· Private foundation
Alfred P Sloan Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- $10k–50k61 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k347 grants · $40M
- $250k+114 grants · $48M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $1,479,024 |
| PERI SUPPORT FUND | $1,332,967 |
| CONVERGENT RESEARCH | $1,030,788 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NY | $1,025,621 |
| NATIONAL ACTION COUNCIL FOR MINORITIES IN ENGINEERING INC | $1,001,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ | $925,775 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $875,419 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY | $843,319 |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL | $767,551 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION | $715,000 |
| RESEARCH CORPORATION FOR SCIENCE ADVANCEMENT | $660,000 |
| ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC | $640,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS | $623,618 |
| ASPIRATION | $605,000 |
| SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | $600,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $675k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 9% of Alfred P Sloan 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 +28% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
352 repeat relationships: 192 still active in FY2024, 160 since wound down; 54 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NANATIONAL ACTION COUNCIL FOR MINORITIES IN ENGINEERING INC6× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +98% · 89% of their budget
- NBNATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC6× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +15%
University of Chicago7× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +56%
Funded once
- NANat'l Action Council for Minorities in Engg Incone grant, 2019 · $3.4M
- NBNATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH INCone grant, 2022 · $2.5M
- HUHARVARD UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $2.4M
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 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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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…
How this is measured
368 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. 368 of the 679 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.
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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: Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Gates Foundation · The Simons Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Laura and John Arnold Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alfred P Sloan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alfred P Sloan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- National Bureau of Economic Research Inc: 48% of income from government
- Verse Video Education: 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
- Marine Biological Laboratory: 20% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Digital Public Library of America: 2% of income from government
- Code for Science & Society Inc: 2% of income from government
- American Physical Society: 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Documentary Educational Resources Inc: 1% of income from government
- Barry University Inc: 1% of income from government
- Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
- Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- American Institute of Physics Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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