· Public charity
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 53 grants below total $8,146,629 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $154,356,495 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $146,209,866 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $601k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+10 grants · $5.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASSISTMENTS FOUNDATION INC | $1,107,292 |
| CITY OF WORCESTER | $795,713 |
| WESTED | $613,927 |
| AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS | $547,593 |
| NC A&T STATE UNIVERSITY | $408,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $313,431 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $309,254 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORP | $295,310 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $291,080 |
| GDB INTERNATIONAL | $281,267 |
| LESLEY UNIVERSITY | $241,053 |
| GAS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE | $224,641 |
| UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL | $189,919 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $175,452 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $163,552 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
78 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $536k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AFASSISTMENTS FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $6.6M · revenue +606% · 72% of their budget
- IOInstitute of Gas Technology3× · 2023–2025 · $586k · revenue +5%
- AMALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM4× · 2019–2022 · $486k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- HWHF Webster Engineering Servicesone grant, 2017 · $351k
- DRDeep Reach Technology Incone grant, 2017 · $237k
- TMTechnology Metals Research LLCone grant, 2017 · $141k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
Education and Research
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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…
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…
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…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is The Learning Center for the Deaf Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 107 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ASSISTMENTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LESLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Institute of Gas Technology ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS ↗
- Who funds ALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · American Chemical Society · Trustees of Boston University · Cornell University · Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc · Northeastern University · University of Southern California · President and Fellows of Harvard College · American Heart Association Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · University of Miami
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Worcester Polytechnic Institute funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- The Fire Protection Research Foundation — 50% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Tall Timbers Research Inc — 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- The Learning Center for the Deaf Inc — 9% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Mcphs University — 1% of income from government
- Lesley University — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.