· Public charity
The George Washington University
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 of such research.
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 191 grants below total $54,092,871 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $519,847,432 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $465,754,561 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 $10k14 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k59 grants · $7.6M
- $250k+68 grants · $45M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEDICAL FACULTY ASSOCIATES INC | $3,418,133 |
| WHITMAN-WALKER INSTITUTE INC | $2,178,162 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $1,818,584 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | $1,660,662 |
| WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL | $1,412,266 |
| HOWARD UNIVERSITY- | $1,174,567 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $1,092,116 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $1,069,260 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM | $1,036,693 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $1,006,147 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $955,593 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $925,440 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $899,056 |
| CHILDRENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $833,369 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO | $801,533 |
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, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% 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
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 +29% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
264 repeat relationships — 139 still active in FY2025, 125 since wound down; 42 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M 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
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +50%
Northwestern University9× · 2017–2025 · $9.6M · revenue +41%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $9.4M · revenue +64%
Funded once
- MFMEDICAL FACULTY ASSOCIATES INC 2one grant, 2017 · $2.9M
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2017 · $918k
- HHEALTHECone grant, 2017 · $344k
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Education and Research
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meharry Medical College and the most unlike its peers is International Community of Women Living With Hiv & Aids - Na Region. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
220 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. 220 of the 377 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 MEDICAL FACULTY ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds WHITMAN-WALKER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds HEALTHPARTNERS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds University of Pennsylvania Press Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION ↗
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: Johns Hopkins University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · University of Pittsburgh · Georgetown University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Yale University · Mayo Clinic · Trustees of Boston University · Cornell University · President and Fellows of Harvard College · University of Southern California · National Collegiate Athletic Association
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 The George Washington University 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.
- Child Trends Inc — 50% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Medstar Health Research Institute Inc — 25% 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
- Legal Aid Services of Oregon — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 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
- George Fox University — 2% of income from government
- Legal Aid Bureau Inc — 0% of income from government
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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.