· Private foundation
Research Corporation dba Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $847k
- $50k–250k94 grants · $7.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Northwestern University | $193,142 |
| Queen's University | $120,000 |
| Emory University | $120,000 |
| University of Utah | $120,000 |
| University of California Riverside | $120,000 |
| University of Missouri | $120,000 |
| University of South Florida | $120,000 |
| Hamilton College | $120,000 |
| Trinity University | $120,000 |
| University of Toledo | $120,000 |
| Hope College | $120,000 |
| Pennsylvania State University | $120,000 |
| University of Michigan | $120,000 |
| University of Tennessee Knoxville | $120,000 |
| Dartmouth College | $120,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $12k) 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Research Corporation dba Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
107 repeat relationships: 69 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Northwestern University5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +33%- UOUniversity of Michigan5× · 2020–2024 · $773k · revenue +139% · 66% of their budget
University of Chicago4× · 2020–2024 · $525k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $200k
- RTRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEYone grant, 2022 · $165k
- SUSEATTLE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $155k · revenue +49%
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.
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.
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…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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…
Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
How this is measured
107 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. 107 of the 238 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Kavli Foundation · The Simons Foundation Inc · Alfred P Sloan Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Johns Hopkins University · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Research Corporation dba Research Corporation for Science Advancement funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Research Corporation dba Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
- Marine Biological Laboratory: 20% 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
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- American Physical Society: 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
- The Electrochemical Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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