· Public charity
Georgetown University
Established in 1789 in the spirit of the new republic, the university was founded on the principle that serious and sustained discourse among people of different faiths, cultures and beliefs promotes intellectual, ethical and spiritual understanding.
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 190 grants below total $27,869,089 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $320,141,200 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $292,272,111 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 $10k12 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k71 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k82 grants · $9.8M
- $250k+25 grants · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Medstar Health Research Institute | $2,119,830 |
| Regents of The University of Michigan | $2,063,655 |
| Howard University | $1,222,938 |
| Innovations for Poverty Action A Nonprofit Corporation | $1,193,370 |
| Regents Of The Univ Of Ca San Francisco | $1,170,889 |
| Population Services International | $947,586 |
| Johns Hopkins University | $697,139 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $687,177 |
| Hackensack Meridian Health | $621,492 |
| Pennsylvania State University | $582,007 |
| Regents of The Univ of California Los Angeles | $526,094 |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospitals | $445,438 |
| Partnership on AI | $400,000 |
| Center for AI Safety Inc | $360,869 |
| George Mason University | $343,751 |
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 (FY17–25, $5.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
250 repeat relationships — 118 still active in FY2025, 132 since wound down; 54 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.4M 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
THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $9.7M · revenue +38%- MHMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $9.4M · revenue +105%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $5.4M · revenue +25%
Funded once
- DTDESCENDANTS TRUTH&RECONCILIATION TRone grant, 2024 · $2.0M · revenue 0% · 40% of their budget
OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $550k · revenue -100%- HHHIGHMARK HEALTHone grant, 2019 · $274k
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.
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…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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 institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Health International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Death Penalty Information Center. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
364 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. 364 of the 504 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE TOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF STATE & TERRITORIAL DENTAL DIRECTORS ↗
- Who funds DESCENDANTS TRUTH&RECONCILIATION TR ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds DC Affordable Law Firm ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE DEPART INC ↗
- Who funds HMH HOSPITALS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HASKINS LABORATORIES INC ↗
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: The George Washington University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Johns Hopkins University · Cornell University · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Yale University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · President and Fellows of Harvard College · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Gates Foundation · Mayo Clinic
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 Georgetown 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
- Child Trends Inc — 50% of income from government
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc — 37% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Medstar Health Research Institute Inc — 25% of income from government
- EcoHealth Alliance Inc — 24% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring Project Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lahey Clinic Inc — 1% of income from government
- Vermont Council On World Affairs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Python Software Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 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.