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The Howard University

THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY was established by an act of congress in 1867.

$216M
Granted FY2025still arriving
64
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$23MScience & Tech$13MHealth$7.2MArts & Culture$1.5MCommunity Improvement$1.2MHuman Services$1.2MSocial Science$604kRecreation & Sports$475kOther$0
02FY2025 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 64 grants below total $7,568,725, the rows itemized in this filing. The $216,047,598 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $208,478,873 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 $10k7 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $628k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $3.0M
  • $250k+7 grants · $3.9M
$64,092
Median grant
21
States reached
$3.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC: $44k → 14%GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC: $22k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $142k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION: $41k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION: $29k → 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

NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$45M · 92 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
40

Total granted

$45M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+10%

Still filing today

48%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
EducationHealthScience & TechHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementSocial ScienceOther
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

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +36%
  • MM
    Mercy Medical Center
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +15%
  • MH
    MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • OD
    OPEN DATA NATION CO
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
  • AS
    AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ADDICTION MEDICINEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $116k · revenue +57%
  • TR
    THEODORE R DANIELS
    one grant, 2018 · $110k
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
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
4
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
Furman University

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.

Education
8
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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9
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
10
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
11
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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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; 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.
04the grantee network

72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/72
Grantees still filing
51/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $7,322,909 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKGILBANE BUILDING COMPANY: $2,476,587 · OtherGILBANE BUILDING COMPANYMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $2,036,978 · OtherMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCUNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO: $1,708,022 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICOASSOC FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE & HIS: $1,398,938 · OtherTexas Southern University: $1,378,805 · OtherJACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,125,540 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $1,102,700 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO: $1,070,737 · Other+85 more: $8,802,405 · Other+85 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $3,135,502 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1,383,538 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,308,352 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,041,374 · EducationOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESE…SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $960,380 · EducationSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RE…The Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $655,076 · EducationHAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $429,900 · EducationClark Atlanta University Inc: $413,816 · Education+34 more: $2,961,964 · Education+34 moreMercy Medical Center: $2,447,054 · HealthMercy Med…CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $318,197 · HealthCHILDREN'…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $288,269 · HealthVanderbil…UNITY HEALTH CARE INC: $230,513 · HealthUNITY HEA…FAMILY AND MEDICAL COUNSELING SERVICE INC: $212,381 · HealthFAMILY AN…+6 more: $359,734 · Health+6 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $1,114,452 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION: $69,969 · Human ServicesGREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC: $66,308 · Human ServicesANACOSTIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,086,617 · Community ImprovementGREATER WASH HISPANIC CHAMB OF COMMERCE: $97,418 · Community ImprovementWomen's Institute for Science Equity Race: $355,114 · Social ScienceAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: $328,228 · Social ScienceBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $254,844 · Science & TechPACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EVALUATION: $123,875 · Science & TechNational Society of Black Engineers: $107,633 · Science & Tech
Other$28,423,621Education$12,289,902Health$3,856,148Human Services$1,250,729Community Improvement$1,184,035Social Science$683,342Science & Tech$486,352

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $3,135,502 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Medical Center: $2,447,054 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $2,036,978 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetASSOC FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE & HIS: $1,398,938 over 4y, 25% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1,383,538 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,308,352 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $1,114,452 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetANACOSTIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,086,617 over 8y, 15% of budgetOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,041,374 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $960,380 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $736,764 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $655,076 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $429,900 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $413,816 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAlbert Einstein College of Medicine: $400,918 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Institute for Science Equity Race: $355,114 over 3y, 33% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: $328,228 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $320,615 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $318,197 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $288,269 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $267,708 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $254,844 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY HEALTH CARE INC: $230,513 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY AND MEDICAL COUNSELING SERVICE INC: $212,381 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $154,615 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $143,603 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYale University: $134,604 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $129,371 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EVALUATION: $123,875 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF ADDICTION MEDICINE: $115,896 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSpelman College: $109,448 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Society of Black Engineers: $107,633 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $107,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $105,842 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $103,401 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $99,119 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCYBER GREEN GROUP INC: $98,700 over 2y, 39% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $98,609 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASH HISPANIC CHAMB OF COMMERCE: $97,418 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $93,982 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $93,156 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $82,987 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION: $69,969 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC: $66,308 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTougaloo College: $65,971 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWashington Montessori Institute: $64,750 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetDILLARD UNIVERSITY: $56,174 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVISITORS SERVICE CENTER INC VOICES FOR A SECOND CHANCE: $55,700 over 1y, 4.4% 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 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 ↗

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.

National Collegiate A…The George Washington…American Chemical Soc…Strada Education Foun…Executive Leadership …University of Pittsbu…The Trustees of Colum…Thurgood Marshall Col…President and Fellows…Yale University1890 Universities Fou…Tulsa Community Found…
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN36.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Howard University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Howard 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 157 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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