Illinois · Public charity
Underwriters Laboratories Inc
UNDERWRITERS LABORATORIES INC.'s mission is: to advance safety science through research and investigation for the public good; to promote safe living and working environments for people by the application of safety science research and hazard-based safety engineering; to support the research and development of products that are…
- $9.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 48
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $8.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,623,627
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 40
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.1B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 34% of the organizations Underwriters Laboratories Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 46 | $7.8M | 35% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $7.5M | 34% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $4.6M | 57% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $1.5M | 61% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $689k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $1.3M | 54% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $636k | 71% |
| FY2017 | 28 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern University | $5,907,843 | 3 | 0% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $2,867,557 | 7 | 0% |
| Duke University | $1,662,525 | 3 | 0% |
| Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc | $1,231,100 | 4 | 1% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $1,228,317 | 4 | n/a |
| University of Maryland College Park | $1,178,977 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Maryland Foundation Inc | $925,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Kindling Inc | $850,000 | 2 | 75% |
| University of Maryland College Park Foundation Inc | $734,758 | 2 | 0% |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $549,995 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 124 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Underwriters Laboratories Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 97 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Ulse Inc · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Negaunee Foundation · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · American Petroleum Institute · Baxter International Foundation
How this is measured
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About Underwriters Laboratories Inc
- How much does Underwriters Laboratories Inc give?
- Underwriters Laboratories Inc reported 48 itemized grants totaling $8,624,452, out of $9,317,877 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Underwriters Laboratories Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (30%), Education (30%), Recreation & Sports (25%).
- Who are Underwriters Laboratories Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Northwestern University ($5.9M), Case Western Reserve University ($2.9M), Duke University ($1.7M).
- Does Underwriters Laboratories Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Underwriters Laboratories Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ulse Inc, Motorola Solutions Foundation, The Sidley Austin Foundation.
- Where is Underwriters Laboratories Inc based?
- Underwriters Laboratories Inc is based in IL.
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