June 25, 2026
A conservative think tank is making it easier to find information about how private money flows to colleges and universities.
On Wednesday, the American Enterprise Institute launched SOURCE (Searchable Open University Records of Charitable Expenditures), an interactive tool that gives users access to a dataset of more than one million grants valued at $90 billion plus, which some 57,000 U.S. private foundations have given to nearly 5,300 higher education institutions since 2008. The database was built by extracting information from 15 years’ worth of publicly available 990-PF forms, the annual return that private foundations file with the Internal Revenue Service.
Researchers can search by institution, country, funding organization and grant tag—such as athletic, general or research.
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