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Engineering Information Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$220k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$25k
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.

Education$1.3MYouth Development$175kScience & Tech$68kEmployment$39kInternational$35kHealth$31kPhilanthropy$14kEnvironment$5k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $214k
$14,992
Median grant
9
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$25,000
THE ENGINEERING SOCIETY OF DETROIT$25,000
THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY$24,990
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION$24,988
CORPORACION UNIVERSITARIA MINUTO DE DIOS-UNIMINUTO$21,808
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA COGGIN COLLEGE OF BUSI$14,992
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION$14,934
THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOG$14,560
RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NE$11,680
CORNELL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING$11,157
ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC$5,000
CANDID$1,000
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.

Your US giving — 86% of grant dollars ($1.4M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 14% that went abroad ($221k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 11%University of Arizona: $15k → 15%Springfield Tech Comm Coll SWE Chpt: $15k → 17%Villanova University: $16k → 10%JACOBS SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $15k → 11%University of California Riverside: $25k → 11%California Polytechnic State Univer: $20k → 12%CA State Polytechnic Univ Pomona: $22k → 14%JAMES OGUNBOR EDUC FOUNDATION: $18k → 9%CORPORACION UNIVERSITARIA MINUTO DE DIOS-UNIMINUTO: $22k → 13%Rochester Institute of Technology: $25k → 14%University of Texas at Austin: $25k → 10%University of TX Arlington: $23k → 11%Texas AM University: $25k → 22%Clemson University: $15k → 16%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA COGGIN COLLEGE OF BUSI: $15k → 14%Florida Polytechnic University: $15k → 16%THE ENGINEERING SOCIETY OF DETROIT: $25k → 8%SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $15k → 21%FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY: $25k → 9%University of New Haven: $25k → 12%Savannah State University: $15k → 16%THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $25k → 23%PURDUE UNIVERSITY NW: $25k → 15%Bowling Green State University: $20k → 12%Ohio State University: $25k → 15%Cleveland State University: $25k → 17%University of Washington: $15k → 9%Rowan University: $15k → 7%Fairleigh Dickinson University: $25k → 7%Rowan University: $15k → 8%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $15k → 8%University of South Dakota Research: $25k → 9%Morgan State University Foundation: $15k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 15%ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $22k → 11%University of Arizona Foundation: $15k → 15%University of California Riverside: $15k → 11%University of Southern California: $25k → 14%JAMES OGUNBOR EDUC FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%Cornell University: $23k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $22k → 10%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $15k → 23%Fairleigh Dickinson University: $15k → 7%COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $15k → 15%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT -NY: $15k → 17%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
ND
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US — 14% of all-years giving ($221k)

8 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Nigeria$50k · 3 grants
Malaysia$48k · 4 grants
Canada$27k · 2 grants
Uganda$25k · 1 grant
Colombia$22k · 1 grant
Spain$21k · 1 grant
Ghana$18k · 1 grant
Brazil$10k · 1 grant

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$453k · 13 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
60

Total granted

$453k
$969k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+37%

Still filing today

62%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k 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
EducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementInternationalScience & TechPhilanthropyOther

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

  • University of Arizona Foundation
    3× · 2018–2024 · $43k · revenue +19%
  • TC
    THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +12%
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    2× · 2017–2021 · $33k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of California Riverside
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
  • BU
    Busitema University
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +51%

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
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
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
8
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
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
11
Case Western Reserve University

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…

Education
12
William Marsh Rice University

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…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology and the most unlike its peers is Womens Foundation of Arkansas. 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 69 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%69%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%71%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,535

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.

04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 83 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY — $92,435 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYUniversity of Texas at Austin — $47,000 · OtherUniversity of California Riverside — $39,557 · Other+53 more — $876,840 · Other+53 moreUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $43,284 · EducationUniversity of Arizona FoundationTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $39,989 · EducationTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERS…Fairleigh Dickinson University — $39,650 · EducationFairleigh Dickinson UniversityRochester Institute of Technology — $33,480 · EducationRochester Institute of TechnologyARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation — $25,000 · EducationUniversity of New Haven — $24,944 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA RESEARCH PARK INC — $24,924 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $24,894 · EducationFairfield University — $24,686 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $24,500 · EducationHOPE COLLEGE — $23,311 · EducationCornell University — $22,500 · Education+9 more — $103,981 · Education+9 moreENGINEERING SOCIETY OF DETROIT — $25,000 · Science & TechENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC — $25,000 · InternationalGIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOMENS FOUNDATION OF ARKANSAS — $10,000 · Community ImprovementCANDID — $4,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,055,832Education$480,143Science & Tech$25,000International$25,000Youth Development$20,000Community Improvement$10,000Philanthropy$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $43,284 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $39,989 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University — $39,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology — $33,480 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENGINEERING SOCIETY OF DETROIT — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Society for Engineering Education — $24,988 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of New Haven — $24,944 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA RESEARCH PARK INC — $24,924 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $24,894 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University — $24,686 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $24,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE COLLEGE — $23,311 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $22,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $15,894 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $14,560 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $10,707 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS FOUNDATION OF ARKANSAS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT — $7,520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitrus College Foundation — $5,800 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANDID — $4,000 over 4y, 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 University of Arizona Foundation
  • Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Fairleigh Dickinson University
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Who funds ENGINEERING SOCIETY OF DETROIT
  • Who funds ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC
  • Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds University of Louisville Research Foundation
  • Who funds American Society for Engineering Education
  • Who funds University of New Haven
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA RESEARCH PARK INC
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
  • Who funds Fairfield University
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
  • Who funds HOPE COLLEGE
  • Who funds Cornell University
  • Who funds GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Engineering Information Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Girls Inc of the Valley30% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology12% of income from government
  • The Morgan State University Foundation Inc7% of income from government
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University2% of income from government
  • University of New Haven2% of income from government
  • Fairfield University1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Engineering Information Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Engineering Information Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 83 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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