Iowa · Nonprofit
THE KRELL INSTITUTE
THE KRELL INSTITUTE (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $100
- Net assets
- $863k
What The Krell Institute does
Mission
To promote the application of modern computing, communication, and information technologies to national priorities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The department of energy computational science graduate fellowship program selects highly qualified students and supports their research and academic study for up to four years of their phd graduate work in a computational science and engineering discipline area that is important to the united states department of energy's office of science and national nuclear security administration. The doe csgf fellows must complete a program of study at a united states research university, spend at least twelve consecutive weeks at a department of energy laboratory working on a research project of importance to the nation, and attend an annual program review to share their research experience with other students in the doe computational science graduate fellowship program and with department of energy headquarters and laboratory research staff. During fy2025, 42 fellows completed a research practicum, and 30 students were selected to receive fellowships, bringing the current number of fellows in the program to 140. Fellows are enrolled at 48 different research universities in the united states. Of the 28 fellows who completed their fellowship during the fiscal year, all have self-reported…
$14,412,472 spent79% of program spendingThe stewardship science graduate fellowship (ssgf) program selects highly qualified students in stewardship science disciplines that are important to the united states department of energy's national nuclear security administration. Stewardship science includes areas of study relative to high energy density physics, nuclear science, materials under extreme conditions, and hydrodynamics. The fellows complete a program of study at a united states research university, spend at least twelve consecutive weeks at a department of energy national defense laboratory working on a research project of importance to the nation, and attend an annual symposium to share their research experience with other students in the stewardship science graduate fellowship program and with department of energy headquarters and laboratory research staff. During fy2025, five fellows completed the phd fellowship program and are now employed in either postdoctoral programs, in an educational field, or at department of energy laboratories. Five new students were selected to receive fellowships, bringing the total number of fellows in the program to 20. Ssgf fellows were enrolled at 12 different research…
$3,912,498 spent21% of program spendingThe communication project develops and provides accessible, concise, and scientifically accurate presentations of the research supported by the department of energy (doe) at doe laboratories, at universities, and in industry. It also studies how the communication of computational science and engineering research is best framed and disseminated to the public sector and to educational institutions.
$28,109 spent$28,586 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,353,079.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.8M to $3.8M (+33%).
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 95% · 2018 95% · 2019 98% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE KRELL INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Buddy Beck
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE KRELL INSTITUTE’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.
Where its funders are
THE KRELL INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
THE KRELL INSTITUTE has grown faster than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE KRELL INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $171.7M on record.
- Department of Energy$171.3M
- National Science Foundation$433k
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 KRELL INSTITUTE
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE KRELL INSTITUTE: 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 KRELL INSTITUTE?
- THE KRELL INSTITUTE (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE KRELL INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100 in grants to THE KRELL INSTITUTE.
- Who is the largest funder of THE KRELL INSTITUTE?
- SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE KRELL INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 1 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