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The Computing Research Association Inc
Washington, DC · EIN 52-1622336. Reported 222 grants totalling $37.5M to 72 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. 72 distinct organizations, with 4% 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. 86% 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 $154,639. Half of what it reported fell between $83,441 and $229,545; the smallest was $7,419 and the largest $528,018. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $1,507,361 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $1,496,781 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | $1,327,599 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $1,293,875 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $1,186,354 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lehigh University | Bethlehem, PA | $1,147,785 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $1,083,710 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $1,038,948 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $936,377 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Board of Regents of University of Wisconsin System | Madison, WI | $933,600 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | $908,614 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $893,283 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $892,468 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $881,147 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $872,662 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Brown University of Providence | Providence, RI | $863,405 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Indiana University | Bloomington, IN | $794,511 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Massachusetts - Amherst | Hadley, MA | $793,293 | 6 | 3 | 2023 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $782,778 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $769,969 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $726,099 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $709,422 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $684,857 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $643,828 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $635,389 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Maryland | College Park, MD | $615,737 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of California Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $613,095 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $607,855 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Blacksburg, VA | $606,158 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | $602,618 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | $558,852 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | $529,337 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Georgia Tech Research Corporation | Atlanta, GA | $514,719 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Hawaii | Honolulu, HI | $491,535 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $471,579 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | $449,796 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California | Oakland, CA | $430,441 | 4 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rutgers the State University of New Jersey | Newark, NJ | $422,963 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of California Davis | Davis, CA | $418,799 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $379,361 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $338,258 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | New Orleans, LA | $317,400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boston College Trustees | Chestnut Hill, MA | $311,274 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $305,253 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Oregon | Eugene, OR | $303,591 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $288,750 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $287,412 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | $285,152 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $269,240 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Iowa State University | Ames, IA | $267,908 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of South Dakota | Vermillion, SD | $260,327 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | $257,835 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | $249,278 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Oregon Health and Science University Foundation | Portland, OR | $247,453 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Duke University Health System Inc | Durham, NC | $230,648 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $223,395 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | $174,181 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California | Santa Cruz, CA | $159,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst Foundation Inc | Amherst, MA | $153,655 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $146,449 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $125,743 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Medford, MA | $116,393 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Virginia Tech Foundation Inc | Blacksburg, VA | $104,678 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| North Carolina State University | Raleigh, NC | $104,034 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Morehouse College | Atlanta, GA | $87,166 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Sagefox Consulting Group | Amherst, MA | $80,564 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of California Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $59,957 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, NY | $58,900 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago | Chicago, IL | $53,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Texas Dallas | Richardson, TX | $53,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Williams College | Williamstown, MA | $20,887 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Harvey Mudd College | Claremont, CA | $10,173 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
62 of 72 (86%) 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 37 of 72 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 | 40 | $4,426,914 | $103,039 |
| 2021 | 63 | $11.9M | $168,038 |
| 2022 | 61 | $12.0M | $189,094 |
| 2023 | 58 | $9,193,198 | $156,647 |
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
18% 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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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 $154,639 -- 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 The Computing 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 58 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: 1828 L Street Nw 800, Washington, DC, 20036.
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