Maryland · Nonprofit
THE COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
THE COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,891 to it, the largest being Research Corporation dba Research Corporation for Science Advancement ($56,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $94k
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What The Council on Undergraduate Research does
Mission
Cur works to support and promote high-quality mentored undergraduate research. Cur offers programs and resources to share successful models and strategies for establishing and nurturing undergraduate research, while providing community support to ensure success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Events - cur events bring together faculty, staff, administrators, students, policymakers, representatives of funding agencies, and other stakeholders with an interest in conducting and promoting undergraduate research. Cur events are offered in virtual, hybrid, and in-person formats to encourage maximum participation of the community in professional development opportunities. During our last fiscal year, cur held a national conference and smaller workshops bringing together hundreds of faculty and administrators. Cur added smaller informal live discussions and webinars to offer up-to-the minute sharing.
$1,585,820 spent$1,597,636 earned by the program68% of program spendingMembership services - cur is a community of more than 14,000 individual members and just over 525 institutional members from around the world who share a passion for undergraduate research. Cur membership is designed to assist faculty, administrators, researchers, staff, mentors, and students in their efforts to develop, enhance, sustain, and support undergraduate research on their campuses and beyond. Cur members receive access to exclusive resources and content such as: an online member community and job board, professional development opportunities, networking and mentoring opportunities, member resource library, assessment and advocacy toolkits, cur's quarterly scholarly journal - scholarship and practice of undergraduate research (spur), newsletters and more.
$559,104 spentof which $20,370 as grants$890,883 earned by the program24% of program spendingPublications - cur offers a variety of publications that focus on topics related to undergraduate research, including a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal; books and other publications, such as newsletters and position statements. Cur also offers a range of services, including program review, consulting and mentoring services to individuals, academic departments, schools/colleges, and entire campuses. Cur provides these services by calling upon academic professionals who share its vision and goals; are experts in undergraduate research theory, practice, and assessment; have an understanding of higher education budget and policy issues; and are leaders in undergraduate education.
$98,870 spent$4,230 earned by the program4% of program spendingAwards - to recognize original and insightful research work conducted by a young investigator working with undergraduates that has had a significant impact on chemistry and the stem careers of the students involved.
$28,590 spentof which $14,000 as grants$5,518 earned by the program1% of program spendingServices - cur provides consulting as a form of education.
$63,831 spent$63,644 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,336,215.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $4.1M to $5.2M (+25%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 9% · 2018 16% · 2019 18% · 2020 25% · 2021 11% · 2022 4% · 2023 12% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $50k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
40% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 58% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
THE COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding THE COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4k on record.
- Membership in Organizations$4k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH?
- THE COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,891 to it, the largest being Research Corporation dba Research Corporation for Science Advancement ($56,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $93,891 in grants to THE COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH?
- Research Corporation dba Research Corporation for Science Advancement is the largest funder on record, with $56,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing