· Public charity
Discovery Institute
To advance a culture of purpose, creativity, and innovation in a diverse set of fields.
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 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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 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.
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 — $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.
Stated purpose: SITE RENOVATION · FELLOWSHIPS
Stated purpose: RESEARCH
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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k 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
- WMWilliam Marsh Rice University8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +104%
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2024 · $353k · revenue +53%- BUBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC4× · 2019–2023 · $278k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- DFDOCUMENTARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $225k · revenue -94%
- HMHarvey Mudd Collegegraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +34%
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYgraduatedone 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.
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.
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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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
- University of Miami — 5% 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.