How much does Milky Way Research Foundation give?

Milky Way Research Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $7,899,074 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 19 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Milky Way Research Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (49%), Education (34%), Science & Tech (18%).

Who are Milky Way Research Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Baylor College of Medicine ($3.5M), The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ($3.5M), Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research ($3.5M).

Does Milky Way Research Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Milky Way Research Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Where is Milky Way Research Foundation based?

Milky Way Research Foundation is based in DC.

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Milky Way Research Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$7.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 8
Grants FY2025: 11
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $1,150,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $1,150,000
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 19; FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $198k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Milky Way Research Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	6	$6.1M	33%
FY2024	11	$11M	0%
FY2023	19	$22M	21%
FY2022	17	$13M	94%
FY2021	3	$1.3M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$34MEducation$24MScience & Tech$13M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Baylor College of Medicine	$3,450,000	3	0%
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies	$3,450,000	3	1%
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research	$3,450,000	3	1%
University of Rochester	$3,450,000	3	0%
Johns Hopkins University	$3,437,847	3	0%
The Broad Institute Inc	$2,294,285	2	0%
Harvard Medical Center	$1,066,570	1	n/a
Epigenetic Clock Development Foundation	$1,000,000	1	36%
Children's Hospital Corporation	$166,667	1	0%

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($32M), not named here.

Milky Way Research Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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About Milky Way Research Foundation

How much does Milky Way Research Foundation give?: Milky Way Research Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $7,899,074 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 19 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Milky Way Research Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (49%), Education (34%), Science & Tech (18%).
Who are Milky Way Research Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Baylor College of Medicine ($3.5M), The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ($3.5M), Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research ($3.5M).
Does Milky Way Research Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Milky Way Research Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Milky Way Research Foundation based?: Milky Way Research Foundation is based in DC.