· Public charity
Old Dominion University Research Foundation
Serves as the administrative and fiscal agent for sponsored research, training grants and other sponsored programs for old dominion university, a commonwealth of virginia institution of higher education.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 126 grants below total $13,542,232 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,254,596 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,712,364 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $153k
- $10k–50k60 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k34 grants · $4.2M
- $250k+11 grants · $7.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILBUR ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS LLC | $2,154,634 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY | $1,735,044 |
| EVMS ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATI | $1,242,480 |
| NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY | $385,071 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $373,823 |
| RUFFA'S CONSULTING SOLUTION LLC | $350,000 |
| TYMPANOGEN INC | $326,232 |
| UGA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $319,729 |
| SALTER'S CREEK CONSULTING INC | $286,743 |
| VIRGINIA TECH | $266,709 |
| BANK OF AMERICA | $254,175 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY | $248,931 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $229,819 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF CALIFORNIA | $216,395 |
| MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $215,991 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
130 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2025, 77 since wound down; 71 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.9M 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
- JHJUST HORIZONS ALLIANCE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +16% · 76% of their budget
- NSNORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY4× · 2022–2025 · $873k · revenue +49%
- CHChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters3× · 2023–2025 · $776k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- SFSUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $1.6M · revenue -17%
MDRCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $750k · revenue +36%- HRHAMPTON ROADS WORKFORCE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $413k · revenue +123%
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 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…
Education and Research
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
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…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
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)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 275 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JUST HORIZONS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCIPP INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds EVMS ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS WORKFORCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NMC INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
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: Johns Hopkins University · National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Folds of Honor Foundation · University of Pittsburgh · American Chemical Society · Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation · Yale University · The George Washington University · University of Miami · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Trustees of Boston University
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 Old Dominion University Research 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Institute for Community Research Inc — 48% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation — 32% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Inc — 28% of income from government
- Medstar Health Research Institute Inc — 25% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc — 5% of income from government
- National Space Grant Foundation — 3% of income from government
- H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Hospital Inc — 3% of income from government
- Williams College — 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.