How much does Emory University give?

Emory University reported 352 itemized grants totaling $240,097,574, out of $636,544,761 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 218 and 388 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Emory University fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (43%), Science & Tech (41%), Education (13%).

Who are Emory University's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Saint Josephs Hospital of Atlanta Inc ($162M), Emory Saint Josephs Inc ($144M), Georgia Tech Research Corporation ($56M).

Does Emory University fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Emory University?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Georgia Humanities Council Inc, AIDS United, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Where is Emory University based?

Emory University is based in GA.

Emory University

Emory University at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Emory University

Emory University's mission is to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity.

$637M

Granted FY2024still arriving

352

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$35M

Largest

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 2024.

Health$513MScience & Tech$491MEducation$156MHuman Services$13MInternational$10MArts & Culture$1.2MFood & Nutrition$1.1MCommunity Improvement$843kOther$0

02FY2024 · 352 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 352 grants below total $240,097,574, the rows itemized in this filing. The $636,544,761 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $396,447,187 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

Under $10k22 grants · $165k
$10k–50k109 grants · $2.5M
$50k–250k109 grants · $14M
$250k+112 grants · $224M

$87,623

Median grant

States reached

$22.2B

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SAINT JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL OF ATLANTA INC	$35,452,053
EMORYSAINT JOSEPH'S INC	$34,845,945
ORASURE TECHNOLOGIES INC	$11,121,005
GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION	$9,598,345
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER	$7,925,840
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC	$6,495,432
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC	$4,874,867
OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$4,793,047
DCN DIAGNOSTICS	$4,652,269
HJF MEDICAL RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL INC	$3,985,560
THE MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE	$3,972,683
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA BOARD OF REGENTS	$3,691,063
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND	$3,383,682
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC	$3,255,910
FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL	$3,114,895

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $12.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

$1.1B · 499 repeat orgs$30M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

499 repeat relationships: 288 still active in FY2024, 211 since wound down; 53 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

499

269

Total granted

$1.1B

$19M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+24%

Still filing today

60%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesScience & TechInternationalOther

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

GT
GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $56M · revenue +69%
UO
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $27M · revenue +80%
FH
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
3× · 2022–2024 · $25M · revenue +97%

Funded once

U
UNeHealthgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $2.9M · revenue +51% · 34% of their budget
LI
LUMINOSTICS INC
one grant, 2021 · $2.1M
VM
VISBY MEDICAL INC
one grant, 2021 · $1.5M

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.

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education

Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education

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

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health

Emory University

Emory University's mission is to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. (See Schedule O for continuation)

Education

Medstar Health Research Institute Inc

See schedule omedstar health research institute is dedicated to supporting the academic platform of medstar health by conducting high quality translational and health sciences research throughout the medstar system.

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Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

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

Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health

Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Albany Area Primary Health Care Inc; the most unlike its peers is Devworks International. 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

531 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 531 of the 832 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

518/531

Grantees still filing

401/531

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$622,384,653Health$256,900,248Education$213,214,319Human Services$12,135,370International$10,457,227Science & Tech$7,115,402Arts & Culture$5,216,494

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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.

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.

Georgia Humanities Council IncGA150.9× affinity76 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Humanities Council Inc · AIDS United · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · University of Pittsburgh · Trustees of Boston University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Northwestern University · Washington University · Yale University · Cornell University · Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center · Mayo Clinic

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 Emory University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Emory University. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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.

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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