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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.

$18M
Granted FY2025still arriving
126
Grants FY2025still arriving
31
States reached
$2.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$43MEducation$20MHealth$2.9MEmployment$1.2MInternational$111kArts & Culture$100kEnvironment$91kHuman Services$90kOther$0
02FY2025 · 126 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 126 grants below total $13,542,232, the rows itemized in this filing. The $18,254,596 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,712,364 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $153k
  • $10k–50k60 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k34 grants · $4.2M
  • $250k+11 grants · $7.7M
$32,349
Median grant
31
States reached
$57M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $60k → 10%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $30k → 10%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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MO
WV
VA
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DE
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AR
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DC
HI
OK
LA
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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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$55M · 130 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

130
67

Total granted

$55M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+30%

Still filing today

27%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthScience & TechArts & CultureEmploymentEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • JH
    JUST HORIZONS ALLIANCE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +16% · 76% of their budget
  • NS
    NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $873k · revenue +49%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters
    3× · 2023–2025 · $776k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • SF
    SUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1.6M · revenue -17%
  • MDRCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $750k · revenue +36%
  • HR
    HAMPTON ROADS WORKFORCE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $413k · revenue +123%
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.

04Its 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.

1
Lehigh University

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…

Education
2
The George Washington University

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
3
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
4
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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
5
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
6
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
8
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
9
University of New Haven

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…

Education
10
Western New England University

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…

Education
11
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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12
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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)

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University; 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.
04the grantee network

79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/79
Grantees still filing
51/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Old Dominion University: $14,949,359 · OtherOld Dominion UniversityRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $3,908,588 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAIBI CONSULTANTS LLC: $3,273,408 · OtherIBI CONSULTANTS LLCVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,940,040 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITYWILBUR ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS LLC: $2,154,634 · Other+144 more: $24,020,293 · Other+144 moreSUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC: $1,566,418 · EducationSUCCESS FOR ALL…SCIPP INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,303,086 · EducationSCIPP INTERNATI…NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $872,725 · EducationNORFOLK STATE U…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $650,212 · EducationMassachusetts I…New York University: $610,489 · EducationNew York Univer…University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $503,630 · EducationUniversity of G…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $419,130 · EducationNMC INC: $406,553 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $345,488 · Education+23 more: $2,250,603 · Education+23 moreJUST HORIZONS ALLIANCE INC: $2,836,765 · ReligionChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $776,243 · HealthGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $387,919 · HealthSENTARA HOSPITALS: $157,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $57,762 · Health+5 more: $203,189 · HealthMDRC: $749,850 · EmploymentHAMPTON ROADS WORKFORCE FOUNDATION: $412,500 · EmploymentNEW ENGLAND OCEANOGRAPHIC LABORATORY INC: $246,345 · Science & TechNOBLIS INC: $125,455 · Science & TechBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $84,009 · Science & TechNATIONAL SPACE GRANT FOUNDATION: $83,600 · Science & TechSOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITIES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION INC: $45,456 · Science & TechNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE ASSOCIATES: $20,874 · Science & TechNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $92,946 · Arts & Culture
Other$51,246,322Education$8,928,334Religion$2,836,765Health$1,582,113Employment$1,162,350Science & Tech$605,739Arts & Culture$92,946

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUST HORIZONS ALLIANCE INC: $2,836,765 over 5y, 76% of budgetSUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC: $1,566,418 over 1y, 13% of budgetSCIPP INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,303,086 over 2y, 68% of budgetEVMS ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $1,242,480 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $872,725 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $776,243 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMDRC: $749,850 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $650,212 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $610,489 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $503,630 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $419,130 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNMC INC: $406,553 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $387,919 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $345,488 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $285,586 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $249,514 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $215,991 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $187,658 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc: $172,952 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $165,609 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSENTARA HOSPITALS: $157,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY RESEARCH INC: $145,342 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $137,377 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $128,218 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $125,619 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNOBLIS INC: $125,455 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $125,125 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGERMANNA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $120,440 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $92,946 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternet Archive: $90,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $87,459 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Health International Inc: $86,560 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $84,009 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $77,973 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $76,914 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetUniversity Health Network: $67,952 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVERETT UNIVERSITY: $65,089 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $62,086 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $57,762 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College: $53,269 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $52,223 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE HOSPITAL INC: $51,062 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $48,109 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITIES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION INC: $45,456 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $38,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $33,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $31,245 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $26,596 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Johns Hopkins Univers…National Collegiate A…The Trustees of Colum…Folds of Honor Founda…University of Pittsbu…American Chemical Soc…Virginia Innovation P…Yale UniversityThe George Washington…University of MiamiHampton Roads Communi…Trustees of Boston Un…
Johns Hopkins UniversityMD28.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Old Dominion University Research Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Old Dominion University Research Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 275 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home