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Science Olympiad Inc

Science education for all youth

$229k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$474k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $184,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $229,080 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $45,080 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 $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $157k
$11,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$25,000
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY$25,000
UCLA$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA$15,400
MIT$13,000
UC REGENTS$12,000
GEORGIA TECH$11,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$11,000
VANDERBILT$10,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$10,000
CALTECH$7,500
BROWN$7,500
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY$6,600
NORWICH$5,000
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MIT: $13k → 8%BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC: $10k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%UC REGENTS: $12k → 10%CALTECH: $8k → 14%UNIVERISTY OF HAWAII: $10k → 9%STONEY BROOK UNIVERSITY: $10k → 7%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $25k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $10k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA: $15k → 16%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 19%WOFFORD COLLEGE: $10k → 15%HOPE COLLEGE: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $11k → 14%AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%BAKER UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%BROWN: $8k → 14%GEORGIA TECH: $11k → 13%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $10k → 19%NORWICH: $5k → 9%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10k → 19%MIT: $10k → 8%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFO: $10k → 10%UCLA: $25k → 14%NYU: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA: $10k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 14%GEORGIA TECH: $10k → 13%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO: $10k → 8%REGENTS OF UNIVERISTY OF CALIFORNIA: $10k → 10%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $25k → 14%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%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

VT
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
RI
CA
MD
KS
TN
SC
HI
OK
AL
GA
TX
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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$144k · 5 repeat orgs$234k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
13

Total granted

$144k
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+11%

Still filing today

20%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • Northwestern University
    2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +26%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    3× · 2022–2025 · $32k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
    2× · 2020–2025 · $25k

Funded once

  • University of Chicago
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +15%
  • HC
    HOPE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +7%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
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
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
3
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

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
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
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
8
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
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
10
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
11
University of Miami

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

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Boston University; the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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

17 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. 17 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $32,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $25,400 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMAREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $25,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXASREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $21,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $21,000 · OtherGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM: $10,000 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $10,000 · OtherAUBURN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherMONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherWOFFORD COLLEGE: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA: $10,000 · OtherSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COLLEGE AT PURCHASE: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $6,600 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $33,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Chicago: $25,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoHOPE COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationHOPE COLLEGEJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYNew York University: $10,000 · EducationNew York UniversityVanderbilt University: $10,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $10,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE C…BAKER UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationBAKER UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $10,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $10,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INCCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $7,500 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationNorthwestern University: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthweste…BROWN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · Community Improvement
Other$236,000Education$185,500Recreation & Sports$45,000Community Improvement$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwestern University: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $33,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAKER UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorwich University: $5,000 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.

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.

National Collegiate A…Columbus FoundationTulsa Community Found…
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN14× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Columbus Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation

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 Science Olympiad Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Science Olympiad 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Norwich University: 4% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Science Olympiad Inc?

Find your warmest path to Science Olympiad Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 30 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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