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The Council on Undergraduate Research

Cur works to support and promote high-quality mentored undergraduate research.

$68k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$43k
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 2023.

Education$449kScience & Tech$96kHealth$5k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $42,886, the rows itemized in this filing. The $68,486 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,600 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.
$42,886
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON$42,886
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $8k → 15%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $5k → 12%CARLETON COLLEGE: $30k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $39k → 11%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5k → 14%RICE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 10%FLORIDA SOUTHERN: $7k → 16%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $36k → 14%BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON: $56k → 18%RADFORD UNIVERSITY: $8k → 25%UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $23k → 8%ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND: $5k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $23k → 11%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON: $47k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $4k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $22k → 11%INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON: $43k → 18%AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $22k → 11%INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON: $8k → 18%AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $1k → 8%TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $46k → 18%AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $658 → 8%TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $45k → 18%TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $29k → 18%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
NY
MA
IN
RI
CA
UT
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NC
SC
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$388k · 5 repeat orgs$122k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
13

Total granted

$388k
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+42%

Still filing today

80%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthOther
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

  • Indiana University Foundation
    4× · 2020–2023 · $153k · revenue +162%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
    4× · 2017–2022 · $106k · revenue +60%
  • FS
    FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $97k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • CC
    CARLETON COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +31%
  • IU
    Indiana University School of Medicine
    one grant, 2017 · $29k
  • RU
    RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -86%
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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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
2
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
3
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
4
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
8
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
9
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
10
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Furman University; the most unlike its peers is Alumni Association of St Marys College of Maryland Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 19 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Indiana University Foundation: $153,183 · EducationIndiana University FoundationFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $96,941 · EducationFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGECARLETON COLLEGE: $29,929 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGE+6 more: $33,500 · Education+6 moreUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $106,071 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGOIndiana University School of Medicine: $29,406 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $27,059 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $8,000 · Other+4 more: $20,950 · Other+4 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY: $39,245 · Community ImprovementAmerican Physiological Society: $5,139 · Health
Education$313,553Other$191,486Community Improvement$39,245Health$5,139

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

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 budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $39,245 over 2y, 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
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.

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 Charita…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Council on Undergraduate Research funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Council on Undergraduate Research. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Southern College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 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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