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University of Chicago

The mission of the University of Chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

$789M
Granted FY2025still arriving
201
Grants FY2025still arriving
42
States reached
$8.8M
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$252MHealth$164MRecreation & Sports$49MScience & Tech$42MEmployment$11MSocial Science$10MHuman Services$6.1MInternational$3.7MOther$0
02FY2025 · 201 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 201 grants below total $90,864,039, the rows itemized in this filing. The $789,348,850 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $698,484,811 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 $10k5 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k76 grants · $10M
  • $250k+75 grants · $80M
$161,033
Median grant
42
States reached
$15.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Northwestern University$8,846,242
American College of Radiology$4,775,505
University of Illinois-Chicago$4,724,004
University of Pittsburgh$4,390,018
Rush University Medical Center$4,342,241
Health Research Inc- Roswell Park Cancer Institute$2,938,603
University of Illinois-ChampaignUrbana$2,309,104
Amer Inst for Rsch in the Behav Scien$1,944,536
Yale University$1,869,887
Stanford University$1,759,364
Penn State University$1,590,354
University of Wisconsin-Madison$1,570,515
UCHICAGO RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL$1,561,243
J Craig Venter Institute Inc$1,535,284
GiveDirectly Inc$1,528,440
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, $2.0M) 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%Taking Effective Action Inc: $54k → 11%Center for Global Development: $494k → 14%UMMA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $220k → 14%CHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $576k → 14%CHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $466k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS: $131k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS: $68k → 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

ME
NH
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$496M · 289 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

289 repeat relationships: 144 still active in FY2025, 145 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

289
89

Total granted

$496M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+34%

Still filing today

64%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.4M 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 ServicesSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $34M · revenue +44%
  • Northwestern University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $30M · revenue +41%
  • RU
    Rush University Medical Center
    9× · 2017–2025 · $22M · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • DL
    DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE
    one grant, 2017 · $716k · revenue -48%
  • CS
    COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $483k · revenue -20%
  • UNIVERSITY MUSLIM MEDICAL ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $220k · revenue +69%
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
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
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
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
4
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
5
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
6
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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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 Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
9
University of Miami

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

Education
10
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
11
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
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of San Francisco; the most unlike its peers is Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. 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

285 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. 285 of the 430 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
275/285
Grantees still filing
210/285
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $39,390,797 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF …Indiana University School of Medicine: $9,273,980 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $8,735,181 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $8,280,035 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $8,158,010 · OtherAMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY ASSOCIATION: $9,478,677 · Other+88 more: $117,971,274 · Other+88 moreUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $33,780,083 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHYale University: $9,603,545 · EducationYale UniversityJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $8,893,740 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYNew York University: $8,078,738 · EducationNew York UniversityIllinois Institute of Technology: $7,717,605 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $7,142,273 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $6,124,577 · Education+43 more: $65,013,176 · Education+43 moreRush University Medical Center: $22,355,220 · HealthRush University Medical …AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY: $21,628,951 · HealthAMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADI…HEALTH RESEARCH INC: $16,817,160 · HealthHEALTH RESEARCH INCEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $5,412,153 · HealthFELLOWSHIP FOR INTERPRETATION OF GENOMES: $5,265,294 · HealthRadiological Society of North America Inc: $4,253,610 · Health+36 more: $37,203,816 · Health+36 moreNorthwestern University: $30,160,973 · Recreation & SportsJ CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $10,942,502 · Science & TechIIT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,909,650 · Science & TechBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $1,678,466 · Science & TechMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $574,026 · Science & Tech+4 more: $1,526,505 · Science & TechNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $6,198,090 · Social ScienceAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: $2,165,556 · Social ScienceINNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,707,597 · Social ScienceBEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC: $717,243 · Social ScienceMDRC: $10,682,410 · Employment
Other$201,287,954Education$146,353,737Health$112,936,204Recreation & Sports$30,160,973Science & Tech$16,631,149Social Science$10,788,486Employment$10,682,410

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $33,780,083 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwestern University: $30,160,973 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $22,355,220 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY: $21,628,951 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH INC: $16,817,160 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetJ CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $10,942,502 over 7y, 18% of budgetMDRC: $10,682,410 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetYale University: $9,603,545 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY ASSOCIATION: $9,478,677 over 2y, 29% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $8,893,740 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $8,078,738 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $7,717,605 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $7,142,273 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $6,198,090 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $6,124,577 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $5,412,153 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP FOR INTERPRETATION OF GENOMES: $5,265,294 over 9y, 82% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $4,692,992 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $4,603,102 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $4,494,791 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $4,446,839 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $4,322,540 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $4,299,727 over 2y, 12% of budgetRadiological Society of North America Inc: $4,253,610 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $4,237,954 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $3,473,360 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $3,244,423 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS: $2,860,497 over 6y, 56% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,858,404 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $2,703,739 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,556,405 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $2,464,615 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $2,456,252 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $2,405,209 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $2,368,968 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MIND RESEARCH NETWORK: $2,347,021 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $2,260,337 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: $2,165,556 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTapestry 360 Health: $2,119,823 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,011,078 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1,994,889 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetIIT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,909,650 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetBRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP: $1,867,578 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,794,105 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $1,791,276 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR MEDICAID INNOVATION INC: $1,782,483 over 7y, 32% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $1,743,089 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetINNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,707,597 over 8y, 1.0% 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 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MDRC ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOR INTERPRETATION OF GENOMES ↗
  • Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Radiological Society of North America Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗

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.

Northwestern Universi…University of Pittsbu…The Trustees of Colum…Trustees of Boston Un…Johns Hopkins Univers…Washington UniversityCircle of Service Fou…The George Washington…United Way of Metropo…Lloyd a Fry FoundationAmerican Cancer Socie…Brown University
Northwestern UniversityIL73.4× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northwestern University · University of Pittsburgh · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Trustees of Boston University · Johns Hopkins University · Washington University · Circle of Service Foundation · The George Washington University · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · American Cancer Society Inc · Brown 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 University of Chicago funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University of Chicago. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Education Development Center Inc: 65% 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
  • Saga Innovations Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Marine Biological Laboratory: 20% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% 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
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Center for Health Care Strategies Inc: 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
11report 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 430 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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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home