How much does Northwestern University give?

Northwestern University reported 375 itemized grants totaling $122,398,617, out of $749,377,157 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 273 and 305 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Northwestern University fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (42%), Health (30%), Education (24%).

Who are Northwestern University's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Chicago ($83M), The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois ($49M), Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ($36M).

Does Northwestern University fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Northwestern University?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include University of Chicago, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Evanston Community Foundation.

Where is Northwestern University based?

Northwestern University is based in IL.

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Illinois · Public charity

Northwestern University

Northwestern is committed to excellent teaching, innovative research and the personal and intellectual growth of its students in a diverse academic community.

$749M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 375
Itemized grants FY2024: 305
Organizations funded FY2023: 20%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $122M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $63,068
Largest grant, FY2024: $8,566,923
Organizations funded a year: 273 to 305; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $19.2B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Northwestern University funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesScience & TechCivil RightsArts & CultureOther

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
FY2024still arriving	363	$113M	30%
FY2023	305	$107M	20%
FY2022	297	$90M	19%
FY2021	280	$88M	13%
FY2020	303	$83M	27%
FY2019	277	$80M	19%
FY2018	273	$72M	18%
FY2017	295	$71M	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, FY2017 to 2024.

Science & Tech$313MHealth$224MEducation$184MPhilanthropy$9.2MSocial Science$4.1MYouth Development$3.9MHuman Services$3.6MEnvironment$3.3MOther$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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Chicago	$83,012,501	8	0%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$49,170,024	8	n/a
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago	$36,383,487	8	0%
Erie Family Health Center Inc	$13,157,225	8	3%
Johns Hopkins University	$12,890,981	8	0%
Rush University Medical Center	$11,253,025	8	0%
Washington University	$10,624,115	8	0%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$10,244,080	7	n/a
University of Pittsburgh	$10,070,293	8	0%
Duke University	$9,325,733	8	0%

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All grantees of Northwestern University by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Chicago	$83,012,501	8	0%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$49,170,024	8	n/a
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago	$36,383,487	8	0%
Erie Family Health Center Inc	$13,157,225	8	3%
Johns Hopkins University	$12,890,981	8	0%
Rush University Medical Center	$11,253,025	8	0%
Washington University	$10,624,115	8	0%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$10,244,080	7	n/a
University of Pittsburgh	$10,070,293	8	0%
Duke University	$9,325,733	8	0%
Teachers College Columbia University	$8,886,480	8	1%
University of Minnesota	$8,593,121	8	n/a
Vanderbilt University	$8,513,783	8	0%
The Scripps Research Institute	$8,252,812	8	0%
NorthShore University HealthSystem Research Institute	$7,889,984	7	n/a
University of Wisconsin	$7,674,531	8	n/a
Michigan Dep of Health & Human Services	$7,458,026	8	n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado	$7,439,884	8	n/a
Alliance of Chicago Community Health Services LLC	$7,117,802	5	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$6,280,895	8	n/a
Regents of the University of California at San Diego	$6,263,416	8	n/a
University of Washington	$6,185,870	8	n/a
LanzaTech Inc	$6,184,745	6	n/a
Indiana University School of Medicine	$5,859,983	8	n/a
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia	$5,846,191	8	n/a
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund	$5,799,201	8	0%
William Marsh Rice University	$5,773,791	7	0%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$5,639,063	8	0%
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago	$5,609,804	8	0%
Boston Medical Center Corporation	$5,533,972	8	0%
Sage Bionetworks	$5,496,851	6	7%
University of Florida	$5,471,697	8	n/a
Regents Univ of California	$5,420,545	8	n/a
University of Utah	$5,158,617	8	n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$4,939,595	8	n/a
Cornell University	$4,831,494	8	0%
Trustees of Boston University	$4,668,762	8	0%
University of Alabama at Birmingham	$4,667,904	8	n/a
Trustees of Purdue University	$4,576,867	8	n/a
Carnegie Mellon University	$4,457,151	7	0%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$4,155,968	8	n/a
University of Texas	$4,104,318	8	n/a
American Lung Association	$3,861,177	5	2%
The Hektoen Institute of Medicine	$3,854,834	8	2%
University of Louisiana at Lafayette	$3,810,181	7	n/a
University of Rochester	$3,743,884	8	0%
Schlesinger Group Holdings LLC	$3,670,685	3	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Riverside	$3,575,658	6	n/a
Emory University	$3,368,939	8	0%
New York University	$3,350,979	8	0%
The J David Gladstone Institutes	$3,251,126	6	1%
The Broad Institute Inc	$3,212,262	6	0%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$3,019,502	8	n/a
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente	$2,949,122	8	n/a
Rutgers the State University	$2,929,812	8	n/a
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	$2,814,186	8	0%
Georgia Tech Research Corporation	$2,785,863	8	0%
Baylor College of Medicine	$2,773,088	8	0%
Access Community Health Network	$2,713,053	8	0%
National Opinion Research Center	$2,694,727	8	0%
Research Foundation of the City University of New York	$2,691,479	8	0%
University of Massachusetts	$2,646,247	8	n/a
Geisinger Health	$2,619,648	8	1%
The Ohio State University	$2,563,977	8	n/a
University of Arizona	$2,553,018	8	n/a
Northwestern Memorial Healthcare	$2,510,306	5	n/a
University of Kentucky	$2,448,517	8	n/a
University of Delaware	$2,183,388	8	0%
University of Miami	$2,158,035	8	0%
Children's Hospital Medical Center	$2,142,709	8	0%
Minute Molecular Diagnostics	$2,106,877	2	n/a
Mayo Clinic	$2,087,110	6	n/a
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res Ctr	$2,085,055	5	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Irvine	$2,078,163	8	n/a
Depaul University	$2,074,858	8	0%
Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation	$2,071,734	7	1%
Pennsylvania State University	$2,018,220	8	n/a
City of Evanston	$2,016,767	2	n/a
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	$1,968,756	8	0%
University of Maryland College Park	$1,924,192	8	n/a
Blackrock Microsystems Inc	$1,917,256	2	n/a
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals	$1,895,847	8	0%
Oregon Health & Science University	$1,872,688	8	n/a
Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc	$1,870,795	8	0%
MarketLab Research Inc	$1,860,727	5	n/a
Northern Illinois University Foundation	$1,854,669	8	4%
Chicago Horticultural Society	$1,825,000	7	2%
Gingiber Labs	$1,757,404	6	n/a
Alliancechicago	$1,751,306	3	9%
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc	$1,740,178	8	0%
Indus Consulting Inc	$1,723,600	3	n/a
University of California Davis	$1,693,164	8	n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$1,667,632	6	0%
AIDS Arms Inc	$1,603,022	6	1%
QuesTek Innovations LLC	$1,566,474	8	n/a
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education	$1,566,434	8	0%
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation	$1,540,523	8	0%
State University of Iowa	$1,539,639	8	n/a
Bscs Science Learning	$1,484,635	2	8%
SS Holdings Group LLC	$1,438,371	1	n/a
Children's Hospital Corporation	$1,417,244	8	0%
The Translational Genomics Research Institute	$1,411,297	4	2%
President and Fellows of Middlebury College	$1,373,064	2	0%
Children's Research Institute	$1,332,534	8	0%
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies	$1,317,626	4	0%
The George Washington University	$1,312,480	7	0%
Northwestern Memorial Healthcare	$1,297,549	7	n/a
Georgetown University	$1,269,376	7	0%
Executive Frameworks Ltd	$1,267,753	8	n/a
Loyola University of Chicago	$1,259,939	8	0%
Oklahoma State University	$1,225,269	5	n/a
Illinois Institute of Technology	$1,182,653	6	0%
Eastern Virginia Medical School	$1,175,656	4	n/a
Howard Brown Health Center	$1,137,171	8	0%
Baystate Medical Center Inc	$1,103,443	4	0%
Michigan State University	$1,091,361	7	n/a
Kitware Inc	$1,071,309	4	n/a
Neighborhood Health Group LLC	$1,067,366	4	n/a
Center for Neighborhood Technology	$1,062,761	5	11%
Mayo Clinic	$1,045,314	8	n/a
Allen Institute	$1,029,402	1	0%
Metastar Inc	$1,020,523	7	2%
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago	$1,018,675	2	1%
Tufts Medical Center Group Return	$1,000,898	8	0%
Swiftscale Biologics Inc	$990,131	1	n/a
Colorado School of Mines	$959,447	7	n/a
Gigi's Playhouse Inc	$957,755	1	27%
Florida State University	$938,844	8	n/a
Asm Materials Education Foundation	$935,918	7	13%
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations	$932,403	1	0%
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska	$920,180	7	n/a
UChicago Argonne LLC Argonne National Laboratory	$917,632	8	n/a
Communities in Schools of Chicago	$911,681	1	9%
University of Central Florida	$911,639	8	n/a
The Trustees of Princeton University	$907,203	7	0%
Cradles to Crayons Inc	$903,006	2	5%
Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc	$881,410	7	2%
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute	$871,544	7	0%
Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc	$870,621	5	0%
Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc	$861,729	8	n/a
Curators of the University of Missouri	$860,658	8	n/a
Medical Research Analytics and Informatics Alliance	$849,626	5	48%
NanoCytomics LLC	$830,030	6	n/a
Telligen Inc	$827,483	4	n/a
University of Puerto Rico	$787,582	8	n/a
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute	$768,737	3	0%
Tera-Print LLC	$750,000	4	n/a
The Rockefeller University	$744,291	4	0%
Luci LLC	$729,259	2	n/a
University of California San Francisco	$723,009	1	n/a
University of Cincinnati	$719,080	8	n/a
California State University Northridge	$705,850	7	n/a
Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill	$661,242	1	1%
Objective Arts Inc	$660,000	4	n/a
Center for Veterans Research and Education	$643,531	5	2%
Wake Forest University	$642,282	1	0%
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	$637,403	7	n/a
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	$632,167	7	n/a
Northeastern University	$627,812	5	0%
University of Connecticut	$621,742	8	n/a
American Medical Association Foundation	$620,339	2	9%
AIDS Foundation of Chicago	$618,130	6	1%
University of South Florida	$614,954	8	n/a
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc	$612,206	5	0%
The Jackson Laboratory	$610,422	6	0%
Village of Skokie	$608,567	8	n/a
United States Drug Testing Laboratories Inc	$603,383	3	n/a
Chestnut Health Systems Inc	$587,495	2	1%
Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers	$583,342	6	n/a
Stowers Institute for Medical Research	$571,358	3	0%
Van Andel Research Institute	$567,469	5	0%
J Craig Venter Institute	$555,053	2	2%
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston	$537,782	8	n/a
Wayne State University Foundation	$532,284	8	1%
University of Connecticut	$527,348	4	n/a
Chicago Association for Research and Education in Science	$524,468	6	2%
Healthpartners Institute	$505,752	4	0%
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc	$505,368	7	0%
Colorado State University	$502,333	5	n/a
Wright State University	$495,447	7	n/a
Hmh Hospitals Corporation	$492,263	4	n/a
Fordham University	$489,540	4	0%
California Institute of Technology	$482,627	5	0%
Arma Biosciences USA Inc	$480,565	1	n/a
The University of Tennessee	$479,706	6	n/a
Albert Einstein College of Medicine Inc	$468,557	8	0%
Santa Fe Institute	$466,489	1	1%
Mercy Hospital and Medical Center	$462,885	3	0%
Max Planck Florida Corporation	$460,106	1	1%
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York	$449,448	5	0%
Vcuvcu Health Campus	$448,450	8	n/a
Total Resource Community Dev Organ	$445,483	5	23%
Metropolitan Asian Family Services Inc	$442,217	7	11%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc	$440,519	8	0%
Institute for Clinical Research Inc	$439,403	5	3%
University of Rhode Island	$437,092	2	n/a
Case Western Reserve University	$433,404	8	0%
Cook County Health Chicago	$421,625	4	n/a
Iowa State University	$417,477	7	n/a
Arizona State University	$413,301	6	n/a
Chicago Youth Programs Inc	$403,557	1	30%
Medical Faculty Associates Inc	$401,214	2	0%
Siemens Corporation	$399,078	2	n/a
Chinese American Service League Inc	$398,862	5	1%
Park Street Solutions Company	$391,050	2	n/a
The Rand Corporation	$388,390	6	0%
Henry Ford Health System	$384,963	1	0%
Evanstonskokie Community Consolidated School District 65	$381,202	3	n/a
Wake Forest University Health Sciences Group Return	$379,685	7	0%
West Side Institute for Science and Education	$375,014	6	10%
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	$367,397	1	n/a
Inquirium LLC	$367,107	6	n/a
University of Kansas Center for Research Inc	$361,139	5	0%
St Josephs Hospital and Medical Center	$350,920	5	n/a
Ut-Battelle Development Corporation	$349,173	2	1%
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College	$347,017	2	n/a
Methodist Hospital	$341,610	6	n/a
Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education	$335,688	6	n/a
Friends of the Robert Crown Center	$333,333	1	11%
Bowman Performance Consulting LLC	$321,134	4	n/a
Syracuse University	$312,903	6	0%
Cleveland Va Medical Research and Education Foundation	$311,609	5	2%
Compass to Care	$311,088	2	24%
Third Sight LLC	$310,828	1	n/a
Midwestern University	$308,356	7	0%
National Organization for Rare Disorders Inc	$305,157	5	0%
Illinois Public Health Association	$303,660	4	2%
Seattle Children's Foundation	$301,345	7	0%
Nyu Langone Health System	$300,044	1	2%
Prompt Diagnostics LLC	$299,987	1	n/a
Juvenile Protective Association	$296,500	7	4%
Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene Inc	$294,013	5	0%
Trustees of Tufts College	$289,075	5	0%
Fayetteville State University	$288,133	3	n/a
OSF Healthcare System	$285,871	4	0%
The Brookings Institution	$282,851	3	0%
Nc State University	$282,279	8	n/a
Walgreen Co	$281,395	3	n/a
Q-State Biosciences Inc	$278,587	4	n/a
University of Denver	$275,044	4	0%
St Louis University	$270,186	6	0%
Regents of the University of Idaho	$268,989	3	n/a
Artelys Corp	$268,500	3	n/a
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission	$268,140	8	n/a
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland & Nw Indiana	$264,067	1	1%
Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine	$261,407	7	0%
The Adler Planetarium	$257,745	2	1%
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte	$252,327	4	n/a
The Art Institute of Chicago	$250,000	7	0%
Research Triangle Institute	$249,721	4	0%
Joslin Diabetes Center Inc	$246,957	2	0%
Siemens Corporation	$245,744	2	n/a
Woman's Hospital Foundation D/B/A Woman's Hospital	$241,864	3	0%
Auxiliary of John H Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County	$240,051	1	n/a
Texas A&M University	$239,918	7	n/a
Rosecrance Inc	$239,628	2	0%
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences	$239,571	4	0%
Gfk Customs Research LLC	$236,057	1	n/a
Chapman University	$235,738	5	0%
HDT Robotics Inc	$234,482	1	n/a
Texas Tech University System	$231,448	3	n/a
Scheck & Siress Prosthetics Inc	$231,379	4	n/a
La Jolla Institute for Immunology	$229,641	2	0%
Florida International University	$229,249	3	n/a
Oak Street Health MSO LLC	$228,547	1	n/a
Bright Star Community Outreach Corp	$227,788	3	3%
Rockman Et Al Inc	$223,569	5	n/a
St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City	$222,575	5	0%
Corporation for the Advancement of Policy Evaluation	$221,568	1	n/a
Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago	$217,605	4	0%
Western Michigan University	$215,624	4	n/a
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope	$209,618	6	0%
Utah State University	$207,837	4	n/a
Ohio University	$207,201	1	n/a
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc	$205,201	1	0%
Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc	$203,378	3	0%
National Jewish Health	$202,119	4	0%
The Univ of Tx Health Science Ctr of Sa	$200,621	4	n/a
Temple University Health System Inc	$200,431	3	0%
Evanston Rebuilding Warehouse	$200,000	1	6%
Chicago Connected	$198,772	1	n/a
Illinois Department of Public Health	$198,691	2	n/a
Adventist Health SystemSunbelt Inc	$197,649	4	0%
Health Research Inc	$196,374	2	0%
Campbell-Kibler Associates Inc	$195,833	8	n/a
Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc	$195,634	1	0%
Institute for Nonviolence Chicago	$195,001	3	1%
John Sealy Hospitalutmb	$193,100	6	n/a
Particle Sciences Inc	$192,275	1	n/a
Fox Chase Cancer Center Foundation	$188,957	2	2%
The Institute For Cancer Research	$186,753	2	0%
Drexel University	$185,177	4	0%
Kent State University	$179,083	3	n/a
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research	$177,240	3	0%
Palladium Diagnostics LLC	$175,000	2	n/a
City of Chicago	$168,899	4	n/a
Northwestern Memorial Healthcare	$168,820	3	n/a
Center for Conflict Resolution	$164,000	5	3%
University of Texas at San Antonio	$162,616	3	n/a
Ut-Battelle LLC	$160,995	2	n/a
The University of Texas Md Anderson Cancer Center	$159,590	6	n/a
Hdt Expeditionary Systems Inc	$158,552	3	n/a
Sonica LLC	$157,580	1	n/a
Equip for Equality	$157,510	3	1%
Marquette University	$155,344	3	0%
Society of Hospital Medicine	$154,894	3	1%
Altarum Institute	$150,991	3	0%
Attorney General-State of Illinois	$150,000	2	n/a
Curriculum Associates	$150,000	1	n/a
Lehigh University	$149,039	1	0%
Ravinia Festival Association	$148,500	8	0%
Northwestern University Settlement Association	$147,638	6	0%
OptoNet Inc	$146,551	3	n/a
Rehabilitation Institute Research Corporation	$145,394	1	n/a
Books and Breakfast	$141,604	3	6%
Center on Halsted	$140,016	6	1%
CareIT Health LLC	$139,541	2	n/a
Presence Legacy Association	$137,695	2	n/a
George Mason University	$133,100	4	n/a
The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology	$130,707	2	0%
Fairview Health Services	$128,957	5	0%
Myomo Inc	$127,053	5	n/a
Northwestern University	$126,500	3	0%
Augusta University Research Institute Inc	$125,998	5	0%
The Chicago Academy of Sciences	$125,000	5	0%
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return	$124,407	1	0%
The Memorial Hospital	$123,286	2	0%
Louisiana Public Health Institute	$122,681	2	1%
Ohiohealth Corporation	$120,775	4	n/a
Research Support Services	$119,069	1	n/a
California State University Los Angeles Auxiliary Services Inc	$117,509	2	0%
YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore	$117,300	3	1%
Evanstonskokie District 65 Educational Foundation (Foundation 65)	$115,065	4	8%
University of California Santa Cruz	$114,408	2	n/a
University of Oklahoma	$111,452	4	n/a
Michigan Mathematics & Science Leadership Network	$110,164	2	11%
City Colleges of Chicago	$110,000	1	n/a
Ochsner Clinic Foundation	$109,154	3	0%
Seattle Children's Hospital	$108,833	1	0%
Genlantis Diagnostics Inc	$108,756	1	n/a
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc	$107,326	5	1%
Tidemark Institute Inc	$107,304	3	22%
Orlando Health Inc	$107,247	2	0%
Trustees of Clark University	$106,535	3	0%
Oregon State University	$106,323	2	n/a
Cabrini Green Legal Aid	$105,818	2	1%
GeneDx Inc	$104,000	4	n/a
Veterans Medical Research Foundation of San Diego	$103,774	3	0%
Childcare Network of Evanston	$103,125	3	1%
Illinois Science and Technology Institute	$100,916	3	7%
Albany Med Health System	$100,834	5	n/a
San Francisco State University	$100,472	3	n/a
Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation	$100,000	2	2%
Ecoag Collaborative Inc	$100,000	1	39%
Discidium Biosciences LLC	$100,000	2	n/a
Youth & Opportunity United Inc	$100,000	1	2%
Prosthetic Design Inc	$98,283	4	n/a
Quiver Biosciences	$98,144	1	n/a
Engineering and Software System Solutions Inc	$98,084	2	n/a
Sylvia Woods Josephine Wyatt and Clarice Durham	$98,000	2	55%
Experiences That Matter Foundation Inc	$98,000	2	50%
Centerlink Inc	$97,071	3	1%
Hospital for Special Surgery	$95,372	1	n/a
Les Turner Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Foundation Ltd	$93,500	7	1%
I Am Abel Foundation	$91,000	3	12%
Augustana College	$90,426	3	0%
Rancho Research Institute	$89,444	4	1%
NumFOCUS INC	$88,770	2	1%
Montefiore Medical Center	$87,931	3	0%
Claremont Graduate University	$87,569	2	0%
Sri International	$87,412	5	0%
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for	$87,000	3	3%
National Council of YMCAs of the USA	$86,803	4	0%
The Mind Research Network	$86,669	2	0%
Nj Institute of Technology	$86,556	3	n/a
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc	$85,000	5	0%
Northwest Community Hospital	$84,802	4	0%
Construction Technology Labratories Inc	$81,970	2	n/a
Institute for Systems Biology	$81,875	2	0%
Women & Infants Hospital of Ri	$81,232	1	0%
State of Connecticut	$81,044	3	n/a
Methodist Research Institute Inc	$80,946	1	n/a
President and Trustees of Bates College	$80,892	2	0%
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research	$80,317	3	0%
Dmacc	$79,236	3	n/a
The Thresholds	$77,912	1	0%
Palo Alto University Inc	$77,452	4	0%
James B Moran Center for Youth Advocacy	$77,235	2	1%
University of Louisville	$76,997	2	n/a
Clemson University	$76,867	2	n/a
Invisible Institute	$76,689	1	3%
USC School of Medicine Greenville	$75,060	3	n/a
Second Baptist Church	$75,000	2	n/a
Academy for Global Citizenship Charter School	$75,000	2	0%
Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc	$75,000	1	1%
Chicago Cred Inc	$75,000	1	0%
Illinois-Wisconsin Sertoma Regional Center for Communicable Disorders	$74,881	3	2%
University of California Santa Barbara	$73,122	1	n/a
Mental Health America Inc	$72,681	2	0%
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights	$71,354	1	0%
National Bureau of Economic Research Inc	$71,035	2	0%
Current Innovation NFP	$70,868	1	4%
Psephos Inc	$70,000	2	45%
Shenandoah University	$69,819	4	0%
Oregon Research Institute	$68,816	4	0%
Wings Program Inc	$68,604	2	0%
Distinctively Me	$67,500	2	n/a
ExoMira Medicine Inc	$67,309	1	n/a
Denver Nephrologists PC	$66,740	2	n/a
Braided Education Consulting	$66,487	2	n/a
Blessings in a Backpack Inc	$66,439	2	0%
Sentara Health	$65,795	3	0%
Hugo W Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Inc	$65,520	1	0%
Lorenzo's House	$65,040	2	5%
Csu Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation	$64,896	3	0%
Atlantic Health System Inc	$64,795	3	n/a
Thomas Jefferson University	$64,450	3	0%
Friends of Prentice	$64,000	6	4%
Flash Bio Inc	$62,241	1	n/a
Interact Inc	$62,146	2	6%
Augustana University Association	$61,305	1	0%
Curt's Cafe	$60,937	2	4%
America Needs You	$60,937	2	1%
Carolina Biological Supply Company	$60,734	1	n/a
Family Violence & Sexual Assault Inst Dba Ivat	$60,001	1	3%
Cultivate Collective Inc	$60,000	2	5%
World Business Chicago	$60,000	1	1%
University of Houston	$59,366	3	n/a
Chicago State University	$58,693	1	n/a
Q-State Biosciences Inc	$58,265	1	n/a
Chicago Humanities Festival	$58,000	4	1%
Ge Medical Systems Information Tech	$56,320	1	n/a
Evanston Township High School District 202 Ed Foundation	$55,910	2	1%
Rocky Mountain Movement Disorders Center PC	$55,785	3	n/a
Schneider Electric Engineering Services LLC	$55,750	3	n/a
Public Advocates Inc	$55,719	1	1%
Cardiac Surgery Clinical Research Center	$55,714	4	8%
Ascend Justice	$55,442	1	n/a
Univ of Texas at Arlington	$55,320	1	n/a
The Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU Inc	$55,254	1	1%
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health	$53,696	1	0%
Memorial Hermann Health System	$53,513	3	0%
Learning Partnership	$53,251	2	n/a
Start Small Think Big Inc	$53,151	1	n/a
Boeing Company	$53,149	1	n/a
Lsu Health Sciences Center - New Orleans	$52,862	2	n/a
Evanston Chamber of Commerce	$52,625	4	5%
Auburn University	$52,502	2	n/a
15th Judicial District Public Defender	$52,347	1	n/a
Wested	$52,139	3	n/a
Roh Fedeal Systems Division Inc	$50,590	2	n/a
Women Initiating New Directions	$50,400	3	21%
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons	$50,217	3	0%
The Intercept Media Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services	$50,000	1	0%
National Center for Youth Law	$50,000	1	0%
Root & Rebound	$50,000	1	2%
Millennium Park Foundation	$50,000	5	1%
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	0%
First Defense Legal Aid	$50,000	1	n/a
Basf Corporation	$50,000	1	n/a
Kentucky Refugee Ministries Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Metropolitan Justice Center of Southeast Michigan	$50,000	1	n/a
Orleans Public Defenders	$50,000	1	n/a
International Association for Conflict Management Nfp	$50,000	1	20%
The Community Wellness Project	$50,000	1	2%
Commonwealth of Kentucky	$50,000	1	n/a
Hilltown Vision Fund Inc	$50,000	1	61%
Restore Justice Foundation	$50,000	1	2%
Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada	$49,917	4	1%
Heartland Human Care Services Inc	$49,771	2	0%
The General Electric Company	$49,711	1	n/a
William & Mary	$48,814	1	n/a
Netrias LLC	$47,626	1	n/a
Mudlark Theater Company	$47,500	2	n/a
University of Hawaii System	$47,380	2	n/a
St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc	$46,129	2	0%
Connections for the Homeless Inc	$46,000	2	0%
Billings Clinic Foundation	$45,427	2	0%
Educopia Institute Inc	$45,014	2	1%
Banner Health	$44,205	3	0%
Planned Parenthood of Illinois	$43,889	2	0%
University of Miss Medical Center	$43,732	2	n/a
Wesley Neurology Clinic PC	$43,507	1	n/a
Asexual Visibility and Education Network	$43,478	2	n/a
Asian Health Services	$43,000	3	0%
Shorefront Nfp	$43,000	1	5%
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center	$42,965	1	n/a
Geneva Foundation	$42,556	4	0%
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University	$42,219	1	0%
Have Dreams	$42,103	1	2%
Reading in Motion	$42,000	1	3%
The Miriam Hospital	$41,419	2	0%
Portland Va Research Foundation	$41,123	1	n/a
Aging and In-Home Services of Northeast Indiana Inc	$40,837	3	0%
Marshfield Clinic Inc	$40,396	2	0%
Utah Aids Foundation	$40,152	2	1%
Will County Clerk	$40,000	4	n/a
Trillium Health Inc	$40,000	3	0%
Guiding Right Inc	$40,000	4	1%
Latinos Salud Inc	$40,000	3	0%
Miracle of Love Inc	$40,000	3	0%
Destination Tomorrow Inc	$40,000	3	1%
Naples Children Foundation Inc	$40,000	2	0%
Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network Inc	$40,000	3	1%
Brotherhood Inc	$40,000	4	1%
Bebashi-Transition to Hope	$40,000	3	0%
Southwest Community Health Center Inc	$40,000	4	0%
Cascade AIDS Project	$40,000	3	0%
County of Lake	$40,000	2	n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$40,000	2	0%
Brainup Inc	$40,000	3	5%
Horizons for Youth	$39,603	1	1%
Back on My Feet	$39,603	1	1%
Step-Up Incorporated	$39,024	3	1%
The Alliance of AIDS Services-Carolina	$38,667	3	2%
Family Service of Rhode Island Inc	$38,396	3	0%
Lyric Opera of Chicago	$37,500	5	0%
The Josselyn Center Nfp	$37,439	1	1%
Girlforward	$37,439	1	n/a
Young 1ove Foundation	$37,000	1	2%
Living Goods	$37,000	1	n/a
Prevent Child Abuse America	$36,456	2	0%
Nextcea	$36,000	1	n/a
Oakland University	$35,770	2	n/a
Regents of the University of California	$35,704	1	n/a
Near North Health Service Corporation	$35,635	3	0%
Regents of the University of California	$35,536	2	n/a
Evmark Dba Downtown Evanston	$35,500	1	n/a
Evanston Latinos Nfp	$35,000	1	15%
Nicasa Nfp	$35,000	1	1%
Blue Hat Foundation	$35,000	2	n/a
Product Development & Analysis LLC	$35,000	2	n/a
Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation	$34,318	1	0%
Parents as Teachers National Center Inc	$34,057	2	0%
New York Blood Center Inc	$34,041	1	0%
Public Narrative	$34,010	2	7%
National Kidney Foundation of Illinois	$34,000	3	1%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles	$33,934	3	n/a
FirstVitals Health and Wellness Inc	$33,838	2	n/a
University of Georgia	$33,620	1	n/a
William Beaumont Hospital	$33,325	1	n/a
Beacon Medical Group Inc	$33,093	1	0%
Hoosier Cancer Research Network Inc	$33,000	2	0%
Aliveness Project Inc	$32,780	3	1%
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc	$32,623	2	0%
Waikiki Health	$32,500	2	0%
Dimension Inx LLC	$32,376	1	n/a
Diverse and Resilient Inc	$31,750	3	1%
University of Mississippi Medical Center Research Development Foundation	$31,450	1	n/a
Morehouse School of Medicine	$30,950	3	0%
American Heart Association Inc	$30,000	1	0%
Metropolitan Museum of Art	$30,000	1	0%
National Academy of Sciences	$30,000	3	0%
The Endeleo Institute Inc	$30,000	1	2%
Tutoring Chicago	$29,000	1	2%
Almost Home Kids	$29,000	1	0%
Horizon Research Inc	$28,994	2	n/a
Storycatchers	$28,500	2	2%
Council for Jewish Elderly	$28,471	2	0%
Skokie Park District	$28,276	3	n/a
Southern Methodist University	$27,885	1	0%
Latin Center	$27,459	2	1%
Evergreenhealth Foundation	$27,385	2	1%
Northwestern Memorial Healthcare	$27,350	2	n/a
The Familial Hypercholesterolemia Foundation	$27,125	1	0%
STEM School Evanston	$27,000	1	n/a
Chicago Learning Exchange	$26,700	1	6%
Lincoln Park Community Services	$26,604	1	1%
Chicago Women's Health Center	$26,000	1	n/a
Step Up Women's Network	$25,937	2	1%
Actualize Therapy LLC	$25,705	1	n/a
San Francisco State University Foundation	$25,298	1	0%
Rhode Island Hospital	$25,255	2	0%
Chicago's North Shore Convention and Visitors Bureau	$25,000	1	n/a
World Central Kitchen Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Evergreen Climate Innovations	$25,000	2	1%
Build Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Catalysis Club of Chicago	$25,000	1	n/a
Youth Job Center Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Denver Research Institute	$24,712	1	1%
Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders	$24,505	2	0%
Georgia Department of Public Health	$24,493	1	n/a
Nuvance Health Medical Practice PC	$24,285	2	0%
Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy	$24,000	3	0%
Fellowship of Afro American Men	$23,925	1	29%
Broward College Foundation Inc	$23,238	1	0%
West Virginia University Research Corporation	$23,070	1	0%
Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation	$23,000	2	1%
St Vincent Medical Group Inc	$22,679	2	0%
Brigham Young University	$22,467	4	n/a
Inland Northwest Research Foundation	$22,392	1	n/a
Chicago Family Health Center Inc	$22,241	1	n/a
Enlace Chicago	$22,199	2	0%
Benedictine University	$22,147	1	0%
Versiti Wisconsin Inc	$21,734	2	0%
Northern Illinois Recovery Community Organization	$21,608	1	2%
Centro de Cancer de la Universidad de Puerto Rico	$21,497	1	n/a
Parkinson's & Movement Disorder Institute	$21,270	2	n/a
Indiana Hemophilia & Thrombosis Center Inc	$20,841	1	n/a
Louisiana Board of Regents	$20,285	2	n/a
Pennsylvania Voice	$20,000	1	0%
Gilda's Club Chicago	$20,000	2	1%
Respiratory Health Association	$20,000	1	1%
Chicago Urban League	$20,000	1	0%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc	$20,000	1	0%
The American Society for Clinical Investigation Inc	$20,000	1	0%
California Institute of Integral Studies	$20,000	1	0%
Center for Speech and Language Disorders	$20,000	1	1%
Des Moines University Osteopathic Medical Center	$19,698	1	0%
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgiainc	$19,239	1	0%
Operation Par Inc	$19,000	1	0%
Joshua Olts Lets Talk Foundation	$18,600	1	4%
Ball State University	$18,395	1	n/a
Stemloop Inc	$18,122	1	n/a
Strive	$18,000	1	15%
Koomey Analytics	$18,000	1	n/a
Equal Hope	$18,000	2	1%
Florida Atlantic University	$17,526	1	n/a
Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum Inc	$17,500	2	1%
University Hospitals Health System Inc	$16,800	1	n/a
National Medical Fellowships Inc	$16,750	2	0%
The Center for Medical Technology Policy Inc	$16,618	1	1%
Clinical Directors Network Inc	$16,517	1	1%
Trinity Health - Michigan	$16,430	1	0%
University of Oregon	$16,151	1	n/a
Evanston Township High School	$16,031	1	n/a
Equity & Empowerment for Evanston Families	$15,862	2	n/a
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home	$15,802	1	0%
Cardiovascular Institute of the South	$15,748	1	n/a
Oak Street Health MSO LLC	$15,354	1	n/a
Pacific Health Research and Education Institute	$15,290	2	n/a
Norton Healthcare Inc	$15,090	1	0%
The Chicago Innovation Foundation	$15,000	1	2%
Chicago Public Library Foundation	$15,000	1	0%
Off the Street Club	$15,000	1	1%
State Voices	$15,000	1	0%
American Historical Association	$15,000	1	0%
New Georgia Project Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Metrosquash Nfp	$15,000	1	1%
Plattsburgh College Foundation Inc	$15,000	1	0%
To Nizhoni Ani	$15,000	1	2%
The Valley Hospital Inc	$14,911	1	0%
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc	$14,621	1	0%
Primodal US Incorporated	$14,500	2	n/a
Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp	$14,179	1	0%
Sarcoma Oncology Research Center	$14,071	1	n/a
San Miguel Community Foundation	$14,000	1	1%
The University of Memphis	$13,746	1	n/a
The Carle Foundation Hospital	$13,470	1	0%
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity	$13,450	1	n/a
The Nemours Foundation	$13,281	2	0%
Steward St Elizabeth Medical Ctr Boston	$13,237	1	n/a
Institute for Safe Medication Practices	$13,214	2	0%
Kent County Memorial Hospital	$13,009	1	0%
White Plains Hospital Medical Center	$12,671	1	0%
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group	$12,500	1	0%
American Cancer Society Inc	$12,500	1	0%
Help at Home	$12,180	2	n/a
Socialworks	$11,802	2	0%
John Wayne Cancer Institute Auxiliary	$11,375	1	2%
Live Real Foundation	$11,290	1	n/a
California Polytechnic State University	$11,229	1	n/a
Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy	$11,025	1	n/a
Benevolent Healthcare Foundation	$11,000	1	0%
Piedmont Hospital Inc	$10,631	1	0%
Baptist Hospital of Miami Inc	$10,560	2	0%
Consulting Radiologists Ltd	$10,530	1	n/a
Regenstrief Institute Inc	$10,373	1	0%
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation	$10,262	1	0%
Pitt County Memorial Hospital Inc	$10,246	1	0%
Equal Justice Initiative	$10,000	1	0%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Louisiana Bucket Brigade	$10,000	1	0%
Save The Children Federation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
United States Association for UNHCR	$10,000	1	0%
Lynn Sage Foundation	$10,000	1	2%
Whitehall Township	$10,000	1	n/a
International Society of Psychoneuroendo Crinology Inc	$10,000	1	11%
Children's Hospital & Research Center at Oakland	$10,000	1	0%
Amnesty International of the USA Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Evanston Own It	$10,000	1	n/a
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Mediators Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
North Suburban Young Men's Christian Association	$10,000	1	0%
American University of Beirut	$10,000	1	0%
Oxfam-America Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Lung Cancer Research Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Finca International Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Human Rights Initiative of North Texas Inc	$10,000	1	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$10,000	1	0%
Chessmen Club of the North Shore Inc	$10,000	1	8%
Native Renewables Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The Boeing Company	$9,940	1	n/a
Newyork-Presbyterianqueens	$9,207	1	0%
Supplies for Dreams Inc	$9,000	1	27%
Society for Neuroscience	$9,000	1	0%
Bradley University	$8,948	1	0%
Cleveland State University	$8,620	1	n/a
St Joseph's Hospital Inc	$8,370	1	0%
Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation	$8,304	1	0%
South Denver Cardiology Associates PC	$8,215	1	n/a
Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Foundation	$8,060	1	1%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc	$8,000	1	0%
The Resurrection Project	$8,000	1	0%
Regis University	$7,998	1	0%
Endeavor Health Medical Group	$7,933	1	0%
The Queen's Medical Center	$7,895	1	0%
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science	$7,877	1	0%
Eck Family Foundation Inc	$7,874	1	n/a
The Chicago Scholars Foundation	$7,832	1	0%
Chapin Hall Center for Children	$7,811	1	0%
Medical Center of the Rockies	$7,533	1	0%
Open Communities	$7,500	1	0%
Cedille Chicago Nfp	$7,500	1	1%
Evanston Scholars	$7,500	1	1%
Gordon Research Conferences Inc	$7,500	1	0%
United Negro College Fund Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Canfield Scientific Inc	$7,078	1	n/a
Anita Borg Institute for Technology	$7,000	1	0%
Goodpower Education Fund Inc	$7,000	1	0%
Family Action Network	$7,000	1	1%
Mother and Child Alliance	$6,905	1	1%
INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center Inc	$6,726	1	0%
GEORGIA ARRHYTHMIA CONSULTANTS & Research Inst	$6,541	1	n/a
MaineHealth	$6,541	1	0%
Chicago Cubs Charities	$6,500	1	0%
The Exploratorium	$6,011	1	0%
Society for Consumer Psychology	$6,000	1	2%
Open Source Robotics Foundation Inc	$6,000	1	0%
Asociacion Latina de Asistencia y Prevencion del Cancer de Mama	$6,000	1	2%
Young Black and Lit	$6,000	1	1%
Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs	$5,999	1	0%
Hofstra University	$5,910	1	0%
Lahey Clinic Hospital Inc	$5,704	1	0%
New York Medical College	$5,704	1	0%
National Medical Fellowships	$5,500	1	n/a
True North Treks Foundation Nfp	$5,500	1	n/a
Renaissance Society of America Inc	$5,300	1	n/a

Northwestern University supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 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 200.

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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.

University of ChicagoIL73.4× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Northwestern University

How much does Northwestern University give?: Northwestern University reported 375 itemized grants totaling $122,398,617, out of $749,377,157 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 273 and 305 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Northwestern University fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (42%), Health (30%), Education (24%).
Who are Northwestern University's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Chicago ($83M), The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois ($49M), Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ($36M).
Does Northwestern University fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Northwestern University?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include University of Chicago, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Evanston Community Foundation.
Where is Northwestern University based?: Northwestern University is based in IL.