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President and Fellows of Harvard College
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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 352 grants below total $273,340,760 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,089,639,465 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $816,298,705 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 $10k29 grants · $205k
- $10k–50k100 grants · $2.5M
- $50k–250k93 grants · $12M
- $250k+130 grants · $259M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $27,369,309 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC | $24,690,047 |
| FRONTIER SCI TECH FDN | $18,744,422 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INST | $18,560,703 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION | $12,177,708 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL PEDIATRIC ASSOC | $7,466,068 |
| ASSOC PHYS HARV MED PHYS AT BIDMC | $6,846,179 |
| BIFROST BIOSYSTEMS INC | $6,470,731 |
| GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FDN | $6,151,618 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER | $5,375,245 |
| MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY | $5,179,529 |
| ALLEN INSTITUTE | $5,168,359 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $4,945,529 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $4,816,975 |
| THE BROAD INSTITUTE | $4,461,420 |
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 (FY17–25, $11.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +32% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
510 repeat relationships — 239 still active in FY2025, 271 since wound down; 95 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45M 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
- FSFrontier Science & Technology Research Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $129M · revenue +33% · 62% of their budget
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation9× · 2017–2025 · $70M · revenue +91%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $60M · revenue +162%
Funded once
- CCCAMPUS CHILD CARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $9.3M · revenue +109% · 83% of their budget
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $7.8M · revenue -23%
- CFCTR FOR ADV BIOLOGICAL INNOV & MANUFone grant, 2021 · $6.0M
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Be Alright. 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 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
559 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. 559 of the 850 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 Frontier Science & Technology Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Axim Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds UMass Memorial Health Care Inc (Parent) ↗
- Who funds ALLEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Pediatric Associates Inc ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Trustees of Boston University · Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc · The George Washington University · Yale University · Cornell University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Cambridge Community Foundation · University of Pittsburgh · Mass General Brigham Incorporated · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Children's Hospital Corporation
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 President and Fellows of Harvard College 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.
- Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine — 100% of income from government
- Fulbright University Vietnam Usa Inc — 100% of income from government
- Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc — 69% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Ada Forsyth Institute Inc — 38% of income from government
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc — 37% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Fenway Community Health Center Inc — 27% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Marine Biological Laboratory — 20% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Veterans Education and Research Association of Northern New England Inc — 17% of income from government
- Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers Inc — 15% 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
- 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
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research — 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
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Chmc Surgical Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Children's Heart Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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.