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The Society for the Study of Evolution

THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF EVOLUTION promotes evolutionary biology research, education, application, outreach, and community building in an equitable and globally inclusive manner.

$294k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$73k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$448kEmployment$68kScience & Tech$37k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $160,304, the rows itemized in this filing. The $293,763 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $133,459 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUKE UNIVERSITY$72,581
WHIO MANAGEMENT LLC$40,617
REED COLLEGE$12,000
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION$10,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$9,498
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$8,465
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$7,143
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $9k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $8k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $6k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $7k → 17%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $7k → 14%WHIO MANAGEMENT LLC: $41k → 10%REED COLLEGE: $12k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $73k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 27%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $6k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $7k → 10%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%WHIO MANAGEMENT LLC: $28k → 10%REED COLLEGE: $12k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $69k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $7k → 27%UC BERKELEY: $6k → 10%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%REED COLLEGE: $12k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $68k → 11%REED COLLEGE: $12k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $67k → 11%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

IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
OH
CA
CO
VA
NC
SC
GA

Grants abroad, by region: $39k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

South America$13k · 34% · 20 people

Stated purpose: RESEARCH OR MEETING ATTENDANCE AWARDS

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$11k · 28% · 21 people

Stated purpose: RESEARCH OR MEETING ATTENDANCE AWARDS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$9k · 24% · 22 people

Stated purpose: RESEARCH OR MEETING ATTENDANCE AWARDS

East Asia and the Pacific$3k · 8% · 12 people

Stated purpose: RESEARCH OR MEETING ATTENDANCE AWARDS

South Asia$2k · 4% · 34 people

Stated purpose: RESEARCH OR MEETING ATTENDANCE AWARDS

Sub-Saharan Africa$325 · 1% · 1 person

Stated purpose: RESEARCH OR MEETING ATTENDANCE AWARDS

Russia and Neighboring States$30 · 0% · 1 person

Stated purpose: RESEARCH OR MEETING ATTENDANCE AWARDS

Central America and the Caribbean$10 · 0% · 1 person

Stated purpose: RESEARCH OR MEETING ATTENDANCE AWARDS

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$418k · 5 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +104% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$418k
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+104%
+22%

Still filing today

40%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $277k · revenue +1%
  • WM
    WHIO MANAGEMENT LLC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $68k
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • KS
    KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • Cornell Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +27%
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.

1
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
2
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
3
New York University

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.

Education
4
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
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
6
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
7
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
8
University of Miami

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

Education
9
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
10
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

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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
Yale University

To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is University of Georgia Research Foundation 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

8 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. 8 of the 17 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY: $276,989 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYREED INSTITUTE: $48,000 · EducationREED INSTITUTECOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION+5 more: $34,508 · Education+5 moreWHIO MANAGEMENT LLC: $68,117 · OtherWHIO MANAGEMENT LLCREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $30,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLO…KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · OtherKENT STATE UNIVERSITYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $13,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALI…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $9,498 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALI…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $8,493 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $7,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $7,000 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $5,922 · Other
Education$389,497Other$164,030

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 budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $276,989 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREED INSTITUTE: $48,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $8,465 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $7,143 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $5,400 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.

  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds REED INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Society for the Study of Evolution funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Society for the Study of Evolution. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Reed Institute: 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 · 0–90%
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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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