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University of Southern California

The central mission of the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit.

$1.1B
Granted FY2025still arriving
337
Grants FY2025still arriving
42
States reached
$31M
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$166MScience & Tech$161MEducation$85MCommunity Improvement$8.9MRecreation & Sports$3.0MArts & Culture$2.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.9MPublic Benefit$1.5MOther$0
02FY2025 · 337 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 337 grants below total $249,359,534, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,113,341,721 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $863,982,187 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 $10k10 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k88 grants · $2.1M
  • $50k–250k98 grants · $13M
  • $250k+141 grants · $234M
$171,568
Median grant
42
States reached
$17.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp$31,348,229
Public Health Institute$9,568,632
USC Health System$8,859,646
Regents of Univ CALos Angeles$7,195,849
Regents of the University of Michigan$6,617,834
C2N Diagnostics$5,543,075
Yale University$5,231,877
Regents of the University of CA Irvine$4,899,376
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$4,696,478
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr U$4,473,486
Regents of the University of CA San Diego$4,363,031
Regents of the University of CA Santa Barbara$4,233,169
Regents UCController's Ofc UCSF$3,750,794
California Institute Of Technology$3,553,785
Banner Health$3,334,940
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, $1.3M) 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%L C Industries Inc: $169k → 11%Setting Priorities for Retirement Years Found: $11k → 14%Setting Priorities for Retirement Years Found: $8k → 14%THE JESTER & PHARLEY PHUND: $24k → 14%THE JESTER & PHARLEY PHUND: $23k → 14%The Jester & Pharley Phund: $23k → 14%THE JESTER & PHARLEY PHUND: $20k → 14%The Jester & Pharley Phund: $20k → 14%The Jester & Pharley Phund: $15k → 14%The Jester & Pharley Phund: $12k → 14%The Jester & Pharley Phund: $12k → 14%Human Services Association: $70k → 14%Variety Boys & Girls Club: $16k → 14%YWCA Greater Los Angeles: $28k → 14%Water Drop LA: $13k → 14%Al Otro Lado: $40k → 14%AL OTRO LADO: $36k → 14%Al Otro Lado: $36k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $25k → 14%T'ena Health: $18k → 14%AIDS Healthcare Foundation: $228k → 14%AIDS Healthcare Foundation: $159k → 14%LIVING INTO THE FUTURE FOUNDATION: $27k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $50k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $39k → 14%Los Angeles House of Ruth: $38k → 14%Proyecto Pastoral: $25k → 14%Water Drop LA: $17k → 14%Wellnest: $28k → 14%Wellnest Emotional Health & Wellness: $20k → 14%Wellnest: $16k → 14%Wellnest: $16k → 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

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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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$390M · 292 repeat orgs$8.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

292 repeat relationships: 271 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 54 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

292
86

Total granted

$390M
$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+8%

Still filing today

50%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.3M 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureScience & TechYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    3× · 2020–2025 · $9.1M · revenue +27%
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.1M · revenue +266%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • MB
    MODULO BIO INC
    one grant, 2024 · $442k
  • PI
    POLYSCIENCES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $276k
  • TS
    Triton Systems Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $209k
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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
3
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
4
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
6
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
7
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles General Medical Center Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Trauma Informed La. 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

245 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. 245 of the 444 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)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
243/245
Grantees still filing
155/245
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp: $32,461,000 · OtherNorthrop Grumman Systems CorpC2N Diagnostics: $18,839,340 · OtherC2N DiagnosticsREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $12,338,145 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $10,739,143 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $8,783,789 · Other+122 more: $158,896,659 · Other+122 moreYale University: $9,042,343 · EducationYale UniversityTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $7,637,614 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES …TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,996,042 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVER…CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5,396,412 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE O…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $4,526,642 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $3,935,544 · EducationUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $3,787,916 · EducationEmory University: $3,682,306 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $3,669,450 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $3,306,803 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,116,359 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,017,996 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,992,579 · Education+24 more: $23,496,387 · Education+24 morePublic Health Institute: $12,061,165 · HealthPublic Health Institu…USC HEALTH SYSTEM: $11,649,003 · HealthUSC HEALTH SYSTEMChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $9,123,948 · HealthChildren's Hospital L…Banner Health: $6,494,720 · HealthBanner HealthMAYO CLINIC: $4,495,115 · HealthMAYO CLINICUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $4,203,834 · HealthRush University Medical Center: $3,038,588 · HealthBUTLER HOSPITAL: $2,991,364 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $2,989,280 · HealthSharp Healthcare Foundation: $2,943,481 · Health+21 more: $20,471,653 · Health+21 moreCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $7,074,774 · Community ImprovementNorthwestern University: $1,946,257 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE DEPART INC: $1,855,757 · Public Safety & DisasterResearch Triangle Institute: $824,668 · Science & TechUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $762,305 · Science & Tech
Other$242,058,076Education$83,604,393Health$80,462,151Community Improvement$7,074,774Recreation & Sports$1,946,257Public Safety & Disaster$1,855,757Science & Tech$1,586,973

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 budgetPublic Health Institute: $12,061,165 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUSC HEALTH SYSTEM: $11,649,003 over 3y, 67% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $9,123,948 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYale University: $9,042,343 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $7,637,614 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $7,074,774 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetBanner Health: $6,494,720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,996,042 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5,396,412 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $4,526,642 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $4,495,115 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $4,203,834 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $3,935,544 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $3,787,916 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEmory University: $3,682,306 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $3,669,450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $3,306,803 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $3,258,039 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,116,359 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $3,038,588 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,017,996 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,992,579 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUTLER HOSPITAL: $2,991,364 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $2,989,280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation: $2,943,481 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $2,751,038 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $2,678,241 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $2,565,334 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY CENTER FOR VETERANS RESEARCH: $2,530,367 over 2y, 32% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2,221,539 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $1,946,257 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE DEPART INC: $1,855,757 over 2y, 64% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,797,092 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation: $1,766,878 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $1,743,189 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $1,721,436 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $1,561,841 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $1,546,741 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $1,542,359 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $1,531,788 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,047,785 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS: $1,007,208 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $972,728 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $944,056 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $922,164 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $919,580 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $887,741 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $846,653 over 2y, 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 Public Health Institute ↗
  • Who funds USC HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds Banner Health ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗

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.

The Trustees of Colum…The Ralph M Parsons F…Johns Hopkins Univers…Vanderbilt University…University of Pittsbu…Trustees of Boston Un…Yale UniversityWeingart FoundationNorthwestern Universi…University of MiamiWashington UniversityThe George Washington…
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New YorkNY65× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Johns Hopkins University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · University of Pittsburgh · Trustees of Boston University · Yale University · Weingart Foundation · Northwestern University · University of Miami · Washington 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 University of Southern California funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University of Southern California. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% 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
  • 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
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 444 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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