· Public charity
1890 Universities Foundation
To advance agricultural research,scientific knowledge and information sharing among universities through scientific meetings, symposiums,colloquia and seminars.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $156k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $507k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AND A&M COLLEGE | $114,410 |
| ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY | $113,554 |
| TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY | $102,983 |
| FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY | $91,302 |
| LANGSTON UNIVERSITY | $85,057 |
| TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | $48,112 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE | $36,635 |
| LINCOLN UNIVERSITY | $28,249 |
| NC A&T STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY | $17,917 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WVWEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION3× · 2021–2023 · $530k · revenue +98%
- TUTuskegee University3× · 2022–2024 · $450k · revenue +17%
- DSDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY3× · 2021–2023 · $101k · revenue +29%
Funded once
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
3 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Strada Education Foundation Inc · Tuskegee University · Thurgood Marshall College Fund · American Chemical Society · Folds of Honor Foundation · National 4-H Council · Delaware State University · Tulsa Community Foundation · Executive Leadership Council · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · The Howard University
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization 1890 Universities Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 1890 Universities Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Delaware State University: 16% of income from government
How this is measured
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