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University City Science Center

The Science Center is an innovation intermediary, working at the intersection of startups, health and science, and community.

$274k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$32k
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 2023.

Education$1.3MHealth$827kScience & Tech$814k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $32,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $274,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $242,000 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.
$32,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$143M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Pittsburgh$32,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%University of Delaware: $225k → 10%PAINQX INC: $32k → 6%CARECIERGE INC: $57k → 7%The Pennslyvania State University: $200k → 12%Temple University: $200k → 22%Rowan University: $200k → 8%Princeton University: $120k → 11%NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $100k → 16%University of Delaware: $94k → 10%PAINQX INC: $25k → 6%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 12%Temple University: $120k → 22%ROWAN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%University of Delaware: $75k → 10%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 22%IMMERGE LABS LLC: $25k → 22%Temple University: $75k → 22%IMMERGE LABS LLC: $6k → 22%Institute for Cancer Research: $120k → 22%REPISODIC INC: $32k → 22%REPISODIC INC: $25k → 22%Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: $100k → 22%THE WISTAR INSTITUTE: $100k → 22%Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania: $100k → 22%HOSPITAL UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100k → 22%Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: $75k → 22%Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania: $75k → 22%REGDESK INC: $32k → 22%REGDESK INC: $25k → 22%ONE HEALTH: $15k → 22%LIA DIAGNOSTICS INC: $57k → 22%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 10 repeat orgs$569k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$2.1M
$569k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-4%

Still filing today

40%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthOther
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 DELAWARE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $394k · revenue +21%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    3× · 2020–2023 · $251k · revenue +26%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    2× · 2019–2020 · $175k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • TI
    The Institute For Cancer Research
    one grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue -4%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    one grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue -36%
  • TW
    THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +14%
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.

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Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
2
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
3
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
4
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
5
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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6
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
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
Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
9
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
10
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
Temple University Hospital Inc

See Schedule OOur mission is to support Temple University and its Health Sciences Center academic programs by providing the clinical environment and service to support the highest quality teaching and training programs for health care…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Princeton University; the most unlike its peers is The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. 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 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $394,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYROWAN UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · OtherROWAN UNIVERSITYNJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $100,000 · OtherNJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYLIA DIAGNOSTICS INC: $57,200 · OtherCARECIERGE INC: $57,200 · OtherREGDESK INC: $57,200 · OtherREPISODIC INC: $57,200 · OtherPAINQX INC: $57,200 · Other+2 more: $46,632 · OtherTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $494,540 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth Sys…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $275,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $251,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHThe Trustees of Princeton University: $119,540 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton UniversityTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $175,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S …The Institute For Cancer Research: $119,540 · HealthThe Institute F…THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY: $100,000 · HealthTHE WISTAR INST…
Other$1,426,632Education$1,140,080Health$394,540

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 budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $494,540 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $394,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $275,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $251,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Institute For Cancer Research: $119,540 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $119,540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds The Institute For Cancer Research ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Drexel University
Drexel UniversityPA13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 University City Science Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University City Science Center. 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% 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 · 0–75%
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 18 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $294k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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