Grants for social science institutes

Name: Top 25 grants made to social science organizations
Creator: Cause IQ
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397 social science organizations received at least $97.0 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 802 grants made from 617 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,347. Of these 617 foundations, 85% made just a single grant to social science orgs, and 2% made grants to four or more social science orgs. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$96,951,960

Total grant dollars given to social science institutes

802

Number of grants made annually to social science institutes

617

Number of grantmakers funding social science institutes

$1,347

Median grant size to social science institutes

Foundations that support social science organizations

Out of all grants made to social science institutes, 68% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 80% of the dollar-value of grants to social science orgs. Foundations funding social science orgs also made grants to public sector improvement organizations, colleges, educational service providers, universities, and multiservice human service organizations.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	421
Medium	91
Large	105

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	17
Private	543
Corporate	23
Other	34

Grants made

Grants made to social science orgs	Number of grantmakers
1	526
2-3	75
4-10	13
11+	3

Top 10 foundations supporting social science organizations

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to social science orgs	Number of grants made to social science orgs	Median grant size
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.1%	22	$2,500
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	12	$367
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	0.0%	12	$444
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	9	$325
Woodford Foundation	CO	National	3.2%	7	$500
Creigh Family Foundation	NE	National	7.1%	5	$3,500
Annie E Casey Foundation (AECF)	MD	National	0.0%	5	$2,500
Community Foundation of North Texas (NTXCF)	TX	State	0.0%	5	$250
James Deering Danielson Foundation	IL	National	5.7%	4	$4,500
The Robertson-Finley Foundation	TX	National	8.3%	4	$4,000

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Social science organizations grantees

Social science institutes with more than $5 million in total revenues received 77% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 51% of all social science orgs.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	783
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	19

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,500
$100k-$500k	$1,000
$500k-$1M	$1,500
$1M-$5M	$1,800
>$5M	$1,000

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
District of Columbia	254
California	83
New York	73
Massachusetts	66
Other	326

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
Washington DC	297
New York City	67
Boston	60
Chicago	44
Other	319

Top 25 grants made to social science institutes

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
The Education Finance Institute	$15,000,000	To Provide Covid-19 Support	Blue Meridian Partners
The Holdsworth Center	$13,000,000	Training Center Construction	The Charles Butt Foundation
Trustees for Harvard University	$11,177,807	Cost	Harvard University
Freedom Forum Institute	$7,615,137	General Support	Freedom Forum
RSF Social Finance (RSF)	$4,256,266	General Support	New Field Foundation
Center for Global Development (CGD)	$3,691,987	International Education Research	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Economic Innovation Group (EIG)	$3,533,285	Employment	New Venture Fund
Economic Innovation Group (EIG)	$3,533,285	Employment	New Venture Fund
Rim Foundation	$3,451,231	Distribution of Charitable Assets in Accordance With Vanguard Sale Agreement	Legacy DMC
American Bar Foundation	$3,443,994	Unrestricted Supports Law Related Research	American Bar Endowment
The Pew Charitable Trusts (Pew)	$3,400,000	76818 Broadening the Community Opioid Response and	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
Center for Global Development (CGD)	$3,348,550	International Development	Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)
Urban Institute	$3,324,102	Us Poverty and Mobility Analysis	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
National Opinion Research Center (NORC)	$3,018,385	Sub-Award	Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
Washington Center for Equitable Growth	$3,000,000	General Support	Sandler Foundation
Machine Intelligence Research Institute	$2,762,500	Sciences	Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)
Trustees for Harvard University	$2,690,875	To Support the Bipolar Disorder Fund for Neuroscience Research	Dauten Family Foundation
The Brookings Institution	$2,640,000	To Improving the Performance of American Institutions and the Quality of the Policies They Make.	Hutchins Family Foundation
The Milken Institute	$2,515,408	For Donee's Exempt Purpose	Resnick Foundation
The Heritage Foundation	$5,000	General Operating Support	Town Branch Foundation
The Independent Institute	$5,000	General Fund	Susquehanna Foundation
Institute for Humane Studies	$5,000	Assistance for Charitable Purpose	Foundation for Individual Liberty
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MI)	$5,000	Assistance for Charitable Purpose	Foundation for Individual Liberty
The Heritage Foundation	$5,000	To Aid the General Charitable Purpose of the Organization	The Karp Foundation
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MI)	$5,000	To Help Org. Fulfill Its Charitable Purpose	The Karp Foundation

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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 "Social science institutes" category for this page is determined by the "V20: Social Science Research Institutes, Services" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.