· Public charity
Northeastern University
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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 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 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 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.
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…
To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.
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…
See Disclosure Above.
How this is measured
155 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. 155 of the 327 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Northeastern University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northeastern University. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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