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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 120 grants below total $16,913,840 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $444,710,365 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $427,796,525 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k53 grants · $6.5M
- $250k+14 grants · $9.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $2,208,816 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY | $1,135,347 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY | $1,013,466 |
| MATHEMATICA INC | $659,903 |
| SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY | $630,779 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $560,532 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | $529,122 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $478,307 |
| REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS | $426,196 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | $421,343 |
| THE PHILADELPHIA AIDS CONSORTIUM | $348,884 |
| LINCOLN UNIVERSITY | $306,181 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF MICHIGAN | $305,957 |
| BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $291,810 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $244,922 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those 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 +35% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
209 repeat relationships — 96 still active in FY2025, 113 since wound down; 18 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- TUTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education9× · 2017–2025 · $5.0M · revenue +5%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +64%- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles9× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +78%
Funded once
- UOUniversity Of Connecticutone grant, 2019 · $652k
- CCCONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF DELAWARE VALLEYone grant, 2024 · $629k · revenue 0%
- HPHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIAone grant, 2024 · $301k · revenue +20%
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 Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is Sequoia Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
195 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. 195 of the 342 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
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- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
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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: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · University of Pittsburgh · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Philadelphia Works Inc · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · The Pew Charitable Trusts · American Chemical Society · Johns Hopkins University · Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education · Cornell University
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 Drexel University 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 Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Delaware State University — 18% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement — 0% of income from government
- The Cooper Health System a New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation — 0% 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.