How much does Vanderbilt University give?

Vanderbilt University reported 205 itemized grants totaling $91,216,531, out of $569,225,782 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 129 and 177 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Vanderbilt University fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (69%), Science & Tech (21%), Education (7%).

Who are Vanderbilt University's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Vanderbilt University Medical Center ($331M), University of Texas ($6.5M), Northwestern University ($6.1M).

Does Vanderbilt University fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Vanderbilt University?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Memorial Foundation Inc, The Frist Foundation, Hca Healthcare Foundation.

Where is Vanderbilt University based?

Vanderbilt University is based in TN.

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants: funding profile →

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$569M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 205
Itemized grants FY2025: 177
Organizations funded FY2024: 24%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $91M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $55,069
Largest grant, FY2025: $54,301,809
Organizations funded a year: 129 to 177; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 39
Total assets, FY2025: $14.8B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Vanderbilt University funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthArts & CultureScience & TechCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	194	$88M	21%
FY2024	177	$70M	24%
FY2023	165	$61M	25%
FY2022	148	$57M	22%
FY2021	137	$51M	18%
FY2020	153	$50M	23%
FY2019	137	$50M	26%
FY2018	129	$48M	34%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$362MScience & Tech$111MEducation$37MRecreation & Sports$7.8MSocial Science$2.1MArts & Culture$1.9MYouth Development$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.7MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Vanderbilt University Medical Center	$330,842,675	9	1%
University of Texas	$6,508,876	9	n/a
Northwestern University	$6,083,049	9	0%
University of Pittsburgh	$5,019,458	9	0%
The University of Tennessee	$4,800,106	9	n/a
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia	$4,241,039	8	n/a
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$4,081,209	9	n/a
University of Wisconsin	$3,977,667	6	n/a
University of Washington	$3,922,520	9	n/a
University of Minnesota	$3,834,061	9	n/a

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All grantees of Vanderbilt University by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Vanderbilt University Medical Center	$330,842,675	9	1%
University of Texas	$6,508,876	9	n/a
Northwestern University	$6,083,049	9	0%
University of Pittsburgh	$5,019,458	9	0%
The University of Tennessee	$4,800,106	9	n/a
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia	$4,241,039	8	n/a
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$4,081,209	9	n/a
University of Wisconsin	$3,977,667	6	n/a
University of Washington	$3,922,520	9	n/a
University of Minnesota	$3,834,061	9	n/a
Ohio State University Research Foundation	$3,525,752	9	1%
Johns Hopkins University	$2,587,854	7	0%
Fisk University	$2,573,227	9	1%
The Scripps Research Institute	$2,570,371	2	0%
Nc State University	$2,514,922	9	n/a
Carnegie Mellon University	$2,485,231	8	0%
Southern Methodist University	$2,475,578	6	0%
Regents Univ of California	$2,355,000	9	n/a
The University of Memphis	$2,332,255	9	n/a
University of California San Francisco	$2,192,181	8	n/a
University of Connecticut	$2,072,414	9	n/a
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc	$2,040,452	5	0%
Regents of the University of Michigan	$2,003,259	9	n/a
Wake Forest University Health Sciences	$1,963,022	7	0%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$1,884,735	5	n/a
Oregon Health & Science University Foundation	$1,878,125	4	1%
Augusta University Research Institute Inc	$1,671,691	4	1%
University of Utah	$1,660,185	8	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$1,650,386	6	n/a
Oregon Health & Science University	$1,644,026	3	n/a
The Learning Agency	$1,583,879	1	n/a
University of California Santa Barbara	$1,544,664	6	n/a
Dynamic Object Language Labs Inc	$1,539,037	4	n/a
George Mason University	$1,527,971	7	n/a
Emory University	$1,492,319	6	0%
California Institute of Technology	$1,473,955	5	0%
Washington University	$1,472,965	7	0%
Rutgers University Foundation	$1,452,871	4	0%
Baylor College of Medicine	$1,437,978	6	0%
Georgia Institute of Technology	$1,385,368	5	n/a
Florida State University	$1,364,674	5	n/a
Rutgers the State University	$1,283,012	5	n/a
University of South Florida	$1,272,661	6	n/a
University of Wisconsin Madison	$1,244,114	3	n/a
The Learning Agency Lab	$1,214,681	2	82%
The National Museum of African American Music	$1,210,000	5	4%
Southeastern Regional Educational Service Center Inc	$1,171,344	4	11%
Tennessee State University	$1,153,803	9	n/a
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	$1,145,764	6	1%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego	$1,124,018	9	n/a
The Rand Corporation	$1,111,556	5	0%
Oregon State University	$1,111,234	4	n/a
Kestrel Institute	$1,097,023	2	26%
Leidos Inc	$1,039,126	2	n/a
Claremont Graduate University	$1,008,163	3	1%
Case Western Reserve University	$1,006,614	8	0%
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska	$982,118	6	n/a
Indiana University School of Medicine	$976,706	5	n/a
Georgia Tech Research Corporation	$975,613	8	0%
University of California Davis	$958,884	7	n/a
Pennsylvania State University	$921,538	7	n/a
Michigan State University	$914,086	5	n/a
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc	$906,149	7	0%
University of South Alabama	$903,513	2	n/a
Children's Hospital Los Angeles	$891,674	5	0%
Centennial Park Conservancy	$883,300	7	10%
University of Chicago	$860,358	5	0%
Cornell University	$853,845	8	0%
Meharry Medical College	$835,430	9	0%
Oregon State University	$832,674	4	n/a
Washington State University	$830,254	7	n/a
University of Denver	$820,302	6	0%
Harris County	$816,491	4	n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$812,549	4	n/a
Alphacore Inc	$747,296	4	n/a
University of Oregon	$741,778	7	n/a
Middle Tennessee State University	$739,173	9	n/a
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro	$736,488	5	n/a
Tougaloo College	$720,005	6	1%
Nissan Technical Center North America	$705,482	4	n/a
Board of the University of Alabama	$704,035	9	n/a
Unt Health Science Center	$676,905	5	n/a
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc	$666,516	6	0%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$659,957	4	n/a
University of Alabama at Birmingham	$654,543	6	n/a
University of Maryland College Park	$651,375	6	n/a
State University of Iowa	$646,006	5	n/a
Sri International	$632,804	4	0%
University of Louisville Research Foundation	$608,884	7	0%
US Army Institute of Surgical Research	$601,191	3	n/a
The General Electric Company	$593,767	4	n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado	$579,120	7	n/a
Robust Chip Inc	$570,000	5	n/a
The Ohio State University	$567,685	3	n/a
University of Florida	$562,235	6	n/a
Berea College	$549,891	4	0%
Vcuvcu Health Campus	$537,723	6	n/a
Tennessee Disability Coalition	$527,558	3	11%
Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools	$512,670	5	n/a
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	$506,007	5	0%
University of South Florida Foundation Inc	$502,048	3	0%
Association of American Universities Inc	$499,300	3	2%
University of Massachusetts	$495,777	5	n/a
Texas A&M University	$493,612	4	n/a
Duke University	$493,516	8	0%
Institute for Broadening Participation	$492,388	8	62%
Florida Atlantic University	$475,912	2	n/a
Regents of the University of California	$472,236	5	n/a
AI Biomed	$468,162	2	n/a
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	$460,353	4	n/a
Oasis Center Inc	$454,880	6	2%
Dynamic Object Language Labs Inc	$452,186	2	n/a
University of Kentucky Research Foundation	$426,276	5	0%
Curators of the University of Missouri	$414,890	8	n/a
Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc	$411,675	5	0%
Trustees of Purdue University	$403,834	6	n/a
Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc	$400,594	5	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Irvine	$398,709	3	n/a
Rush University Medical Center	$395,081	5	0%
Florida State University	$386,236	4	n/a
Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine	$372,731	1	12%
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction	$362,830	5	n/a
Mathematica Policy Research Inc	$350,711	2	n/a
State of Arizona	$344,908	4	n/a
Metropolitan Nashville Education Association Inc	$344,378	1	69%
Civic Design Center	$343,000	8	6%
Arizona State University	$329,479	7	n/a
Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation	$329,410	3	0%
University of Miami	$320,219	6	0%
Jackson State University	$320,172	2	n/a
University of North Alabama Foundation	$315,999	2	3%
Lipscomb University	$315,220	9	0%
Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene Inc	$315,028	3	0%
Medtronic Global Health Foundation	$312,500	1	n/a
Tn Independent Colleges & Universities	$310,191	3	5%
Nashville Public Library Foundation	$305,137	8	2%
Matthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center Inc	$303,859	4	1%
Dynetics Inc	$298,999	2	n/a
Virtuoso Surgical Inc	$295,880	1	n/a
Tennessee Technological University	$294,094	9	n/a
Timothy Jon Fraser Consulting LLC	$288,688	2	n/a
Tampa Va Research & Education Foundation Inc	$288,286	4	2%
Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce	$268,950	3	1%
The Howard University	$268,195	5	0%
The Tomorrow Companies Inc	$266,289	3	n/a
Basis Policy Research LLC	$265,000	1	n/a
Pajarito Powder LLC	$264,767	3	n/a
Rutherford County Primary Care Clinic Inc	$259,893	2	1%
University of Central Florida	$258,484	6	n/a
Texas A&M University	$254,958	3	n/a
Diagnostic Biochips Inc	$248,437	2	n/a
Compass Evaluation and Research Inc	$247,975	5	n/a
University of Kentucky	$247,637	1	n/a
Tennessee Performing Arts Center (Tpac) Management Corporation	$240,000	9	0%
University of Delaware	$226,371	5	0%
Univ of Texas at Arlington	$224,454	3	n/a
Trustees of Boston College	$217,225	3	0%
University of Dayton	$216,038	2	0%
Timothy Jon Fraser Consulting LLC	$215,185	1	n/a
United Neighborhood Health Services Inc	$214,893	3	0%
The Urban Institute	$214,099	3	0%
Regents of the University of California at Riverside	$208,993	1	n/a
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente	$207,002	3	n/a
Nashville Public Education Foundation	$206,000	8	4%
Securboration Inc	$201,426	2	n/a
Austin Peay State University	$198,660	3	n/a
Loyola University of Chicago	$198,065	5	0%
New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology	$197,519	4	n/a
Policy Studies Associates Inc	$194,910	2	n/a
KP Pharmaceutical Technology Inc	$190,528	3	n/a
Texas Tech University System	$188,367	3	n/a
Tennessee Technology Development Corp	$180,000	5	1%
Christian Brothers University	$179,661	7	0%
East Tennessee State University	$173,415	9	n/a
La Jolla Institute for Immunology	$167,643	1	n/a
Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc	$163,378	5	0%
The Aerospace Corporation	$162,032	5	0%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	$157,130	3	0%
Center for Nonprofit Management Inc	$153,000	6	3%
Pellissippi State Community College	$150,495	7	n/a
Texas A&M University-Commerce	$149,403	2	n/a
Polycarbon Industries Inc dba PCI	$141,898	1	n/a
ETR Associates	$133,141	3	n/a
The Mary Parrish Center	$132,238	3	15%
University of Houston	$130,366	6	n/a
Smithsonian Institution	$130,000	1	0%
Nashville Opera Association	$129,000	7	1%
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc	$128,264	3	0%
Nashville Downtown Partnership	$127,975	6	0%
Cleveland State Community College	$126,885	4	n/a
The Univ of Tx Health Science Ctr of Sa	$126,344	2	n/a
University of Kansas Center for Research Inc	$124,988	3	0%
Florida International University	$124,932	2	n/a
Neuralynx Inc	$124,291	3	n/a
Austin Peay State University Foundation	$123,854	3	0%
Abt Associates Inc	$123,541	3	n/a
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation	$119,525	2	0%
University of Hawaii System	$119,021	3	n/a
Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry	$119,000	4	1%
Mississippi State University	$117,434	1	n/a
Hardeman County Community Health Center Inc	$117,433	2	1%
Georgetown University	$116,580	4	0%
The Trustees of Princeton University	$113,698	3	0%
Global Action Platform	$110,000	6	12%
Greenways for Nashville Inc	$109,500	5	7%
Florida International University Foundation Inc	$107,917	2	0%
University of North Florida	$105,234	2	n/a
Management Leadership for Tomorrow	$100,000	1	0%
National Academy of Sciences	$100,000	3	0%
University of Arizona	$98,097	3	n/a
Columbia State Community College Foundation	$97,391	2	19%
Mannheimer Foundation	$97,246	2	1%
Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA)	$94,162	3	n/a
Howard Live Oak LLC	$93,911	4	n/a
Williamson County Chamber of Commerce	$92,500	4	1%
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc	$89,581	1	n/a
USC School of Medicine Greenville	$87,547	3	n/a
UCSF Medical Center Auxiliary	$87,348	1	n/a
Colorado School of Mines	$87,092	5	n/a
American Educational Research Association	$85,500	3	0%
Embraced Wisdom Resource Group LLC	$85,264	2	n/a
Le Vote International LLC	$83,640	1	n/a
University of Kentucky	$83,433	2	n/a
Metropolitan Interdenominational Church	$81,694	1	n/a
Humanities Tennessee	$81,000	8	1%
University Community Health Service	$80,158	2	1%
New York University	$80,079	3	0%
Georgia Southern University Research and Service Foundationinc	$76,943	4	0%
Leadership Nashville Foundation	$76,100	4	2%
Society of Critical Care Medicine	$75,688	2	0%
Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates Inc	$75,044	2	2%
Flocel Inc	$74,920	1	n/a
University of Arkansas Fayetteville	$70,331	3	n/a
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research	$69,839	2	0%
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation	$66,091	1	0%
Council on Aging of Greater Nashville Dba Age Well Middle Tennessee	$65,422	1	7%
Tedxnashville Inc	$64,250	3	58%
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	$63,848	3	n/a
Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc	$62,707	5	0%
Tequila Johnson dba The Equity Group LLC	$62,500	1	n/a
The Equity Alliance	$62,500	5	3%
Tennsmart Consortium Inc	$60,000	2	9%
Biomedical Engineering Society	$57,600	4	0%
Dismas Inc	$57,500	4	1%
Hope Family Health Services	$56,022	1	1%
Nashville Adult Literacy Council Inc	$56,000	5	2%
Council on Competitiveness	$53,500	2	0%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	$53,097	3	n/a
East Carolina University	$52,379	3	n/a
Northeast State Community College	$51,693	2	n/a
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute	$51,489	4	0%
Trustees of Boston University	$51,261	4	0%
Northwest Arkansas Education Service Cooperative	$50,260	1	n/a
Millions of Conversations Inc	$50,000	1	9%
Western Nm University	$49,904	2	n/a
Salem State University	$48,953	3	n/a
Espin Technologies Inc	$48,382	1	n/a
Education Development Center Inc	$47,620	1	0%
Roane State Community College	$47,060	2	n/a
Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame Inc	$46,000	5	3%
Conexion Americas	$45,500	5	0%
Clemson University	$44,558	4	n/a
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	$43,915	2	0%
William Marsh Rice University	$43,810	1	0%
Rowan University Foundation Inc	$42,151	1	0%
New York Weill Cornell Medical Center Fund Inc	$42,062	1	0%
Texas Biomedical Research Institute	$40,807	1	n/a
University of Cincinnati	$40,118	1	n/a
Tennessee Valley Corridor Inc	$40,000	2	6%
Base Pair Biotechnologies	$40,000	1	n/a
Tennessee College Access and Success Network	$37,500	4	2%
Education Training and Research Associates	$36,914	1	0%
American Council on Education	$36,377	3	0%
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc	$35,172	1	0%
Tennessee Pride Chamber Foundation	$35,000	3	4%
Nashville Ballet	$34,500	4	0%
The Conference Board Inc	$34,500	2	0%
Nashville Ballet Foundation	$32,000	3	16%
Alzheimers Tennessee Inc	$31,495	1	1%
University of North Dakota-College of Business & Public Admin	$31,492	2	n/a
Auburn University	$30,400	1	n/a
Nashville Opera Association Inc	$30,000	1	n/a
University of Arizona Foundation	$30,000	1	0%
Mt Bethel Missionary Baptist Church	$30,000	1	n/a
Hoop Bus Inc	$30,000	1	2%
St John Ame Church	$30,000	1	n/a
Nashville Technology Council	$29,750	3	1%
IBEX Preclinical Research Inc	$29,691	1	n/a
YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee	$28,000	3	0%
American Heart Association Inc	$27,476	3	0%
Cherokee Health Systems	$26,032	1	0%
Harvey Mudd College	$25,629	1	0%
Cleveland State University	$25,194	1	n/a
Friendship Education Foundation	$25,000	1	1%
North American Associates of the Sts Forum	$25,000	1	8%
Gary Sinise Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Tennessee State Museum Foundation Inc	$25,000	4	2%
Sickle Cell Foundation of Tennessee	$25,000	2	6%
US Women's Amateur Golf Championship Nashville Inc	$25,000	1	5%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education	$24,426	1	0%
Southwest Research Institute	$23,508	2	0%
Atrium Health Foundation	$23,168	2	0%
Adventure Science Center - Nashville	$23,080	2	0%
American Association of Nurse Practitioners	$23,000	3	0%
Creative Girls Rock	$22,500	3	15%
Strategic Education Research Partnership Institute	$22,402	1	0%
Frist Art Museum	$22,000	3	0%
Country Music Foundation Inc	$21,463	2	0%
Iowa State University	$21,308	1	n/a
South Dakota State University	$21,030	1	n/a
California State University Long Beach Research Foundation	$20,200	1	0%
Candid	$20,181	1	0%
Project Backboard	$20,000	1	2%
American Academy of Nursing	$20,000	2	0%
Cumberland Region Tomorrow	$20,000	2	11%
Nashville Food Project Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Life Science Tennessee Inc	$20,000	2	4%
Utah State University	$19,535	1	n/a
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities	$19,500	1	0%
Nashville Parks Foundation	$19,000	2	2%
Renewal House Inc	$18,500	1	0%
Tennessee Board of Regents	$18,226	2	n/a
100 Black Men of Middle Tn Inc	$17,500	2	n/a
American Association for the Advancement of Science	$17,500	2	0%
Backfield in Motion	$17,000	1	1%
People Loving Nashville	$17,000	1	1%
Belmont University	$16,970	2	0%
Urban League of Middle Tennessee	$16,405	2	0%
Gideons Army Grassroots Army for Children	$15,698	1	1%
John Sealy Hospitalutmb	$15,636	2	n/a
Baylor University	$15,527	1	0%
Tennessee Higher Education Initiative Inc	$15,300	1	0%
Samaritan Ministries of Temple Baptist Church Inc	$15,000	1	8%
Park Center Inc	$15,000	1	0%
The Nashville Entrepreneur Center	$15,000	1	n/a
Project Return Inc	$15,000	1	0%
BrightOutcome Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Rhodes College	$15,000	1	0%
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences	$14,573	2	n/a
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition	$14,200	2	0%
Open Table of Nashville Inc	$14,000	1	n/a
Room in the Inn Inc	$13,500	1	n/a
Seattle Children's Hospital	$13,328	1	0%
Your Center	$13,291	2	71%
Monroe Harding Inc	$13,000	1	0%
The Next Door Inc	$13,000	1	0%
Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Inc	$12,850	1	3%
The Arc of Illinois	$12,558	1	1%
Pencil Foundation	$12,500	1	0%
Fellavision Foundation	$12,500	1	10%
North Dakota State University	$12,276	1	n/a
Southern California Institute for Research & Education	$12,115	1	0%
Rebuilding Together Nashville Inc	$12,000	1	1%
Community Initiatives	$12,000	2	0%
Nashville Academy Theatre and Nashville Children's Theatre Assoc	$12,000	2	0%
Tennessee Fair Housing Council	$11,500	1	2%
Casa Inc	$11,500	1	1%
Cosecha Community Development	$10,500	1	16%
University Industry Demonstration Partnership Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Nashville Peacemakers	$10,000	1	17%
Anita Borg Institute for Technology	$10,000	1	0%
Fellavision LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee	$10,000	1	0%
Blacks in Technology Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Music City Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Japan-America Society of Tennessee	$10,000	1	2%
The Praxis Project Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The Store Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Chatterbird	$10,000	1	15%
Chi Boule Foundation	$10,000	1	8%
Special Olympics Tennessee Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The Mosaic Institute	$10,000	1	1%
New Covenant Christian Church	$10,000	1	n/a
Tennessee Voices for Victims	$10,000	1	3%
Word to Flesh Ministries Inc	$10,000	1	41%
Westwood Community Development Corporation	$10,000	1	n/a
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Mental Health Association of Middle Tennessee	$10,000	1	1%
Helping Music Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Persist Nashville	$9,850	1	1%
Project One Four - a David Price Foundation Inc	$9,200	1	4%
Gordon Research Conferences Inc	$9,000	1	0%
University of Rochester	$8,661	1	0%
University of North Texas	$8,630	1	n/a
Joslin Diabetes Center Inc	$8,101	1	0%
Youth Villages Inc	$8,074	1	0%
Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region Inc	$8,000	1	0%
Maine Community College System	$7,868	1	n/a
Cal Poly Pomona Foundation Inc	$7,762	1	0%
Good Neighbor Festivals	$7,575	1	n/a
Bill Lee Inaugural	$7,500	1	n/a
Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors	$7,500	1	1%
Tennessee Justice Center Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Friends of Fort Negley Inc	$7,229	1	11%
Beth Mardutho the Syriac Institute Inc	$7,196	1	n/a
Friends Life Community	$7,000	1	n/a
Kindling Arts Inc	$6,500	1	2%
Honor Society of Nursing Sigma Theta Tau International Inc	$6,500	1	0%
Thistle Farms Inc	$6,033	1	0%
American Nursing Informatics Association	$6,000	1	n/a
Belcourt Theatre Inc	$6,000	1	0%
Book Em	$6,000	1	1%
Hwen Corporation	$6,000	1	n/a
Ut-Battelle LLC	$5,977	1	n/a
The Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities	$5,650	1	1%
One Generation Away	$5,500	1	0%
Florida College Inc	$5,485	1	0%
State of Tennessee	$5,131	1	n/a
Alignment Nashville Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Our Pride Encompasses Nashville	$5,000	1	1%
The Porch Writers Collective Inc	$5,000	1	3%
Society of Women Engineers	$5,000	1	0%
Nashville Cares	$5,000	1	0%

Vanderbilt University supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

Memorial Foundation IncTN91.6× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Tennessee Titans Foundation · Nashville Predators 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.

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About Vanderbilt University

How much does Vanderbilt University give?: Vanderbilt University reported 205 itemized grants totaling $91,216,531, out of $569,225,782 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 129 and 177 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Vanderbilt University fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (69%), Science & Tech (21%), Education (7%).
Who are Vanderbilt University's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Vanderbilt University Medical Center ($331M), University of Texas ($6.5M), Northwestern University ($6.1M).
Does Vanderbilt University fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Vanderbilt University?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Memorial Foundation Inc, The Frist Foundation, Hca Healthcare Foundation.
Where is Vanderbilt University based?: Vanderbilt University is based in TN.