· Public charity
Northeastern University
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 183 grants below total $46,106,126 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $689,252,558 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $643,146,432 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 $10k8 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k65 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k63 grants · $7.3M
- $250k+47 grants · $37M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| US IGNITE INC | $6,842,860 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS-AMHERST | $2,454,010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS | $1,999,473 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | $1,693,254 |
| INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS FOR SYSTEMS | $1,684,303 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $1,486,583 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY | $1,230,619 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $1,140,915 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $1,134,585 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $1,010,698 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $1,003,975 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $952,744 |
| RECINTO DE CIENCIAS MEDICAS | $600,355 |
| RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY | $585,717 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $585,000 |
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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
238 repeat relationships — 135 still active in FY2025, 103 since wound down; 30 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M 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
- UIUS IGNITE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $50M · revenue +77% · 69% of their budget
- UOUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +80%
- TUTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education9× · 2017–2025 · $6.0M · revenue +5%
Funded once
- SGSolvus Global LLCone grant, 2020 · $820k
- SCSARCOS CORPone grant, 2023 · $777k
- IAINTER AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICOone grant, 2017 · $530k · revenue -8%
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.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
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…
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
See Disclosure Above.
The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the most unlike its peers is Media Ecosystems Analysis Group. 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 59 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% 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.
155 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. 155 of the 327 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 US IGNITE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds CONCURRENT TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
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: Trustees of Boston University · Johns Hopkins University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Yale University · American Chemical Society · President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cornell University · Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc · Brown University · University of Southern California · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance 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 Northeastern 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
- Norwich University Applied Research Institutes Ltd — 64% of income from government
- Terc Inc — 44% of income from government
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc — 37% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Silent Spring Institute Inc — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Inc — 2% of income from government
- The New England College of Optometry — 2% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 1% 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.