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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.

$520M
Granted FY2025still arriving
191
Grants FY2025still arriving
40
States reached
$3.4M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$205MHealth$199MRecreation & Sports$43MScience & Tech$16MInternational$5.8MFood & Nutrition$4.8MReligion$3.8MEnvironment$2.8MOther$0
02FY2025 · 191 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 191 grants below total $54,092,871, the rows itemized in this filing. The $519,847,432 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $465,754,561 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k59 grants · $7.6M
  • $250k+68 grants · $45M
$130,872
Median grant
40
States reached
$5.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

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.

area typical 10%ACPE INC: $6k → 14%CHILD TRENDS INCORPORATED: $328k → 8%ERI: $193k → 10%CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $53k → 13%CHILD TRENDS INCORPORATED: $172k → 8%ERI: $81k → 10%CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $26k → 13%CHILD TRENDS INCORPORATED: $52k → 8%CHILD TRENDS INCORPORATED: $21k → 8%NATIVE AMERICAN LIFELINES INC: $135k → 19%FAMILIES USA FOUNDATION: $86k → 14%FAMILIES USA FOUNDATION: $64k → 14%FIRST FOCUS: $56k → 14%INST FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION: $18k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$450M · 264 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

264
60

Total granted

$450M
$7.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+26%

Still filing today

56%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesScience & TechCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +50%
  • Northwestern University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9.6M · revenue +41%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9.4M · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • MF
    MEDICAL FACULTY ASSOCIATES INC 2
    one grant, 2017 · $2.9M
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2017 · $918k
  • H
    HEALTHEC
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lehigh University

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…

Education
2
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…

Education
3
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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…

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4
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

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…

Education
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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…

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7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

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…

Health
9
University of New Haven

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…

Education
10
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

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…

Health
11
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

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…

Health
12
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meharry Medical College; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
213/220
Grantees still filing
159/220
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $17,324,289 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $10,467,424 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $10,377,611 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $10,047,702 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $9,600,136 · OtherMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $8,934,957 · Other+107 more: $163,942,663 · Other+107 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $15,764,294 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UN…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $10,395,638 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVER…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $9,367,325 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYYale University: $7,164,318 · EducationYale UniversityBaylor College of Medicine: $6,765,344 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineDUKE UNIVERSITY: $6,589,835 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $5,620,510 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $5,230,325 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $4,501,485 · EducationEmory University: $4,256,271 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3,921,888 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $3,861,125 · Education+27 more: $31,093,265 · Education+27 moreMEDICAL FACULTY ASSOCIATES INC: $33,258,996 · HealthMEDICAL FACULTY ASSOCIATES…KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS: $8,899,326 · HealthKAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL…WHITMAN-WALKER INSTITUTE INC: $7,824,125 · HealthWHITMAN-WALKER INSTITUTE I…CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $7,511,028 · HealthCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTIT…WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI: $6,037,079 · HealthWOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL O…HEALTHPARTNERS INSTITUTE: $5,024,137 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH INC: $4,437,262 · HealthMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION: $3,841,897 · HealthSEATTLE INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH: $3,756,588 · Health+29 more: $29,952,465 · Health+29 moreNorthwestern University: $9,622,748 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $231,677 · Recreation & SportsWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $2,665,233 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $772,344 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $454,000 · InternationalTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC: $448,428 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $322,000 · InternationalSRI INTERNATIONAL: $3,264,000 · Science & TechSOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITIES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION INC: $306,725 · Science & TechINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT: $2,381,044 · Civil Rights
Other$230,694,782Education$114,531,623Health$110,542,903Recreation & Sports$9,854,425International$4,662,005Science & Tech$3,570,725Civil Rights$2,381,044

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEDICAL FACULTY ASSOCIATES INC: $33,258,996 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $15,764,294 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $10,395,638 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwestern University: $9,622,748 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $9,367,325 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $8,934,957 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetKAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS: $8,899,326 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWHITMAN-WALKER INSTITUTE INC: $7,824,125 over 4y, 32% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $7,511,028 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetYale University: $7,164,318 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $6,765,344 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $6,589,835 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $6,098,493 over 9y, 5.0% of budgetWOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI: $6,037,079 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $5,620,510 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $5,230,325 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHPARTNERS INSTITUTE: $5,024,137 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetUniversity of Pennsylvania Press Inc: $4,687,341 over 9y, 16% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $4,501,485 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH INC: $4,437,262 over 9y, 19% of budgetEmory University: $4,256,271 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3,921,888 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $3,861,125 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION: $3,841,897 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $3,770,071 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH: $3,756,588 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC: $3,745,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHILLEL AT THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY INC: $3,669,000 over 5y, 89% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $3,344,694 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSRI INTERNATIONAL: $3,264,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPACIFIC HEALTH RESEARCH & EDUCATION INSTITUTE: $2,974,334 over 7y, 27% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $2,740,803 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $2,665,233 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetFoundation for Atlanta Veterans Education and Research Inc: $2,625,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetAlbert Einstein College of Medicine: $2,413,259 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT: $2,381,044 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetVETERANS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $2,297,210 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $2,246,664 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY HEALTH CARE INC: $2,231,296 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCornell University: $2,039,039 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor Research Institute: $1,850,282 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $1,804,247 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,788,010 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $1,739,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $1,682,112 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $1,471,701 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $1,466,523 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $1,458,342 over 8y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Johns Hopkins UniversityMD64.7× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 377 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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