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Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc

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$123k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$715k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $16,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $122,712 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $106,712 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$8,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE$8,000
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY$8,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY: $44k → 16%MERRITT COLLEGE: $45k → 10%SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $55k → 19%SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 20%CARL ALBERT STATE COLLEGE: $45k → 19%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $45k → 14%FLORIDA A & M UNIVERSITY: $45k → 19%TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 32%MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $45k → 13%MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $44k → 7%LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY: $45k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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VA
MD
AZ
NM
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DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
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TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

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Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
2
Ashland University

Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…

Education
3
Furman University

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.

Education
4
Mount Saint Mary's University Inc

As a catholic university, mount st. mary's graduates ethical leaders who are inspired by a passion for learning and lead lives of significance in service to god and others.

Education
5
Saint Martin's University

Saint martin's students learn to make a positive difference in their lives and in the lives of others through the interaction of faith, reason, and service. the university honors both the sacredness of the individual and the significance…

Education
6
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
7
Mount Marty University

Mount marty university, an academic community in the catholic benedictine liberal arts tradition, prepares students for a contemporary world of work, service to the human community, and personal growth. the institution is a private,…

Education
8
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
9
National University

To deliver accessible world-class student experiences by providing quality programs and services that ensure student success through meaningful learning. to be an inclusive and innovative university serving life-long learners who…

Education
10
California Baptist University

A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.

Education
11
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
12
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Carl Albert State College Development Fo. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO: $55,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM: $55,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMTEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITY: $55,000 · OtherTEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITYFLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY TERM: $44,500 · OtherFLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY TERMUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $44,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKSAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $44,500 · OtherSAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITYALBANY STATE UNIVERSITY: $44,500 · OtherALBANY STATE UNIVERSITYMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $44,487 · OtherMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY+2 more: $16,000 · OtherTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $44,500 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYTuskegee University: $44,500 · EducationTuskegee UniversityMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $44,500 · EducationMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINEPeralta Colleges Foundation: $44,500 · EducationPeralta Colleges FoundationCarl Albert State College Development Fo: $44,500 · EducationCarl Albert State College Development FoSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $44,500 · EducationSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEAR…NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $44,499 · EducationNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
Other$403,487Education$311,499

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $44,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTuskegee University: $44,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $44,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeralta Colleges Foundation: $44,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCarl Albert State College Development Fo: $44,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $44,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $44,499 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $44,487 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Folds of Honor FoundationOK13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc 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.

    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $166k 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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