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The Association for Institutional Research

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$107k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$54k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Science & Tech$629kEducation$322kCommunity Improvement$54kHealth$17k
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $94,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $106,716 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,716 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
$54,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY BUSINESS OFFICES$54,000
EDUCAUSE$40,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $50k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST: $50k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $33k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $33k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $17k → 22%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $47k → 16%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY BUSINESS OFFICES: $54k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $33k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $33k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $50k → 10%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 13%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $50k → 16%SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $32k → 16%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 16%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%COUNCIL OF GRADUATE SCHOOLS: $50k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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
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
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
4
Association of American Universities Inc

Founded in 1900, aau is composed of 71 distinguished institutions in the united states and canada that continually advance society through education, research, and discovery. our u.s. member universities earn the majority of competitively…

Education
5
University of Miami

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

Education
6
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
7
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
8
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
9
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
10
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
11
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
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Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brown University and the most unlike its peers is Council of Graduate Schools. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $58,196 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY BUSINESS OFFICERS — $54,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY BUSINESS O…THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE — $50,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEEUniversity of Wisconsin Madison — $50,000 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI — $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATIUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO — $49,423 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADOUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON — $46,722 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $33,333 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA — $33,333 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDAState University of Iowa — $33,142 · OtherState University of IowaSETON HALL UNIVERSITY — $32,322 · OtherSETON HALL UNIVERSITYIndiana University School of Medicine — $24,600 · OtherNew York University — $99,835 · EducationNew York UniversityGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EducationGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $49,978 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $49,925 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State University o…Council of Graduate Schools — $49,851 · EducationCouncil of Graduate SchoolsUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC — $49,816 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INCEDUCAUSE — $40,000 · EducationEDUCAUSETRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $16,667 · EducationBROWN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · Community Improvement
Other$515,071Education$456,072Community Improvement$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNew York University — $99,835 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY BUSINESS OFFICERS — $54,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $49,978 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $49,925 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil of Graduate Schools — $49,851 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC — $49,816 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEDUCAUSE — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY — $32,322 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $16,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Association for Institutional Research funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $14k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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