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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.

$1.3B
Granted FY2025still arriving
813
Grants FY2025still arriving
51
States reached
$95M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Science & Tech$1.4BEducation$878MHealth$531MArts & Culture$226MInternational$215MCommunity Improvement$89MSocial Science$35MEnvironment$34MOther$0
02FY2025 · 813 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 813 grants below total $593,682,549, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,346,182,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $752,499,451 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

  • Under $10k55 grants · $426k
  • $10k–50k203 grants · $5.0M
  • $50k–250k284 grants · $33M
  • $250k+271 grants · $556M
$100,000
Median grant
51
States reached
$25.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $8.1M → 10%THE PARKER GROUP INC: $6.6M → 9%SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $9.9M → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $8.1M → 14%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $27.4M → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $7.5M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $13.8M → 10%OCEUS NETWORKS LLC: $15.5M → 6%BELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $7.0M → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $11.1M → 9%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $27.2M → 9%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $11.1M → 10%UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $9.6M → 9%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $9.4M → 9%FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL: $6.7M → 11%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $10.3M → 10%UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $8.9M → 9%LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION: $8.3M → 11%SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $22.5M → 16%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $8.4M → 9%SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $15.0M → 16%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $8.1M → 9%SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $9.9M → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $10.5M → 11%L3 TECHNOLOGIES INC DBA L3 SSG: $10.0M → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $9.1M → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $8.1M → 11%ANDURIL INDUSTRIES INC: $14.0M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $6.6M → 11%WESTAT CORP: $13.9M → 8%WESTAT CORP: $7.9M → 8%WESTAT CORP: $7.1M → 8%AEROJET ROCKETDYNE INC: $7.2M → 9%WESTAT CORP: $6.8M → 8%LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION: $95.0M → 14%WESTAT CORP: $6.8M → 8%LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION: $23.7M → 14%RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE: $10.0M → 11%RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE: $8.6M → 11%RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE: $8.6M → 11%RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE: $8.2M → 11%RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE: $7.3M → 11%SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY: $10.3M → 8%SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY: $7.0M → 8%JOHN SNOW INC: $24.3M → 16%JOHN SNOW INC: $20.8M → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $6.8M → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $6.7M → 19%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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
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AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
$3.4B · 1382 repeat orgs$98M to everyone else

1382 repeat relationships: 599 still active in FY2025, 783 since wound down; 151 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1382
446

Total granted

$3.4B
$51M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+28%

Still filing today

38%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationScience & TechInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • SR
    Southwest Research Institute
    9× · 2017–2025 · $101M · revenue +82%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $98M · revenue +21%
  • RT
    Research Triangle Institute
    9× · 2017–2025 · $60M · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • BR
    BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA
    one grant, 2024 · $2.2M · revenue -13%
  • HR
    HAWAII RESOURCE GROUP LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.4M
  • TB
    TELEDYNE BROWN ENGINEERING INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1.4M
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
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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…

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2
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

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…

Education
3
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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…

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4
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

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…

Health
5
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

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…

Health
6
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

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…

Health
7
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

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…

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8
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

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…

Health
9
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

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…

Health
10
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

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…

Health
11
University of Maryland Obstetrical Andgynecological Associates Pa

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…

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12
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montefiore Medical Center; 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.
04the grantee network

745 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. 745 of the 2,000 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.

24
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
70
Early backer (in before they grew)
721/745
Grantees still filing
517/745
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION: $200,397,972 · OtherLOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONWESTAT CORP: $80,866,308 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $62,936,098 · Other+130 more: $1,439,628,856 · Other+130 moreThe Trustees of Princeton University: $35,793,068 · EducationThe Trustees of …Emory University: $21,219,497 · EducationEmory UniversityTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $18,747,489 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $17,893,319 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $17,698,011 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $17,361,074 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $14,928,673 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $14,474,030 · EducationYale University: $14,143,761 · EducationBaylor College of Medicine: $14,072,821 · EducationVanderbilt University: $13,934,176 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $13,240,475 · Education+25 more: $179,282,946 · Education+25 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PHYSICIANS: $22,902,599 · HealthKENNEDY KRIEGER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $22,442,648 · HealthFrontier Science & Technology Research Foundation Inc: $15,494,420 · HealthINTRAHEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,303,268 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $13,960,309 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $13,367,527 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $11,731,509 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,949,500 · HealthOREGON ANESTHESIOLOGY & RESEARCH SOCIETY: $10,876,303 · HealthTHE LIEBER INSTITUTE INC: $8,742,051 · HealthPOPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $7,488,587 · HealthBELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $7,031,602 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $6,640,097 · Health+7 more: $29,631,008 · HealthSouthwest Research Institute: $100,603,480 · Science & TechResearch Triangle Institute: $60,188,749 · Science & TechSRI INTERNATIONAL: $18,436,321 · Science & TechCHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY INC: $7,573,124 · Science & TechSave The Children Federation Inc: $97,935,381 · InternationalFamily Health International Inc: $49,590,819 · InternationalRESULTS FOR DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC: $5,565,623 · InternationalSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $41,346,861 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $17,909,070 · Social ScienceBEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC: $8,070,121 · Social Science
Other$1,783,829,234Education$392,789,340Health$196,561,428Science & Tech$186,801,674International$153,091,823Arts & Culture$41,346,861Social Science$25,979,191

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouthwest Research Institute: $100,603,480 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $97,935,381 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetResearch Triangle Institute: $60,188,749 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetFamily Health International Inc: $49,590,819 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $41,346,861 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $35,793,068 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PHYSICIANS: $22,902,599 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetKENNEDY KRIEGER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $22,442,648 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetEmory University: $21,219,497 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $20,108,875 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $18,747,489 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSRI INTERNATIONAL: $18,436,321 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $17,909,070 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $17,893,319 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $17,698,011 over 9y, 61% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $17,361,074 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFrontier Science & Technology Research Foundation Inc: $15,494,420 over 9y, 8.6% of budgetINTRAHEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,303,268 over 9y, 9.4% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $14,928,673 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $14,852,723 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $14,474,030 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetYale University: $14,143,761 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $14,072,821 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $13,960,309 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $13,934,176 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $13,457,456 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $13,367,527 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $13,240,475 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $12,713,365 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $11,731,509 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $10,972,282 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,949,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON ANESTHESIOLOGY & RESEARCH SOCIETY: $10,876,303 over 9y, 92% of budgetNew York University: $10,568,585 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $10,551,319 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $10,410,602 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $9,655,043 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $8,902,174 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LIEBER INSTITUTE INC: $8,742,051 over 9y, 13% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $8,406,330 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC: $8,070,121 over 7y, 13% of budgetEAST BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT INC: $8,007,736 over 9y, 32% of budgetJSI RESEARCH & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC: $7,879,336 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $7,580,667 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY INC: $7,573,124 over 8y, 13% of budgetPOPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $7,488,587 over 7y, 14% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH: $7,432,277 over 9y, 20% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $7,220,533 over 9y, 0.2% 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 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 ↗

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.

The Trustees of Colum…Cornell UniversityThe George Washington…Trustees of Boston Un…Yale UniversityVanderbilt University…The Children's Hospit…Johns Hopkins Health …Brown UniversityUniversity of Souther…Fred Hutchinson Cance…Association of Univer…
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New YorkNY69× affinity100 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Johns Hopkins University?

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.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 2000 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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