· Public charity
Environmental Research & Education Foundation
To advance scientific research and create educational pathways that enable innovation in sustainable waste management practices.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $314k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $422k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $182,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA | $149,885 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE | $89,611 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $38,800 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA | $36,800 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $35,201 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $33,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $28,942 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $23,499 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $16,700 |
| FLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY | $16,312 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $16,108 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,500 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $14,391 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $146k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $115k to organizations and $32k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: QUANTIFICATION OF PFAS IN SOURCE SEPARATED ORGANIC PROCESSING · EVALUATING MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION OF LANDFILL EMISSIONS · SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 20 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FSFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $302k · revenue +21%
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE5× · 2017–2022 · $245k · revenue +37%
DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC3× · 2020–2024 · $219k · revenue +60%
Funded once
Bucknell Universityone grant, 2023 · $144k · revenue +12%- OSOREGON STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $122k
- ECENGINEERED COMPOST SYSTEMSone grant, 2021 · $120k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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 and Research
The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…
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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
To generate research funding opportunities for clemson university to support research initiatives that advance university discoveries to create new products and services for public use and benefit.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Chemical Society · National Academy of Sciences · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Environmental Research & Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Environmental Research & Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
- Yale University: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Environmental Research & Education Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Environmental Research & Education Foundation 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.
Play a game based on Environmental Research & Education’s filings →