About Ieee Foundation
Deliver opportunity, innovation and impact and advance the IEEE mission across the globe; support IEEE programs, education, and the preservation and promotion of the history of technology.
Focus Areas
STEM education (TryEngineering)Humanitarian technologies / Tech4Good / IEEE SIGHTIEEE Smart Village (energy access & enterprise development)EPICS in IEEE (service-learning)Disaster response (IEEE MOVE Global)History & heritage (IEEE History Center)Donor advised funds and legacy giving
Who They Fund
studentseducational institutions (schools)
Funding Style
project-specific / restricted support
About Ieee Foundation
Ieee Foundation Inc’s largest recent grants have gone to IEEE itself, with $3,496,739 in 2024 and $3,340,689 in 2025 classified as educational grants. That pattern points to a funder that supports its parent organization’s programs at scale while also backing university-based projects and IEEE-led initiatives. Across the recent-grants list, the foundation’s giving reaches engineering education, service-learning, history of technology, humanitarian technologies, energy access, and disaster response. The foundation’s grantmaking is centered on restricted support for programs, projects, and initiatives tied to the IEEE mission. Recent recipients include Purdue University, which received $59,422 in 2025, and the University of Texas at Dallas, which received $31,000 in 2025. It also funds smaller educational awards to a wide set of campuses and IEEE-related entities, suggesting a mix of anchor support and targeted project grants. Its active grant programs show that the foundation funds both internal IEEE work and external requests through a general funding portal, with separate support for TryEngineering, EPICS in IEEE, IEEE Smart Village, IEEE MOVE Global, and IEEE History Center programs. The scope is global, but the recent grant record is entirely U.S.-based.
What Ieee Foundation Funds
In STEM education, Ieee Foundation Inc uses the TryEngineering program to support volunteer-led IEEE groups doing local pre-university outreach. Recent university grants also show support for engineering education on campus, including $25,000 to South Dakota State University in 2024 and $18,000 to Arizona State University in 2025. The foundation also supports technology for public benefit. Through IEEE Humanitarian Technologies, it backs work such as SIGHT and Tech4Good; through IEEE Smart Village, it supports energy-impoverished communities with electricity, education, and enterprise development. In 2025, it gave $16,000 to the University of Central Florida, and in 2024 it gave $14,000 to Clemson University, both as educational grants. History and preservation are another clear strand. The IEEE History Center programs include awards, oral histories, articles, and exhibitions, and the recent-grants list includes $20,000 to MIT in 2023 and $10,435 to ACM Inc in 2024.
How Ieee Foundation Gives
Typical grant sizes cluster tightly around project-level support: the 25th percentile is $8,000, the median is $10,000, and the 75th percentile is $14,000. The recent-grants list shows a few very large educational grants to IEEE itself, followed by many university and nonprofit awards in the five-figure range. Recipients also appear across multiple years, including IEEE in 2023, 2024, and 2025, and several universities with repeated awards. The foundation is a public charity and a regular funder, with short-term and annual, project-specific support. Unsolicited requests are accepted through a general funding portal and through several program-specific channels.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$3.6M
Total Assets
$84.7M
Total Revenue
$11.2M
Total Expenses
$6.5M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $8K and $14K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$8K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$14K
Geographic Reach
National25 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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