· Public charity
Lsst Inc
To enhance rubin lsst discovery through advanced data tools, training, and inclusive collaborations for lsst researchers so that any scientist with a good question for the lsst survey can engage with these advanced resources to reveal the mysteries of the universe.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $357,758 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $503,849 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $146,091 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $281k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $70,032 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $40,860 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $35,645 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $34,682 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY | $32,183 |
| LAS CUMBRES OBSERVATORY | $30,404 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $28,498 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $25,867 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $17,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $15,587 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of your 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
Grants abroad, by region — $111k on the FY2023 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: HEISING-SIMONS INCLUSIVE COLLABORATION · TEMPLETON FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIPS FOR EARLY-CAREER POSTDOC SCIENTISTS · SCHMIDT SCIENCES SUPPORTS EARLY-CAREER SCIENTISTS BUILDING LSST SOFTWARE TOOLS
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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
Northwestern University6× · 2017–2023 · $572k · revenue +41%- FRFermi Research Alliance LLC4× · 2017–2020 · $98k · revenue +77%
The Trustees of Princeton University4× · 2020–2023 · $82k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- RTRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $45k
- CMCarnegie Mellon Universitygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +64%
- BNBROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORYone grant, 2017 · $22k
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
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…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Education and Research
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Las Cumbres Observatory Gtn Inc. 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 58 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 25 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
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 Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds LAS CUMBRES OBSERVATORY GTN INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Fermi Research Alliance LLC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds THE ADLER PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
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.
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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 Lsst 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.
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Rider University — 1% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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.