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Bscs Science Learning

BSCS SCIENCE LEARNING is on a mission to transform science education.

$207k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$207k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$4.1MArts & Culture$1.7MSocial Science$1.5MScience & Tech$1.1MRecreation & Sports$154k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$206,698
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OREGON PUBLIC BORADCASTING$206,698
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $339k → 7%Regents of the University of Minnesota: $52k → 11%WESTED: $123k → 10%LIFE LAB: $44k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $175k → 10%DIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL: $61k → 14%NWEA: $20k → 12%GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $139k → 13%ACHIEVE: $83k → 9%MCREL INTERNATIONAL: $44k → 12%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $474k → 14%AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH: $602k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $32k → 8%TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $296k → 7%Regents of the University of Minnesota: $51k → 11%WESTED: $65k → 10%LIFE LAB: $26k → 13%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $222k → 14%OREGON PUBLIC BRODCASTING: $336k → 12%GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $102k → 13%ACHIEVE: $60k → 9%MCREL INTERNATIONAL: $39k → 12%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $267k → 14%AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH: $392k → 7%BOSTON COLLEGE: $158k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $108k → 11%ROCKMAN COMPANY INC: $24k → 10%LIFE LAB: $22k → 13%American Assoc for the Advancement of Science: $148k → 14%OREGON PUBLIC BORADCASTING: $296k → 12%GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $75k → 13%ACHIEVE: $29k → 9%ROCKMAN COMPANY: $37k → 12%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $154k → 14%American Institutes for Research: $307k → 7%TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $74k → 7%American Assoc for the Advancement of Science: $33k → 14%OREGON PUBLIC BRODCASTING: $252k → 12%MCREL INTERNATIONAL: $35k → 12%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $86k → 14%American Institutes for Research: $197k → 7%OREGON PUBLIC BORADCASTING: $207k → 12%MCREL INTERNATIONAL: $31k → 12%OREGON PUBLIC BRODCASTING: $201k → 12%MCREL INTERNATIONAL: $31k → 12%OREGON PUBLIC BORADCASTING: $198k → 12%OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $160k → 12%OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $97k → 12%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

MN
IL
MA
OR
CA
CO
VA
DC
GA
TX

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.3M · 15 repeat orgs$300k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
5

Total granted

$8.3M
$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+637%

Still filing today

47%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureSocial ScienceRecreation & SportsEducationInternationalScience & TechOther

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

  • OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +53%
  • AI
    AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +50%
  • Northwestern University
    5× · 2019–2023 · $994k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • AI
    Alpine Independent School District
    one grant, 2019 · $175k
  • DP
    DIGITAL PROMISE GLOBALgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $61k · revenue +637%
  • RV
    RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
    one grant, 2017 · $32k

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.

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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
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
Boston Architectural College

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

4
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
5
Acec Research Institute

Acec research institute serve as the leading source of knowledge and thought leadership for creating a more sustainable, safe, secure, and technically advanced built environment. identify, fund, and provide industry wide research forecasts…

Unclassified
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

7
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

8
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.

Science & Tech
9
Rit Global Delivery Corporation

Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.

Education
10
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
11
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
12
American Institute of Physics Inc

Aip advances the physical sciences as a federation and an institute. as a federation, aip works to advance the success of its member societies and affiliates so that they can leverage their diverse expertise and contributions in advancing…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Achieve Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of Boston College. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS — $938,122 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXASWESTED — $489,664 · OtherWESTEDREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO — $259,739 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORA…MCREL INTERNATIONAL — $213,395 · OtherMCREL INTERNATIONALUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $210,876 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAAlpine Independent School District — $174,564 · OtherAlpine Independent School DistrictACHIEVE INC — $171,250 · OtherACHIEVE INCLIFE LAB — $92,332 · Other+5 more — $171,599 · Other+5 moreOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $1,747,405 · Arts & CultureOREGON PUBLIC BROADCAS…AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES — $1,498,154 · Social ScienceAMERICAN INSTITUTES…Northwestern University — $993,503 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern …TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $868,205 · EducationTRUSTEES OF…AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE — $410,422 · Science & TechGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $315,490 · HealthDIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL — $61,007 · International
Other$2,721,541Arts & Culture$1,747,405Social Science$1,498,154Recreation & Sports$993,503Education$868,205Science & Tech$410,422Health$315,490International$61,007

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $1,747,405 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES — $1,498,154 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwestern University — $993,503 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $868,205 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE — $410,422 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $315,490 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMCREL INTERNATIONAL — $213,395 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetACHIEVE INC — $171,250 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL — $61,007 over 1y, 0.7% 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 OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING
  • Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
  • Who funds Northwestern University
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
  • Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION
  • Who funds MCREL INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds ACHIEVE INC
  • Who funds DIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL

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.

Carnegie Corporation of New YorkNY13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carnegie Corporation of New York · Gates Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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 Bscs Science Learning 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Trustees of Boston College3% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 20 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.

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