How much does Northeastern University give?

Northeastern University reported 183 itemized grants totaling $46,106,126, out of $689,252,558 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 106 and 145 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Northeastern University fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Science & Tech (17%), Community Improvement (17%).

Who are Northeastern University's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: US Ignite Inc ($50M), University of Massachusetts ($12M), Regents of the University of Michigan ($11M).

Does Northeastern University fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Northeastern University?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Trustees of Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.

Where is Northeastern University based?

Northeastern University is based in MA.

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Massachusetts · Public charity

Northeastern University

$689M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 183
Itemized grants FY2025: 145
Organizations funded FY2024: 21%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $46M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $75,296
Largest grant, FY2025: $6,842,860
Organizations funded a year: 106 to 145; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 40
Total assets, FY2025: $6.8B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Northeastern University funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthScience & TechCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther

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	165	$44M	18%
FY2024	145	$50M	21%
FY2023	133	$39M	19%
FY2022	133	$27M	18%
FY2021	120	$29M	19%
FY2020	119	$34M	22%
FY2019	115	$27M	28%
FY2018	106	$19M	26%

100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$147MScience & Tech$52MCommunity Improvement$52MHealth$44MRecreation & Sports$2.3MHuman Services$1.8MEnvironment$1.7MArts & Culture$1.2MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
US Ignite Inc	$49,721,168	7	69%
University of Massachusetts	$12,273,170	9	n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan	$11,298,782	9	n/a
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc	$10,971,072	9	1%
University of North Texas	$7,086,673	9	n/a
University of Southern Mississippi	$7,069,148	6	n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$6,040,254	9	n/a
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education	$5,997,486	9	0%
Trustees of Boston University	$5,835,193	9	0%
Lukla Inc	$5,229,885	6	n/a

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All grantees of Northeastern University by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
US Ignite Inc	$49,721,168	7	69%
University of Massachusetts	$12,273,170	9	n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan	$11,298,782	9	n/a
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc	$10,971,072	9	1%
University of North Texas	$7,086,673	9	n/a
University of Southern Mississippi	$7,069,148	6	n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$6,040,254	9	n/a
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education	$5,997,486	9	0%
Trustees of Boston University	$5,835,193	9	0%
Lukla Inc	$5,229,885	6	n/a
University of Pittsburgh	$5,213,870	5	0%
University of Rhode Island	$5,000,288	9	n/a
Trustees of Tufts College	$4,958,422	9	0%
University of Houston	$4,239,491	8	n/a
Northern Arizona University Foundation	$4,006,714	3	8%
Indiana University School of Medicine	$3,723,143	9	n/a
Concurrent Technologies Corporation	$3,596,481	6	2%
University of South Florida	$3,464,271	6	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$3,382,561	9	n/a
University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Campus	$3,198,721	8	n/a
University of Puerto Rico	$3,165,283	7	n/a
J Craig Venter Institute	$3,024,989	8	32%
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York	$2,789,934	9	0%
Rutgers the State University	$2,708,429	9	n/a
Trustees of Purdue University	$2,475,071	9	n/a
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc	$2,340,513	9	0%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	$2,323,393	7	0%
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc	$2,220,056	7	0%
Novobiotic Pharmaceuticals LLC	$2,209,647	6	n/a
Vrc Metal Systems LLC	$2,107,539	5	n/a
Rhode Island Hospital	$2,051,102	9	0%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$2,031,812	9	n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$2,002,315	9	n/a
Command Strategies LLC	$1,783,651	6	n/a
University of Florida	$1,770,370	3	n/a
University of Connecticut	$1,760,475	7	n/a
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$1,759,489	5	n/a
University of Texas	$1,731,488	9	n/a
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	$1,720,051	9	0%
Integrated Solutions for Systems	$1,684,303	1	n/a
University of Georgia	$1,644,815	6	n/a
Nexgen Composites LLC	$1,594,539	3	n/a
Clark Atlanta University Inc	$1,522,508	7	0%
Makscientific LLC	$1,519,383	5	n/a
University of Alabama Huntsville Foundation	$1,500,001	4	5%
Johns Hopkins University	$1,349,664	4	0%
University of Washington	$1,339,066	7	n/a
The Scripps Research Institute	$1,296,315	6	0%
University of Delaware	$1,260,310	8	0%
Colorado Energy Office	$1,231,488	6	n/a
Children's Hospital Corporation	$1,225,515	9	0%
California Institute of Technology	$1,095,709	8	0%
Cornell University	$1,060,150	8	0%
Duke University	$1,037,531	6	0%
Boston Medical Center Corporation	$990,272	7	n/a
Oregon Health & Science University	$909,382	8	n/a
Zepsor Technologies Inc	$903,814	5	n/a
The Computing Research Association Inc	$881,292	2	3%
Yale University	$864,871	2	n/a
Washington University	$847,562	2	0%
Los Alamos National Laboratory	$834,859	2	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Irvine	$821,537	3	n/a
Solvus Global LLC	$819,975	1	n/a
Rowan University	$811,132	5	n/a
University of Connecticut Health Center	$781,514	7	n/a
Sarcos Corp	$776,625	1	n/a
University of Wisconsin Madison	$770,238	7	n/a
Board of the University of Alabama	$759,602	5	n/a
The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology	$759,410	5	0%
Foundation at Nj Institute of Technology	$757,368	8	1%
Cagan Avi (DBA Eneregan LLC)	$748,767	5	n/a
Florida State University	$743,328	9	n/a
Faraday Technology Inc	$723,563	5	n/a
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$723,271	7	n/a
Sagefox Consulting Group LLC	$703,893	4	n/a
University System of New Hampshire	$681,072	9	n/a
Meridian Institute	$664,301	2	3%
Boston Public Health Commission	$659,620	3	n/a
Georgia Tech Research Corporation	$637,181	8	0%
Marquette University	$627,510	6	0%
USC School of Medicine Greenville	$613,998	9	n/a
The Ohio State University	$587,890	7	n/a
New Mexico State University	$574,756	7	n/a
University of Utah	$564,560	6	n/a
West Virginia University Research Corporation	$554,495	9	0%
Southwest Research Institute	$553,508	5	0%
University of Kentucky Research Foundation	$553,081	5	0%
The District of Columbia Children's Advocacy Center	$541,503	3	5%
Csuptwo LLC	$539,000	4	n/a
University of Maryland College Park	$536,660	7	n/a
The University of Tennessee	$535,615	7	n/a
Smiths Detection Inc	$535,108	3	n/a
Inter American University of Puerto Rico	$529,983	1	0%
Middlesex Community College	$529,490	7	n/a
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences	$525,160	3	n/a
Intellisense Systems Inc	$497,333	2	n/a
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp	$484,356	3	n/a
Silent Spring Institute Inc	$474,153	9	2%
General Dynamics Mission Systems Inc	$469,937	3	n/a
Case Western Reserve University	$450,761	4	0%
Raytheon Company	$445,857	7	n/a
Oscilloscape LLC	$442,728	3	n/a
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte	$430,477	6	n/a
San Francisco State University	$426,514	5	n/a
Akita Innovations LLC	$421,531	2	n/a
McChrystal Group LLC	$415,000	1	n/a
Virscio Inc	$403,000	3	n/a
Massachusetts Materials Technologies LLC	$399,789	5	n/a
The Urban Institute	$399,309	3	0%
Washington State University	$389,467	6	n/a
Regents of the University of California at San Diego	$367,302	5	n/a
The New England College of Optometry	$366,094	5	0%
Curators of the University of Missouri	$361,306	2	n/a
Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc	$345,248	1	n/a
Thomas Jefferson University	$342,532	2	0%
Louisiana State University	$338,292	3	n/a
Sri International	$333,316	3	0%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	$327,319	5	n/a
Utmd Anderson	$319,631	6	n/a
New York University	$318,431	4	0%
Cich Solutions	$312,700	7	n/a
Chicago State University	$311,440	3	n/a
University of Hawaii System	$306,023	8	n/a
Rogers Corporation	$298,600	2	n/a
Boston Latin School	$296,118	3	n/a
DB Consulting	$290,697	4	n/a
Northwestern University	$280,741	4	0%
Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston	$278,097	3	1%
University of Texas at El Paso	$274,493	3	n/a
St Louis University	$272,660	5	0%
Quadridox Inc	$270,000	3	n/a
Nanoal	$258,582	2	n/a
Butler Hospital	$257,225	7	0%
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies	$254,678	2	0%
Hazards & Explosives Research & Education LLC	$250,000	1	n/a
Ginkgo Bioworks Inc	$249,940	1	n/a
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc	$242,340	4	n/a
University of Central Florida	$242,225	5	n/a
Institute for Advancing Computing Education	$228,094	4	13%
Research Triangle Institute	$227,634	6	0%
Carnegie Mellon University	$222,000	3	0%
Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Inc	$219,787	5	0%
University of California Santa Barbara	$216,540	3	n/a
Univ of Texas at Arlington	$214,279	2	n/a
Texas A&M University	$214,275	3	n/a
Drexel University	$210,525	4	0%
Turnaround Factor Inc	$202,340	1	n/a
Moog Inc	$200,432	1	n/a
Ut-Battelle LLC	$200,000	1	n/a
Kebotix Inc	$199,781	3	n/a
New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology	$199,076	5	n/a
Utah State University	$198,549	4	n/a
Northwest Energy Efficiency Council	$195,468	3	5%
The Survice Engineering Company LLC	$193,980	2	n/a
Klatt Works Inc	$189,925	2	n/a
Univeristy of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston	$181,930	2	n/a
Media Ecosystems Analysis Group	$175,991	1	n/a
University of Texas at Tyler	$174,414	1	n/a
Board of Trustees of Whitman College	$162,220	9	0%
Cape Cod Community College	$150,764	8	n/a
MatrixSpace Inc	$149,999	1	n/a
Applied Research Associates Inc	$149,974	1	n/a
Innovation Impact International LLC	$149,835	1	n/a
Polaris Sensor Technologies Inc	$148,502	2	n/a
1edtech Consortium Inc	$144,894	2	2%
Loyola University of Chicago	$143,450	3	0%
Virginia Institute of Marine Science Fdn	$140,076	3	3%
Suffolk University	$137,935	6	0%
Extra Ludic Inc	$135,835	2	n/a
Geisinger Clinic	$134,391	3	0%
University of Rochester	$130,179	2	0%
Terc Inc	$124,712	7	0%
Mississippi State University	$124,672	2	n/a
Wayne State University	$124,016	2	n/a
Trustees of Boston College	$123,278	4	0%
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc	$122,796	4	0%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$121,650	1	n/a
Texas A&M University	$120,247	4	n/a
San Jose State University Research Foundation	$119,966	2	0%
The Trustees of Princeton University	$118,409	3	0%
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	$114,846	3	n/a
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary	$114,295	2	n/a
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center	$113,559	2	0%
Public Health Advocacy Institute Inc	$112,946	2	2%
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University	$112,864	2	0%
1edtech Foundation	$110,905	2	82%
3D Fortify Inc	$110,000	1	n/a
Raytheon Technologies Research Center	$107,440	1	n/a
Michigan State University	$104,647	4	n/a
Tennessee Technological University Foundation	$101,910	4	0%
American Society for Engineering Education	$101,311	2	0%
Cellaria Inc	$100,932	2	n/a
Wellesley College	$100,264	6	0%
The Catholic University of America	$100,000	2	0%
Ut-Battelle Development Corporation	$100,000	1	0%
North Dakota State University	$99,313	2	n/a
Sustainable Economies Law Center	$98,800	2	2%
Regents Univ of California	$96,361	3	n/a
Emory University	$95,747	2	0%
University Enterprises Corporation at Csusb	$94,673	3	0%
Counter Drone Consulting LLC	$93,840	1	n/a
Southern Methodist University	$92,184	1	0%
Tufts Medical Center	$92,100	1	n/a
Norwich University Applied Research Institutes Ltd	$92,000	2	1%
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc	$91,775	3	0%
International Association of Chiefs of Police	$84,953	3	0%
Society of Women Engineers	$83,329	1	1%
Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital	$82,842	4	0%
University of New Mexico	$80,000	2	n/a
Epirus Inc	$80,000	1	n/a
The Right Question Institute Inc	$78,718	2	4%
Health Resources in Action Inc	$77,000	2	0%
Coastal Enterprises Inc	$75,639	1	0%
University of South Alabama	$74,828	2	n/a
Vcuvcu Health Campus	$74,172	1	n/a
DE Technologies	$73,840	1	n/a
University of California Davis	$73,633	2	n/a
Cognoscenti	$73,000	2	n/a
FuelCell Energy Inc	$72,359	1	n/a
Advent Technologies Inc	$71,999	2	n/a
University of the Pacific	$71,873	3	0%
Clemson University	$71,253	3	n/a
Michael Jay Walsh LLC	$71,000	2	n/a
Trustees of Clark University	$69,702	3	0%
Manomet Inc	$68,641	4	0%
Lafayette College	$68,541	5	0%
Packetized Energy Technologies Inc	$66,493	2	n/a
The Corporation of Mercer University	$65,537	1	0%
The University of Al in Huntsville	$64,763	1	n/a
Macalester College	$64,674	2	0%
Indicium Data Insight LLC	$63,500	2	n/a
Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc	$61,504	2	1%
Pajarito Powder LLC	$61,177	2	n/a
Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc	$60,844	1	n/a
Puerto Rico Science Technology and Research Trust	$59,400	3	0%
Marine Hydraulics International LLC	$58,928	1	n/a
The University Corporation	$58,626	1	0%
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska	$56,009	3	n/a
President and Trustees of Bates College	$55,706	3	0%
Marine Biological Laboratory	$55,223	2	0%
National Opinion Research Center	$54,332	1	0%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	$53,592	3	0%
Hampton University	$53,162	3	0%
Prevent Child Abuse Vermont	$51,215	2	1%
University of Maine System Inc	$50,750	2	n/a
Merrow Manufacturing LLC	$50,000	1	n/a
The University of North Carolina at Pembroke	$48,834	2	n/a
Northern Essex Community College	$47,535	4	n/a
Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene Inc	$47,012	1	0%
Massachusetts Housing Partnership Fund Board	$47,000	2	n/a
Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy	$46,755	1	2%
American University	$43,343	2	0%
Bunker Hill Community College	$41,344	2	n/a
Trace Sensing Technologies Inc	$40,999	1	n/a
Pacific Biosciences of California	$40,628	2	n/a
Pacific Northwest Economic Region Foundation	$39,979	1	2%
William Marsh Rice University	$39,213	2	0%
The University of Akron	$38,248	3	n/a
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Term	$38,184	2	n/a
ADA Forsyth Institute Inc	$37,653	2	0%
Tuskegee University	$36,184	1	0%
Roger Williams University	$35,898	3	0%
Cal Poly Corporation	$35,500	1	0%
University of Louisville	$34,894	1	n/a
Baylor College of Medicine	$34,099	2	0%
The Mitre Corporation	$33,682	1	n/a
Swarthmore College	$33,679	2	0%
Bedford Va Research Corporation Inc	$33,668	2	3%
Nova Southeastern University Inc	$31,432	2	0%
Southern Oregon University	$31,321	1	n/a
Georgetown University	$31,161	1	0%
Klein Buendel Inc	$30,109	1	n/a
IXS Holdings Inc	$30,000	1	n/a
bluShift Aerospace Inc	$29,988	2	n/a
The President and Trustees of Colby College	$29,586	2	0%
University of Chicago	$29,405	1	0%
City of Boston	$29,099	2	n/a
University of Oregon	$28,856	3	n/a
Simmons University	$28,703	2	0%
Iowa State University	$27,704	2	n/a
Bridgewater State University	$27,416	3	n/a
Pomona College	$24,726	2	0%
Greenwave Organization Corp	$24,450	1	0%
US Geological Survey	$23,730	2	n/a
Education Development Center Inc	$23,342	1	0%
Greenroots Inc	$22,437	1	0%
University of Kansas Center for Research Inc	$21,341	1	0%
Luta Security	$21,271	1	n/a
Sacred Heart University Incorporated	$20,682	1	0%
Simulations Plus Inc	$19,806	1	n/a
Rush University Medical Center	$19,724	1	0%
Opal Global LLC	$18,446	1	n/a
Massrobotics Inc	$17,342	2	0%
Northeast Seafood Coalition Inc	$16,825	1	4%
University of Cincinnati	$15,710	2	n/a
Pennsylvania State University	$15,509	1	n/a
Taller Salud Inc	$15,093	2	0%
Tech Goes Home Incorporated	$15,000	1	n/a
Pendar Technologies LLC	$14,933	1	n/a
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia	$13,640	1	n/a
Lahey Clinic Inc	$13,582	1	0%
Cupix America Inc	$12,223	1	n/a
Franciscan Hospital for Children	$12,000	2	0%
Boston Va Research Institute Inc	$11,852	1	0%
Clal-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc	$11,000	1	0%
Springfield Technical Community College Foundation Inc	$10,751	1	2%
VJTechnologies Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Oasis Health Network Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Joslin Diabetes Center Inc	$8,302	1	0%
Massachusetts Bay Community College Foundation Inc	$7,809	1	1%
Beth Israel Deaconess	$6,582	1	n/a
KnoNap - Danya Sherman	$6,000	1	n/a
The Fire Protection Research Foundation	$5,684	1	0%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($191k), not named here.

Northeastern University supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 138 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 138.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Trustees of Boston UniversityMA49.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Northeastern University

How much does Northeastern University give?: Northeastern University reported 183 itemized grants totaling $46,106,126, out of $689,252,558 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 106 and 145 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Northeastern University fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Science & Tech (17%), Community Improvement (17%).
Who are Northeastern University's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: US Ignite Inc ($50M), University of Massachusetts ($12M), Regents of the University of Michigan ($11M).
Does Northeastern University fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Northeastern University?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Trustees of Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Where is Northeastern University based?: Northeastern University is based in MA.