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Haskins Laboratories Inc

Haskins laboratories is an independent, international, multidisciplinary community of researchers conducting basic research on spoken and written language.

$58k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.2MScience & Tech$191kHealth$62k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$58,470
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF READING$58,470
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $61k → 14%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $193k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $89k → 15%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY OF ST LOUIS: $62k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $296k → 11%YALE UNIVERSITY: $261k → 12%SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF READING: $58k → 9%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $140k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $73k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $269k → 11%YALE UNIVERSITY: $247k → 12%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $106k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $29k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $266k → 11%YALE UNIVERSITY: $225k → 12%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $95k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $176k → 11%YALE UNIVERSITY: $220k → 12%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $92k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $63k → 11%YALE UNIVERSITY: $93k → 12%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $60k → 17%YALE UNIVERSITY: $71k → 12%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $25k → 17%YALE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 12%TEACHERS COLLEGE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $22k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 53% of Haskins Laboratories Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 0%.

Haskins Laboratories Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 72% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 4 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$2.1M
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+7%

Still filing today

25%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
EducationScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
    5× · 2018–2022 · $1.1M
  • RF
    Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    7× · 2017–2023 · $711k · revenue +22%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
    3× · 2019–2021 · $191k

Funded once

  • WU
    WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY OF ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2023 · $62k
  • TC
    Teachers College Columbia University
    one grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +7%
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.

04Its field
05the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Yale University: $1,145,695 · EducationYale UniversityResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $711,388 · EducationResearch Foundation of the City University of New York+2 more: $83,354 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $1,070,316 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTUNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $190,522 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWAUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $160,228 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY OF ST LOUIS: $62,188 · OtherSOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF READING: $58,470 · Science & Tech
Education$1,940,437Other$1,483,254Science & Tech$58,470

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYale University: $1,145,695 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $711,388 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $61,364 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF READING: $58,470 over 1y, 12% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $21,990 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Yale University ↗
  • Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF READING ↗
  • Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Haskins Laboratories Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Haskins Laboratories Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Haskins Laboratories Inc?

Find your warmest path to Haskins Laboratories 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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