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Heterodox Academy

To improve the quality of research and education in universities by increasing open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement.

$276k
Granted FY2022
10
Itemized grants FY2022
10
Organizations funded FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$164k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$15,325
Largest grant, FY2022
$30,000
States reached, FY2022
10
Total assets, FY2022
$7.6M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
CT
CA
UT
VA
DE
NC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Western Michigan University Foundation$30,00010%
Urban Rural Action$26,397112%
University of Delaware$22,31910%
Brigham Young University$20,1661n/a
Christian Scholars Network Inc$15,32517%
Trinity University$15,10010%
Grumman Hill Montessori Association Inc$11,77210%
Regents of the University of California at Riverside$8,3682n/a
Let Grow Inc$8,31021%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$6,6501n/a

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Heterodox Academy?

Find your warmest path to Heterodox Academy 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.

About Heterodox Academy

How much does Heterodox Academy give?
Heterodox Academy reported 10 itemized grants totaling $164,407, out of $276,251 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing.
What does Heterodox Academy fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (34%), Public Benefit (32%), Community Improvement (16%).
Who are Heterodox Academy's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2022: Western Michigan University Foundation ($30k), Urban Rural Action ($26k), University of Delaware ($22k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Heterodox Academy?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Heterodox Academy based?
Heterodox Academy is based in NY.

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 10 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $43k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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