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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 FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$197k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Science & Tech$9.6MEducation$2.7MHealth$1.1MInternational$599kFood & Nutrition$71kEnvironment$11k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $586,659, the rows itemized in this filing. The $949,270 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $362,611 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 $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $494k
$40,694
Median grant
7
States reached
$86M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$197,473
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$197,345
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$99,460
CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA$40,694
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY$39,492
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$6,185
US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE$6,010
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $99k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $349k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS: $1.0M → 10%RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $42k → 14%US DEPT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE: $33k → 16%SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $32k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $222k → 8%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $230k → 16%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $76k → 16%CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $32k → 14%THE MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $11k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $151k → 15%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $148k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $24k → 27%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $205k → 9%CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA: $41k → 22%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLANT BIOLOGISTS: $131k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $93k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $340k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS: $768k → 10%RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE SUNY: $33k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $144k → 8%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $59k → 16%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $53k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $82k → 15%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $128k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $10k → 27%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $28k → 9%CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA: $26k → 22%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLANT BIOLOGISTS: $105k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $59k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $292k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS: $498k → 10%RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE SUNY: $428 → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $29k → 8%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $39k → 16%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $43k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $26k → 9%CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA: $23k → 22%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLANT BIOLOGISTS: $104k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $41k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $260k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS: $203k → 10%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $24k → 9%CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA: $23k → 22%CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA: $20k → 22%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

WA
MN
NY
OR
IA
PA
CA
MO
MD
AZ
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 18 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
4

Total granted

$13M
$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-10%

Still filing today

22%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • IS
    IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2018–2021 · $2.6M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS
    4× · 2018–2021 · $2.5M
  • Cornell University
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • UD
    US DEPT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE
    one grant, 2021 · $33k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
    one grant, 2022 · $32k · revenue -66%
  • SU
    SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $32k · revenue -10%
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
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 Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
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
6
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
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
11
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
12
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornell University; the most unlike its peers is The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens 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

8 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. 8 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,582,366 · OtherIOWA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $2,479,940 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $1,239,966 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $1,179,772 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $395,511 · OtherOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $343,813 · Other+12 more: $2,010,530 · Other+12 moreCornell University: $2,403,197 · EducationCornell UniversityTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $724,630 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSIT…+1 more: $31,751 · EducationINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE: $599,340 · InternationalCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $32,075 · Food & NutritionThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $11,415 · Environment
Other$10,231,898Education$3,159,578International$599,340Food & Nutrition$32,075Environment$11,415

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $2,403,197 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $724,630 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE: $599,340 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLANT BIOLOGISTS: $339,832 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA: $133,003 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $32,075 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $31,751 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $11,415 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLANT BIOLOGISTS ↗
  • Who funds CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • American Society of Plant Biologists: 1% of income from government
  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 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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