· Private foundation
The Elsevier Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $219k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $693k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNESCO | $210,000 |
| CONCERN WORLDWIDE | $100,000 |
| STICHTING AIDSFONDS SOA AIDS NEDERLAND | $90,000 |
| FALLING WALLS FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
| WILDTYPE TECHNOLOGIES PTE LTD | $75,000 |
| FRIENDS OF RESEARCH 4 LIFE | $70,000 |
| CAREERS RESEARCH AND ADVISORY CENTRE (CRAC) | $57,600 |
| NATIONAL UNIVERSITY SINGAPORE | $32,000 |
| UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA | $27,972 |
| IMC WEEKENDSCHOOL | $25,000 |
| ITOCA | $16,790 |
| CHINESE WOMEN SCIENTISTS (CWAST) | $15,000 |
| JUSTINE AKORFA EFAU DAGADU | $10,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 15% of grant dollars ($1.4M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 85% that went abroad ($7.8M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 30% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 85% of all-years giving ($7.8M)
26 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $316k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY2× · 2022–2023 · $150k · revenue +25%
- NLNational League for Nursing2× · 2022–2023 · $105k · revenue +5%
- NCNORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- JGJK GROUP INCone grant, 2022 · $151k
- TTWASone grant, 2022 · $100k
- SDSansum Diabetes Research Instituteone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -46%
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 christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
See Disclosure Above.
1) Support academic research and talents cultivation in Fudan University. 2) Promote higher education in Fudan University and other educational organizations in China. 3) Strengthen global cooperations of education and research. 4) Enhance…
To support and empower all affected by gynecologic cancers through education, research, and public awareness.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Scientific research in information processing; fostering dev. of nat'l inf. infra.
Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 93 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 GIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RESEARCH4LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds National League for Nursing ↗
- Who funds Sansum Diabetes Research Institute ↗
- Who funds DATAKIND INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Winston-Salem State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Tuskegee 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.
Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Elsevier Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Elsevier Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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