Who funds medical research
$7.8B reached 2,308 medical research organizations across the 2022 and 2023 filings. The money concentrates: the few largest organizations draw a heavy share of it.
The short version
- $7.8B in tracked US grants reached 2,308 medical research organizations across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
- The single largest recipient, The Broad Institute Inc, drew $1.3B, 16% of all tracked medical research funding.
- The most committed funder is Entertainment Industry Foundation, which gives 45.4× the national rate, with 69% of its grants going to medical research.
- Most medical research money lands on organizations in Massachusetts, 35% of the tracked total.
Funders most focused on medical research
Not the biggest checks, the most committed. Each funder's share of giving to medical research, against the national rate, shrunk toward that rate so a small specialist needs real volume to rank. The multiple is how many times the national rate it gives.
Organizations that draw the most
The medical research organizations receiving the most grant money, sized by dollars. Pick one to see who funds it.
Where the money lands
The states whose organizations draw the most medical research money.
Largest funders of medical research
Funders by organization size
Who funds medical research organizations at each size, with the funders most focused on them. Useful if you are small and the big-institution funders are not a fit.
Questions and answers
- What counts as medical research in this data?
- Each organization is grouped by its NTEE code in the IRS Business Master File, the recipient's own cause classification. Medical research covers every organization the IRS places in that major group, and grants are counted by where the money lands.
- What is the difference between the largest and the most committed funders of medical research?
- The largest by dollars are Nationwide Childrens Hospital Group Return and The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, but they spread money across many causes. The most committed concentrate on medical research: Entertainment Industry Foundation gives 45.4× the national rate, with 69% of its grants going there.
- How can a medical research nonprofit find funders?
- Look beyond the biggest names to the specialists, the funders giving medical research an outsized share of their budget, and to the states where medical research money concentrates, led by Massachusetts. Both are listed on this page.
- How recent is this medical research funding data?
- It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.
More from the funding graph
Cause is the organization's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.