· Public charity
Johns Hopkins University
The mission of the JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY is to educate its students and cultivate their capacity for life-long learning, to foster independent and original research, and to bring the benefits of discovery to the world.
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 813 grants below total $593,682,549 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,346,182,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $752,499,451 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 $10k55 grants · $426k
- $10k–50k203 grants · $5.0M
- $50k–250k284 grants · $33M
- $250k+271 grants · $556M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION | $94,992,053 |
| ROCKWELL COLLINS INC | $27,460,007 |
| SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $16,950,547 |
| HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND SPACE SYS INT (UTAS) | $15,223,291 |
| ANDURIL INDUSTRIES INC | $13,968,027 |
| WESTAT CORP | $12,560,469 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $11,104,567 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $10,457,374 |
| MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS INC | $10,020,713 |
| TWO SIX LABS LLC DBA TWO SIX TECHNOLOGIES | $9,343,513 |
| GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLC | $8,912,289 |
| RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE | $8,239,153 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | $8,073,057 |
| BELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $7,031,602 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO | $6,614,482 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of your 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.
1382 repeat relationships — 599 still active in FY2025, 783 since wound down; 150 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47M 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
- SRSouthwest Research Institute9× · 2017–2025 · $101M · revenue +72%
Save The Children Federation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $98M · revenue +21%- RTResearch Triangle Institute9× · 2017–2025 · $60M · revenue +43%
Funded once
- BRBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIAone grant, 2024 · $2.2M · revenue -13%
- HRHAWAII RESOURCE GROUP LLCone grant, 2022 · $1.4M
- TBTELEDYNE BROWN ENGINEERING INCone grant, 2020 · $1.4M
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.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montefiore Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
744 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. 744 of the 2,000 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 Southwest Research Institute ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Research Triangle Institute ↗
- Who funds Family Health International Inc ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PHYSICIANS ↗
- Who funds KENNEDY KRIEGER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SRI INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
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 Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Cornell University · The George Washington University · Trustees of Boston University · Yale University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation · Brown University · University of Southern California · Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center · Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc
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 Johns Hopkins 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.
- Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc — 100% of income from government
- Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc — 69% of income from government
- Central Baltimore Partnership Inc — 46% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- The Lieber Institute Inc — 31% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- American Foundation for Biological Research — 27% of income from government
- Medstar Health Research Institute Inc — 25% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- East Baltimore Development Inc — 2% of income from government
- Kennedy Krieger Children's Hospital Inc — 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.
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Find your warmest path to Johns Hopkins University through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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