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Grants for social science institutes
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
Foundation size
| Foundation size | Number of grantmakers |
|---|
| Small | |
| Medium | |
| Large | |
Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.
Grants made
| Grants made to social science orgs | Number of grantmakers |
|---|
| 1 | |
| 2-3 | |
| 4-10 | |
| 11+ | |
Top 10 foundations supporting social science organizations
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 | |
| $10k-$25k | |
| $25k-$100k | |
| $100k+ | |
Grant amount by grantee size
| Grantee annual revenue | Median grant size |
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| <$100k | |
| $100k-$500k | |
| $500k-$1M | |
| $1M-$5M | |
| >$5M | |
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 |
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.