· 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…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 48 grants below total $8,624,452 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,317,877 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $693,425 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $443k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+7 grants · $6.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $2,623,627 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $800,605 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $750,267 |
| KINDLING INC | $581,762 |
| STATE OF MARYLAND-UNIVERSITY OF MD COLLEGE PARK | $576,561 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $560,910 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $310,148 |
| ASU FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $249,995 |
| NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER | $240,000 |
| BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $208,243 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIV RESEARCH CORPORATION | $191,774 |
| UNIV OF MARYLAND CLG PARK FND | $170,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $144,984 |
| NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK FDN | $133,395 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $131,724 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
55 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 16 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $665k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
Northwestern University3× · 2022–2024 · $5.9M · revenue +4%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +50%
DUKE UNIVERSITY3× · 2022–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +3%
Funded once
- TBTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INCone grant, 2020 · $160k · revenue -23%
- FAFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +34%
- TGTechbridge Girlsone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -72%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
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…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
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To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan State University Research Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sweet Water Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
109 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 109 of the 128 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Underwriters Laboratories Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition Inc — 87% of income from government
- Sfpe Educational and Scientific Foundation — 69% of income from government
- The Fire Protection Research Foundation — 50% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation — 24% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- National Fire Sprinkler Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- The Electrochemical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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