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Novo Nordisk Fonden
NOVO NORDISK FONDEN (nnf) contributes significantly to research and development that improves the lives of people and the sustainability of society through grantmaking.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $16,432,176 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,171,517,714 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,155,085,538 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 · FY2024
- $50k–250k1 grant · $151k
- $250k+16 grants · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $2,233,117 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $2,175,332 |
| NREL FOUNDATION | $1,953,680 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS CAMPUS | $1,898,517 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $1,457,038 |
| WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH | $1,015,155 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $725,991 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $715,788 |
| INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS | $691,468 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL | $665,991 |
| UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND (UNFPA) | $646,946 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH AT GALVESTON | $630,494 |
| US NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $513,995 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $375,778 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $329,892 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $666k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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
Grants abroad, by region — $1.2B on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: E&O · BIOTECH · INNOVATION
Stated purpose: E&O · BIOTECH
Stated purpose: SOCHUM · NAT-TECH
Stated purpose: NAT-TECH · INFDIS
Stated purpose: SOCHUM
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Education and Research
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
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.
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…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Boston University and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 22 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
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 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NREL Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR NUTRITION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Novo Nordisk Fonden 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.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research — 7% 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.
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