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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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
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 2025.

Education$1.8M
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE$10,000
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $202k → 16%RESEARCH FOUDATION CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $131k → 17%TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $10k → 10%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%MIAMI DADE COLLEGE: $271k → 15%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $119k → 11%WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $16k → 8%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $40k → 6%VIRGINIA TECH UNIVERSITY: $40k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $40k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $40k → 11%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $157k → 16%RESEARCH FOUNDATION CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $110k → 17%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $40k → 14%MIAMI DADE COLLEGE: $115k → 15%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $79k → 11%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $40k → 22%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $34k → 14%THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $18k → 14%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

WI
NY
MA
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 5 repeat orgs$337k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$1.4M
$327k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+22%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $359k · revenue +87%
  • RF
    Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    2× · 2018–2019 · $241k · revenue +22%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $197k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +17%
  • VC
    VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
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
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
2
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
3
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
4
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
5
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
6
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
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
University of Miami

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

Education
12
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Texas Community College Education Initiative. 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 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. 9 of the 16 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $358,531 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $240,588 · EducationResearch Foundation of the City University of New YorkWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $197,400 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $40,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $39,999 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $34,000 · Education+3 more: $47,542 · EducationMIAMI DADE COLLEGE: $386,309 · OtherMIAMI DADE COLLEGEUniversity of Wisconsin Madison: $240,985 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $40,000 · OtherGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $39,999 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $39,952 · Other+1 more: $16,000 · Other
Education$958,060Other$803,245

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

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Business - Higher Education Forum funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Business - Higher Education Forum. 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 7%
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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 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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