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Universities Research Association Inc

Universities research association, inc.

$531k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$39k
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 2024.

Science & Tech$1.8MEducation$272kRecreation & Sports$50kYouth Development$28k
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $361,358, the rows itemized in this filing. The $531,164 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $169,806 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $323k
$15,176
Median grant
17
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI$39,243
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON$31,000
RUTGERS STATE UNIV OF NEW JERSEY$30,910
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$28,514
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON$27,585
STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY$25,944
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$22,952
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON$20,000
REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$19,870
COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY$16,821
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$15,176
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$13,458
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY$11,751
THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE$10,043
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$10,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 11%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $20k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBAR: $21k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $18k → 16%STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY: $26k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $57k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON: $16k → 11%SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $46k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $28k → 16%NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY: $19k → 23%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $35k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $25k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $34k → 16%WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 21%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $17k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $20k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $23k → 9%FERMI RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $28k → 8%NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY: $27k → 13%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI: $39k → 18%RUTGERS STATE UNIV OF NEW JERSEY: $31k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $16k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $34k → 11%STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY: $17k → 7%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $30k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $40k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $21k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 16%WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $19k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $23k → 9%FERMI RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $25k → 8%ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $36k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI: $23k → 18%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $23k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $18k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $20k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $19k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $17k → 14%ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $33k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI: $15k → 18%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $23k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $15k → 15%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $16k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $38k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $37k → 14%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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
SC
MS
AL
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $117k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$117k · 100% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 38 repeat orgs$401k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
19

Total granted

$2.0M
$308k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+16%

Still filing today

29%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
EducationScience & TechRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • University of Chicago
    6× · 2017–2023 · $114k · revenue +56%
  • II
    Illinois Institute of Technology
    7× · 2019–2025 · $109k · revenue +18%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2018–2024 · $71k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • Northwestern University
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +4%
  • Southern Methodist University
    one grant, 2023 · $46k · revenue +14%
  • IS
    IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $21k
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
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
2
University of Miami

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

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
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
5
The George Washington University

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…

Education
6
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
7
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
8
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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9
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
10
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
11
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
12
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. 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

27 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. 27 of the 69 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)
27/27
Grantees still filing
26/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $126,266 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXASState University of Iowa: $114,196 · OtherState University of IowaREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $81,371 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI: $77,499 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $70,565 · OtherFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $69,464 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $64,542 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $64,466 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $58,157 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $56,953 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $56,407 · Other+33 more: $807,386 · Other+33 moreUniversity of Chicago: $114,413 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoIllinois Institute of Technology: $109,174 · EducationIllinois Institute of TechnologyTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $80,228 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY…Cornell University: $57,610 · EducationCornell UniversityNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $57,303 · EducationNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDA…The Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $50,695 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The Sta…Yale University: $49,580 · EducationYale UniversitySouthern Methodist University: $46,182 · EducationSouthern Methodist UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $44,340 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technolo…SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $30,812 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $29,021 · Education+12 more: $136,752 · Education+12 moreFermi Research Alliance LLC: $52,774 · Science & TechNorthwestern University: $49,795 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,647,272Education$806,110Science & Tech$52,774Recreation & Sports$49,795

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 budgetUniversity of Chicago: $114,413 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $109,174 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $80,228 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $70,565 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $57,610 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $57,303 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFermi Research Alliance LLC: $52,774 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $50,695 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $49,795 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $49,580 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $46,182 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $44,340 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $30,812 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $29,021 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $21,667 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $19,693 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $18,128 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $17,179 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $9,778 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $8,306 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $8,080 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $7,901 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $7,360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $6,538 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $6,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $5,997 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 University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Fermi Research Alliance LLC ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗

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.

Association of Public…American Chemical Soc…Tulsa Community Found…
Association of Public and Land-Grant UniversitiesDC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities · American Chemical Society · Tulsa Community Foundation

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 Universities Research Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Universities Research Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
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 69 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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