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The Council on Undergraduate Research

Cur works to support and promote high-quality mentored undergraduate research. Cur offers programs and resources to share successful models and strategies for establishing and nurturing undergraduate research, while providing community support to ensure success.

$68k
Granted FY2023
1
Itemized grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$43k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$42,886
Largest grant, FY2023
$42,886
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$5.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Council on Undergraduate Research funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationOther
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
FY20231$43k0%
FY20222$31k0%
FY20216$79k83%
FY20208$150k88%
FY20193$68k0%
FY20183$52k0%
FY20176$88kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$449kScience & Tech$96kHealth$5k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
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MA
IN
RI
CA
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KY
VA
MD
AZ
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Indiana University Foundation$153,18340%
University of San Diego$106,07140%
Florida Southern College$96,94130%
Carleton College$29,92910%
Indiana University School of Medicine$29,4061n/a
University of Kentucky$27,0592n/a
Radford University Foundation Inc$8,00010%
University of Arizona$8,0001n/a
William Marsh Rice University$5,50010%
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro$5,5001n/a
Show all 18 grantees
All grantees of The Council on Undergraduate Research by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Indiana University Foundation$153,18340%
University of San Diego$106,07140%
Florida Southern College$96,94130%
Carleton College$29,92910%
Indiana University School of Medicine$29,4061n/a
University of Kentucky$27,0592n/a
Radford University Foundation Inc$8,00010%
University of Arizona$8,0001n/a
William Marsh Rice University$5,50010%
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro$5,5001n/a
Alumni Association of St Marys College of Maryland Inc$5,4501n/a
American Physiological Society$5,13930%
Williams College$5,00010%
Rochester Institute of Technology$5,00010%
Davidson College$5,00010%
Texas Tech University System$5,0001n/a
Furman University$5,00010%
Brigham Young University$5,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Council on Undergraduate Research supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIndiana University Foundation: $153,183 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Diego: $106,071 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Southern College: $96,941 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCarleton College: $29,929 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRadford University Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Physiological Society: $5,139 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFurman University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA7.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About The Council on Undergraduate Research

How much does The Council on Undergraduate Research give?
The Council on Undergraduate Research reported 1 itemized grants totaling $42,886, out of $68,486 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Council on Undergraduate Research fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (82%), Science & Tech (17%), Health (1%).
Who are The Council on Undergraduate Research's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Indiana University Foundation ($153k), University of San Diego ($106k), Florida Southern College ($97k).
Does The Council on Undergraduate Research fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Council on Undergraduate Research?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Council on Undergraduate Research based?
The Council on Undergraduate Research is based in MD.

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 19 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $34k 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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