· Public charity
National Space Grant Foundation
To support and enhance all space grant consortia to facilitate education, research, and public outreach activities in science, mathematics, engineering, technology and additional fields related to space, aeronautics, aviation, and earth system science.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $431,185 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,471,318 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,040,133 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $366k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $39,023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | $25,031 |
| ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY | $20,846 |
| NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY | $19,949 |
| SALISH KOOTENAI | $19,155 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA AT LAS VEGAS | $18,443 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $17,919 |
| DILLIARD UNIVERSITY | $17,815 |
| UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY | $17,597 |
| UNIVERSTIY OF MICHIGAN | $17,521 |
| METROPOLLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $16,974 |
| CENTRAL WYOMING UNIVERSITY | $16,486 |
| CASPER COLLEGE | $16,486 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN | $16,415 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA | $15,600 |
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 58% 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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 17 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $268k went to new ones.
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
CARTHAGE COLLEGE2× · 2018–2019 · $174k · revenue +10%
Rochester Institute of Technology3× · 2021–2023 · $92k · revenue +29%- PIPRATT INSTITUTE3× · 2018–2021 · $37k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICOone grant, 2018 · $30k
- CPCAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue +53%
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOone grant, 2018 · $14k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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 60 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 63 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 CARTHAGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRATT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds CASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds DILLARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN W OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Chemical Society · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · World Learning Inc · West Virginia University Research Corporation · National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance Inc · Corporation for Public Broadcasting · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Johns Hopkins University · American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc · Hispanic Scholarship Fund
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 National Space Grant Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 2% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Inc — 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.
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