· Public charity
The Howard University
THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY was established by an act of congress in 1867.
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 64 grants below total $7,568,725 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $216,047,598 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $208,478,873 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 $10k7 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $628k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $1,015,724 |
| TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $630,849 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $498,538 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK | $475,360 |
| MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $439,287 |
| SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $434,344 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $374,993 |
| BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY | $249,032 |
| CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY | $218,271 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST | $199,671 |
| NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY | $196,993 |
| NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY | $181,269 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS (UNLV) | $174,306 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY | $161,230 |
| HAMPTON UNIVERSITY | $145,471 |
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, $278k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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
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 0% for the ones you funded once.
92 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 18 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +36%- MMMercy Medical Center3× · 2022–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +15%
- MHMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC5× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +123%
Funded once
- ODOPEN DATA NATION COone grant, 2020 · $150k
- ASAMERICAN SOCIETY OF ADDICTION MEDICINEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $116k · revenue +57%
- TRTHEODORE R DANIELSone grant, 2018 · $110k
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…
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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…
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To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Whole Genome Science Foundation Inc. 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 56 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 — 0.0% 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.
72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 157 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 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Mercy Medical Center ↗
- Who funds MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOC FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE & HIS ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds ANACOSTIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Clark Atlanta University Inc ↗
- Who funds Albert Einstein College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds Women's Institute for Science Equity Race ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNITY HEALTH CARE 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: National Collegiate Athletic Association · The George Washington University · American Chemical Society · Strada Education Foundation Inc · Executive Leadership Council · University of Pittsburgh · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Thurgood Marshall College Fund · President and Fellows of Harvard College · Yale University · 1890 Universities Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation
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 Howard 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.
- Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation — 32% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Medstar Health Research Institute Inc — 25% of income from government
- Delaware State University — 18% 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
- American Society of Addiction Medicine — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Mercy Medical Center — 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.