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Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc

Aura provides innovative, open resources to enable discovery and excellence in research, to unify the astrophysics communities, and to promote public understanding of our universe and the benefits of scientific exploration.

$57M
Granted FY2024still arriving
154
Grants FY2024still arriving
43
States reached
$3.2M
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: 55% of ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY INC’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 · 154 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 154 grants below total $56,192,447 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $57,456,417 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,263,970 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

  • Under $10k7 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $988k
  • $50k–250k57 grants · $6.9M
  • $250k+57 grants · $48M
$152,167
Median grant
43
States reached
$126M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$3,189,660
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$2,508,484
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY$2,214,392
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$2,184,142
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$2,104,235
GMTO CORPORATION INC$1,455,307
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER$1,397,138
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$1,370,784
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA CRUZ$1,367,693
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES$1,328,461
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$1,266,380
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST$1,100,712
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$1,094,403
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON$1,083,356
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$1,083,189
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 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WIYN CONSORTIUM INC: $2.3M → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY: $2.7M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA CRUZ: $1.5M → 13%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2.5M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $2.1M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1.3M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER: $1.6M → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER: $1.5M → 12%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $1.2M → 11%WIYN CONSORTIUM INC: $2.2M → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY: $2.2M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA CRUZ: $1.4M → 13%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1.8M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $1.9M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER: $1.4M → 12%THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2.2M → 19%WIYN CONSORTIUM INC: $2.2M → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY: $2.1M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA CRUZ: $1.4M → 13%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1.8M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $1.4M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER: $1.4M → 12%THE JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1.2M → 19%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA CRUZ: $1.4M → 13%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1.7M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER: $1.3M → 12%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1.4M → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA CRUZ: $1.3M → 13%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1.6M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER: $1.2M → 12%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1.3M → 14%GMTO CORPORATION INC: $5.4M → 14%GMTO CORPORATION INC: $5.1M → 14%GMTO CORPORATION INC: $3.1M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $3.2M → 15%GMTO CORPORATION INC: $2.5M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $2.7M → 15%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $2.4M → 15%GMTO CORPORATION INC: $1.5M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $2.1M → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES: $1.3M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $2.1M → 15%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $1.9M → 15%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $1.8M → 15%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $1.5M → 15%WIYN CONSORTIUM INCE: $2.0M → 15%WIYN CONSORTIUM INC: $2.0M → 15%WIYN CONSORTIUM INC: $1.9M → 15%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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$281M · 180 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

180 repeat relationships — 137 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

180
32

Total granted

$281M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+80%

Still filing today

46%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k 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 & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • GC
    GMTO CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $18M · revenue ×11 · 74% of their budget
  • WC
    WIYN CONSORTIUM INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $13M · revenue +11% · 65% of their budget
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    one grant, 2017 · $1.5M
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $406k · revenue +196%
  • TA
    Texas A&M University-Commerce
    one grant, 2017 · $156k

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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

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
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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6
Trustees of Clark University

Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…

Education
7
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
8
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
9
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
10
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
11
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of the Pacific and the most unlike its peers is Las Cumbres Observatory Gtn Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 66 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%65%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%66%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/230
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,335

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

115 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. 115 of the 230 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
115/115
Grantees still filing
97/115
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — $17,791,609 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $9,874,775 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS — $9,262,900 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXASCOLORADO ENERGY OFFICE — $9,140,836 · OtherCOLORADO ENERGY OFFICEREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $7,453,389 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $7,325,961 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $6,084,845 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $5,908,396 · Other+102 more — $95,237,912 · Other+102 moreCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $12,568,513 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECH…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $10,739,549 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYThe Trustees of Princeton University — $7,068,904 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton Un…Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $6,657,776 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of T…University of Chicago — $6,256,684 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $4,635,617 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Har…University of Notre Dame du Lac — $3,055,288 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $2,835,045 · EducationYale University — $2,575,918 · Education+61 more — $20,640,709 · Education+61 moreGMTO CORPORATION — $17,531,650 · Science & TechGMTO CORPORATIONWIYN CONSORTIUM INC — $13,465,943 · Science & TechWIYN CONSORTIUM IN…CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON — $6,490,170 · Science & TechCARNEGIE INSTITUTI…SOAR CONSORTIUM INC — $3,950,869 · Science & TechSOAR CONSORTIUM IN…Southwest Research Institute — $2,864,424 · Science & TechSouthwest Research…INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION — $1,781,191 · Science & Tech+8 more — $4,536,926 · Science & Tech+8 moreSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $5,645,851 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History — $1,298,532 · Arts & CultureNorthwestern University — $3,251,962 · Recreation & SportsGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $280,244 · HealthBay Area Environmental Research Institute — $133,522 · EnvironmentBROWN UNIVERSITY — $56,409 · Community Improvement
Other$168,080,623Education$77,034,003Science & Tech$50,621,173Arts & Culture$6,944,383Recreation & Sports$3,251,962Health$280,244Environment$133,522Community Improvement$56,409

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGMTO CORPORATION — $17,531,650 over 5y, 74% of budgetWIYN CONSORTIUM INC — $13,465,943 over 7y, 65% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $12,568,513 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $10,739,549 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $7,068,904 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $6,657,776 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON — $6,490,170 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $6,256,684 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $5,645,851 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $4,635,617 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOAR CONSORTIUM INC — $3,950,869 over 4y, 32% of budgetNorthwestern University — $3,251,962 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $3,055,288 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSouthwest Research Institute — $2,864,424 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $2,835,045 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $2,575,918 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $2,478,339 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION — $1,781,191 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,374,132 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $1,298,532 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University — $1,247,442 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology — $1,241,438 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSETI INSTITUTE — $1,172,560 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $1,119,905 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE — $1,051,870 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC — $1,039,169 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $1,021,039 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPlanetary Science Institute — $976,623 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $972,056 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLOWELL OBSERVATORY — $842,378 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetNew York University — $747,902 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc — $744,691 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $742,821 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $653,975 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $588,726 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA — $515,584 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBucknell University — $505,076 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $494,279 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $485,802 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES INC — $481,289 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $444,393 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $406,389 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $372,202 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $350,805 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe George Washington University — $333,540 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $331,354 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of the Pacific — $319,407 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College — $304,453 over 7y, 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 GMTO CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds WIYN CONSORTIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds SOAR CONSORTIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds Southwest Research Institute ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON 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.

American Chemical Soc…Johns Hopkins Univers…The Trustees of Colum…National Collegiate A…Folds of Honor Founda…Northeastern Universi…Tulsa Community Found…Vanderbilt UniversityNational Writing Proj…University of Souther…Trustees of Boston Un…Kpmg US Foundation Inc
American Chemical SocietyDC59.5× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Chemical Society · Johns Hopkins University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Northeastern University · Tulsa Community Foundation · Vanderbilt University · National Writing Project Corporation · University of Southern California · Trustees of Boston University · Kpmg US Foundation Inc

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 Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc 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 · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • University of Delaware — 30% 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
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • Florida Institute of Technology Inc — 5% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Bridgewater State University Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
  • Saint Michael's College — 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report 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

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 230 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 unnamed billions
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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