Sustainable Manufacturing Innovation
West Henrietta, NY · EIN 81-3070192. Reported 27 grants totalling $11.2M to 27 organizations across tax years 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 Sustainable Manufacturing Innovation, the IRS classifies it under science & technology rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE U05) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 27 distinct organizations, with 15% 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 big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $261,935. Half of what it reported fell between $129,445 and $489,638; the smallest was $44,746 and the largest $1,727,275. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rochester Institute of Technology | Rochester, NY | $1,727,275 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | $1,415,415 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $1,099,968 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Massachusetts Lowell | Lowell, MA | $956,658 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Solvus Global | Leominster, MA | $664,242 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $565,144 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Akron | Akron, OH | $489,638 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of California Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $468,701 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | $397,080 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $345,949 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Western Michigan University | Kalamazoo, MI | $318,134 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $310,429 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $295,013 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | Blacksburg, VA | $261,935 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Iowa State University | Ames, IA | $253,518 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | $251,855 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Braskem America Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $209,190 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rejoule Inc | Signal Hill, CA | $201,305 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $188,711 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Chemistry Council | Washington, DC | $143,980 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| State of West Virginia | Morgantown, WV | $129,445 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Secat Inc | Lexington, KY | $122,367 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $114,872 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Plastilene Inc | Washington Court House, OH | $114,855 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Michelin North America | Greenville, SC | $79,865 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA | $52,409 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Connecticut | Storrs, CT | $44,746 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
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.
- Rochester Institute of Technology
MATERIALS SCIENCE RESEARCH, AND PERSONNEL - The Pennsylvania State University
MATERIALS SCIENCE RESEARCH
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 10 of 27 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.
Where its money goes
16% of its giving went to organizations in New York. 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 $261,935 -- 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 New York.
- 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 Sustainable Manufacturing Innovation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 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 15 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: 150 Lucius Gordon Drive 204, West Henrietta, NY, 14586.
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