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Urann Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$95k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$18k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$509k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$7,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE$18,000
BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY$17,000
MESSIAH UNIVERSITY$9,000
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY$8,000
SMITH COLLEGE$7,000
NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$7,000
RIDER UNIVERSITY$7,000
WENTWORTH INSTITUTE$6,000
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$6,000
SUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$5,000
LAKE FOREST COLLEGE$5,000
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DEAN COLLEGE: $8k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMY: $9k → 8%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $28k → 8%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $8k → 10%BRISTOL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $5k → 11%SMITH COLLEGE: $7k → 12%WENTWORTH INSTITUTE: $14k → 16%MESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $9k → 8%SUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $5k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $8k → 12%NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $7k → 7%LAKE FOREST COLLEGE: $5k → 8%RIDER UNIVERSITY: $7k → 11%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 23%WASHINGTON COLLEGE: $6k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $20k → 9%DEAN COLLEGE: $7k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMY: $8k → 8%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $22k → 8%BENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $7k → 8%BRISTOL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $5k → 11%SMITH COLLEGE: $5k → 12%WENTWORTH INSTITUTE: $10k → 16%MESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $9k → 8%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $8k → 12%LAKE FOREST COLLEGE: $5k → 8%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $19k → 9%DEAN COLLEGE: $7k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMY: $6k → 8%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $19k → 8%WENTWORTH INSTITUTE: $9k → 16%MESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $8k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $18k → 9%MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMY: $6k → 8%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $18k → 8%WENTWORTH INSTITUTE: $8k → 16%MESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $15k → 9%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 8%WENTWORTH INSTITUTE: $6k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $7k → 9%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $7k → 9%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

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NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
MD
LA
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$461k · 16 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
4

Total granted

$461k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+29%

Still filing today

69%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • MU
    MESSIAH UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $32k · revenue +12%
  • DC
    DEAN COLLEGE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $22k · revenue +7%
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • ENDICOTT COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +36%
  • LU
    LESLEY UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -15%
  • WC
    WASHINGTON COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +29%
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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
3
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
4
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
5
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
6
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
7
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
8
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
9
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
10
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quinnipiac University; the most unlike its peers is Husson 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

16 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. 16 of the 24 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)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $120,000 · OtherBRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $86,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIREWENTWORTH INSTITUTE: $47,000 · OtherWENTWORTH INSTITUTEMASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMY: $29,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMY+5 more: $30,000 · Other+5 moreMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $32,000 · EducationMESSIAH UNIVERSITYDEAN COLLEGE: $22,000 · EducationDEAN COLLEGETHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $22,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGEQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · EducationQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITYTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $14,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONA…BENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $14,000 · EducationBENTLEY UNIVERSITYCornell University: $13,000 · EducationCornell UniversityHusson University: $13,000 · EducationHusson UniversityLake Forest College: $10,000 · EducationENDICOTT COLLEGE: $8,000 · EducationRIDER UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $7,000 · EducationCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · Education+2 more: $12,000 · Education+2 more
Other$312,000Education$197,000

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 budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDEAN COLLEGE: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHusson University: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLake Forest College: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLESLEY UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SISTERS OF SAINT ANN INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $6,000 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 MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DEAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds Husson University ↗
  • Who funds Lake Forest College ↗
  • Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LESLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE SISTERS OF SAINT ANN INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗

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.

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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 Urann Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Urann Foundation. 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Sisters of Saint Ann Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rider University: 1% of income from government
  • Washington College: 0% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 0% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
  • Endicott College: 0% of income from government
  • Lesley University: 0% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 24 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-PF 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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The camps
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