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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 47 grants below total $6,602,549, the rows itemized in this filing. The $135,888,163 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $129,285,614 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its 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
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
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
4
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
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
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
University of Miami

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

Education
11
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
77/77
Grantees still filing
59/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Cancer Socie…President and Fellows…Trustees of Boston Un…Laura and John Arnold…Yale UniversityAmerican Heart Associ…Boston Medical Center…Brown UniversityThe Chicago Community…Tides FoundationRaymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brandeis University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brandeis University. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • 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
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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 113 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home