· Public charity
Center For the Advancement of Science In Space Inc
Established through congressional authority and supported by NASA via cooperative agreement #80JSC018M005, the CASIS mission is to foster scientific discovery and technological innovation in space, expand U.S.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $474k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+7 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Eascra Biotech | $432,300 |
| Nanoracks LLC | $365,828 |
| Space Tango Inc | $365,240 |
| TransAstra Corporation | $290,625 |
| Redwire Space Technologies Inc | $280,387 |
| Leocloud Inc | $255,060 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | $254,779 |
| Axiom Space | $248,596 |
| Alpha Space Test and Research Alliance LLC | $246,743 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | $201,488 |
| Xheme Inc | $199,137 |
| Tec-Masters Inc | $154,155 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $150,000 |
| Redpoint Oncology Inc | $137,860 |
| Wake Forest University Health Sciences | $131,237 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Center For the Advancement of Science In Space Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
85 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 16 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBaylor College of Medicine4× · 2017–2023 · $881k · revenue +67%
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH7× · 2017–2024 · $653k · revenue +44%- EUEmory University7× · 2018–2025 · $590k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- MCMAYO CLINICone grant, 2017 · $150k
- FIFOMS INCone grant, 2017 · $140k
- RMRADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INCone grant, 2021 · $120k
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.
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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…
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.
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…
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…
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
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…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 139 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc · Trustees of Boston University · President and Fellows of Harvard College · University of Pittsburgh · American Heart Association Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Center For the Advancement of Science In Space Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center For the Advancement of Science In Space Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc: 5% of income from government
- Masschallenge Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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