· 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 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 $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 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 +28% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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How this is measured
220 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. 220 of the 377 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The George Washington University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George Washington University. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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