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Sdsn Association Inc

The SDSN Association works to mobilize the world's universities for action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement; empower societies through free online education; and translate scientific evidence and ideas into solutions and accountability.

$917k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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100% of Sdsn Association Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’17
3
’18
5
’19
2
’20
2
’21
1
’22
0
’23
0
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2025
$519k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$518,899
Largest grant, FY2025
$518,899
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$6.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Sdsn Association Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
EnvironmentInternationalEducationPhilanthropyOther
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
FY20221$68k0%
FY20212$88k0%
FY20202$26k100%
FY20195$89k40%
FY20183$85k67%
FY20172$31kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.1MHealth$985kEnvironment$985kInternational$164kScience & Tech$21kCommunity Improvement$7kHousing & Shelter$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Millennium Promise Alliance Inc$154,00233%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego$148,3183n/a
Conservation International Foundation$32,75020%
Evolved Energy Research LLC$21,4002n/a
Community Systems Foundation$9,8702n/a
Open Data Watch Inc$8,25011%
University of Maryland College Park$6,6641n/a
The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles$5,00010%

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About Sdsn Association Inc

How much does Sdsn Association Inc give?
Sdsn Association Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $518,899, out of $916,690 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Sdsn Association Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (59%), Health (19%), Environment (19%).
Who are Sdsn Association Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: The Millennium Promise Alliance Inc ($154k), Regents of the University of California at San Diego ($148k), Conservation International Foundation ($33k).
Does Sdsn Association Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Sdsn Association Inc based?
Sdsn Association Inc is based in NY.

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 10 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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