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Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities

Aplu is a membership organization that fosters a community of university leaders collectively working to advance the mission of public research universities.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
21
States reached
$229k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$16MScience & Tech$882kHealth$491kFood & Nutrition$340kRecreation & Sports$271kYouth Development$150kPublic Benefit$115kHuman Services$96kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $1,052,766, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,209,052 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $156,286 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $172k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $828k
$15,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON$229,472
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON - GRANT AND CONTRACT ACCOUNTING$214,957
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO$139,313
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$86,319
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER$57,490
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO$50,944
NATIONAL 4-H COUNCIL$50,000
EXTENSION FOUNDATION$36,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION$35,384
EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY$22,500
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE$15,000
ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY$13,035
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 10%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATORS: $96k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 71 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

71 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
68

Total granted

$16M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+26%

Still filing today

25%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
EducationPublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TA
    THE ASSOCIATION FOR INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH
    4× · 2020–2023 · $455k · revenue +71%
  • UO
    University of Louisville Research Foundation
    3× · 2017–2019 · $367k · revenue +61%
  • UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $290k · revenue +921%

Funded once

  • PS
    PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $356k
  • FI
    FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $257k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO
    one grant, 2019 · $175k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
Augustana College

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…

Education
3
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
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
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
6
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
7
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…

Education
8
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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9
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
10
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
11
Pacific University

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.

Education
12
Ashland University

Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University At Albany Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Friendsville Volunteer Fire & Rescue Depart Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 144 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
34/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,495,966 · OtherGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITYOREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,314,122 · OtherOREGON STATE UNIVERSITYSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,128,843 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITYFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $911,500 · OtherFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $666,200 · Other+103 more: $9,875,383 · Other+103 moreUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation: $366,500 · EducationUniversity of …UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC: $290,418 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …Oregon State University Foundation: $206,000 · EducationOregon State U…EXTENSION FOUNDATION: $168,000 · EducationEXTENSION FOUN…CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STA…UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $147,490 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC: $145,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STA…LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $93,284 · EducationAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: $80,000 · Education+22 more: $653,042 · Education+22 moreINTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $299,468 · Food & NutritionNorthwestern University: $243,971 · Recreation & SportsNational 4-H Council: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $115,049 · Community ImprovementCharity Navigator: $96,410 · Human Services
Other$15,392,014Education$2,299,734Food & Nutrition$299,468Recreation & Sports$243,971Youth Development$150,000Community Improvement$115,049Human Services$96,410

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ASSOCIATION FOR INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH: $454,800 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation: $366,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $299,468 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC: $290,418 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetNorthwestern University: $243,971 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $206,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEXTENSION FOUNDATION: $168,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational 4-H Council: $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $147,490 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC: $145,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $115,049 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCharity Navigator: $96,410 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $93,284 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: $80,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $70,750 over 2y, 80% of budgetWestern Interstate Commission for Higher Education: $70,174 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $67,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCAL STATE EAST BAY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $57,114 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL: $55,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE DEPART INC: $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $49,521 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION AT NJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCornell University: $30,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $26,728 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $22,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arkansas Pine Bluff Ark AM&N Alumni Association: $20,750 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetAmerican Society for Engineering Education: $20,741 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $18,979 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $16,642 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $16,276 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTuskegee University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY UNION CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUPPORTERS OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE ASSOCIATION FOR INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds University of Louisville Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds EXTENSION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds National 4-H Council ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES 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.

National Collegiate A…Folds of Honor Founda…American Chemical Soc…Tulsa Community Found…Howard Hughes Medical…American Heart Associ…The Trustees of Colum…The Nature ConservancyHispanic Scholarship …National Writing Proj…Corporation for Publi…American Council of L…
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN52.3× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · American Chemical Society · Tulsa Community Foundation · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · American Heart Association Inc · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · The Nature Conservancy · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · National Writing Project Corporation · Corporation for Public Broadcasting · American Council of Learned Societies

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 144 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home