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Universities Research Association Inc
Washington, DC · EIN 52-0816670. Reported 68 grants totalling $1,140,527 to 45 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 45 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. 41% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,840 and $21,419; the smallest was $5,017 and the largest $49,795. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
13 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $200,468 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois Institute of Technology | Chicago, IL | $88,394 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | $70,047 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $49,795 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $49,749 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $47,565 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Southern Methodist University | Dallas, TX | $46,182 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Kentucky | Lexington, KY | $41,174 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY | $41,072 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The University of Tennessee | Knoxville, TN | $39,822 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $35,126 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $32,640 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Colorado State University | Fort Collins, CO | $31,994 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Cincinnati | Cleveland, OH | $30,405 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northern Illinois University Foundation | Dekalb, IL | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Wayne State University | Detroit, MI | $29,609 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Iowa State University | Ames, IA | $28,902 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $24,751 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Medford, MA | $23,080 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Regents of University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $21,639 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL | $21,505 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Notre Dame Du Lac | Notre Dame, IN | $21,001 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of California Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $20,902 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Mexico State University | Las Cruces, NM | $18,747 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Lexington, KY | $18,128 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $18,074 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $17,664 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of California Davis | Davis, CA | $17,595 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $17,179 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Georgia Tech Research Corporation | Atlanta, GA | $16,777 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $16,537 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $16,269 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Texas at Arlington | Arlington, TX | $15,912 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $15,577 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Mississippi | University, MS | $15,461 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | $12,558 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $12,219 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Houston System | Houston, TX | $11,016 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $8,840 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Texas A&m University | College Station, TX | $8,133 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $8,104 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $7,688 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The University of Tennessee Foundat Ion Inc | Knoxville, TN | $7,360 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Wisconsin | Milwaukee, WI | $5,335 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
18 of 45 (40%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 24 of 45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 13 | $200,468 | $12,695 |
| 2021 | 17 | $289,909 | $12,500 |
| 2022 | 17 | $322,069 | $16,211 |
| 2023 | 21 | $328,081 | $15,461 |
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
21% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois. 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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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 $15,000 -- 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 Illinois.
- 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 Universities Research Association Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 21 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: 1140 19TH Street Nw Ste 900, Washington, DC, 20036.
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