· Public charity
Brandeis University
As a research university, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY is dedicated to the advancement of the humanities, arts and social, natural and physical sciences.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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 College9× · 2017–2025 · $4.1M · revenue +50%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +45%
NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +35%
Funded once
- EUEmory Universitygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $148k · revenue +80%
- CNCLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INCone grant, 2024 · $106k · revenue 0%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION INCone 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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
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…
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.
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 field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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.
- Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine — 100% of income from government
- The Institute for Intergovernmental Research Inc — 100% of income from government
- Employment Options Inc — 100% of income from government
- Disability Policy Consortium Inc — 81% of income from government
- Hebrew Rehabilitation Center — 53% of income from government
- Stanley Street Treatment and Resources Inc — 23% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Human Services Research Institute Inc — 22% of income from government
- Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative Inc — 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Drew University — 0% of income from government
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.