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Business - Higher Education Forum

The business-higher education forum is a national network that connects corporate and college leaders to identify and build the talent solutions that address priority talent needs for employers and the american economy. Corporate executives and university leaders join bhef to anticipate skills needs and improve pathways between higher…

$10k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Business - Higher Education Forum funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’24
EducationOther
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
FY2025still arriving1$10k100%
FY20241$16k100%
FY20209$311k100%
FY20195$865k0%
FY20185$559kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$1.8M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
MA
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Miami Dade College$386,3092n/a
Northeastern University$358,53120%
University of Wisconsin Madison$240,9852n/a
Research Foundation of the City University of New York$240,58820%
Washington University$197,40020%
University of Richmond$40,00010%
Virginia Commonwealth University$40,0001n/a
University of Maryland College Park$40,0001n/a
George Mason University$39,9991n/a
American University$39,99910%
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All grantees of Business - Higher Education Forum by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Miami Dade College$386,3092n/a
Northeastern University$358,53120%
University of Wisconsin Madison$240,9852n/a
Research Foundation of the City University of New York$240,58820%
Washington University$197,40020%
University of Richmond$40,00010%
Virginia Commonwealth University$40,0001n/a
University of Maryland College Park$40,0001n/a
George Mason University$39,9991n/a
American University$39,99910%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University$39,9521n/a
The Howard University$34,00010%
Georgetown University$19,86010%
The George Washington University$17,68210%
Wake Technical Community College$16,0001n/a
Texas Community College Education Initiative$10,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Business - Higher Education Forum supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNortheastern University: $358,531 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $240,588 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWashington University: $197,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Richmond: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican University: $39,999 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Howard University: $34,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown University: $19,860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $17,682 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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About Business - Higher Education Forum

How much does Business - Higher Education Forum give?
Business - Higher Education Forum reported 1 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Business - Higher Education Forum fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Business - Higher Education Forum's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Miami Dade College ($386k), Northeastern University ($359k), University of Wisconsin Madison ($241k).
Does Business - Higher Education Forum fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Business - Higher Education Forum based?
Business - Higher Education Forum is based in DC.

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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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