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Grants for engineering and technology research centers
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
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 tech institutes | Number of grantmakers |
|---|
| 1 | |
| 2-3 | |
| 4-10 | |
| 11+ | |
Top 10 foundations supporting engineer and technology research centers
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 | |
| $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 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 |
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.