William Marsh Rice University

Your funders

378 funders have made program grants to you since 2016. The 5 shown below are the most recent; each row shows how many years they funded you and the total amount recorded. Of these, 206 are locally focused, 141 have national reach, and 31 are no longer active.

• Gates Foundation8 years$47,316,943
• Benificus Foundation4 years$33,479,713
• Robert a Welch Foundation 0624916 years$22,243,149
• American Athletic Conference2 years$11,033,310
• Houston Endowment Inc3 years$8,378,200

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65 others are DAFs (donor-advised funds), matching-gift programs or similar pass-throughs — intermediaries carrying someone else's choice, so no step below uses them.

Your funding peers

Funding peers are organizations that share one or more of your funders. Start with organizations in a related field that share at least three of them. Explore all 41,820 funding connections →

319 Higher Education Institutions funding peers share at least three of your funders.

• Regents of the University of California at RiversideCA30 shared funders
• Board of Regents of the University of NebraskaNE21 shared funders
• Houston Christian UniversityTX21 shared funders
• Southwestern UniversityTX21 shared funders
• West Virginia University Research CorporationWV19 shared funders
• Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher EducationNV18 shared funders
• The Trustees of Grinnell CollegeIA16 shared funders
• University of the Incarnate WordTX16 shared funders

See all 319 Higher Education Institutions peers →

Potential new funders

Potential new funders have not funded you since 2016, but they fund organizations in your funding network. They are ranked by the strength of their connections through your funders and funding peers.

In historical data, funders connected this way later funded an organization like yours about twenty times as often as a random eligible funder, and still only about one in fifty times. This is a historical pattern, not a prediction.