Massachusetts · Public charity
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc
Draper's engineers design, develop and deploy advanced technology solutions for the world's most difficult and important problems.
- $4.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
55% of Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $146,054
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,740,772
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $901M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $2.1M | 33% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $1.6M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $2.2M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $1.5M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $1.3M | 64% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $875k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $794k | 17% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $965k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regents of the University of Colorado | $2,429,266 | 6 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston University | $2,056,774 | 8 | 0% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $1,348,417 | 7 | 0% |
| Seattle Children's Hospital | $926,691 | 4 | 0% |
| Geneva Foundation for the Arts | $738,001 | 4 | n/a |
| Northeastern University | $654,567 | 7 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $474,597 | 5 | 0% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $430,661 | 5 | n/a |
| University of South Florida | $358,730 | 5 | n/a |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $292,506 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regents of the University of Colorado | $2,429,266 | 6 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston University | $2,056,774 | 8 | 0% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $1,348,417 | 7 | 0% |
| Seattle Children's Hospital | $926,691 | 4 | 0% |
| Geneva Foundation for the Arts | $738,001 | 4 | n/a |
| Northeastern University | $654,567 | 7 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $474,597 | 5 | 0% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $430,661 | 5 | n/a |
| University of South Florida | $358,730 | 5 | n/a |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $292,506 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Massachusetts | $287,044 | 3 | n/a |
| Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary | $231,964 | 1 | 0% |
| William Marsh Rice University | $187,833 | 4 | 0% |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | $146,054 | 1 | n/a |
| Metis Foundation | $109,225 | 1 | 1% |
| Portland State University Foundation | $102,690 | 2 | 0% |
| Thrombodyne Inc | $96,000 | 3 | n/a |
| University of Washington | $95,916 | 2 | n/a |
| Johns Hopkins University | $90,450 | 2 | 0% |
| Massachusetts General Hospital Nurses Alumni Associations Inc | $84,025 | 2 | 58% |
| Texas A&M University | $77,990 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc | $64,340 | 2 | 0% |
| Georgia Tech Research Corporation | $55,374 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Methodist University | $9,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Compare Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc with peer funders
About Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc
- How much does Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc give?
- Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc reported 15 grants totaling $4,619,412 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (90%), Health (7%), Arts & Culture (3%).
- Who are Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Regents of the University of Colorado ($2.4M), Trustees of Boston University ($2.1M), Trustees of Tufts College ($1.3M).
- Does Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc based?
- Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc is based in MA.
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