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Social Science Research Council

The SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL is an independent, international nonprofit organization.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$127k
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 2025.

Science & Tech$1.9MEducation$890kRecreation & Sports$199kArts & Culture$161k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $126,504, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,753,343 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,626,839 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.
$126,504
Median grant
1
States reached
$69M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$126,504
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: $61k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON: $100k → 16%CARLETON COLLEGE: $59k → 11%REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF MINNESOTA: $100k → 11%SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $55k → 8%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVE: $60k → 11%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ: $86k → 13%ST JOHN'S FISHER COLLEGE: $60k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $60k → 17%BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $12k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF TULSA: $98k → 15%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $76k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $60k → 16%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA GREENSBORO: $60k → 16%RHODE ISLAND URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE: $42k → 14%REINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $60k → 6%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON: $60k → 14%SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE: $60k → 12%Northwestern University: $179k → 14%NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY: $59k → 14%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY: $60k → 21%GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY: $57k → 32%University of Massachusetts Boston: $83k → 16%CARLETON COLLEGE: $40k → 11%Regents Of The Univ Of Minnesota: $61k → 11%SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $37k → 8%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVE: $40k → 11%The Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz: $85k → 13%ST JOHN'S FISHER COLLEGE: $40k → 14%Cornell University: $85k → 16%MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $40k → 17%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA GREENSBORO: $40k → 16%RHODE ISLAND URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE: $28k → 14%REINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $40k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON: $40k → 14%SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE: $40k → 12%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY: $40k → 14%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 21%GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY: $38k → 32%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON: $20k → 16%REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 11%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $127k → 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
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
NJ
RI
CA
VA
AZ
NC
DC
OK
LA
GA

Grants abroad, by region: $833k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$774k · 93% · 84 people

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$37k · 4% · 2 people

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT

East Asia and the Pacific$22k · 3% · 2 people

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT

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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 22 repeat orgs$488k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
7

Total granted

$2.6M
$362k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+13%

Still filing today

45%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & 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

  • Cornell University
    3× · 2017–2019 · $205k · revenue +59%
  • Northwestern University
    2× · 2017–2019 · $199k · revenue +41%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • IU
    Indiana University School of Medicine
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • The University of Tulsa
    one grant, 2023 · $98k · revenue +13%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $76k · revenue +34%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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4
University of Denver

The university of denver (du) is a higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees - the mission of the university of denver is to promote learning by engaging with students (continued on schedule o)in…

Education
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
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
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
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Modern Language Association of America. 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $202,850 · OtherCAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $181,399 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $171,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $135,651 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE: $100,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLEREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE: $100,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDETHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO: $100,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBOROIndiana University School of Medicine: $99,965 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $99,946 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $99,815 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITYNEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY: $99,114 · OtherNEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITYGRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY: $94,817 · OtherGRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY+1 more: $7,268 · OtherCornell University: $204,699 · EducationCornell UniversityUniversity of Chicago: $126,504 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITYUniversity of Dayton: $100,000 · EducationUniversity of DaytonThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $99,763 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State Univers…REINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $99,651 · EducationREINHARDT UNIVERSITYCARLETON COLLEGE: $99,040 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGEThe University of Tulsa: $98,058 · EducationThe University of TulsaSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $92,152 · EducationSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $76,360 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYRHODE ISLAND URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE: $70,650 · EducationRHODE ISLAND URBAN DEBATE LEAGUEUniversity of Miami: $63,500 · Education+2 more: $19,394 · EducationNorthwestern University: $199,472 · Recreation & SportsMODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $100,000 · Arts & CultureDOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC: $60,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,491,825Education$1,249,771Recreation & Sports$199,472Arts & Culture$160,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $204,699 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $199,472 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $126,504 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $99,763 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $99,651 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $99,040 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $98,058 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $92,152 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $76,360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $63,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC: $60,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $7,394 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 Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds University of Dayton ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds REINHARDT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
  • Who funds SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DUKE 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Social Science Research Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Social Science Research Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’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 2%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • The University of Tulsa: 2% of income from government
  • Documentary Educational Resources Inc: 2% 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.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home