The Broad Institute Inc
Cambridge, MA · EIN 26-3428781. Reported 333 grants totalling $256.9M to 127 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Broad Institute Inc, the IRS classifies it under medical research rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE H20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 127 distinct organizations, with 18% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 83% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $194,050. Half of what it reported fell between $62,104 and $625,968; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $15.5M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $47.5M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $37.7M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $17.9M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | Boston, MA | $15.3M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Color Genomics Inc | Burlingame, CA | $13.5M | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $12.3M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $8,558,594 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Fathom Information Design (ben Fry Llc) | Boston, MA | $7,683,878 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Childrens Hospital Corporation | Boston, MA | $5,092,527 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California | Santa Cruz, CA | $5,053,345 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Geisinger Clinic | Danville, PA | $4,672,172 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Emugen Therapeutics LLC | Newton, MA | $4,500,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $3,691,623 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $3,479,103 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| 3 Point Bio LLC | Boxford, MA | $3,467,198 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Eurofins Discoverx Products LLC | Fremont, CA | $3,359,517 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $3,119,452 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $2,872,592 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN | $2,289,181 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $2,212,920 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jackson Laboratory | Bar Harbor, ME | $2,158,223 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Seven Bridges Genomics Inc | Charlestown, MA | $2,110,665 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Joslin Diabetes Center Inc | Boston, MA | $2,088,656 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, WI | $2,068,303 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $2,009,904 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Maryland Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $1,981,267 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| General Dynamics Information | Falls Church, VA | $1,962,791 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mascon Medical | Woburn, MA | $1,929,470 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Medford, MA | $1,799,325 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $1,764,085 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $1,726,932 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Univ of Massachusetts Medical School | Worcester, MA | $1,600,061 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Dimagi Inc | Cambridge, MA | $1,539,873 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $1,383,794 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $1,317,997 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $1,179,004 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Deloitte Consulting Llp | Hermitage, TN | $1,135,243 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Inspire Project Inc | Staunton, VA | $1,057,038 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research | Cambridge, MA | $969,594 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc | Memphis, TN | $952,716 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $918,292 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $885,629 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Rockefeller University | New York, NY | $850,228 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc | Boston, MA | $791,222 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $767,145 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Weill Cornell Medical College | New York, NY | $720,119 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $673,314 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $659,981 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bluehalo LLC | Huntsville, AL | $563,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Mississippi Medical Center | Jackson, MS | $548,857 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $531,368 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Salk Institute for Biological Studies | La Jolla, CA | $500,773 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Complexly LLC | Missoula, MT | $488,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Three Mountain Consulting LLC | Chagrin Falls, OH | $487,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $469,752 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Colorado Foundation | Denver, CO | $444,051 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Count Me in Inc | Cambridge, MA | $432,013 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Amplifybio LLC | W Jefferson, OH | $391,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $386,206 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Seattle, WA | $376,159 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Wake Forest University Health Sciences | Winstonsalem, NC | $370,435 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Indiana University | Bloomington, IN | $354,030 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Varilly Sciences US Inc | Lewes, DE | $342,375 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $333,686 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $325,902 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason | Seattle, WA | $325,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Uchicago Argonne LLC | Chicago, IL | $316,545 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | $297,579 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Heart Association Inc | Dallas, TX | $287,827 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $271,773 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Scripps Research Institute | La Jolla, CA | $255,811 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| NAMI National | Arlington, VA | $231,655 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $229,324 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| New York Genome Center Inc | New York, NY | $214,321 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation | Oklahoma City, OK | $213,153 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mclaughlin Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences | Great Falls, MT | $205,129 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA | $203,716 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Asymmetrik Ltd | Annapolis, MD | $201,350 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Texas San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | $198,344 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Invitae | San Francisco, CA | $198,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical | Torrance, CA | $189,423 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England Inc | Canton, MA | $160,267 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Brown University of Providence | Providence, RI | $150,495 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Disease Research Interchange | Philadelphia, PA | $146,641 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $146,326 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| J David Gladstone Institutes | San Francisco, CA | $137,293 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New York University School of Medicine | New York, NY | $130,576 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Utah State University | Logan, UT | $102,860 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boston College Trustees | Chestnut Hill, MA | $101,003 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $97,325 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $93,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $91,251 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute | La Jolla, CA | $83,695 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | $80,219 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $78,097 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Flywheel Exchange LLC | Minneapolis, MN | $75,169 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Colorado State University | Fort Collins, CO | $73,327 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ut Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas, TX | $71,120 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $65,008 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Cold Spg Hbr, NY | $64,834 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $54,644 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rare Cancer Research Foundation | Durham, NC | $43,218 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Health Research Incorporated Elizabeth Wood | Menands, NY | $42,534 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Oregon State University Foundation | Corvallis, OR | $41,049 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc | Columbus, OH | $40,456 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| International Neuroethics Society | Washington, DC | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Addgene Inc | Watertown, MA | $31,294 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $25,890 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Seattle, WA | $18,843 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rush University Medical Center | Chicago, IL | $18,718 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Cristo Rey Corp Work Stud Program | Boston, MA | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| N a a C P Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc | New York, NY | $17,072 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Missouri | Columbia, MO | $14,580 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Black Girls Code Inc | Oakland, CA | $13,898 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | W Hollywood, CA | $13,818 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Uncornered Inc | Dorchester, MA | $13,169 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Macgillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation | Laguna Beach, CA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Oregon Health & Science University | Portland, OR | $10,240 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Resilient Coders Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $10,208 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc | Boston, MA | $9,225 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| U of Texas Healthscience Center at Houston | Houston, TX | $8,349 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Society for Cell Biology | Rockville, MD | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Colorofchangeorg Education Fund Inc | New York, NY | $6,896 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Arts Business Collaborative Inc | Elmhurst, NY | $6,690 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Health Leads Inc | Boston, MA | $5,940 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Policing Equity | W Hollywood, CA | $5,782 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Facing History & Ourselves Inc | Boston, MA | $5,308 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
90 of 127 (71%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 80 of 127 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 82 | $52.4M | $141,583 |
| 2021 | 76 | $47.9M | $208,406 |
| 2022 | 89 | $73.5M | $168,730 |
| 2023 | 86 | $83.2M | $210,530 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
69% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $194,050 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Broad Institute Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 71 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 15 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 415 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, 02142.
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