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American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$433k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 52 grants below total $2,701,048 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $13,494,123 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,793,075 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k38 grants · $710k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+2 grants · $686k
$27,500
Median grant
22
States reached
$166M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH$433,110
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT$253,065
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY$181,841
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT$178,321
AMERICAN ASSOC OF PHYSICS TEACHERS$155,743
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$154,504
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS$109,553
NEW JERSEY INST OF TECHNOLOGY$103,832
QEM NETWORK$93,886
ARK MEDIA LLC$87,202
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$85,000
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY$55,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$50,000
SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY COLLEGE$50,000
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY$43,198
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%REGENTS OF UNIV OF MINNESOTA: $101k → 11%BOARD OF TRUSTEES LELAND STANFORD JR UNIVERSITY: $90k → 7%QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 13%TEXAS A&M ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION: $75k → 22%247 STEAM WORKS INC: $80k → 15%JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY: $108k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $253k → 11%EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIV: $77k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $102k → 11%UNC CHAPEL HILL: $60k → 13%UNIV OF UTAH: $285k → 8%SCIENCE FOR GEORGIA INC: $65k → 13%ALBION COLLEGE: $71k → 18%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $129k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI: $117k → 23%NEW JERSEY INST OF TECHNOLOGY: $104k → 16%GEORGE MASON UNIV: $78k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $230k → 10%NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH: $900k → 8%AMERICAN ASSOC OF PHYSICS TEACHERS: $156k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $60k → 19%SCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA: $195k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $85k → 11%SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY: $182k → 8%ARK MEDIA LLC: $87k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $110k → 10%INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING INNOVATION: $88k → 12%INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING INNOVATION: $193k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $155k → 9%JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY: $83k → 23%NEW JERSEY INST OF TECHNOLOGY: $97k → 16%AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH: $433k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $178k → 10%LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY: $60k → 10%UNIV OF UTAH: $157k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $92k → 9%AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH: $383k → 7%INST FOR LEARNING INN: $106k → 18%J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $124k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING INNOVATION: $86k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY: $139k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECHNOLOGY: $65k → 8%MASS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $60k → 8%REGENTS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $97k → 14%REGENTS UNIV OF CA: $90k → 14%GOLDIEBLOX INC: $73k → 14%QEM NETWORK: $94k → 14%QEM NETWORK: $85k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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ME
VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.9M · 75 repeat orgs$5.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

75 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
87

Total granted

$8.9M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+28%

Still filing today

40%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationScience & TechArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AI
    AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $827k · revenue +20%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING INNOVATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $538k · revenue +6%
  • QE
    QUALITY EDUCATION FOR MINORITIES NETWORK
    2× · 2023–2024 · $179k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • UN
    US NAVAL ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $900k
  • SI
    SCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK
    one grant, 2017 · $195k · revenue -9%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $139k · revenue +43%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

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…

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3
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
4
The George Washington University

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…

Education
5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
Furman University

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.

Education
7
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
8
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
11
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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12
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is John Templeton Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Jewish Community Organizati…Christian Missionary Organi…Local History MuseumsYouth Mentoring ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Immigrant Worker SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Policy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%52%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%60%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/195
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,370

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

99 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 99 of the 195 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/99
Grantees still filing
77/99
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

US NAVAL ACADEMY — $900,000 · OtherUS NAVAL ACADEMYUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $543,153 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE — $408,595 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $306,869 · Other+113 more — $6,901,496 · Other+113 moreINSTITUTE FOR LEARNING INNOVATION — $538,301 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR LEARNING INNOVA…Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $259,110 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Te…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $205,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $181,841 · EducationQUALITY EDUCATION FOR MINORITIES NETWORK — $179,035 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $147,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $138,731 · Education+50 more — $2,243,748 · Education+50 moreAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES — $826,705 · Social ScienceAmerican Association of Physics Teachers Inc — $155,743 · Science & TechAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE — $71,641 · Science & TechThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies — $60,000 · Science & TechWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION — $30,000 · Science & Tech+4 more — $40,000 · Science & TechUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $116,692 · HealthTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES — $60,000 · HealthThe Broad Institute Inc — $60,000 · HealthTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $30,000 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $10,000 · HealthSCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK — $195,063 · EnvironmentEARTH DAY NETWORK INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentROCKY MOUNTAIN WILD — $20,000 · EnvironmentHUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST — $123,975 · PhilanthropyJOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION — $44,887 · PhilanthropyPROPEL NONPROFITS — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$9,060,113Education$3,893,266Social Science$826,705Science & Tech$357,384Health$276,692Environment$275,063Philanthropy$178,862

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES — $826,705 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR LEARNING INNOVATION — $538,301 over 6y, 15% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $259,110 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $205,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK — $195,063 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $181,841 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUALITY EDUCATION FOR MINORITIES NETWORK — $179,035 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetAmerican Association of Physics Teachers Inc — $155,743 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $147,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $138,731 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST — $123,975 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS — $115,528 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $110,273 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $106,940 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $106,356 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALBION COLLEGE — $106,294 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $101,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION AT NJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $97,323 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOOD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $93,750 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY — $86,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKNOX THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC — $86,250 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE ACADEMY FOR JEWISH RELIGION — $86,250 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetANDREWS UNIVERSITY — $86,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $85,065 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $82,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity International University — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE — $71,641 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY — $71,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE FOR GEORGIA INC — $65,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetCornell University — $62,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETHODIST THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL IN OHIO — $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION INC — $58,741 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNorthwestern University — $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $50,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTH DAY NETWORK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION — $44,887 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING INNOVATION ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds QUALITY EDUCATION FOR MINORITIES NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds American Association of Physics Teachers Inc ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds ALBION COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Lilly Endowment IncWabash CollegeJohns Hopkins Univers…Calvin UniversityAmerican Chemical Soc…E Rhodes and Leona B …The Trustees of Colum…Yale UniversityNational Collegiate A…John Templeton Founda…Folds of Honor Founda…Cornell University
Lilly Endowment IncIN43.7× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · Wabash College · Johns Hopkins University · Calvin University · American Chemical Society · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Yale University · National Collegiate Athletic Association · John Templeton Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Cornell University

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization American Association for the Advancement of Science funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Education Development Center Inc — 65% of income from government
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Yale 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
  • Hubbard Brook Research Foundation — 6% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
  • George Fox University — 2% of income from government
  • American Association of Physics Teachers Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Drew University — 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 195 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines