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Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc

To advance and communicate scientific discovery in plant biology to improve agriculture, protect the environment and enhance human health.

$949k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
11%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$587k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$40,694
Largest grant, FY2024
$197,473
Organizations funded a year
9 to 13
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$86M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalFood & NutritionEducationEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$389k17%
FY20239$804k11%
FY202212$1.8M33%
FY202113$2.2M46%
FY202010$2.3M10%
FY20199$2.4M0%
FY201810$3.4Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Science & Tech$9.6MEducation$2.7MHealth$1.1MInternational$599kFood & Nutrition$71kEnvironment$11k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
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CA
MO
MD
AZ
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DC
OK
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GA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Iowa State University$2,582,3664n/a
University of California Davis$2,479,9404n/a
Cornell University$2,403,19770%
University of Minnesota$1,239,9664n/a
University of Florida$1,179,7724n/a
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture$599,34020%
University of North Texas$395,5113n/a
Oklahoma State University$343,8134n/a
American Society of Plant Biologists$339,83232%
Nc State University$319,3613n/a
Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Iowa State University$2,582,3664n/a
University of California Davis$2,479,9404n/a
Cornell University$2,403,19770%
University of Minnesota$1,239,9664n/a
University of Florida$1,179,7724n/a
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture$599,34020%
University of North Texas$395,5113n/a
Oklahoma State University$343,8134n/a
American Society of Plant Biologists$339,83232%
Nc State University$319,3613n/a
University of Arizona$292,5474n/a
University of Washington$283,0225n/a
University of Oregon$233,2082n/a
Clemson University$135,1713n/a
Centenary College of Louisiana$133,00350%
Texas Womans University$125,8683n/a
State University of New York at Binghamton$75,3933n/a
University of Georgia$33,9032n/a
Center for Science in the Public Interest$32,07510%
Southwestern University$31,75110%
The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc$11,41510%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($39k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc

How much does Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc give?
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc reported 7 itemized grants totaling $586,659, out of $949,270 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (68%), Education (19%), Health (8%).
Who are Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Iowa State University ($2.6M), University of California Davis ($2.5M), Cornell University ($2.4M).
Does Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc based?
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc is based in NY.

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 24 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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