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US Civilian Research & Development Foundation

Crdf global facilitates scientific collaborations between countries, promotes safe and responsible science, encourages entrepreneurship that supports economic growth, and improves the capacity of individual scientists and institutions.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$174k
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$2.2MCommunity Improvement$1.2MHealth$217kFood & Nutrition$174kInternational$151kEducation$55kPhilanthropy$28kYouth Development$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $382,056, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,222,284 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,840,228 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $326k
$152,242
Median grant
4
States reached
$80M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NOBLE SUPPLY & LOGISTICS$174,044
INSIGHT PUBLIC SECTOR INC$152,242
EQUUS COMPUTE SOLUTIONS$43,770
WRAP INC$12,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES: $112k → 7%NOBLE SUPPLY & LOGISTICS INC: $1.1M → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $103k → 13%EQUUS COMPUTE SOLUTIONS: $44k → 11%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $20k → 22%JCB SCIENTIFIC CONSULTING LLC: $22k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE: $25k → 11%MIDDLEBURY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AT MONTEREY: $28k → 12%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE: $25k → 14%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $29k → 14%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TE: $36k → 14%INSIGHT PUBLIC SECTOR INC: $152k → 11%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH: $23k → 14%TEXAS A & M AGRILIFE RESEARCH: $38k → 22%TRANSPORTATION SAFETY INSTITUTE: $36k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $15k → 14%AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTRACCELS INC: $151k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA: $41k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $31k → 16%SHARPE SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL LLC: $81k → 16%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $20k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE: $44k → 10%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 19%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $39k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI: $15k → 22%ACUTECH GROUP INC: $18k → 6%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY: $35k → 21%LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY: $35k → 32%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $24k → 19%INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES INC: $22k → 7%NOBLE SUPPLY & LOGISTICS: $174k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN: $38k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES: $37k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE: $25k → 11%JAMES MARTIN CENTER: $28k → 12%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $21k → 14%CONTROL RISKS GROUP LLC: $28k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 16%SHARPE SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL LLC: $24k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE: $18k → 10%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $190k → 19%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 15%LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY: $15k → 32%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN: $15k → 13%HERSH CONSULTING LLC: $35k → 14%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $33k → 19%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 19%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
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
AR
NC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $2.8M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Russia and Neighboring States$1.1M · 40% · 38 grants

Stated purpose: CAPACITY BUILDING

Central America and the Caribbean$596k · 21% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CAPACITY BUILDING

Middle East and North Africa$517k · 18% · 18 grants

Stated purpose: CAPACITY BUILDING

Sub-Saharan Africa$193k · 7% · 19 grants

Stated purpose: CAPACITY BUILDING

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$168k · 6% · 8 grants

Stated purpose: CAPACITY BUILDING

South Asia$125k · 4% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: CAPACITY BUILDING

East Asia and the Pacific$58k · 2% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: CAPACITY BUILDING

South America$47k · 2% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: CAPACITY BUILDING

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 25 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
38

Total granted

$3.0M
$933k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+43%

Still filing today

24%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IS
    INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES INC
    2× · 2017–2021 · $133k · revenue +30%
  • TR
    The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    2× · 2017–2018 · $65k · revenue +62%
  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $151k · revenue +43%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA ME
    one grant, 2022 · $92k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
    one grant, 2018 · $47k
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
8
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
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
Arcadia University

Arcadia university's pioneering, global, integrated, liberal arts, and professional learning experience cultivates leaders who are intellectually fearless and uniquely prepared for life and work. our highly regarded, values-based learning…

Education
11
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
12
Furman University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacred Heart University Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Wrap Project Inc. 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 67 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
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NOBLE SUPPLY & LOGISTICS INC: $1,231,027 · OtherNOBLE SUPPLY & LOGISTICS INCTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $310,055 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $167,570 · OtherINSIGHT PUBLIC SECTOR INC: $152,242 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $137,353 · Other+48 more: $1,482,583 · Other+48 moreThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $64,671 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationCornell University: $40,969 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $34,256 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $20,435 · EducationSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $20,420 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $9,997 · Education+1 more: $5,680 · EducationINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES INC: $133,342 · HealthGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $17,905 · HealthAMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC: $150,980 · InternationalCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $38,250 · Food & NutritionTHE JAMES G MARTIN CENTER FOR ACADEMIC RENEWAL: $28,111 · PhilanthropyWRAP PROJECT INC: $12,000 · Community Improvement
Other$3,480,830Education$246,428Health$151,247International$150,980Food & Nutrition$38,250Philanthropy$28,111Community Improvement$12,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC: $150,980 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES INC: $133,342 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $64,671 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL IMPLEMENTATION SOLUTIONS: $49,982 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCornell University: $40,969 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $38,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $34,256 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAMES G MARTIN CENTER FOR ACADEMIC RENEWAL: $28,111 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $20,435 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $20,420 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $17,905 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWRAP PROJECT INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $9,997 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $5,680 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 AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES INC ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL IMPLEMENTATION SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds THE JAMES G MARTIN CENTER FOR ACADEMIC RENEWAL ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗

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.

National Collegiate A…Folds of Honor Founda…Tulsa Community Found…
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · 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 US Civilian Research & Development Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from US Civilian Research & Development Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wrap Project Inc: 64% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 67 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home