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Santa Fe Institute

The SANTA FE INSTITUTE is a transdisciplinary research community that expands the boundaries of scientific understanding. Its aim is to discover, comprehend, and communicate the common fundamental principles in complex physical, computational, biological, and social systems that underlie many of the most profound problems facing science…

$482k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$31k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$31,001
Largest grant, FY2024
$31,001
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$86M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Santa Fe Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Civil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$31k0%
FY20232$36k0%
FY20223$79k33%
FY20216$143k83%
FY20202$36k0%
FY20193$105k33%
FY20182$96k0%
FY20174$238kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Science & Tech$645kEducation$632kCivil Rights$30kHealth$25kSocial Science$12k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MA
IN
PA
CA
CO
MD
NM

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Regents of the University of Colorado$189,7353n/a
University of Maryland College Park$163,9844n/a
Washington State University$152,6805n/a
University of New Mexico$86,5913n/a
Regents Univ of California$30,6751n/a
The Sunwater Institute$29,867248%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute$26,53410%
Solace Sexual Assault Services$25,00012%
University of Washington$23,3421n/a
Carnegie Mellon University$22,32710%
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All grantees of Santa Fe Institute by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Regents of the University of Colorado$189,7353n/a
University of Maryland College Park$163,9844n/a
Washington State University$152,6805n/a
University of New Mexico$86,5913n/a
Regents Univ of California$30,6751n/a
The Sunwater Institute$29,867248%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute$26,53410%
Solace Sexual Assault Services$25,00012%
University of Washington$23,3421n/a
Carnegie Mellon University$22,32710%
Indiana University School of Medicine$12,4751n/a

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About Santa Fe Institute

How much does Santa Fe Institute give?
Santa Fe Institute reported 1 itemized grants totaling $31,001, out of $481,963 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Santa Fe Institute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (48%), Education (47%), Civil Rights (2%).
Who are Santa Fe Institute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Regents of the University of Colorado ($190k), University of Maryland College Park ($164k), Washington State University ($153k).
Does Santa Fe Institute fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Santa Fe Institute based?
Santa Fe Institute is based in NM.

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 14 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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