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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rensselaer educates the leaders of tomorrow for technologically based careers.

$291M
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
26
States reached
$659k
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$40MHealth$8.0MEducation$2.7MCommunity Improvement$968kArts & Culture$288kHuman Services$202kPublic Benefit$41kPhilanthropy$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 57 grants below total $7,341,717, the rows itemized in this filing. The $290,512,215 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $283,170,498 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 $10k5 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $473k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $3.2M
  • $250k+9 grants · $3.6M
$71,429
Median grant
26
States reached
$1.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE$659,031
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$555,270
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$543,406
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$370,362
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$349,595
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$306,107
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SUNY$302,388
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA$273,946
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$255,496
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON$249,504
INSTITUTE OF GAS TECHNOLOGY$249,363
THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION$242,350
HUDSON VALLEY TEXTILE PROJECT INC$202,410
THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA$198,011
DANIMER SCIENTIFIC INC$174,947
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 (FY24–25, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%HUDSON VALLEY TEXTILE PROJECT INC: $202k → 14%UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC: $13k → 14%UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC: $9k → 14%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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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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$44M · 104 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

104 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 59 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

104
34

Total granted

$44M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+17%

Still filing today

38%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $517k 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 & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TR
    The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +55%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +41%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $155k · revenue +28%
  • IE
    INNOVATIVE ENGINEERING CONSORTIUM
    one grant, 2024 · $85k · revenue -47%
  • TO
    THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $82k
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
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
2
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
3
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

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
University of Miami

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

Education
6
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
7
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
8
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
9
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
10
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
11
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
12
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester Polytechnic Institute; the most unlike its peers is The Hyde Management Company. 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

71 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. 71 of the 155 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
51/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM: $3,161,842 · OtherALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEMTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $2,448,993 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $2,169,595 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOUSC School of Medicine Greenville: $1,836,672 · OtherUSC School of Medicine GreenvilleREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $1,303,442 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO: $1,296,439 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $1,265,675 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,209,707 · Other+91 more: $16,910,390 · Other+91 moreThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $3,535,660 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The Sta…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,080,540 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,958,663 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNS…Yale University: $1,893,840 · EducationYale UniversityICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,667,898 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT S…Trustees of Tufts College: $942,151 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $740,368 · Education+32 more: $3,379,339 · Education+32 moreInstitute of Gas Technology: $760,750 · Science & TechWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $346,916 · Science & TechCARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON: $338,004 · Science & TechSouthwest Research Institute: $141,213 · Science & Tech+1 more: $22,500 · Science & TechGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $522,754 · HealthBaylor Research Institute: $306,902 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $229,796 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $154,891 · HealthBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $110,359 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50,000 · Health+1 more: $29,287 · HealthTROY REDEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $951,615 · Community Improvement+1 more: $11,000 · Community ImprovementHudson Valley Textile Project Inc: $202,410 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION: $36,845 · Human ServicesNorthwestern University: $207,980 · Recreation & Sports
Other$31,602,755Education$16,198,459Science & Tech$1,609,383Health$1,403,989Community Improvement$962,615Human Services$239,255Recreation & Sports$207,980

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $3,535,660 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,080,540 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,958,663 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $1,893,840 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,667,898 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,209,707 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTROY REDEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $951,615 over 4y, 30% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $942,151 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute of Gas Technology: $760,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $740,368 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $616,425 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $522,754 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $358,911 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $347,391 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $346,916 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON: $338,004 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $337,795 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor Research Institute: $306,902 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $298,670 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $263,767 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $229,796 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $207,980 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $201,354 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $165,845 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $162,954 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $154,891 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthwest Research Institute: $141,213 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $130,427 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $112,773 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $110,359 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $107,124 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $98,362 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $90,565 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTECH VALLEY GAME SPACE INC: $89,562 over 2y, 89% of budgetINNOVATIVE ENGINEERING CONSORTIUM: $85,447 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetOberlin College: $82,705 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $70,699 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $61,939 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $61,198 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE QUESTAR III EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetGEORGE BIDDLE KELLEY FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $54,948 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $44,099 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS: $41,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION: $36,845 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $35,264 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRose-Hulman Institute of Technology: $29,924 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 The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TROY REDEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds Institute of Gas Technology ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗

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…Cornell UniversityMayo ClinicUniversity of Souther…Yale UniversityUniversity of Pittsbu…The Trustees of Colum…West Virginia Univers…Trustees of Boston Un…Washington UniversityAmerican Cancer Socie…Advanced Robotics for…
Johns Hopkins UniversityMD25.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University · Cornell University · Mayo Clinic · University of Southern California · Yale University · University of Pittsburgh · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · West Virginia University Research Corporation · Trustees of Boston University · Washington University · American Cancer Society Inc · Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute

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 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 155 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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