Extension Foundation
Kansas City, MO · EIN 20-4781422. Reported 144 grants totalling $12.6M to 63 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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 Extension Foundation, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B054) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 63 distinct organizations, with 8% 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. 92% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $45,287. Half of what it reported fell between $22,415 and $122,271; the smallest was $5,293 and the largest $507,481. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington State University | Renton, WA | $972,027 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mississippi State University | Ms State, MS | $688,763 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Georgia | Athens, GA | $624,520 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $515,529 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Pennsylvania State University | State College, PA | $480,103 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Tennessee | Knoxville, TN | $407,517 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $401,729 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute | Slacksburg, VA | $387,927 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Auburn University | Auburn University, AL | $383,978 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $378,691 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Maryland | College Park, MD | $374,615 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New Mexico State University | Las Cruces, NM | $358,729 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Utah State University | Logan, UT | $333,561 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Missouri | Columbia, MO | $328,602 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| North Carolina State University | Raleigh, NC | $328,512 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| State of West Virginia | Morgantown, WV | $306,489 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $293,114 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | $289,621 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Vermont and State Agricultural College | Burlington, VT | $288,183 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Colorado State University | Fort Collins, CO | $273,054 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Arkansas | Little Rock, AR | $271,846 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $255,798 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Eduworks | Corvallis, OR | $249,857 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University System of New Hampshire | Concord, NH | $242,682 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $234,044 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | $233,322 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Oregon State University | Corvallis, OR | $224,175 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Univeristy of Puerto Rico | Mayaguez, PR | $199,909 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of California | Davis, CA | $192,411 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Lexington, KY | $174,452 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Clemson University | Clemson, SC | $163,483 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| 1890S Universities Foundation | Washington, DC | $132,489 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Idaho | Moscow, ID | $124,953 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | $121,390 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Iowa State University | Ames, IA | $116,093 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Texas A&m Agrilife | College Station, TX | $100,798 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Rhode Island | Kingston, RI | $93,729 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lincoln University | Jefferson City, MO | $91,015 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | Lincoln, NE | $88,364 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Kansas State University | Manhattan, KS | $76,640 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $74,685 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Southern Unversity | Baton Rouge, LA | $59,425 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Oklahoma State University | Stillwater, OK | $56,589 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| North Dakota State University | Fargo, ND | $55,181 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Hawaii | Honolulu, HI | $51,100 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Wyoming | Laramie, WY | $46,764 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education | Reno, NV | $46,618 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Montana State University | Bozeman, MT | $43,002 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Maine System Inc | Bangor, ME | $42,572 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Connecticut | West Hartford, CT | $41,003 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The University of North Carolina | Atlanta, GA | $38,190 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| LSU Agricultural Center | Baton Rouge, LA | $34,895 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| North Carolina A&t | Greensboro, NC | $26,794 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Massachusetts | Amherst, MA | $26,185 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Samoa Community College | Pago Pago, AS | $24,178 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Guam | Mangilao, GU | $23,341 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Alaska | Fairbanks, AK | $22,158 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Wisconsin | Madison, WI | $17,795 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northern Marianas College | Saipan, MP | $16,625 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The University of the Virgin Islands | St Thomas, VI | $16,624 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Navajo Technical University | Crownpoint, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of District of Columbia | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| South Dakota State University | Brookings, SD | $5,711 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
50 of 63 (79%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 14 of 63 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 56 | $6,936,259 | $40,953 |
| 2023 | 37 | $1,622,972 | $23,322 |
| 2024 | 51 | $4,032,918 | $69,553 |
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
8% of its giving went to organizations in Washington. 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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $45,287 -- 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 Washington.
- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Extension Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 48 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: One Kansas Cty Pl 1200 Main St 3800, Kansas City, MO, 64105.
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