· Private foundation
Aerojet Rocketdyne Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $182k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION | $182,220 |
| THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND | $29,668 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| BOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $1,000 |
| SAINT JOHN PAUL THE GREAT CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $500 |
| CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
| BISHOP OCONNELL HIGH SCHOOL | $500 |
| WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC | $500 |
| ASSUMPTION ST BRIDGET SCHOOL PART OF CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF SEATTLE | $470 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Aerojet Rocketdyne Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
253 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 242 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NMNational Merit Scholarship Corporation8× · 2017–2024 · $487k · revenue +10%
- EFEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $80k · revenue +21%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $72k · revenue +108%
Funded once
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +3%- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +14%
- CFCenter for Excellence in Educationone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +24%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
How this is measured
298 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. 298 of the 829 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds National Merit Scholarship Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds West Valley Boys & Girls Club Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY TECH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville ↗
- Who funds INFINITY SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDSQUEST CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Center for Excellence in Education ↗
- Who funds Sacramento Region Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS STEM COALITION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc ↗
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: The Northrop Grumman Foundation · Ernst & Young Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Teichert Foundation · The Beard-Young Family Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Western Asset Management Company Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Aerojet Rocketdyne Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aerojet Rocketdyne Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology: 12% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: 6% of income from government
- Orlando Science Centerinc: 4% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc: 0% of income from government
- Housing Partnership Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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