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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.

$154M
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
21
States reached
$1.1M
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$25MEducation$12MHealth$4.2MPhilanthropy$98kRecreation & Sports$50kEnvironment$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$7k
02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 53 grants below total $8,146,629, the rows itemized in this filing. The $154,356,495 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $146,209,866 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

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $601k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+10 grants · $5.0M
$72,220
Median grant
21
States reached
$1.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST: $773k → 12%Northeastern University: $447k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $309k → 11%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $460k → 16%WESTED: $614k → 7%REGENTS OF UNIV OF CALIF AT IRVINE: $432k → 10%REGENTS OF UNIV OF CALIF AT IRVINE: $549k → 10%AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS: $548k → 17%Deep Reach Technology Inc: $237k → 16%NC A&T STATE UNIVERSITY: $409k → 16%University of Indiana: $275k → 18%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORP: $295k → 19%GAS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE: $361k → 14%Acoustic MedSystems Inc: $232k → 19%GDB INTERNATIONAL: $302k → 8%HF Webster Engineering Services: $351k → 14%University of Massachusetts Amherst: $578k → 12%Pennsylvania State University: $325k → 16%WESTED: $392k → 7%REGENTS UNIV OF CALIF AT IRVINE: $499k → 10%GDB INTERNATIONAL: $281k → 8%University of Massachusetts Amherst: $477k → 12%WESTED: $315k → 7%Regents of Univ of Calif at Irvine: $280k → 10%University of Massachusetts Amherst: $291k → 12%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $291k → 22%WESTED: $273k → 7%Regents of the Univ of Calif Irvine: $279k → 10%UNIVESITY OF MASSACUSETTS AMHERST: $229k → 12%University of Pennsylvania: $251k → 22%SOLVUS GLOBAL LLC: $1.6M → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $356k → 19%ASSISTMENTS FOUNDATION INC: $1.6M → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $313k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL: $510k → 8%ASSISTMENTS FOUNDATION: $1.5M → 11%General Electric Company: $251k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $248k → 19%ASSISTMENTS FOUNDATION INC: $1.3M → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $229k → 19%CITY OF WORCESTER: $796k → 11%ASSISTMENTS FOUNDATION INC: $1.1M → 11%CITY OF WORCESTER: $776k → 11%ASL ED CENTER: $293k → 11%BOSTON ENGINEERING CORPORATION: $306k → 8%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $254k → 8%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $241k → 8%ASSISTments Foundation: $968k → 11%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

ME
NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
NC
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$39M · 78 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
14

Total granted

$39M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+59%

Still filing today

35%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $536k 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
EducationHealthScience & TechPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AF
    ASSISTMENTS FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $6.6M · revenue +606% · 72% of their budget
  • IO
    Institute of Gas Technology
    3× · 2023–2025 · $586k · revenue +5%
  • AM
    ALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM
    4× · 2019–2022 · $486k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • HW
    HF Webster Engineering Services
    one grant, 2017 · $351k
  • DR
    Deep Reach Technology Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $237k
  • TM
    Technology Metals Research LLC
    one grant, 2017 · $141k
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
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
8
University of New Haven

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…

Education
9
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
10
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
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; 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.
04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 107 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
35/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $4,653,485 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $2,100,001 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINEWESTED: $1,674,048 · OtherWESTEDSOLVUS GLOBAL LLC: $1,665,000 · OtherSOLVUS GLOBAL LLCWORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,572,019 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,443,266 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $1,146,679 · OtherAcoustic MedSystems Inc: $1,137,081 · OtherLESLEY UNIVERSITY: $1,018,007 · Other+62 more: $13,264,360 · Other+62 moreASSISTMENTS FOUNDATION INC: $6,645,025 · EducationASSISTMENTS FOUNDATION INCNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $473,081 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $464,721 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $445,599 · Education+23 more: $2,013,068 · Education+23 moreInstitute of Gas Technology: $586,005 · Science & TechWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $96,923 · Science & TechTALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC: $39,974 · Science & TechALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM: $486,245 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $34,540 · HealthMary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital: $28,612 · HealthBROWN UNIVERSITY: $296,039 · Community ImprovementNorthwestern University: $49,864 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $6,575 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$29,673,946Education$10,041,494Science & Tech$722,902Health$549,397Community Improvement$296,039Recreation & Sports$49,864Public Safety & Disaster$6,575

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASSISTMENTS FOUNDATION INC: $6,645,025 over 7y, 72% of budgetLESLEY UNIVERSITY: $1,018,007 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetInstitute of Gas Technology: $586,005 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS: $577,502 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM: $486,245 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $473,081 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $464,721 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $445,599 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $296,039 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $249,374 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $225,001 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC: $162,235 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $152,632 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $128,184 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $125,542 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $118,972 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $116,185 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING: $111,709 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $103,261 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $96,923 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $89,434 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $89,073 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $84,519 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation: $74,878 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $70,361 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $61,098 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $49,864 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $49,727 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNMC INC: $45,962 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $40,541 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC: $39,974 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $34,540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital: $28,612 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $23,732 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $23,536 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $12,467 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCPHS UNIVERSITY: $11,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $6,575 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAL POLY CORPORATION: $5,780 over 2y, 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 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 ↗

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 Univers…The Trustees of Colum…American Chemical Soc…Trustees of Boston Un…Cornell UniversityAssociation of Univer…Northeastern Universi…University of Souther…President and Fellows…American Heart Associ…University of Notre D…University of Miami
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Worcester Polytechnic Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report 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 107 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 $169M 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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