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National Academy of Sciences
The NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES was formed under a charter passed as an act of incorporation by the united states congress and signed into law on march 3, 1863.
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
- $10k–50k22 grants · $739k
- $50k–250k44 grants · $5.9M
- $250k+32 grants · $25M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,151,595 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,211,601 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | $2,103,157 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INST | $1,487,978 |
| NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC | $1,248,579 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $1,127,939 |
| JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,098,687 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | $1,009,383 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY - CORPUS CHRISTI | $843,919 |
| PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIV | $744,429 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $686,939 |
| THE ARTIST BOAT INC | $606,772 |
| AMERICAN BUREAU OF SHIPPING | $549,867 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON | $512,353 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY | $511,368 |
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 (FY17–23, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +31% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
139 repeat relationships: 68 still active in FY2024, 71 since wound down; 28 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WHWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION7× · 2017–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +68%
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND5× · 2019–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +46%
THE URBAN INSTITUTE5× · 2017–2022 · $5.2M · revenue +51%
Funded once
- WHWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTone grant, 2023 · $1.6M
- LHLSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER - NEW ORLEANSone grant, 2017 · $882k
- MCMS COALITION FOR VIETNAMESE-AMERICAN FISHER FOLKS & FAMILIESone grant, 2017 · $433k
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…
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…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
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 Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
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 mission of Nova Southeastern University-a selective, doctoral research university-is to deliver academic programs in a dynamic, innovative environment. We foster academic excellence, leadership, integrity (continued on Schedule O) and…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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.
To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.
How this is measured
144 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. 144 of the 290 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 WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds American Bureau of Shipping ↗
- Who funds POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS A&M RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds SIGMA XI THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH HONOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
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 Collegiate Athletic Association · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Folds of Honor Foundation · Cornell University · Johns Hopkins University · Trustees of Boston University · Yale University · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · University of Miami · University of Pittsburgh · Northeastern University
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization National Academy of Sciences funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Academy of Sciences. Bigger dots raise more.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- The Pensacola Mess Hall Inc: 5% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Electrical Training Alliance: 4% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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