Grants for engineering and technology research centers

Name: Top 25 grants made to engineer and technology research centers
Creator: Cause IQ
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450 engineer and technology research centers received at least $96.8 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 553 grants made from 424 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,175. Of these 424 foundations, 88% made just a single grant to tech institutes, and 3% made grants to four or more tech institutes. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$96,768,534

Total grant dollars given to engineering and technology research centers

553

Number of grants made annually to engineering and technology research centers

424

Number of grantmakers funding engineering and technology research centers

$1,175

Median grant size to engineering and technology research centers

Foundations that support engineer and technology research centers

Out of all grants made to engineering and technology research centers, 73% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 95% of the dollar-value of grants to tech institutes. Foundations funding tech institutes also made grants to colleges, universities, educational service providers, natural resource conservation nonprofits, and food banks.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	313
Medium	43
Large	67

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	16
Private	342
Corporate	27
Other	39

Grants made

Grants made to tech institutes	Number of grantmakers
1	375
2-3	36
4-10	9
11+	4

Top 10 foundations supporting engineer and technology research centers

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to tech institutes	Number of grants made to tech institutes	Median grant size
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.0%	16	$1,315
Westrock Foundation	GA	National	0.0%	15	$10
Arkansas Community Foundation	AR	State	0.1%	11	$1,400
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	0.1%	11	$750
Salesforce Com Foundation	CA	National	0.0%	10	$75
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	8	$334
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	7	$670
Us Foundation for Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology	NH	National	0.2%	5	$2,300
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	WA	National	0.1%	4	$1,669,004
John D & Catherine T Macarthur Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	4	$4,350

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Engineer and technology research centers grantees

Engineering and technology research centers with more than $5 million in total revenues received 96% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 48% of all tech institutes.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	540
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	13

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$2,759
$100k-$500k	$1,500
$500k-$1M	$1,000
$1M-$5M	$2,500
>$5M	$1,000

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
Massachusetts	157
New York	64
California	63
Washington	34
Other	235

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
Boston	157
New York City	58
Seattle	33
San Francisco	25
Other	248

Top 25 grants made to engineering and technology research centers

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
OpenAI	$30,000,000	Sciences	Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)
OpenAI	$16,028,500	General Support	Yc Org
Cicp Foundation	$7,360,812	FMV	Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP)
US Ignite	$6,805,894	Sub-Award	Northeastern University (NU)
Georgia Tech Research Corporation	$5,471,008	Research/subcontract	Emory University
SRI International	$5,036,570	Sub-Award	Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
The Good Food Institute	$4,200,000	Food Security	Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)
NC State University	$4,011,663	Scholarships, Faculty Support, Departmental Support and Facility Support	NC State Investment Fund
Arizona State University Enterprise Partners	$3,735,000	Program Support	ASU Foundation
Digital Green Foundation	$3,533,683	Agricultural Development	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Georgia Tech Research Corporation	$3,335,508	Water, Sanitation and Hygiene	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
NC State University	$3,148,267	Envisioning Excellence for Community College Leadership	John M Belk Endowment (JMBE)
Council on Library and Information Resources	$3,000,000	To Support A National Grantmaking Competition for the Digitization of Collections of Scholarly and Cultural Importance	Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
ITP International	$5,000	Social Services	The Columbus Foundation
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)	$5,000	General & Unrestricted	Francis and Christine Martin Family Foundation
Project Tomorrow	$5,000	To Provide Assistance To Disadvantaged Children.	Roosters Foundation of Orange County
Pasadena-Foothill Valley YWCA	$5,000	For Core Operating Support for the Health and Wellness of Girls of Color in Pasadena Who Participate in Enrichment Programs and Summer Camp.	California Wellness Foundation
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)	$5,000	General Purposes	The Cloud Family Private Foundation
Girls Who Code	$5,000	Close the Gender Gap in	Ben E Factors Foundation 7600-XXXXXX16259
USENIX Association	$5,000	In Support of the 9th Usenix Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet.	John D & Catherine T Macarthur Foundation
Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society	$5,000	In Support of An Event Focused on Ethics and Artificial Intelligence During the 2019 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.	John D & Catherine T Macarthur Foundation
Women's Foundation of Arkansas	$5,000	General Operating Fund	Rebsamen Fund
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)	$5,000	Charitable	The Branscomb Family Foundation
Billion Oyster Project	$5,000	General Operations	Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation
Nexleaf Analytics	$5,000	International Humanitarian Programs	Goldman Sachs Gives

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Engineering and technology research centers" category for this page is determined by the "U40: Engineering and Technology Research, Services" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.