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Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Johns Hopkins University.

Hansjorg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard Univ Inc

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Hansjorg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard Univ Inc

Q: What does Hansjorg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard Univ Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (55%), Science & Tech (29%), Education (13%).

Q: Who are Hansjorg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard Univ Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Children's Hospital Corporation ($8.9M), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($7.1M), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ($6.0M).

Q: Does Hansjorg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard Univ Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Formed as a supporting organization of president and fellows of harvard college to conduct, support and develop research and inventions in the life sciences and engineering.

$9.6M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.7M

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 2025.

Health$39MScience & Tech$21MEducation$9.2MFood & Nutrition$1.8MRecreation & Sports$253kArts & Culture$54k

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 12 grants below total $9,249,939, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,605,705 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $355,766 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

$50k–250k4 grants · $639k
$250k+8 grants · $8.6M

$1,051,207

Median grant

States reached

$479M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ATTIVARE THERAPEUTICS INC	$1,693,161
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY	$1,375,366
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION	$1,173,360
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC	$1,102,639
THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL	$1,096,260
ENPLUSONE BIOSCIENCES INC	$1,051,207
THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC	$858,606
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI	$260,039
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER	$196,291
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	$193,258
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA	$164,224
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE	$85,528

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of its 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$59M · 31 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$59M

$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+16%

Still filing today

58%

14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthScience & 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

CH
Children's Hospital Corporation
9× · 2017–2025 · $8.9M · revenue +91%
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
6× · 2020–2025 · $6.0M · revenue +39%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +162%

Funded once

EI
Emulate Inc
one grant, 2017 · $1.2M
RI
READCOOR INC
one grant, 2018 · $1.1M
AS
ADAPTIVE SURFACE TECH INC (FORMERLY SLIPS TECH
one grant, 2017 · $75k

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.

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

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

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education

University of Miami

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

Education

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

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

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

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

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

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

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

Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College; the most unlike its peers is The Cloud Artscience Foundation. 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

25 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. 25 of the 43 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)

23/25

Grantees still filing

24/25

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$27,838,410Education$17,878,585Health$17,672,161Science & Tech$7,626,749

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

Johns Hopkins UniversityMD12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Hansjorg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard Univ Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hansjorg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard Univ Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get 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.

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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