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Council of Graduate Schools
Dedicated to the improvement and advancement of graduate education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $310,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,255,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $945,000 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Oklahoma State University | $30,000 |
| Univ Central Florida Board Trustees | $30,000 |
| Univ Illinois Urban-Champaign | $30,000 |
| Univ of California Los Angeles | $30,000 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | $30,000 |
| Univ Nevada Las Vegas | $30,000 |
| Univ of California-San Diego | $30,000 |
| University at Albany-SUNY | $30,000 |
| ODU Research Foundation | $7,000 |
| Unv of North Texas Research & Innovation | $7,000 |
| University of North Dakota | $7,000 |
| Hood College | $7,000 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | $7,000 |
| Oakland University | $7,000 |
| Georgia State University Research Foundation | $7,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of your 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
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.
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 +62% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2023 · $98k · revenue +47%- TRThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York3× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue +62%
- NYNew York University3× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- NCNORTH CAROLINA A & T STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $25k
- NCNORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $25k
- CGCUNY GRADUATE SCHOOL AUXILIARY ENTERPRISE CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +463%
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.
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…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
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 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…
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,…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
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…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
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…
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…
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brown University and the most unlike its peers is Rice County 4-H Federation Mn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 56 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 52 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
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 THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CSU BAKERSFIELD AUXILIARY FOR SPONSORED PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION ↗
- Who funds HOOD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: American Chemical Society · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Tulsa Community Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Columbus Foundation
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 Council of Graduate Schools 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.
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 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.