WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

100 INSTITUTE RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• THE UNIVERSITY PROVIDES EDUCATION IN THE FIELDS OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS TO APPROXIMATELY 5,500 UNDERGRADUATE AND 2,025 GRADUATE STUDENTS. IN ADDITION, HOUSING AND BOARD AUXILIARY SERVICES ARE PROVIDED FOR APPROXIMATELY 2,410 STUDENTS. DURING FISCAL YEAR 2025, THE UNIVERSITY AWARDED 1,298 BACHELOR, 867 MASTER AND 87 PHD DEGREES. STUDENTS EMERGE FROM THE UNIVERSITY'S UNIQUE EXPERIENCE READY TO TAKE ON SOME OF THE MOST DIFFICULT CHALLENGES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. MORE IMPORTANTLY, THEY UNDERSTAND HOW THEIR WORK CAN TRULY IMPACT SOCIETY AND IMPROVE LIVES.

  Expenses $377,933,360 · Grants $155,149,656 · Revenue $434,365,675

• AT THE UNIVERSITY, 244 FACULTY AND POST DOC RESEARCHERS, AND 632 STUDENTS ARE ENGAGED IN CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH ACROSS A BROAD RANGE OF DISCIPLINES. THE UNIVERSITY RECEIVES RESEARCH FUNDING FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES, PRIMARILY FROM GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES. RESEARCH AT THE UNIVERSITY HAS A DECIDEDLY APPLIED FOCUS, WITH WORK FOCUSED ON PROBLEMS THAT ARE BOTH INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT. THE RESULT IS NEW KNOWLEDGE, NEW INNOVATIONS, AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES THAT ATTACK SOME OF THE MAJOR CHALLENGES OF OUR TIME.

  Expenses $69,921,140 · Grants $13,976,103 · Revenue $55,929,914

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $529,428,994

  Expenses

  $539,287,317

  Contributions

  $25,187,739

  Grants paid

  $169,125,759

• 2023

  Revenue

  $490,769,899

  Expenses

  $505,318,915

  Contributions

  $25,282,069

  Grants paid

  $154,356,495

• 2022

  Revenue

  $462,672,181

  Expenses

  $483,023,410

  Contributions

  $23,070,174

  Grants paid

  $137,912,773

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $444,871,646

  Expenses

  $445,496,296

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,250,809,748

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $398,152,961

  Expenses

  $398,514,619

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,309,104,658

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $384,496,935

  Expenses

  $390,932,284

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,164,375,963

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $374,112,282

  Expenses

  $378,667,852

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,024,893,080

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $328,612,535

  Expenses

  $340,939,297

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,017,130,657

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• ASSISTMENTS FOUNDATION INC

  $1,342,250

  2022 · RESEARCH

• ASSISTMENTS FOUNDATION INC

  $1,107,292

  2023 · RESEARCH

• CITY OF WORCESTER

  $795,713

  2023 · PUBLIC LIBRARY SUPPORT

• CITY OF WORCESTER

  $776,306

  2022 · PUBLIC LIBRARY SUPPORT

• WESTED

  $613,927

  2023 · RESEARCH

• AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS

  $547,593

  2023 · RESEARCH

• UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL

  $509,970

  2022 · RESEARCH

• REGENTS OF UNIV OF CALIF AT IRVINE

  $432,054

  2022 · RESEARCH

• NC A&T STATE UNIVERSITY

  $408,750

  2023 · RESEARCH

• WESTED

  $392,232

  2022 · RESEARCH

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

  $2,005,000

  2024 · IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE

• NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

  $950,088

  2022 · SUB-AWARD

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $819,841

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $811,426

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

  $602,881

  2023 · SUB-AWARD

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $576,794

  2024 · EDUCATION

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $533,500

  2023 · EDUCATION

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $528,250

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• ASSISTMENTS FOUNDATION INC

  $485,849

  2024 · RECOVERING FROM COVID-LEARNING-LOSS WITH A PLATFORM TO SUPPORT HUMAN TUTORING

• AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC

  $430,999

  2024 · Research

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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