Skip to content
Buck Institute for Research on Aging at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Buck Institute for Research on Aging

To increase the healthy, productive years of life through basic biomedical research on aging and age-related diseases.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$650k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Buck Institute for Research on Aging’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Yale University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Buck Institute for Research on Aging named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

10
’20
10
’22
14
’23
13
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$12MScience & Tech$200k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $2,839,884, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,028,587 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,188,703 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 · FY2024

  • $50k–250k9 grants · $890k
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.9M
$100,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$132M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION$650,000
THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$500,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$300,000
MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE$250,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$250,000
THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY$100,000
WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RHODE ISLAND$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$100,000
THE REGENTS OF THEUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$100,000
WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH$100,000
THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS$100,000
MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$100,000
YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$89,884
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WHITEHEAD INST FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $100k → 8%MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $100k → 8%MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $250k → 11%UC BERKELEY: $100k → 10%UNIV OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $350k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $200k → 17%OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $650k → 16%UNIV OF ARKANSAS: $100k → 17%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $250k → 14%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $400k → 8%YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $100k → 12%WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RHODE ISLAND: $100k → 14%THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $100k → 10%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $300k → 14%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $400k → 11%TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $100k → 23%WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $100k → 8%MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $100k → 8%MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $250k → 11%THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $100k → 10%UNIV OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $250k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $400k → 16%UNIV OF ARKANSAS: $100k → 17%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $250k → 14%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $400k → 8%WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RHODE ISLAND: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $100k → 10%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $400k → 11%TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $100k → 23%WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $100k → 8%UNIV OF PITTSBURGH: $100k → 11%UC BERKELEY: $100k → 10%THE REGENTS OF THEUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $100k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $250k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $100k → 10%NORTH WESTERN UNIV: $100k → 14%WHITEHEAD INST FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $100k → 8%UNIV OF PITTSBURGH: $100k → 11%THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $100k → 10%UNIV OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100k → 14%THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $100k → 10%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD: $100k → 8%MAGEE-WOMEN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $100k → 11%UC BERKELEY: $100k → 10%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
AR
OK
LA
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.8M · 17 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down. Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
1

Total granted

$9.8M
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-2%

Still filing today

53%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsScience & TechOther
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

  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +20%
  • Northwestern University
    4× · 2020–2024 · $800k · revenue +33%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    2× · 2020–2022 · $800k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • TB
    The Broad Institute Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -2%
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
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
2
University of Miami

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

Education
3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
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
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

—
7
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
8
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
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
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
11
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

—
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Princeton University; the most unlike its peers is Women & Infants Hospital of Ri. 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

13 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. 13 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $2,200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $800,000 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $500,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BER…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $500,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $200,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES: $200,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · OtherThe Trustees of Princeton University: $800,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton Unive…Yale University: $789,884 · EducationYale UniversityUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $700,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORN…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $400,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $400,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVER…THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $200,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULAN…Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $1,300,000 · HealthOklahoma Medical Research…MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION: $700,000 · HealthMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INS…WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $400,000 · HealthWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR B…WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI: $200,000 · HealthWOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL …The Broad Institute Inc: $100,000 · HealthNorthwestern University: $800,000 · Recreation & SportsMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $200,000 · Science & Tech
Other$4,800,000Education$3,289,884Health$2,700,000Recreation & Sports$800,000Science & Tech$200,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $1,300,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNorthwestern University: $800,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $800,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $789,884 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION: $700,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $700,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $100,000 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 Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI ↗
  • Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Buck Institute for Research on Aging funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Buck Institute for Research on Aging. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: 31% of income from government
  • Marine Biological Laboratory: 20% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Buck Institute for Research on Aging’s filings →

More from the funding graph

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