· Private foundation
Math for America
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k48 grants · $188k
- $10k–50k931 grants · $14M
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| SIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS | $36,309 |
| CONFERENCE BOARD OF THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES (CBMS) | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN | $25,000 |
| QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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
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 +36% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
1135 repeat relationships: 688 still active in FY2025, 447 since wound down; 291 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC2× · 2017–2021 · $2.8M · revenue +292%
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $456k · revenue +229%- QCQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEYone grant, 2017 · $135k
- UUCONNone grant, 2021 · $58k
- CBCONFERENCE BOARD OF THE MATH SCIENCESone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
49 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. 49 of the 1,658 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MATH FOR AMERICA DC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR TEACHERS ↗
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: The Simons Foundation Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Open Society Institute · American Express Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Math for America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Math for America. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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