· Public charity
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all.
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.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k38 grants · $710k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+2 grants · $686k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AIAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES3× · 2022–2024 · $827k · revenue +20%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR LEARNING INNOVATION6× · 2017–2022 · $538k · revenue +6%
- QEQUALITY EDUCATION FOR MINORITIES NETWORK2× · 2023–2024 · $179k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- UNUS NAVAL ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $900k
- SISCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARKone grant, 2017 · $195k · revenue -9%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $139k · revenue +43%
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'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…
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…
Education and Research
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…
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 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.
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.
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.…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
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…
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)
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
How this is measured
99 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. 99 of the 195 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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization American Association for the Advancement of Science funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Association for the Advancement of Science. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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