· Public charity
Trustees of Boston University
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.
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 268 grants below total $109,777,861 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $938,613,847 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $828,835,986 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 $10k12 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k72 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k97 grants · $13M
- $250k+87 grants · $95M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAY ZERO DIAGNOSTICS INC | $5,338,365 |
| THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION | $5,102,054 |
| CELLICS THERAPEUTICS INC | $4,970,180 |
| PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLL | $4,382,219 |
| LOCUS BIOSCIENCES INC | $3,757,563 |
| VISBY MEDICAL INC | $3,625,868 |
| BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER | $2,960,015 |
| AVAILS MEDICAL INC | $2,742,781 |
| REGENTS UNIV OF CA LOS ANGELES | $2,406,437 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA | $2,203,113 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFO | $1,993,100 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $1,975,362 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO | $1,959,038 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | $1,956,820 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $1,955,376 |
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 (FY17–21, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% 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 +37% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
421 repeat relationships — 216 still active in FY2025, 205 since wound down; 40 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; $5.5M 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
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +88%- ACAMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY9× · 2017–2025 · $9.3M · revenue +29%
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9.0M · revenue +82%
Funded once
- NMNovel Microdevices LLCone grant, 2022 · $1.3M
- RBRAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORPone grant, 2021 · $334k
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIV OF CA SAN FRANCISCOone grant, 2017 · $266k
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.
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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 44 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 — 0.5% 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.
304 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. 304 of the 564 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 BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds JAEB CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Research Triangle Institute ↗
- Who funds The Broad Institute 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: Yale University · University of Pittsburgh · President and Fellows of Harvard College · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Johns Hopkins University · Brown University · Emory University · Northwestern University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Trustees of Tufts College · Cornell University · The George Washington University
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 Trustees of Boston 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.
- Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc — 69% of income from government
- Boston Va Research Institute Inc — 64% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation Inc — 60% of income from government
- Hebrew Rehabilitation Center — 53% of income from government
- Institute for Life Science Entrepreneurship — 52% of income from government
- Terc Inc — 44% of income from government
- Ada Forsyth Institute Inc — 38% of income from government
- Holyoke Health Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% 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
- 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
- Educational Testing Service — 6% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Endicott College — 1% 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.