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Scholars at Risk Inc

Scholars at risk (sar) is an international network of institutions and individuals whose mission it is to protect scholars, promote academic freedom, and defend everyone's freedom to think, question and share ideas.

$670k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$368k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $259,583, the rows itemized in this filing. The $669,759 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $410,176 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.
$31,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLORIDA INTL UNIV$48,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$40,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF CALIFORNIA$35,417
REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF COLORADO$33,333
JORDAN CENTER FOR THE ADVANCED STUDY OF RUSSIA AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$31,500
REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF MINNESOTA$20,000
RESEARCH FOUNDATION SUNY$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS$11,333
NYU LANGONE$10,000
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $23k → 11%REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $35k → 10%BARD COLLEGE: $10k → 9%RESEARCH FOUNDATION SUNY: $20k → 14%NYU LANGONE: $10k → 17%THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS: $11k → 15%ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $20k → 7%REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF COLORADO: $33k → 12%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $20k → 14%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $35k → 23%JORDAN CENTER FOR THE ADVANCED STUDY OF RUSSIA AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $32k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $40k → 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

MN
IL
NY
PA
RI
CA
CO
KS
DC
LA
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $329k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions, $301k to organizations and $29k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$197k · 60% · 6 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: SCHOLAR ASSISTANCE · FELLOWSHIP

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$46k · 14% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: SCHOLAR ASSISTANCE

South America$45k · 14% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: SCHOLAR ASSISTANCE

Middle East and North Africa$28k · 8% · 1 grant · 1 person

Stated purpose: SCHOLAR ASSISTANCE · FELLOWSHIP

South Asia$7k · 2% · 1 person

Stated purpose: FELLOWSHIP

Sub-Saharan Africa$7k · 2% · 1 person

Stated purpose: FELLOWSHIP

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its 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
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
3
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
4
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
5
University of Miami

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

Education
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
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
12
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The George Washington University; the most unlike its peers is Bard College. 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

8 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. 8 of the 14 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $48,000 · OtherFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $35,417 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $33,333 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $20,000 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAKANSAS ATHLETICS INC: $11,333 · OtherKANSAS ATHLETICS INCNew York University: $41,500 · EducationNew York UniversityTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $35,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUNDUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $23,333 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $20,000 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State University …ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITYThe George Washington University: $10,000 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityBARD COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGENorthwestern University: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern…
Other$168,083Education$159,833Recreation & Sports$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York University: $41,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $23,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $10,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Scholars at Risk Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scholars at Risk Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 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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