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Seti Institute

Name: Seti Institute grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

125
grants reported: $8.8M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $40,828
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

research

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Trillium Technologies1 grant · $917,954
West Ed4 grants · $837,481
Honeybee Robotics Ltd3 grants · $500,624
Planetary Science Institute4 grants · $401,797
Other Orb Llc4 grants · $376,320
San Diego State University Foundation4 grants · $354,586
University of Massachusetts - Amherst3 grants · $328,944
Baja Technology Llc4 grants · $318,520
The Regents of the University of California at Riverside4 grants · $311,132
University of Florida Board of Trustees3 grants · $293,018

Giving over time

$2.8M

2021

$2.0M

2022

$2.0M

2023

$2.0M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 125 grants.

$917,954
Trillium Technologies · Chicago, IL · 2021
Research
$356,363
Honeybee Robotics Ltd · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Research
$240,881
Trillium · Chicago, IL · 2022
Research
$230,555
West Ed · Los Alamitos, CA · 2022
Research
$221,265
West Ed · Los Alamitos, CA · 2023
Research
$210,229
West Ed · Los Alamitos, CA · 2021
Research
$196,500
Baja Technology Llc · Tempe, AZ · 2024
Research
$187,842
Planetary Science Institute · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Research
$175,432
West Ed · Los Alamitos, CA · 2024
Research
$172,064
Southwest Research Institute (Swri) · San Antonio, TX · 2024
Research
$159,176
San Diego State University Foundation · San Diego, CA · 2024
Research
$149,135
Chabot Space & Science Center Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2024
Research
$137,440
Honeybee Robotics · Brooklyn, NY · 2021
Research
$137,103
Leiden Measurement Technology · Sunnyvale, CA · 2022
Research
$135,693
Honeybee Robotics Ltd · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Research
$133,617
University of Massachusetts - Amherst · Hadley, MA · 2022
Research
$132,676
Purdue University · West Lafayette, IN · 2024
Research
$126,552
The Regents of the University of California at Riverside · Riverside, CA · 2022
Research
$123,418
University of Hawaii · Honolulu, HI · 2021
Research
$117,084
University of Massachusetts - Amherst · Hadley, MA · 2023
Research
$117,040
Other Orb Llc · Flagstaff, AZ · 2022
Research
$111,303
California Academy of Sciences · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Research
$110,500
Baja Technology Llc · Tempe, AZ · 2023
Research
$108,400
Other Orb Llc · Flagstaff, AZ · 2023
Research
$108,258
The University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2021
Research
$107,436
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2021
Research
$105,047
University of Florida Board of Trustees · Gainesville, FL · 2022
Research
$101,243
The University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2022
Research
$99,534
Purdue University · West Lafayette, IN · 2023
Research
$97,360
University of Florida Board of Trustees · Gainesville, FL · 2024
Research
$91,527
Planetary Science Institute · Tucson, AZ · 2023
Research
$91,040
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Llc · Laurel, MD · 2023
Research
$90,611
University of Florida Board of Trustees · Gainesville, FL · 2023
Research
$86,578
San Diego State University Foundation · San Diego, CA · 2022
Research
$86,445
The Regents of the University of California at Riverside · Riverside, CA · 2024
Research
$86,112
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory · Chicago, IL · 2021
Research
$84,000
Other Orb Llc · Flagstaff, AZ · 2024
Research
$82,751
Million Concepts Llc · Louisville, KY · 2022
Research
$81,249
University of Washington · Chicago, IL · 2022
Research
$78,243
University of Massachusetts - Amherst · Hadley, MA · 2024
Research
$78,200
S&B Precision Machines Consulting Llc · Vista, CA · 2023
Research
$72,552
San Diego State University Foundation · San Diego, CA · 2023
Research
$70,496
University of Washington · Chicago, IL · 2021
Research
$67,374
Planetary Science Institute · Tucson, AZ · 2022
Research
$67,007
Oak Crest Institute of Science · Monrovia, CA · 2022
Research
$66,880
Other Orb Llc · Flagstaff, AZ · 2021
Research
$65,000
Metzger Geoscience Consulting Llc · Reno, NV · 2021
Research
$63,303
University of Massachusetts- Amherst · Hadley, MA · 2021
Research
$57,589
The University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2023
Research
$57,223
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute · Moffett Field, CA · 2024
Research
$55,897
Astronomical Society of the Pacific · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Research
$55,432
The Regents of the University of California at Riverside · Riverside, CA · 2023
Research
$55,054
Planetary Science Institute · Tucson, AZ · 2021
Research
$53,486
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
Research
$50,446
University of Texas at Arlington · Arlington, TX · 2021
Research
$50,000
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024
Research
$43,721
University of Oklahoma · Norman, OK · 2021
Research
$43,687
Universities Space Research Association (Washington Dc) · Washington, DC · 2023
Research
$43,138
Million Concepts Llc · Louisville, KY · 2023
Research
$42,703
The Regents of the University of California at Riverside · Riverside, CA · 2021
Research
$42,649
Girl Scouts of the USA · New York, NY · 2021
Research
$41,399
Univ of Hawaii · Honolulu, HI · 2022
Research
$40,828
Cal Poly Pomona Foundation · Pomona, CA · 2023
Research
$40,510
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Research
$40,177
Univeristy of Florida Board of Trustees · Gainesville, FL · 2021
Research
$39,002
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2022
Research
$38,512
Leiden Measurement Technology · Sunnyvale, CA · 2021
Research
$38,298
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
Research
$38,012
Leiden Measurement Technology · Sunnyvale, CA · 2024
Research
$37,267
Southwest Research Institute (Swri) · San Antonio, TX · 2023
Research
$36,959
University of Washington · Chicago, IL · 2023
Research
$36,659
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2021
Research
$36,280
San Diego State University Foundation · San Diego, CA · 2021
Research
$35,566
Southwest Research Institute (Swri) · San Antonio, TX · 2021
Research
$35,543
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Llc · Laurel, MD · 2022
Research
$32,380
University of Washington · Chicago, IL · 2024
Research
$31,269
The Research Foundation for the the State University of New York · Albany, NY · 2021
Research
$31,093
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
Research
$30,886
University of Oklahoma · Norman, OK · 2024
Research
$30,000
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2023
Research
$29,298
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Llc · Laurel, MD · 2024
Research
$29,093
University of Georgia Research · Athens, GA · 2022
Research
$27,963
Aries Scientific · Silver Spring, MD · 2021
Research
$27,780
Howard University · Washington Dc, DC · 2021
Research
$27,458
Southwest Research Institute (Swri) · San Antonio, TX · 2022
Research
$25,386
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Research
$25,309
University of Central Florida Board of Trustees · Orlando, FL · 2024
Research
$25,000
James Madison University · Harrisonburg, VA · 2024
Research
$24,741
Fibernetics Llc · Litit, PA · 2021
Research
$24,675
Lockheed Martin Corporation Lm Space Systems Company · Pasadena, CA · 2021
Research
$24,565
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2022
Research
$23,275
Noqsi Aerospace Ltd · Pine, CO · 2021
Research
$23,053
Board of Regents of Univ of Wisconsin System · Milwaukee, WI · 2021
Research
$21,648
Leiden Measurement Technology · Sunnyvale, CA · 2023
Research
$20,700
Cal Poly Pomona Foundation · Pomona, CA · 2024
Research
$20,460
Purdue University · Chicago, IL · 2021
Research
$19,011
University of Maryland Baltimore · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Research
$17,920
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Research
$17,005
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Research
$15,320
Villanova University · Villanova, PA · 2021
Research

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.