National Collegiate Inventors &
Hadley, MA · EIN 42-1727335. Reported 384 grants totalling $46.5M to 273 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
273organizations funded
$25,000median reported grant
$46.5Mgranted, 2020-2024
24%of grantees funded again the next year
9%of dollars to its largest recipient
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For National Collegiate Inventors &, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for education (NTEE B12).
- How spread out its giving is. 273 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 24% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $4,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
69 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $38.4M in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
All 273 recipients appear in its filings; the 250 largest are listed here. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received a reported grant.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gameto Inc | Austin, TX | $4,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | Austin, TX | $3,500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dar Bioscience Inc | San Diego, CA | $3,500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | $3,139,210 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | Charlestown, MA | $2,951,004 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Research Institute | Washington, DC | $2,658,940 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fieldbook Studio LLC | Indianapolis, IN | $2,300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ancilia Biosciences Inc | New York, NY | $1,700,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Celmatix Inc | New York, NY | $1,580,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nura Health Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $1,353,073 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Glaucus Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $1,200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 2TWELVE90 LLC | Mount Pleasant, SC | $1,125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $1,075,140 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $1,047,765 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN | $1,042,528 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc | Cambridge, MA | $930,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $925,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ge Medical Systems Information Technologies Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $851,977 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $847,688 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | $750,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gravidas Diagnostics Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $686,065 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $505,907 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $447,983 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Weatherwax Biotechnologies Corporation Dba General Proximity | San Francisco, CA | $290,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $201,613 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $189,700 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $160,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Washington - Seattle Campus University of | Seattle, WA | $150,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst | Lowell, MA | $145,000 | 5 | 3 | 2022 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $137,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| California Davis University of Office of Research | Davis, CA | $129,828 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | $123,000 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| North Carolina State University at Raleigh | Raleigh, NC | $114,222 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Research Foundation of the City University of New York | New York, NY | $88,531 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Art Center College of Design | Pasadena, CA | $88,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $84,774 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $80,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Oregon State University Office of Sponsored Research and Award Administrati on | Corvallis, OR | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| North Carolina A&t State University | Greensboro, NC | $77,510 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Connecticut | Storrs, CT | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Morgan State University | Baltimore, MD | $69,952 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | $69,073 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Georgia Tech Research Corporation | Atlanta, GA | $68,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Houston | Houston, TX | $66,400 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | $65,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $59,999 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA | $59,999 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $59,921 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Blacksburg, VA | $59,625 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Inc | Needham, MA | $59,600 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tennessee Tech University | Cookeville, TN | $57,637 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cal Poly Corporation | San Luis Obispo, CA | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Texas A&m Engineering Experiment Station | College Station, TX | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Akron | Akron, OH | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc | Orlando, FL | $54,358 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Worcester, MA | $53,740 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $50,405 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Agpreneur Inc | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc | Charleston, SC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | New Orleans, LA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Lehigh University | Bethlehem, PA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System University of Wisco | Madison, WI | $44,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Texas at Tyler | Tyler, TX | $43,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Angel Capital Association | Overland Park, KS | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | New York, NY | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Hbcu Founders Initiative | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southern Methodist University | Dallas, TX | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Texas Rio Grande Valley | Edinburg, TX | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Elizabeth City State University | Elizabeth City, NC | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northern Kentucky University | Highland Heights, KY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of California | Santa Cruz, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Steam Connection | Troy, MI | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras | San Juan, PR | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Clemson University | Clemson, SC | $34,250 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $33,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | $32,950 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Central Florida Board of Trustees Central Florida Universit | Orlando, FL | $31,550 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Benedict College | Columbia, SC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation | Fullerton, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Citadel Foundation | Charleston, SC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Iowa State University Foundation | Ames, IA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jackson State University | Jackson, MS | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lorain County Community College Foundation | Elyria, OH | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Muhlenberg College | Allentown, PA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Montana State University | Bozeman, MT | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Association for Communitycollege Entrepreneurship Inc | Westfield, MA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| New York Institute of Technology | Old Westbury, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Mexico University of Contract & Grant Accounting | Albuquerque, NM | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Portland State University | Portland, OR | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| San Luis Obispo County Community College District Dba Cuesta College | San Luis Obispo, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Washington State University | Renton, WA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of North Carolina at Charlotte | Charlotte, NC | $29,999 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jacksonville University | Jacksonville, FL | $29,995 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sam Houston State University | Huntsville, TX | $29,995 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center | Lubbock, TX | $29,990 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of the Incarnate Word | San Antonio, TX | $29,980 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine | Philadelphia, PA | $29,975 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Morningside University | Sioux City, IA | $29,904 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Agnes Scott College | Decatur, GA | $29,662 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Csusb Philanthropic Foundation | Sn Bernrdno, CA | $29,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Clayton State University | Morrow, GA | $29,190 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Missouri Columbia | Columbia, MO | $29,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC | Golden, CO | $28,980 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff | Pine Bluff, AR | $28,936 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Northern Colorado | Greeley, CO | $28,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $28,174 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ursinus College | Collegeville, PA | $27,979 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| James Madison University | Harrisonburg, VA | $27,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of Idaho | Moscow, ID | $27,012 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY | $26,096 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wisconsin Milwaukee University of | Milwaukee, WI | $25,443 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Anp Technologies Inc | Newark, DE | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Abzyme Therapeutics LLC | Pottstown, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Aegis Sciences Corporation | Nashville, TN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Alfa Scientific Designs Inc | Poway, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Aptitude Medical Systems | Santa Barbara, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ascella Biosystems Inc | Fremont, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Associated Pathologists LLC | Brentwood, TN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Atom Bioworks Inc | Cary, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Avantgen Inc | San Diego, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Brigham Young University | Provo, UT | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Broad Institute Inc | Cambridge, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Baebies Inc | Morrisville, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bambu Vault LLC | Lowell, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Biodirection Inc | Southborough, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Biospyder Technologies Inc | Carlsbad, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Conservation X Labs Inc | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ceres Nanosciences Inc | Manassas, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Cue Health Inc | San Diego, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Dascena Inc | Hayward, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Detectachem Inc | Stafford, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Facible Biodiagnostics | Meridian, ID | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fluidigm Corporation | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fluxergy LLC | Irvine, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Gm Biosciences Inc | Frederick, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Gt Molecular | Fort Collins, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ginkgo Bioworks Inc | Boston, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ivd Vision LLC | Carlsbad, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Inbios International Inc | Seattle, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Kryptos Biotechnologies Inc | Hayward, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lira Inc | Chapel Hill, NC | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Maine University of | Orono, ME | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Meridian Bioscience Corp | Cincinnatti, OH | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mologic Inc | Hudson, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Oasis Diagnostics Corporation | Vancouver, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Oklahoma State University | Stillwater, OK | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Orasure Technologies Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Origin Laboratories Inc | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Perkinelmer Health Sciences Inc | Waltham, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Phase Diagnostics Inc | Garden Grove, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pine Trees Inc | Cambridge, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Quidel Corporation | San Diego, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Remote Health Solutions | Midlothian, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Research & Diagnostic Antibodies | Las Vegas, NV | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rover Diagnostics Inc | Port Washington, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sotech Health LLC | Dallas, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Scanogen Inc | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Senzo Inc | West Hollywood, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sonic Healthcare USA | Austin, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| System Biosciences LLC | Palo Alto, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| T2 Biosystems Inc | Lexington, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Tangen Biosciences Inc | Branford, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Testzone Dx | Stamford, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Texas Medical Branch the University of at Galveston | Galveston, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Twist Bioscience | South San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University System of New Hampshire | Concord, NH | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Upstart Crow Inc | Fairfax Sta, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Arkansas Fayetteville | Fayetteville, AR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Veravas Inc | Charleston, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Vita Innovations | Ithaca, NY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| William Marsh Rice University | Houston, TX | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Wainamics Inc | Pleasanton, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Watmind USA | Austin, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Wellsim Biomedical Technologies | Rodeo, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Xtrava Inc | Santa Clara, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Yukon Medical LLC | Durham, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Embry-Riddle Aeronautical | Daytona Beach, FL | $24,999 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bowie State University Foundation | Bowie, MD | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Illinois Institute of Technology | Chicago, IL | $23,750 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fairleigh Dickinson University | Teaneck, NJ | $22,400 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Concordia University Inc | Mequon, WI | $21,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Association of University Technology Managers | Washington, DC | $21,350 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| St Petersburg College | Saint Petersburg, FL | $20,339 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | Tempe, AZ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Beenevolent Systems LLC | Savannah, GA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bug Mars Inc | Brighton, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hacking for Defense Incorporated | Arlington, VA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Harding University | Searcy, AR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Jubily | Martinez, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New College of Florida | Sarasota, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sisyphus Global Systems LLC | San Dimas, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Medford, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Texas A&m University | College Station, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Puerto Rico Mayaguez University of | Mayaguez, PR | $19,988 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bradley University | Peoria, IL | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fayetteville State University | Fayetteville, NC | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Licensing Executives Society Inc | Wakefield, MA | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Aloft Systems Inc | Lafayette, CO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Astraeus Ocean Systems | Bellingham, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baharmar LLC | Pittsburgh, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bionet Sonar Inc | Burlington, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Blue Latitudes LLC | Laguna Beach, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Blue Sea Farmsblue Innovation Labs | Chelsea, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bluemvmt Inc | Cambridge, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coastal Measures | Greenland, NH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Covalency Inc Dba Cargocheck | Bellevue, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Diversican Corporation | Suwanee, GA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Drift Marine Systems | Exeter, NH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lacuum LLC | Ypsilanti, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mira Intel | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sea-Gal Technologies Inc | Bethlehem, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Soarce Inc | Orlando, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology | Hoboken, NJ | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Texas El Paso | El Paso, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| George Mason University Foundation Inc | Fairfax, VA | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kentucky State University | Frankfort, KY | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Old Dominion University Research Foundation | Norfolk, VA | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Lexington, KY | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Texas at Arlington | Arlington, TX | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Direct Marketing Productions Inc Dba Eventpower | Centreville, VA | $13,170 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education | Reno, NV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Black Women Talk Tech Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cambridge Healthtech Institute | Needham Heights, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Marine Sanctuary Foundation | Silver Spring, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nc Idea | Durham, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| P33 | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
69 of 273 (25%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
It also reported 32 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Gameto Inc
ARPA-H Sprint for Women's Health Award - University of Southern California
Funding, hands-on workshops, peer networking opportunities, and expert coaching for student teams working to commercialize their high-impact science and technology inventions; ARPA-H Sprint for Women's Health Award - 2TWELVE90 LLC
WFF Advanced Mobility Venture Studio Operations - Johns Hopkins University
Funding, hands-on workshops, peer networking opportunities, and expert coaching for student teams working to commercialize their high-impact science and technology inventions. - Northwestern University
An award to cover the participation in the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) Initiative Phase 0: Work Package Development. Funding, hands-on workshops, peer networking opportunities, and expert coaching for student teams working to commercialize their high-impact science and technology inventions. Grants to help fund and support faculty with innovative ideas to create new or transform existing courses and programs to help students develop novel, STEM-based inventions and gain the necessary entrepreneurial skills needed to bring these ideas to market. - University of California Davis
Grants to help fund and support faculty with innovative ideas to create new or transform existing courses and programs to help students develop novel, STEM-based inventions and gain the necessary entrepreneurial skills needed to bring these ideas to market.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 102 of 273 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 140 | $2,967,379 | $25,000 |
| 2021 | 54 | $1,554,397 | $27,664 |
| 2022 | 71 | $1,754,268 | $24,700 |
| 2023 | 50 | $1,872,748 | $29,395 |
| 2024 | 69 | $38.4M | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
19% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund57 shared recipientsFolds of Honor Foundation54 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc53 shared recipientsAmerican Chemical Society52 shared recipientsNational Collegiate Athletic Association48 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc48 shared recipients
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from National Collegiate Inventors &'s own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 23 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 46 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 100 Venture Way, Hadley, MA, 01035.
EIN 42-1727335 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.
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