· Public charity
Carnegie Mellon University
To create a transformative educational experience for students focused on deep disciplinary knowledge; problem solving; leadership, communication and interpersonal skills; and personal health and well-being.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 203 grants below total $49,498,610 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $322,729,972 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $273,231,362 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k70 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k76 grants · $9.1M
- $250k+46 grants · $39M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $6,094,507 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $2,089,714 |
| VELENTIUM LLC | $1,922,328 |
| GINKGO BIOWORKS INC | $1,909,762 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATOR | $1,768,692 |
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,638,813 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | $1,525,262 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $1,229,686 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $1,137,311 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $1,086,772 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $1,003,121 |
| PRESIDENTS AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $851,469 |
| MILLENNIUM CORPORATION | $841,154 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORP | $839,567 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY | $836,165 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
Grants abroad, by region — $39M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, $5.1M to organizations and $33M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SUBCONTRACTS · STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: SUBCONTRACTS · STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: SUBCONTRACTS · EDUCATION/RESEARCH SUBCONTRACTS · STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: SUBCONTRACTS · STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: SUBCONTRACTS · STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: EDUCATION/RESEARCH SUBCONTRACTS · STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: EDUCATION/RESEARCH SUBCONTRACTS
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
288 repeat relationships — 156 still active in FY2025, 132 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH9× · 2017–2025 · $37M · revenue +44%- TRThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York9× · 2017–2025 · $5.4M · revenue +62%
- ASASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +65% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- ILINSPYIR LLCone grant, 2017 · $566k
- SISMART INFORMATION FLOW TECHNOLOGIESone grant, 2017 · $256k
- CCONNECTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue ×66
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
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…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
To create a transformative educational experience for students focused on deep disciplinary knowledge; problem solving; leadership, communication and interpersonal skills; and personal health and well-being. to cultivate a transformative…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
242 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 242 of the 461 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: University of Pittsburgh · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · Upmc Group · Cornell University · University of Southern California · Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute · Trustees of Boston University · Johns Hopkins University
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 Carnegie Mellon University 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Education Development Center Inc — 65% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Terc Inc — 44% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
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.