About National Collegiate Investors & Innovators Alliance
Cultivate a pipeline of inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges by advancing innovation and entrepreneurship education and providing funding, training, mentorship, and networks to early-stage STEM innovators.
Focus Areas
Entrepreneurship educationSTEM innovationBiotechnology and life sciences / MedTechClimate and clean technologyOcean/ocean enterprise technologiesSustainable energy and materialsEarly-stage venture development and commercialization
Who They Fund
US-based faculty (course & program innovators)student teams (university-level, project/invention teams)early-stage academic entrepreneurs / technology founders
About National Collegiate Investors & Innovators Alliance
National Collegiate Investors & Innovators Alliance Inc. centers its giving on turning student inventions and faculty-led innovation programs into commercialization pathways. Its largest recent grant, $562,500 to 2twelve90 LLC, supported WFF Advanced Mobility Venture Studio Operations, showing a willingness to back venture-studio infrastructure as well as direct student and campus programs. Across the recent grants list, the foundation repeatedly funds university-based invention and entrepreneurship work, including $88,000 to Johns Hopkins University for global project explorations in biomedical design and innovation and $65,000 to the University of Washington, Seattle Campus, for student teams commercializing science and technology inventions. Other grants point to a broad STEM-to-market pipeline: workshops, peer networking, expert coaching, and support for faculty who create new courses or programs. The organization’s stated mission aligns with that pattern, combining innovation and entrepreneurship education with funding, training, mentorship, and networks for early-stage STEM innovators. Recipients include research universities, student venture teams, and challenge finalists working on technologies with social, health, environmental, biomedical, climate, ocean, and energy applications.
What National Collegiate Investors & Innovators Alliance Funds
The foundation’s most consistent theme is early-stage commercialization support for student inventors. It gave $65,000 to the University of Washington, Seattle Campus, for student teams working to commercialize high-impact science and technology inventions, and $50,000 to Pennsylvania State University for the same purpose. A second cluster is faculty and curriculum development: Arizona State University received $50,000 for faculty with innovative ideas to create or transform courses and programs that help students develop STEM-based inventions, while the University of Wisconsin system received $44,000 for similar course and program work. The portfolio also includes challenge and incubation activity. Georgia Tech Research Corporation received $48,000 as a 2024 Innovate Egypt Business Incubation Host and GIST Business Incubation Host, and the University of Houston received $46,400 for Verizon-CGI U Challenge finalists on the path to launching technology innovations with social, health, and environmental impact. Biomedical and climate-oriented work also appears, including $88,000 to Johns Hopkins University for biomedical design and innovation explorations and $50,000 to Agpreneur Inc for AI for climate resilience.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$38.4M
Total Assets
$89.5M
Total Revenue
$106.2M
Total Expenses
$105.3M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $20K and $30K, with a median of $27K.
25th Percentile
$20K
Median
$27K
75th Percentile
$30K
Geographic Reach
National36 states funded
About 7% of grants go to recipients in CA.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
Philip J Weilerstein
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