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Brandeis University

As a research university, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY is dedicated to the advancement of the humanities, arts and social, natural and physical sciences.

$136M
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Science & Tech$17MEducation$12MHealth$10MSocial Science$2.0MCivil Rights$798kCrime & Legal$365kReligion$339kArts & Culture$215kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 47 grants below total $6,602,549 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $135,888,163 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $129,285,614 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $538k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.9M
$50,064
Median grant
19
States reached
$2.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$1,166,219
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$856,864
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY$673,080
NORC$517,593
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$353,868
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE$284,426
CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION$232,166
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$200,716
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - WORCESTER$189,154
MAGEE WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE & FOUNDATION$168,330
DISABILITY RIGHTS EDUC & DEFENSE FUND$167,025
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$158,186
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST$146,858
DETROIT RECOVERY PROJECT$133,641
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER$123,125
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $418k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $40k → 10%DETROIT RECOVERY PROJECT: $188k → 21%DETROIT RECOVERY PROJECT: $134k → 21%DETROIT RECOVERY PROJECT: $56k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$33M · 77 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

77 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
23

Total granted

$33M
$909k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+9%

Still filing today

65%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthSocial ScienceScience & TechCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.1M · revenue +50%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +45%
  • NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • EU
    Emory Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $148k · revenue +80%
  • CN
    CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC
    one grant, 2024 · $106k · revenue 0%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $61k · revenue -25%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
7
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
9
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
10
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
11
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is Disability Policy Consortium Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Developmental Disabilities …Community College Foundatio…Addiction Recovery ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyMilitary Veterans SupportFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr14%41%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%12%20–35yr14%12%35–55yr14%61%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/113
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,245

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 113 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/77
Grantees still filing
60/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College — $6,866,546 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeTrustees of Tufts College — $4,147,612 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeNew York University — $1,352,633 · EducationNew York UniversityNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $915,285 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $674,642 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $664,372 · Education+19 more — $2,247,325 · Education+19 moreMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $2,643,910 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $1,886,580 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS — $1,773,864 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $1,536,087 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $1,437,727 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — $878,895 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $729,650 · Other+54 more — $7,296,953 · Other+54 moreHebrew Rehabilitation Center — $674,138 · HealthPALO ALTO VETERANS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH — $415,390 · HealthAUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK INC — $240,000 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $225,909 · HealthMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION — $180,262 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR ACCOUNTABLE CARE — $135,419 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $112,122 · HealthRhode Island Hospital — $90,116 · Health+11 more — $290,724 · HealthNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER — $1,742,908 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION — $135,207 · Social ScienceHUMAN SERVICES RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $131,153 · Social ScienceIntegrated Justice Information Systems Institute Inc — $1,543,273 · Crime & LegalBROWN UNIVERSITY — $1,217,725 · Community ImprovementTHE RIGHT QUESTION INSTITUTE INC — $208,880 · Community ImprovementDisability Rights Education and Defense Fund Inc — $475,303 · Civil RightsDISABILITY POLICY CONSORTIUM INC — $257,575 · Civil Rights
Education$16,868,415Other$18,183,666Health$2,364,080Social Science$2,009,268Crime & Legal$1,543,273Community Improvement$1,426,605Civil Rights$732,878

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $6,866,546 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $4,147,612 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $1,886,580 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER — $1,742,908 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIntegrated Justice Information Systems Institute Inc — $1,543,273 over 3y, 22% of budgetNew York University — $1,352,633 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $1,217,725 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $915,285 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $674,642 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHebrew Rehabilitation Center — $674,138 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $664,372 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetDisability Rights Education and Defense Fund Inc — $475,303 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $440,106 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPALO ALTO VETERANS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH — $415,390 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPOLICE ASSISTED ADDICTION AND RECOVERY INITIATIVE INC — $386,368 over 4y, 29% of budgetCOMAGINE HEALTH — $379,693 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDETROIT RECOVERY PROJECT — $377,979 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $324,208 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE — $307,824 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES INC — $302,262 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $298,672 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $265,603 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISABILITY POLICY CONSORTIUM INC — $257,575 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetAUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK INC — $240,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $225,909 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $218,752 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIGHT QUESTION INSTITUTE INC — $208,880 over 4y, 11% of budgetMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION — $180,262 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $164,309 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology — $152,265 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $148,304 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ACCOUNTABLE CARE — $135,419 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION — $135,207 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN SERVICES RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $131,153 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $128,122 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $117,669 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $112,122 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC — $105,871 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $101,649 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTICE IN AGING — $100,136 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRhode Island Hospital — $90,116 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $86,113 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY — $86,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIDOSUS — $65,227 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY — $62,547 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION INC — $60,517 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH — $59,083 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $56,939 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER
  • Who funds Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute Inc
  • Who funds New York University
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Hebrew Rehabilitation Center
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
  • Who funds Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund Inc
  • Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY
  • Who funds PALO ALTO VETERANS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH
  • Who funds POLICE ASSISTED ADDICTION AND RECOVERY INITIATIVE INC
  • Who funds COMAGINE HEALTH
  • Who funds DETROIT RECOVERY PROJECT
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
  • Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE
  • Who funds STANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES INC
  • Who funds University of Chicago
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds DISABILITY POLICY CONSORTIUM INC
  • Who funds AUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK INC
  • Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Cancer Society IncGA19.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · President and Fellows of Harvard College · Trustees of Boston University · Laura and John Arnold Foundation · Yale University · American Heart Association Inc · Boston Medical Center Corporation · Brown University · The Chicago Community Trust · Tides Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Brandeis University funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 13%
  • Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine100% of income from government
  • The Institute for Intergovernmental Research Inc100% of income from government
  • Employment Options Inc100% of income from government
  • Disability Policy Consortium Inc81% of income from government
  • Hebrew Rehabilitation Center53% of income from government
  • Stanley Street Treatment and Resources Inc23% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation23% of income from government
  • Human Services Research Institute Inc22% of income from government
  • Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative Inc16% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University7% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University2% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation1% of income from government
  • Drew University0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 113 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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