· Private foundation
The Agouron Institute
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $374k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $441,222 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $430,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $370,590 |
| JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $106,725 |
| UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CA SANTA CRUZ | $96,857 |
| LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES | $35,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA SAN DIEGO | $30,000 |
| MCGILL UNIVERSITY | $17,500 |
| EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY | $15,000 |
| THE GEOBIOLOGY SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA BERKELEY | $10,000 |
| BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| MARINE BIOLOGICAL LAB | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of The Agouron Institute’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY9× · 2017–2025 · $9.0M · revenue +14%
- GRGORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $358k · revenue +43%
The Trustees of Princeton University4× · 2018–2023 · $207k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $72k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $70k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $67k
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.
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.
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…
The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
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 and Research
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 90 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds SELKIRK CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BAHAMAS MARINE ECOCENTRE ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Simons Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Agouron Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Agouron Institute. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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