Trustees of Boston University
Boston, MA · EIN 04-2103547. Reported 1,118 grants totalling $476.3M to 406 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
406organizations funded
$110,091median reported grant
$476.3Mgranted, 2020-2023
79%of grantees funded again the next year
4%of dollars to its largest recipient
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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 406 distinct organizations, with 4% 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. 79% 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 $110,091. Half of what it reported fell between $35,152 and $348,200; the smallest was $5,150 and the largest $10.4M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Every organization it funded
All 406 recipients appear in its filings; the 250 largest are listed here. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- the clearest signal of who this grantmaker actually has a relationship with.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pattern Bioscience Inc | Austin, TX | $16.8M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Day Zero Diagnostics Inc | Boston, MA | $16.2M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $15.4M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Integrated Biotherapeutics | Rockville, MD | $14.7M | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Peptilogics Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $12.2M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $11.0M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Amicrobe Inc | Carlsbad, CA | $10.8M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | Boston, MA | $10.2M | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Vaxcyte Inc | San Carlos, CA | $9,993,949 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Avails Medical Inc | Menlo Park, CA | $9,410,880 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Clarametyx Biosciences Inc | Columbus, OH | $8,913,497 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $8,362,223 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lumen Bioscience Inc | Seattle, WA | $8,198,159 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Glaxosmithkline Holdings Americas Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $7,512,879 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $7,385,490 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $6,525,114 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Vedanta Biosciences Inc | Cambridge, MA | $6,383,756 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Micurx Pharmaceuticals | Palo Alto, CA | $6,176,810 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Venatorx Pharmaceuticals Inc | Malvern, PA | $6,021,417 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | $5,805,478 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $5,772,958 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Seres Therapeutics Inc | Cambridge, MA | $5,652,512 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $5,599,920 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Contrafect Corp | Yonkers, NY | $5,463,988 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Cellics Therapeutics Inc | San Diego, CA | $5,245,405 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Entasis Therapeutics Inc | Waltham, MA | $5,115,647 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $5,094,356 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American College of Radiology | Reston, VA | $5,056,960 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Microbiotix Inc | Worcester, MA | $4,955,014 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bugworks Research Inc | Fremont, CA | $4,831,246 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Locus Biosciences Inc | Morrisville, NC | $4,785,172 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Forge Therapeutics Inc | San Diego, CA | $4,569,083 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $4,542,215 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | Boston, MA | $4,522,254 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lytica Therapeutics Inc | Boston, MA | $4,518,343 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Washington | Chicago, IL | $4,379,362 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Massachusetts | Worcester, MA | $4,259,170 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trellis Bioscience Inc | Redwood City, CA | $4,127,443 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Microbion Corporation | Bozeman, MT | $4,011,670 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $3,992,954 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Yeshiva University | New York, NY | $3,983,975 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trellis Bioscience LLC | Redwood City, CA | $3,871,316 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Baebies Inc | Durham, NC | $3,681,664 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $3,658,475 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $3,594,139 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Affinivax Inc | Cambridge, MA | $3,541,924 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Helixbind Inc | Marlborough, MA | $3,377,724 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $2,805,901 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Texas Health Science | San Antonio, TX | $2,668,805 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical | Torrance, CA | $2,591,416 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $2,575,231 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $2,564,852 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Novel Microdevices Inc | Baltimore, MD | $2,396,269 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $2,391,630 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Taxis Pharmaceuticals Inc | Monmouth Junction, NJ | $2,388,284 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Vermont and State Agricultural College | Burlington, VT | $2,386,059 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospitals | Oakland, CA | $2,383,890 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Medford, MA | $2,373,383 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | $2,346,132 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Florida International Univ Bot | Miami, FL | $2,325,570 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Louisville | Louisville, KY | $2,274,682 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $2,124,382 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Childrens Hospital Corporation | Boston, MA | $2,111,419 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Broad Institute Inc | Cambridge, MA | $2,109,297 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Zabbio Inc | San Diego, CA | $2,084,262 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $2,013,574 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center Inc | Holyoke, MA | $1,910,238 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| Indiana University | Detroit, MI | $1,813,010 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Brown University of Providence | Providence, RI | $1,807,608 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ada Forsyth Institute Inc | Somerville, MA | $1,709,271 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $1,688,771 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $1,627,629 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Institute for Life Science Entrepreneurship Inc | Union, NJ | $1,626,206 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN | $1,605,647 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Butler Hospital | Providence, RI | $1,582,469 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc | Boston, MA | $1,517,282 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Zikani Therapeutics Inc | Watertown, MA | $1,470,409 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Denver | Denver, CO | $1,446,992 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc | Boston, MA | $1,441,739 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX | $1,429,872 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| J Craig Venter Institute Inc | La Jolla, CA | $1,405,888 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| The University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | $1,348,901 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc | Athens, GA | $1,342,599 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Novel Microdevices LLC | Baltimore, MD | $1,257,820 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Health Research Incorporated Elizabeth Wood | Menands, NY | $1,240,621 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Califo - La 2 | Los Angeles, CA | $1,228,521 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Connecticut | Storrs, CT | $1,222,843 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $1,212,128 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $1,204,065 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jackson Laboratory | Bar Harbor, ME | $1,156,257 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $1,136,941 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $1,079,442 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $1,073,967 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc | San Francisco, CA | $1,027,129 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $1,023,987 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | $981,849 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Oregon | Eugene, OR | $957,241 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | $920,801 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Research Triangle Institute | Durham, NC | $916,016 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Rush University Medical Center | Chicago, IL | $909,638 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| State of Maryland | College Park, MD | $890,453 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| State of Mississippi-University of Ms | Jackson, MS | $887,280 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $874,960 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Terc Inc | Cambridge, MA | $864,469 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $862,136 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $844,480 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research | Seattle, WA | $842,798 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The John B Pierce Laboratory Inc | New Haven, CT | $800,119 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Holyoke Health Center Inc | Holyoke, MA | $778,258 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| BB100 LLC | Schnectady, NY | $777,152 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute & St | Blacksburg, VA | $758,256 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $738,900 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Temple University-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Educ | Philadelphia, PA | $731,397 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| General Electric Company | Pittsburgh, PA | $729,454 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Center for Innovative Public Health Research | San Clemente, CA | $725,845 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| North Carolina State University | Raleigh, NC | $711,950 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences | Arlington, VA | $710,038 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | $702,778 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Wisconsin | Milwaukee, WI | $701,017 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Techulon Inc | Blacksburg, VA | $693,582 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ut MD Anderson Cancer Center | Houston, TX | $669,715 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $667,135 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | $666,490 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Texas A&m Engineering Experiment St | College Station, TX | $620,777 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Facile Therapeutics Inc | Belmont, CA | $602,259 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Methodist Hospital | Houston, TX | $600,267 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL | $591,021 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $571,491 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Louisiana State University and Agriculture | Baton Rouge, LA | $567,383 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Nova Southeastern University Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $562,866 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sutter Bay Hospitals | Sacramento, CA | $561,392 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Johns Hopkins Univ Applied Physics | Laurel, MD | $560,917 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sostenica Inc | Cambridge, MA | $558,631 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| William Marsh Rice University | Houston, TX | $546,583 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Houston | Houston, TX | $544,455 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | $531,478 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Syntiron LLC | Saint Paul, MN | $530,248 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Raytheon Company | Boston, MA | $527,812 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ohio University | Athens, OH | $522,580 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Eastern Virginia Medical School | Norfolk, VA | $517,712 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cardiovascular Engineering Inc | Norwood, MA | $514,455 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $511,714 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Horizon Research Inc | Chapel Hill, NC | $494,695 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Texas Health Science | Dallas, TX | $493,481 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $485,089 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | W Hollywood, CA | $485,004 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc | Norwood, MA | $481,822 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Georgia State University | Atlanta, GA | $465,514 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Visby Medical Inc | San Jose, CA | $460,017 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oregon Health & Science University | Portland, OR | $459,846 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Beckman Research Institute | Duarte, CA | $452,596 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Nexleaf Analytics | Los Angeles, CA | $435,579 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | $428,549 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Rabin Strategic Partners Inc | New York, NY | $428,211 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Trustees of Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | $427,104 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Banner Health | Sun City, AZ | $422,679 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $419,783 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Lexington, KY | $415,312 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American Academy of Pediatrics Inc | Itasca, IL | $409,452 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Talis Biomedical Corp | Menlo Park, CA | $403,664 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Southwest Research Institute | San Antonio, TX | $402,216 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $396,411 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | New Orleans, LA | $389,763 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Commonwealth of Kentucky Cabinet Fo | Louisville, KY | $389,730 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $388,609 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Veterans Education & Research Assoc of Northern New England Inc | White Riv Jct, VT | $381,440 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Faraday Energy LLC | Lexington, KY | $378,487 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Wayne State University | Detroit, MI | $378,474 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Rmc Research Corporation | Arlington, VA | $372,893 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| George Washington University | Ashburn, VA | $363,090 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Colorado State University | Fort Collins, CO | $356,790 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY | $346,123 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of North Dakota | Grand Forks, ND | $344,018 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $342,533 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| The University of Central Florida B | Orlando, FL | $335,282 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Raytheon Bbn Technologies Corporatiion | Boston, MA | $333,689 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Henry Ford Health System | Detroit, MI | $331,665 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| State of Alabama | Montgomery, AL | $321,266 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Missouri | Kansas City, MO | $314,963 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Innovations for Poverty Action | New York, NY | $314,622 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Endicott College | Beverly, MA | $313,136 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Wake Forest University Health Sciences | Winstonsalem, NC | $297,705 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Augusta University Research Institute Inc | Augusta, GA | $295,181 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Health Management Associates Inc | Lansing, MI | $287,706 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Bentley University | Waltham, MA | $287,486 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic | Lebanon, NH | $280,527 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Utica University | Utica, NY | $280,337 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| State of Indiana | Indianapolis, IN | $280,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $276,823 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Bronx Veterans Medical Research Foundation Inc | Bronx, NY | $275,846 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Greenroots Inc | Chelsea, MA | $275,673 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation | Pittsburgh, PA | $264,938 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Wellesley College | Wellesley, MA | $264,116 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Third Sector New England Inc | Boston, MA | $262,421 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Seattle Childrens Hospital | Seattle, WA | $260,655 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| South Florida Veterans Affairs Foundation for Research & Educaton | Miami, FL | $254,364 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Fermi Research Alliance LLC | Batavia, IL | $250,539 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Public Health Institute | Oakland, CA | $247,118 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lutie Legacy Society | Austin, TX | $246,045 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Accelerate Diagnostics Inc | Tucson, AZ | $245,433 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mentor Washington | Bellevue, WA | $245,075 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Gillette Childrens Specialty Health Care | Saint Paul, MN | $244,968 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Ge Medical Systems Information Tech | Niskayuna, NY | $241,954 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University System of New Hampshire | Concord, NH | $241,755 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Denver Research Institute | Denver, CO | $241,518 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The University of Alabama in Huntsville | Huntsville, AL | $238,530 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The University of Tennessee | Memphis, TN | $237,368 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| George Mason University | Fairfax, VA | $235,760 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA | $233,780 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA | $229,123 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The University of South Carolina | Columbia, SC | $224,801 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc | Charleston, SC | $223,395 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Center for Health Policy Development | Washington, DC | $223,346 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Achaogen Plan Trust | San Rafael, CA | $216,611 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Notre Dame Du Lac | Notre Dame, IN | $209,540 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| San Francisco State University | San Francisco, CA | $207,642 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lahey Clinic Inc | Burlington, MA | $206,511 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Family Voices | Concord, MA | $204,833 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Advanced Building Analysis LLC | Amesbury, MA | $204,698 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| OSU Oregon State University | Corvallis, OR | $201,324 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bedford Va Research Corporation | Bedford, MA | $200,584 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Arkansas Fayetteville | Fayetteville, AR | $193,976 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $193,694 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Worcester, MA | $190,990 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $190,619 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of California Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $190,279 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Family Health International | Durham, NC | $186,580 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Hebrew Rehabilitation Center | Roslindale, MA | $184,080 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Texas at Dallas | Richardson, TX | $183,205 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of America | Boston, MA | $182,004 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of New England | Biddeford, ME | $180,903 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | $178,897 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina Greensboro | Greensboro, NC | $170,445 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $160,465 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The University of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement | Kingston, RI | $153,376 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Research Foundation of the City University of New York | New York, NY | $152,057 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Invicro LLC | Needham, MA | $151,779 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | Boulder, CO | $148,560 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine | Bethesda, MD | $148,487 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Woods Hole, MA | $145,212 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $143,858 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Space Science Institute | Boulder, CO | $135,638 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $133,214 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Childrens Hospital Colorado | Aurora, CO | $131,632 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Institute for Health and Recovery Inc | Watertown, MA | $129,577 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Franklin & Marshall College | Lancaster, PA | $129,008 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of North Texas Health Sciences | Fort Worth, TX | $127,363 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Embry-Riddle Aeronautical | Daytona Beach, FL | $127,259 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| El Faro Health and Therapeutics | Rio Grande City, TX | $124,117 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mental Health Center of Denver | Denver, CO | $123,266 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
292 of 406 (72%) 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.
It also reported 18 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.
What the money was for
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What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 220 of 406 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 | 289 | $141.1M | $111,716 |
| 2021 | 270 | $136.9M | $124,559 |
| 2022 | 296 | $106.3M | $100,598 |
| 2023 | 263 | $92.0M | $107,146 |
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
28% 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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These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund128 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc111 shared recipientsJohns Hopkins University101 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc95 shared recipientsThe Trustees of Columbia University86 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust82 shared recipients
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 $110,091 -- 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 Trustees of Boston University'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 227 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 36 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: 881 Commonwealth Ave 4TH Fl, Boston, MA, 02215.
EIN 04-2103547 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.
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