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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

$707M
Granted FY2025still arriving
106
Grants FY2025still arriving
24
States reached
$4.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$32MEducation$15MScience & Tech$6.1MHealth$4.6MMembership Benefit$3.0MPhilanthropy$2.7MPublic Benefit$2.5MHousing & Shelter$2.4MOther$0
02FY2025 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 106 grants below total $9,887,078, the rows itemized in this filing. The $706,619,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $696,731,922 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 $10k7 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k54 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k43 grants · $3.5M
  • $250k+2 grants · $5.0M
$38,300
Median grant
24
States reached
$45.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Technology Review Inc$4,204,206
MIT International Inc$843,639
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$200,000
Empirical Resolution Inc$150,000
ImpactAssetsInc$150,000
SXD Inc$130,400
Alumni Assoc of Alpha Mu Chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity Inc$125,793
My Brother's Keeper Task Force Inc$125,000
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research$111,150
Zeta Phi Chapter House Corporation of Alpha Phi International Fraternity In$106,202
Forma LLC$105,000
CoFlo Medical$100,000
Heterodox Academy$100,000
Lubavitch of Cambridge Inc$100,000
The Regents of the University of California$98,274
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Issara Institute Inc: $75k → 10%A Breeze of Hope: $50k → 10%Willow International Everfree: $75k → 10%Tarjimly Inc: $85k → 5%Waking Women Healing Institute: $10k → 11%Kuza Project: $10k → 7%Anniecannons Inc: $20k → 10%Sco Family of Services: $20k → 6%The Okoa Project: $10k → 7%Camp Kesem: $42k → 14%Asia Initiatives: $70k → 17%Asia Initiatives Inc: $35k → 17%Asia Initiatives Inc: $20k → 17%SameSame Inc: $60k → 17%Rogerson Communities Inc: $9k → 16%My Brother's Keeper Task Force Inc: $130k → 8%My Brother's Keeper Task Force Inc: $125k → 8%CAMBRIDGE FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $10k → 8%CAMBRIDGE FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $10k → 8%Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts Inc: $100k → 16%Community Art Center: $21k → 8%Kendall Community Group: $21k → 8%Margaret Fuller House: $20k → 8%COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC: $20k → 8%Community Art Center: $18k → 8%Margaret Fuller House: $15k → 8%Cambridge License Advisory Board: $15k → 8%Community Art Center: $14k → 8%Cambridge Community Center Inc: $14k → 8%Cambridge Community Center: $13k → 8%Cambridge Community Center Inc: $13k → 8%Casa Myrna Vasquez Inc: $250k → 16%Cambridge Community Center: $13k → 8%Enroot: $12k → 8%Enroot: $10k → 8%Community Art Center Inc: $10k → 8%Cambridge Community Center: $10k → 8%Enroot Inc: $8k → 8%Enroot Inc: $8k → 8%Enroot: $8k → 8%Community Art Center Inc: $7k → 8%Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House: $6k → 8%Margaret Fuller House: $6k → 8%My Brother's Keeper Task Force Inc: $125k → 8%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
NH
WA
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WI
MI
NY
MA
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SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
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CO
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VA
MD
DE
AZ
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NC
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DC
HI
OK
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GA
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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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58M · 94 repeat orgs$18M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

94 repeat relationships: 64 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
203

Total granted

$58M
$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+11%

Still filing today

77%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TR
    Technology Review Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $31M · revenue +25% · 26% of their budget
  • PB
    PHI BETA EPSILON CORPORATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +216%
  • PS
    PHI SIGMA KAPPA GRAND CHAPTER OF OMICRON
    6× · 2018–2025 · $780k · revenue +147% · 50% of their budget

Funded once

  • AC
    Axim Collaborative Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $5.0M · revenue -67%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $306k · revenue +26%
  • Trustees of Tufts Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $275k · revenue +39%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
4
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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5
Mit Enterprise Forum Inc

We inform, connect, and coach technology entrepreneurs-enabling them to rapidly transform ideas into world-changing companies. We are a global network of local organizations, inspired by MIT, and open to the world.

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6
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
7
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
8
Orcid Inc

Orcid provides an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. we provide open tools that enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their…

Education
9
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
10
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
11
Mit International Inc

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes.

Education
12
University of New Haven

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Axim Collaborative Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kwu Cnxi. 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

194 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. 194 of the 341 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)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
189/194
Grantees still filing
123/194
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Technology Review Inc: $30,725,835 · Arts & CultureTechnology Review Inc+4 more: $485,000 · Arts & CultureLandmark Bio PBLLC: $2,500,000 · OtherLandmark Bio PBLLCPHI BETA EPSILON CORPORATION: $1,412,766 · OtherPHI BETA EPSILON CORPORATIONPHI SIGMA KAPPA GRAND CHAPTER OF OMICRON: $780,297 · OtherDELTA KAPPA EPSILON INC: $727,770 · Other+133 more: $16,170,131 · Other+133 moreAxim Collaborative Inc: $5,000,000 · EducationAxim Collaborative IncBETA NU HOUSE CORPORATION: $4,425,807 · EducationBETA NU HOUSE CORPORATI…MIT International Inc: $3,305,562 · EducationMIT International Inc+21 more: $2,878,954 · Education+21 moreIMPACTASSETSINC: $2,387,643 · PhilanthropyCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $199,500 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $125,570 · PhilanthropyPARITYORG INC (FKA OPERATION 50-50 INC): $1,939,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $200,000 · Civil RightsNARRATIVE NATION INC: $188,000 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE OF SEVENTY: $100,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $100,000 · Civil RightsMy Brother's Keeper Task Force Inc: $380,000 · Human ServicesCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesAsia Initiatives: $125,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ART CENTER INC: $110,695 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF EASTERN MASSCHUSETTS INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTarjimly Inc: $85,000 · Human ServicesISSARA INSTITUTE INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesWillow International Everfree: $75,000 · Human ServicesCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $61,000 · Human ServicesSAMESAME INC: $60,000 · Human Services+4 more: $182,625 · Human ServicesCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $450,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $400,000 · InternationalDTWO LTD DBA Awana Digital: $143,000 · InternationalFamily Health International Inc: $100,000 · InternationalPROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC: $100,000 · InternationalKhushi Baby Inc: $60,000 · InternationalWater for South Sudan Inc: $50,000 · InternationalCLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC: $50,000 · InternationalALIGHT ALLIANCE TO LEAD IMPACT IN GLOBAL: $50,000 · International+2 more: $78,000 · International
Arts & Culture$31,210,835Other$21,590,964Education$15,610,323Philanthropy$2,712,713Civil Rights$2,527,000Human Services$1,504,320International$1,481,000

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 budgetTechnology Review Inc: $30,725,835 over 7y, 26% of budgetAxim Collaborative Inc: $5,000,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetBETA NU HOUSE CORPORATION: $4,425,807 over 7y, 92% of budgetMIT International Inc: $3,305,562 over 6y, 27% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $2,387,643 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPARITYORG INC (FKA OPERATION 50-50 INC): $1,939,000 over 5y, 94% of budgetPHI BETA EPSILON CORPORATION: $1,412,766 over 7y, 23% of budgetPHI SIGMA KAPPA GRAND CHAPTER OF OMICRON: $780,297 over 6y, 50% of budgetDELTA KAPPA EPSILON INC: $727,770 over 7y, 46% of budgetWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $638,801 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetZeta Phi Chapter House Corporation Alpha Phi International Fraternity Inc: $573,128 over 8y, 23% of budgetTHE BETA FOUNDATION A FRATERNITY HOUSE: $482,791 over 8y, 44% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $450,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $393,369 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMy Brother's Keeper Task Force Inc: $380,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetALUMNI ASSOC OF ALPHA MU CHAPTER OF PHI KAPPA SIGMA FRATERNITY INC: $318,781 over 5y, 26% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC: $306,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHETERODOX ACADEMY: $300,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetDOVER CLUB OF MIT INC: $299,537 over 6y, 42% of budgetLAMBDA ZETA ASSOCIATES INC: $276,088 over 5y, 14% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $275,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LAMBDA PHI CHAPTER OF THE ALPHA DELTA PHI FRATERNITY I: $253,719 over 7y, 13% of budgetJUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC: $250,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $250,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSTEM FROM DANCE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSolar Freeze Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetFRANKLIN W OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING INC: $243,220 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetALPHA CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY INC: $240,571 over 6y, 24% of budgetINC ALUMNI PSI DELTAPHI DELTA THETA FR: $218,362 over 6y, 76% of budgetALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE NU DELTA CHAPTER OF PHI MU DELTA FRATERNITY: $207,958 over 8y, 14% of budgetALPHA THETA CHAPTER OF SIGMA CHI INC: $202,985 over 7y, 20% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY: $200,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWomens Audio Mission: $200,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $199,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetNARRATIVE NATION INC: $188,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetMASS ETA OF PHI KAPPA THETA ALUMNI CORP: $162,362 over 6y, 65% of budgetTECHNOLOGY CHAPTER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $154,832 over 3y, 32% of budgetEPSILON THETA CORPORATION INC: $154,196 over 7y, 48% of budgetEB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMPIRICAL RESOLUTION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSNHC INC: $148,067 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetDTWO LTD DBA Awana Digital: $143,000 over 2y, 6.2% 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.

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.

Cambridge Savings Cha…Cambridge Community F…President and Fellows…The Elevate Prize Fou…Eastern Cambridge Fou…Tr Uw Helen F Kimball…Liberty Mutual Founda…Bushrod H Campbell & …FfwdPloughshares Foundati…Albert O Wilson Found…The Lander Family Cha…
Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation IncMA28.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Community Foundation · President and Fellows of Harvard College · The Elevate Prize Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Tr Uw Helen F Kimball-The Moses Kimball Fund for Promotion of Good Citizenship · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Ffwd · Ploughshares Foundation · Albert O Wilson Foundation Inc · The Lander Family Charitable Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 370%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Hera Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc: 82% of income from government
  • Bay Cove Human Services Inc: 70% of income from government
  • Justice Resource Institute Inc: 48% of income from government
  • The Young People's Project Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Community Art Center Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • Cambridge Community Center Inc: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: 7% of income from government
  • Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Food for Free Committee Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Day School Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The New England Council Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
37get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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.

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 341 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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