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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.

$939M
Granted FY2025still arriving
268
Grants FY2025still arriving
44
States reached
$5.3M
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.

Health$403MScience & Tech$364MEducation$59MInternational$4.5MFood & Nutrition$4.0MSocial Science$2.1MYouth Development$988kRecreation & Sports$752kOther$0
02FY2025 · 268 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 268 grants below total $109,777,861, the rows itemized in this filing. The $938,613,847 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $828,835,986 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 $10k12 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k72 grants · $1.8M
  • $50k–250k97 grants · $13M
  • $250k+87 grants · $95M
$125,446
Median grant
44
States reached
$9.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–21, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Boston Health Care for the Homeless: $56k → 16%Boston Health Care for the Homeless: $54k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $120k → 16%Family Voices: $119k → 8%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
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
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
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$770M · 421 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

421
90

Total granted

$770M
$5.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+10%

Still filing today

49%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.5M 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
HealthEducationScience & TechHuman ServicesSocial ScienceInternationalOther
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

  • BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +115%
  • AC
    AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9.3M · revenue +29%
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9.0M · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • NM
    Novel Microdevices LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.3M
  • RB
    RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP
    one grant, 2021 · $334k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF CA SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2017 · $266k
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
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
2
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.…

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3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
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
5
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
6
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
7
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
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
9
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
10
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action; the most unlike its peers is Corvus Foundation. 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

304 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. 304 of the 564 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
298/304
Grantees still filing
221/304
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $29,323,005 · OtherDay Zero Diagnostics Inc: $22,354,584 · OtherPattern Bioscience Inc: $18,679,685 · Other+118 more: $481,149,921 · Other+118 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $16,525,122 · EducationPresident and Fel…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $14,081,959 · EducationMassachusetts Ins…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $6,222,316 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,768,925 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $5,719,440 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $5,706,834 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,101,933 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $4,766,191 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College: $4,181,428 · Education+29 more: $51,857,584 · Education+29 moreBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $17,962,980 · HealthBOSTON MEDIC…AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY: $9,323,734 · HealthAMERICAN COL…BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $8,987,732 · HealthBETH ISRAEL …Children's Hospital Corporation: $8,314,247 · HealthChildren's H…The Broad Institute Inc: $6,379,106 · HealthThe Broad In…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $4,307,253 · HealthKAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS: $3,336,605 · HealthLUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER: $3,044,438 · Health+20 more: $25,612,592 · Health+20 moreResearch Triangle Institute: $6,666,396 · Science & TechWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $1,686,904 · Science & TechJ CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $1,405,888 · Science & TechTHE JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY INC: $1,252,894 · Science & TechTERC INC: $1,102,688 · Science & TechSouthwest Research Institute: $659,587 · Science & TechBROWN UNIVERSITY: $4,333,841 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $678,028 · Community ImprovementCLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC: $2,889,587 · InternationalSOSTENICA INC: $936,814 · InternationalINNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,291,712 · Social ScienceAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: $750,592 · Social ScienceTHE ROCKVILLE INSTITUTE A RESEARCH INST FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCE: $606,337 · Social Science
Other$551,507,195Education$119,931,732Health$87,268,687Science & Tech$12,774,357Community Improvement$5,011,869International$3,826,401Social Science$2,648,641

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 budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $17,962,980 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $16,525,122 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $14,081,959 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY: $9,323,734 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $8,987,732 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $8,314,247 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJAEB CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $7,198,220 over 4y, 18% of budgetResearch Triangle Institute: $6,666,396 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $6,379,106 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $6,222,316 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,768,925 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $5,719,440 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $5,706,834 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,101,933 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $4,766,191 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $4,333,841 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $4,307,253 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $4,181,428 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetYale University: $3,930,532 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS: $3,336,605 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $3,216,693 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER: $3,044,438 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $3,024,013 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $3,014,004 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $2,999,636 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2,911,486 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC: $2,889,587 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCornell University: $2,742,302 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH INC: $2,722,707 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $2,718,969 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $2,606,323 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetADA Forsyth Institute Inc: $2,336,590 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $2,198,410 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR LIFE SCIENCE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $2,176,983 over 7y, 57% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $2,109,368 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $2,095,811 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBUTLER HOSPITAL: $1,978,311 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $1,956,323 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MASSACHUSETTS GREEN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTER INC: $1,944,748 over 5y, 24% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $1,905,646 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $1,836,368 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEmory University: $1,789,275 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $1,761,894 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHolyoke Health Center Inc: $1,726,034 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $1,686,904 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC: $1,571,763 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $1,565,819 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $1,561,442 over 9y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

Yale UniversityUniversity of Pittsbu…President and Fellows…The Trustees of Colum…Johns Hopkins Univers…Brown UniversityEmory UniversityNorthwestern Universi…Vanderbilt University…Trustees of Tufts Col…Cornell UniversityThe George Washington…
Yale UniversityCT65.1× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Trustees of Boston University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trustees of Boston 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 13%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely 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 564 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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