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Wm Symposia Inc

Develop an understanding of the nuclear environment.

$249k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$190k
Largest
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.

Education$819kScience & Tech$25k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $200,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $249,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $49,000 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $190k
$190,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POST FOUNDATION$190,000
LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION$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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 15%GANADO MIDDLE SCHOOL: $9k → 28%FIU - APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER: $15k → 15%CHILDRENS READING FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%GONZAGA UNIVERSITY - MCELROY SCHOLARSHIP: $13k → 12%AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY: $5k → 14%LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 15%WASHINGTON STATE STEM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%GONZAGA UNIVERSITY - MCELROY SCHOLARSHIP: $13k → 12%AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY: $5k → 14%LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 15%GONZAGA UNIVERSITY - MCELROY SCHOLARSHIP: $10k → 12%LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 15%LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 15%LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA - LAW OFFICE: $10k → 15%LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 15%SARSEF: $5k → 15%SARSEF: $5k → 15%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$790k · 6 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +114% since the first grant, against -28% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$790k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+114%
-28%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationPhilanthropyScience & TechOther
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

  • TR
    THE ROY G POST FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $620k · revenue +370% · 65% of their budget
  • LC
    LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
    8× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +114%
  • AN
    AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY INCORPORATED
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • FA
    FIU - APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • WS
    WASHINGTON STATE STEM EDUCATION FDTN
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -28%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA - LAW OFFICE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc

Aura provides innovative, open resources to enable discovery and excellence in research, to unify the astrophysics communities, and to promote public understanding of our universe and the benefits of scientific exploration.

Science & Tech
2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
American Astronomical Society

The american astronomical society (aas), established in 1899, is the major organization of professional astronomers in north america. the basic objective of the aas is to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of…

Science & Tech
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
American Geophysical Union

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…

Science & Tech
6
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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7
Astrophysical Research Consortium

Astrophysical Research Consortium operates two telescopes at the Apache Point Observatory. There is a 3.5-meter general purpose telescope and a survey specialized 2.5-meter Sloan Foundation telescope. The telescopes have distinct purposes…

Science & Tech
8
Universities Space Research Association

To provide a collaborative membership organization where universities and other research organizations may cooperate effectively with each other, with the United States government, and other entities to develop knowledge associated with…

Science & Tech
9
American College of Radiology Association

The purpose of the association is the promotion of educational and professional association interests including but not limited to the promotion of the interests of radiology and the interests and study of the socioeconomic aspects of the…

Community Improvement
10
National Academy of Engineering Fund

Naef supports the activities of the national academy of engineering (nae). nae operates within the charter and framework of the national academy of sciences (nas) and advises the federal government on matters of science and technology. nae…

Science & Tech
11
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
12
American Society of Civil Engineers Inc

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;…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Nuclear Society Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is The Children's Reading Foundation. 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 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
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

THE ROY G POST FOUNDATION: $620,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ROY G POST FOUNDATIONFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY - APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER: $45,000 · OtherFLORIDA INTERNA…GONZAGA UNIVERSITY - MCELROY SCHOLARSHIP: $35,000 · OtherGONZAGA UNIVERS…FIU - APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER: $15,000 · OtherFIU - APPLIED R…UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA - LAW OFFICE: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF A…GANADO MIDDLE SCHOOL: $8,500 · OtherGANADO MIDDLE S…LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $70,000 · EducationLAW COLLEGE A…WASHINGTON STATE STEM EDUCATION FDTN: $10,000 · EducationWASHINGTON ST…Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $10,000 · EducationSouthern AZ R…NMC INC: $5,000 · EducationTHE CHILDREN'S READING FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationAMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Science & Tech
Philanthropy$620,000Other$113,500Education$100,000Science & Tech$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ROY G POST FOUNDATION: $620,000 over 9y, 65% of budgetLAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $70,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE STEM EDUCATION FDTN: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSouthern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNMC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S READING FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 THE ROY G POST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON STATE STEM EDUCATION FDTN ↗
  • Who funds Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN ↗
  • Who funds NMC INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S READING FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.8× 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 Wm Symposia Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wm Symposia Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 12 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $328k 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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