How much does Worcester Polytechnic Institute give?

Worcester Polytechnic Institute reported 53 itemized grants totaling $8,146,629, out of $154,356,495 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 55 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Worcester Polytechnic Institute fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (60%), Education (29%), Health (10%).

Who are Worcester Polytechnic Institute's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Assistments Foundation Inc ($6.6M), University of Massachusetts ($4.7M), Regents of the University of California at Irvine ($2.1M).

Does Worcester Polytechnic Institute fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Worcester Polytechnic Institute?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Johns Hopkins University, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, American Chemical Society.

Where is Worcester Polytechnic Institute based?

Worcester Polytechnic Institute is based in MA.

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Massachusetts · 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. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

$154M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 53
Itemized grants FY2024: 55
Organizations funded FY2023: 29%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $8.1M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $72,220
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,107,292
Organizations funded a year: 18 to 55; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 21
Total assets, FY2024: $1.4B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Worcester Polytechnic Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationScience & TechHealthOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	50	$8.1M	18%
FY2023	55	$7.7M	29%
FY2022	47	$7.6M	30%
FY2021	37	$6.5M	30%
FY2020	30	$3.5M	37%
FY2019	26	$2.4M	46%
FY2018	18	$1.5M	28%
FY2017	23	$3.0M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Science & Tech$25MEducation$12MHealth$4.2MPhilanthropy$98kRecreation & Sports$50kEnvironment$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$7k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Assistments Foundation Inc	$6,645,025	7	72%
University of Massachusetts	$4,653,485	9	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Irvine	$2,100,001	6	n/a
Wested	$1,674,048	6	n/a
Solvus Global LLC	$1,665,000	4	n/a
Worcester Public Library	$1,572,019	3	n/a
Pennsylvania State University	$1,443,266	7	n/a
University of Illinois	$1,146,679	4	n/a
Acoustic MedSystems Inc	$1,137,081	9	n/a
Lesley University	$1,018,007	6	0%

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All grantees of Worcester Polytechnic Institute by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Assistments Foundation Inc	$6,645,025	7	72%
University of Massachusetts	$4,653,485	9	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Irvine	$2,100,001	6	n/a
Wested	$1,674,048	6	n/a
Solvus Global LLC	$1,665,000	4	n/a
Worcester Public Library	$1,572,019	3	n/a
Pennsylvania State University	$1,443,266	7	n/a
University of Illinois	$1,146,679	4	n/a
Acoustic MedSystems Inc	$1,137,081	9	n/a
Lesley University	$1,018,007	6	0%
Indiana University School of Medicine	$754,545	7	n/a
The General Electric Company	$603,267	7	n/a
Institute of Gas Technology	$586,005	3	0%
Gdb International	$583,312	3	n/a
American Institute of Chemical Engineers	$577,502	4	1%
Boston Engineering Corporation	$510,135	2	n/a
Albany Med Health System	$486,245	4	0%
State of West Virginia	$483,122	4	n/a
Northeastern University	$473,081	2	0%
Trustees of Purdue University	$466,201	5	n/a
Drexel University	$464,721	4	0%
North Carolina a & T State University	$440,060	2	n/a
Asl Ed Center	$437,079	4	n/a
University of Maine System Inc	$436,220	5	n/a
Westat Corp	$408,477	6	n/a
Texas A&M University	$359,023	4	n/a
HF Webster Engineering Services	$350,880	1	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Riverside	$349,156	4	n/a
Ascend Elements	$334,246	6	n/a
University of Minnesota	$333,502	3	n/a
Curators of the University of Missouri	$315,851	7	n/a
University of Florida	$315,740	4	n/a
University of Maryland College Park	$303,416	4	n/a
The Ohio State University	$300,068	5	n/a
Teaching with Data LLC	$291,685	3	n/a
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia	$282,127	7	n/a
Lehigh University	$249,374	3	0%
University of Conn Health Center	$243,542	2	n/a
Florida Atlantic University	$240,714	2	n/a
Deep Reach Technology Inc	$237,251	1	n/a
A123 Systems LLC	$225,086	5	n/a
William Marsh Rice University	$225,001	4	0%
Applied Materials Inc	$215,727	3	n/a
Farasis Energy USA Inc	$196,203	3	n/a
Carpe Diem Technologies Inc	$195,335	2	n/a
Michigan Tech University	$189,700	3	n/a
The Learning Center for the Deaf Inc	$162,235	2	0%
The Indium Corporation of America	$158,725	2	n/a
Syracuse University	$152,632	4	0%
Microvast Inc	$147,857	3	n/a
Technology Metals Research LLC	$141,155	1	n/a
Research Foundation of the City University of New York	$128,184	4	0%
Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross	$125,542	4	0%
State of Connecticut	$124,575	1	n/a
Johns Hopkins University	$118,972	5	0%
Data Driven Instruction LLC	$118,592	2	n/a
Washington University	$116,185	2	0%
New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning	$111,709	3	3%
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York	$103,261	1	0%
Massachusetts Materials Technologies LLC	$100,000	2	n/a
Board of Regents of the University of California (Merced)	$97,673	2	n/a
Mississippi State University	$97,649	2	n/a
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	$96,923	4	0%
San Jose State University Research Foundation	$89,434	3	0%
Mainstream Engineering Corporation	$89,046	4	n/a
Board of the University of Alabama	$88,784	2	n/a
Western Washington University	$85,337	2	n/a
New York University	$84,519	3	0%
University of California San Francisco	$76,650	3	n/a
University of Louisville Research Foundation	$74,878	2	0%
Raytheon Technologies Research Center	$73,186	1	n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$72,220	1	n/a
California Baptist University	$70,361	4	0%
University System of New Hampshire	$70,000	2	n/a
University of Connecticut	$69,883	1	n/a
Albany Med Health System	$57,276	2	n/a
Georgia Institute of Technology	$56,836	1	n/a
Simbex LLC	$51,470	3	n/a
Northwestern University	$49,864	2	0%
Nmc Inc	$45,962	3	0%
Texas A&M University	$44,826	3	n/a
Bellevue College	$44,729	2	n/a
Southern Methodist University	$40,541	2	0%
Tall Timbers Research Inc	$39,974	3	0%
Ge Medical Systems Information Tech	$39,257	2	n/a
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	$37,374	2	n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$34,955	2	n/a
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc	$34,540	2	0%
Wayne State University	$30,044	2	n/a
Cape Cod Community College	$29,931	2	n/a
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital	$28,612	2	0%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$24,707	2	n/a
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc	$23,732	3	0%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education	$23,536	3	0%
Quinsigamond Community College	$23,213	2	n/a
University of Washington	$16,496	1	n/a
McPhs University	$11,100	1	0%
Energy Research Company	$10,303	2	n/a
Framingham State Univ	$10,204	1	n/a
The Fire Protection Research Foundation	$6,575	1	0%
Cal Poly Corporation	$5,780	2	0%

Worcester Polytechnic Institute supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

Johns Hopkins UniversityMD27.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Worcester Polytechnic Institute

How much does Worcester Polytechnic Institute give?: Worcester Polytechnic Institute reported 53 itemized grants totaling $8,146,629, out of $154,356,495 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 55 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Worcester Polytechnic Institute fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (60%), Education (29%), Health (10%).
Who are Worcester Polytechnic Institute's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Assistments Foundation Inc ($6.6M), University of Massachusetts ($4.7M), Regents of the University of California at Irvine ($2.1M).
Does Worcester Polytechnic Institute fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Worcester Polytechnic Institute?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Johns Hopkins University, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, American Chemical Society.
Where is Worcester Polytechnic Institute based?: Worcester Polytechnic Institute is based in MA.