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Sae International

To advance mobility knowledge and solutions for the benefit of humanity.

$691k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$25k
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 2024.

Education$2.3MEnvironment$9k
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 33 grants below total $352,475, the rows itemized in this filing. The $690,612 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $338,137 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $136k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $216k
$8,600
Median grant
23
States reached
$111M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$25,000
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA$18,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS$17,500
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$17,250
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$15,000
AUBURN UNIVERSITY$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$15,000
PURDUE UNIVERSITY$13,125
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$13,000
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$12,500
SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES & TECH$12,500
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$11,500
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN$11,000
CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY$9,750
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $15k → 10%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $25k → 8%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $21k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $18k → 13%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $22k → 16%CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $26k → 14%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $18k → 10%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $16k → 16%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $15k → 15%WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 12%MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $31k → 14%KETTERING UNIVERSITY: $24k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $15k → 21%AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $17k → 17%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $18k → 10%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 11%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $20k → 13%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF AKRON: $20k → 13%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $19k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $19k → 8%VIRGINIA TECH: $23k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA: $62k → 10%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $16k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $22k → 8%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $16k → 10%MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $22k → 14%KETTERING UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $30k → 21%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $27k → 11%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $16k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF AKRON: $17k → 13%VIRGINIA TECH: $18k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA: $61k → 10%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 16%MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $19k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $19k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF AKRON: $16k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA: $60k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF AKRON: $16k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA: $29k → 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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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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 39 repeat orgs$505k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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38

Total granted

$1.7M
$369k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+24%

Still filing today

33%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.

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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $69k · revenue +49%
  • KU
    Kettering University
    5× · 2017–2022 · $66k · revenue +42%
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    8× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $21k · revenue +14%
  • The Trustees of Princeton Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $19k · revenue +51%
  • RV
    RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
    one grant, 2023 · $19k
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.

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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
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
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
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
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
University of Miami

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

Education
7
California Lutheran University

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.

Education
8
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
9
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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10
The Catholic University of America

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…

Education
11
Delaware State University

Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…

Education
12
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of the Pacific; the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Institute. 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

44 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. 44 of the 97 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
38/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION: $211,250 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATIONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $88,050 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $83,950 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $77,200 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $75,175 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON: $68,950 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $68,470 · OtherMichigan Tech University: $61,800 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $55,650 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $52,625 · Other+49 more: $729,725 · Other+49 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $69,150 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYKettering University: $65,750 · EducationKettering UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $61,700 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technolog…Rochester Institute of Technology: $61,500 · EducationRochester Institute of TechnologyMichigan Tech Fund: $51,550 · EducationMichigan Tech FundCAL POLY CORPORATION: $32,900 · EducationCornell University: $30,000 · EducationThe George Washington University: $30,000 · Education+30 more: $347,420 · Education+30 more
Other$1,572,845Education$749,970

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $69,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKettering University: $65,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $61,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $61,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCAL POLY CORPORATION: $32,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGANNON UNIVERSITY: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $22,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $21,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $20,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $18,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY STANISLAUS AUXILIARY AND BUSINESS SERVICES: $18,650 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $16,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $15,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $14,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $12,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENT: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOhio Northern University: $11,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PLATTEVILLE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $11,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $8,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDP UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE COLLEGE: $7,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $6,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC: $6,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of the Pacific: $5,670 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $5,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Southern University Foundation Inc: $5,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,200 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Kettering University ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds Michigan Tech Fund ↗
  • Who funds CAL POLY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds The George Washington University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds GANNON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY STANISLAUS AUXILIARY AND BUSINESS SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS 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.

American Chemical Soc…Folds of Honor Founda…National Collegiate A…Tulsa Community Found…The Nature ConservancyAmericaviewNational Collegiate I…Columbus FoundationAmerican Heart Associ…Hispanic Scholarship …Howard Hughes Medical…University of Delaware
American Chemical SocietyDC28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Chemical Society · Folds of Honor Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Americaview · National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance Inc · Columbus Foundation · American Heart Association Inc · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · University of Delaware

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 26% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 11% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 6% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 97 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home