USE BY THE GRADUATE CENTER.THE CUNY GRADUATE CENTER IS LOCATED IN THE HEART OF MANHATTAN AND SET WITHIN THE LARGE AND MULTI-CAMPUS CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK. IT 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 SCHOOL PREPARES STUDENTS TO BE SCHOLARS, TEACHERS, EXPERTS, AND LEADERS IN THE ACADEMY, THE ARTS AND IN THE PRIVATE, NONPROFIT, AND GOVERNMENT SECTORS. COMMITTED TO CUNY'S HISTORIC MISSION OF EDUCATING THE CHILDREN OF THE WHOLE PEOPLE, WE WORK TO PROVIDE 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 GRADUATE CENTER RECEIVED A $2 MILLION GRANT FROM THE WAVERLEY STREET FOUNDATION. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE (NYC-EJA), THE GRANT WILL AIM TO ESTABLISH THE NYC CLIMATE JUSTICE HUB TO ADVANCE AND ACCELERATE CLIMATE SOLUTIONS LED BY COMMUNITIES OF COLOR ON THE FRONT LINES OF CLIMATE BREAKDOWN. THE PARTNERSHIP IS SUPPORTED BY A TWO-YEAR TOTAL GRANT OF $4 MILLION FROM THE WAVERLEY STREET FOUNDATION.B. THE LEON LEVY FOUNDATION CONTINUES TO SUPPORT THE LEON LEVY CENTER FOR BIOGRAPHY AT THE CUNY GRADUATE CENTER WITH A GENEROUS GIFT OF $750,000. ESTABLISHED IN 2007 AS A HUB FOR WRITERS, SCHOLARS, STUDENTS, TEACHERS, AND READERS OF BIOGRAPHY, THE LEON LEVY CENTER FOR BIOGRAPHY BUILDS CONNECTIONS BETWEEN INDEPENDENT AND UNIVERSITY-AFFILIATED BIOGRAPHERS ACROSS DISCIPLINES AND CULTIVATES IMPORTANT DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE ART AND CRAFT OF BIOGRAPHY HISTORICALLY AND IN OUR TIME.THE LEON LEVY CENTER FOR BIOGRAPHY SPONSORS A VARIETY OF EVENTS AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS, AND OFFERS FOUR FELLOWSHIPS ANNUALLY TO FUND THE RESEARCH AND WRITING OF OUTSTANDING BIOGRAPHIES AND TWO FELLOWSHIPS TO CUNY DISSERTATION STUDENTS WRITING BIOGRAPHY.C. PROFESSOR BRIAN SCHWARTZ AND HIS WIFE, TERI BLACK SCHWARTZ CREATED AN ENDOWMENT WITH A CONTRIBUTION OF $150,000. THE ENDOWMENT FUND WILL SUPPORT PROGRAMMING IN THE SCIENCE CENTER ON THE 4TH FLOOR OF THE GRADUATE CENTER. THE CENTER WAS RENAMED THE BLACK & SCHWARTZ SCIENCE PROGRAM CENTER

  Expenses $8,564,957 · Grants $3,813,064

As filed on the 2022 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

• CUNY GRADUATE CENTER

  $20,390

  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

2022

Filed

16 April 2024

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202441209349301219

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