How much did Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

research subconract

2020

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2021

—

2022

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k3 grants · $21k
$10k–50k16 grants · $361k
$50k–250k28 grants · $3.3M
$250k+9 grants · $4.0M

$84,541

Median grant

States reached

$1.7B

Total assets

Largest grants

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$681,130
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SUNY$650,090
ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE$583,656
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$568,748
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$359,366
YALE UNIVERSITY$301,712
THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION$286,830
GENERAL ELECTRIC$282,032
LUMILEDS LLC$256,558
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$241,380
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA$238,309
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$229,585
HKS INC$217,811
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL$154,891
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$147,937

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 83% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$34M · 92 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

92 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2023, 45 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$34M

$707k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+33%

Still filing today

41%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $829k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthScience & TechArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

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

RF
Research Foundation of SUNY
5× · 2019–2023 · $2.8M · revenue +56%
CU
Columbia University
4× · 2020–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +13%
University of Pennsylvania
4× · 2020–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +37%

Funded once

Northeastern Universitygraduated
one grant, 2022 · $68k · revenue +53%
SI
Simmetrix Inc
one grant, 2019 · $63k
UT
United Technologies Corp
one grant, 2021 · $48k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

The George Washington University

Education and research

Education

New York Institute of Technology

We are committed to educating the next generation of leaders and inspiring innovation. (see sch o)

Education

The Rockefeller University

A world-renowned center for research and graduate education.

Education

Long Island University

Provide excellence and access in education to those who seek to expand their knowledge. see sch o.

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Syracuse University

Syracuse university is a non-profit research university devoted to education, research and public engagement.

Education

William Penn University

William penn university provides the opportunity for an educational experience with a focus on leadership, technology, and the quaker principles of simplicity, peace-making, intergrity, community and equality.

Education

Illinois Institute of Technology

To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Welfare Benefit Plans Trust

To provide health and life insurance benefits to covered eligible retirees of massachusetts institute of technology and their dependents, as well as individuals receiving long-term disability benefits for at least three years.

Membership Benefit

York University

Provide post secondary education to students in various fields.the university is a four year accredited post secondary education institution offering bachelor's degrees in various areas. the university offers on-site learning and provides…

Education

Washington College

Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.

Education

Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

To improve the wellness of all people through innovative, interprofessional education of health and biomedical professionals and the discovery and implementation of knowledge.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Boston University and the most unlike its peers is Institute of Gas Technology. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 72 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%3/129

the rest of the field

11%

206,162/1,819,436

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.

05the grantee network

58 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

56/58

Grantees still filing

45/58

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$20,515,707Education$12,359,464Health$1,353,143Science & Tech$773,424Community Improvement$690,725Recreation & Sports$207,980Arts & Culture$113,862

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.

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.

Johns Hopkins UniversityMD23.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University · Carnegie Mellon University · Mayo Clinic · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Northeastern University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Cornell University · University of Pittsburgh · Worcester Polytechnic Institute · University of Delaware · Trustees of Boston University · American Chemical Society

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 organisation Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Tech Valley Game Space Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 473782589 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Tech Valley Game Space Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 89% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute?

Find your warmest path to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

58 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute?

More from the funding graph

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

58 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute?

More from the funding graph