Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA · EIN 04-2121659. Reported 211 grants totalling $30.6M to 84 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. 84 distinct organizations, with 18% 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. 80% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. 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 $66,922. Half of what it reported fell between $23,213 and $157,212; the smallest was $5,255 and the largest $1,617,574. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assistments Foundation Inc | Worcester, MA | $5,604,477 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | Worcester, MA | $2,481,617 | 14 | 4 | 2023 |
| Solvus Global LLC | Worcester, MA | $1,665,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Wested | Seal Beach, CA | $1,594,436 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| City of Worcester | Worcester, MA | $1,572,019 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | $1,479,723 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $1,146,679 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lesley University | Cambridge, MA | $853,249 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | $645,991 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Institute of Gas Technology | Des Plaines, IL | $586,005 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Gdb International | New Brunswick, NJ | $583,312 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Institute of Chemical Engineers | New York, NY | $577,502 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boston Engineering Corporation | Waltham, MA | $510,135 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| State of West Virginia | Morgantown, WV | $483,122 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | $466,201 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA | $464,721 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Nc A&t State University | Greensboro, NC | $440,060 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Asl Ed Center | Princeton, MA | $437,079 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Accoustic Medsystems Inc | Savoy, IL | $419,125 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Westat Inc | Cambridge, MA | $365,011 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Maine System Inc | Bangor, ME | $364,051 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Texas A&m Engineering Experiment Station | College Station, TX | $359,023 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $333,502 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $327,279 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $315,740 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Albany Med Health System | Albany, NY | $312,414 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of California at Riverside | Riverside, CA | $310,967 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Indiana | Bloomington, IN | $310,894 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Battery Resourcers LLC | Westborough, MA | $274,945 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $261,884 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| General Electric Company | Boston, MA | $257,438 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $255,435 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Brown University of Providence | Providence, RI | $248,597 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Florida Atlantic University | Boca Raton, FL | $240,714 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Applied Materials Inc | Austin, TX | $215,727 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Maryland | College Park, MD | $208,314 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Farasis Energy USA Inc | Hayward, CA | $196,203 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| William Marsh Rice University | Houston, TX | $195,646 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Michigan Technological University | Houghton, MI | $189,700 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Carpe Diem Technologies Inc | Franklin, MA | $168,661 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Indium Corporation of America | Clinton, NY | $158,725 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | Rolla, MO | $154,273 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY | $152,632 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Microvast Inc | Stafford, TX | $147,857 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Lehigh University | Bethlehem, PA | $141,705 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $116,185 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $102,441 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Learning Center for the Deaf Inc | Framingham, MA | $97,791 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mississippi State University | Ms State, MS | $97,649 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Research Foundation of the City University of New York | New York, NY | $93,941 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Univ of California Merced | Merced, CA | $92,260 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| San Jose State University Research Foundation | San Jose, CA | $89,434 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $89,073 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mainstream Engineering Corporation | Rockledge, FL | $89,046 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Board of the University of Alabama | Tuscaloosa, AL | $88,784 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $84,519 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $76,650 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| United Technologies Research Center | East Hartford, CT | $73,186 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $72,220 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University System of New Hampshire | Concord, NH | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Woods Hole, MA | $64,378 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA | $56,836 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $49,864 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | $49,727 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Nmc Inc | Los Alamos, NM | $45,962 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Texas A&m University | College Station, TX | $44,826 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bellevue College | Bellevue, WA | $44,729 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Southern Methodist University | Dallas, TX | $40,541 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tall Timbers Research Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $39,974 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ge Medical Systems Ultrasound&pcd LLC | Niskayuna, NY | $39,257 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute | Blackburg, VA | $37,374 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $34,955 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | Boston, MA | $34,540 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Wayne State University | Detroit, MI | $30,044 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | $26,151 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $24,707 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc | Athens, GA | $23,732 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Temple University-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Educ | Philadelphia, PA | $23,536 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Quinsigamond Community College | Worcester, MA | $23,213 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital | Lebanon, NH | $21,275 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| California Baptist University | Riverside, CA | $14,209 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mcphs University | Boston, MA | $11,100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| A123 Systems LLC (wanxiang) | Livonia, MI | $11,004 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Cal Poly Corporation | San Luis Obispo, CA | $5,780 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
64 of 84 (76%) 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 39 of 84 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 | 43 | $6,798,485 | $84,984 |
| 2021 | 53 | $7,772,498 | $56,721 |
| 2022 | 62 | $7,891,071 | $57,818 |
| 2023 | 53 | $8,146,629 | $72,220 |
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
49% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. 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
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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 $66,922 -- 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 Massachusetts.
- 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 Worcester Polytechnic Institute'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 41 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 12 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 Institute Road, Worcester, MA, 01609.
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