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Discovery Institute

To advance a culture of purpose, creativity, and innovation in a diverse set of fields.

$4.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$260k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Science & Tech$4.4MEducation$416kArts & Culture$225kSocial Science$65kReligion$21k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $639,148 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,541,027 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,901,879 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 $10k4 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $143k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $211k
  • $250k+1 grant · $260k
$31,252
Median grant
9
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY$260,000
EDUCATION ACCESS LLC$125,000
STONY BROOK FOUNDATION$85,676
CONTINENTAL ECONOMICS$42,500
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY$32,000
TELLUS1 SCIENTIFIC LLC$31,252
CHESALON USA$25,000
MORIO LABS$12,000
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$7,000
FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY$7,000
ARETE GLOBAL CONSULTING LLC$6,000
HOPE COLLEGE$5,720
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CHESALON USA: $59k → 15%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $165k → 7%MORIO LABS: $48k → 10%BIOLA UNIVERSITY: $110k → 14%STONY BROOK FOUNDATION: $86k → 7%EDUCATION ACCESS LLC: $125k → 8%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $98k → 16%CHESALON USA: $32k → 16%CONTINENTAL ECONOMICS: $43k → 12%ACUITY TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS: $28k → 13%TELLUS1 SCIENTIFIC LLC: $31k → 11%LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY: $8k → 15%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $42k → 15%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 17%INSTITUTE OF BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY: $21k → 9%DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION: $225k → 9%CHESALON USA: $25k → 15%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $80k → 7%MORIO LABS: $24k → 10%BIOLA UNIVERSITY: $80k → 14%EDUCATION ACCESS LLC: $125k → 8%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $96k → 16%CHESALON USA: $25k → 16%CONTINENTAL ECONOMICS: $22k → 12%TELLUS1 SCIENTIFIC LLC: $30k → 11%LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $12k → 14%FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY: $7k → 15%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%BIOLOGIC: $332k → 9%CHESALON USA: $9k → 15%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $30k → 7%MORIO LABS: $12k → 10%BIOLA UNIVERSITY: $75k → 14%EDUCATION ACCESS LLC: $120k → 8%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $95k → 16%CHESALON USA: $22k → 16%LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $12k → 14%BIOLOGIC: $329k → 9%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $26k → 7%BIOLA UNIVERSITY: $13k → 14%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $32k → 16%BIOLOGIC: $72k → 9%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $15k → 7%HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE: $50k → 14%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $32k → 16%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $15k → 7%JUSTICE & MERCY ENERGY SERVICES: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MI
NY
OH
PA
CA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
AL
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $3.3M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions, $3.0M to organizations and $316k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$3.2M · 97% · 1 grant · 2 people

Stated purpose: SITE RENOVATION · FELLOWSHIPS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$60k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

East Asia and the Pacific$50k · 2% · 1 person

Stated purpose: FELLOWSHIPS

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.3M · 14 repeat orgs$514k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$4.3M
$423k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+30%

Still filing today

43%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • WM
    William Marsh Rice University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +104%
  • BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2024 · $353k · revenue +53%
  • BU
    BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $278k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • DF
    DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $225k · revenue -94%
  • HM
    Harvey Mudd Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +34%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $42k · revenue +30%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

4
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
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
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
7
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
8
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
9
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
10
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
11
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
12
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope College and the most unlike its peers is Documentary Foundation. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

William Marsh Rice University — $2,061,542 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice UniversityBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $352,790 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITYBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC — $277,604 · EducationBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC+7 more — $277,477 · Education+7 moreBIOLOGIC INSTITUTE — $733,010 · OtherBIOLOGIC INSTITUTEEDUCATION ACCESS LLC — $370,000 · OtherEDUCATION ACCESS LLCDOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION — $225,000 · OtherDOCUMENTARY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $93,059 · OtherMORIO LABS — $84,000 · OtherCHESALON USA — $79,800 · OtherCONTINENTAL ECONOMICS — $64,500 · OtherTELLUS1 SCIENTIFIC LLC — $61,252 · Other+4 more — $106,000 · Other+4 moreNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $331,466 · PhilanthropyJUSTICE AND MERCY SERVICES INC — $25,000 · Environment
Education$2,969,413Other$1,816,621Philanthropy$331,466Environment$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $2,061,542 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBIOLOGIC INSTITUTE — $733,010 over 3y, 100% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $352,790 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $331,466 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC — $277,604 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION — $225,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $85,676 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarvey Mudd College — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $47,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $41,720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY — $39,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $31,994 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY — $15,367 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE COLLEGE — $5,720 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 William Marsh Rice University
  • Who funds BIOLOGIC INSTITUTE
  • Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST
  • Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Harvey Mudd College
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds University of Miami
  • Who funds JUSTICE AND MERCY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds HOPE COLLEGE

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Discovery Institute 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • University of Miami5% 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 · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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