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Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers.

$209M
Granted FY2025still arriving
246
Grants FY2025still arriving
42
States reached
$18M
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.

Science & Tech$323MHealth$285MEducation$176MRecreation & Sports$7.6MCommunity Improvement$2.2MCrime & Legal$1.2MInternational$827kFood & Nutrition$665kOther$0
02FY2025 · 246 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 246 grants below total $125,070,227, the rows itemized in this filing. The $209,048,154 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $83,977,927 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 $10k23 grants · $171k
  • $10k–50k61 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k77 grants · $9.9M
  • $250k+85 grants · $113M
$115,956
Median grant
42
States reached
$7.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY Sub Awards$18,387,417
THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC$7,007,282
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON STUDENT FISCAL SERVICES$4,432,564
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE$3,910,866
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$3,894,425
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$3,712,997
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$3,231,090
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$3,155,743
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER$2,828,392
RENBIO INC$2,541,434
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI OFFICE OF RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION$2,416,207
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$2,389,894
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$2,301,247
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$2,275,816
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES$2,179,821
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 (FY17–22, $421k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Father Flanagans Boys Home: $37k → 12%Hearts for Hearing Foundation: $42k → 16%Institute for Patient-and-Family-Centered Care: $40k → 8%Institute for Patient-and-Family-Centered Care: $40k → 8%Nashville Health Care Council: $35k → 14%Positively Living Inc: $32k → 12%Chapin Hall Center for Children: $74k → 14%Chapin Hall Center for Children: $65k → 14%Chapin Hall Center for Children: $57k → 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

VT
NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
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
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $28M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$22M · 77% · 46 grants

Stated purpose: General · Research

South America$3.0M · 11% · 12 grants

Stated purpose: Research · General

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$1.6M · 5% · 14 grants

Stated purpose: Research · General

North America (Canada and Mexico)$1.2M · 4% · 8 grants

Stated purpose: Research · General

Middle East and North Africa$353k · 1% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: Research

Central America and the Caribbean$243k · 1% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Research

East Asia and the Pacific$153k · 1% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: General · Research

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
$715M · 376 repeat orgs$9.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

376 repeat relationships: 205 still active in FY2025, 171 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

376
117

Total granted

$715M
$6.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+26%

Still filing today

60%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureScience & TechCommunity 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

  • Vanderbilt University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $134M · revenue +74%
  • TB
    The Broad Institute Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $51M · revenue +95%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $28M · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • II
    Immedis Inc (Payroll Funding)
    one grant, 2019 · $1.2M
  • ES
    Expaticore Services LLC
    one grant, 2017 · $1.1M
  • IE
    International Epidemiology Institute
    one grant, 2017 · $782k
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
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University, VUMC cultivates distinguished research and educational…

Health
2
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
3
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
4
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
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
6
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
7
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
8
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
9
Trihealth Physician Institute

Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.

Health
10
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
11
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
12
Ut Medical Group Inc

To be a successful physician led, professionally managed medical practice that benefits our patients and our community, while supporting the UT Health Science Center's mission through clinical excellence, financial responsibility and a…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montefiore Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is Tennessee Titans 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

336 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. 336 of the 538 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
324/336
Grantees still filing
249/336
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Vanderbilt University: $133,507,885 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $28,462,773 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $23,243,995 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $21,147,454 · EducationMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $19,332,427 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $19,225,732 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $16,949,656 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $15,779,788 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $14,591,063 · Education+29 more: $83,170,161 · Education+29 moreUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $18,533,731 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $15,220,525 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT C…UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $13,256,123 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $12,459,975 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGH…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $11,729,928 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $9,914,539 · Other+93 more: $149,029,193 · Other+93 moreThe Broad Institute Inc: $51,167,360 · HealthThe Broad Institute In…BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $20,553,624 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS …THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,354,401 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITA…+51 more: $69,292,488 · Health+51 moreNorthwestern University: $6,781,670 · Recreation & SportsBAPTIST CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $2,529,203 · Science & TechBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $1,809,335 · Science & TechUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $1,101,864 · Science & TechHUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY: $739,846 · Science & TechUS CIVILIAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $312,472 · Science & TechWILLIAMSON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1,731,500 · Community ImprovementCENTRAL AMERICAN MEDICAL OUTREACH INC: $771,632 · InternationalDHR HEALTH INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: $434,414 · Philanthropy
Education$375,410,934Other$230,144,014Health$151,367,873Recreation & Sports$6,781,670Science & Tech$6,492,720Community Improvement$1,731,500International$771,632Philanthropy$434,414

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%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVanderbilt University: $133,507,885 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $51,167,360 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $28,462,773 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $23,243,995 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $21,147,454 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $20,553,624 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $19,332,427 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $19,225,732 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $16,949,656 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $15,779,788 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $14,591,063 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $11,082,462 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,354,401 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $8,231,804 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $7,545,419 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $6,901,211 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $6,781,670 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $5,398,434 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $4,757,724 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $4,636,690 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $4,627,090 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $4,480,502 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $3,997,848 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetIHC HEALTH SERVICES INC: $3,972,958 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $3,864,374 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $3,768,547 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS TO ADVANCED HEALTH INSTITUTE: $3,641,365 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $3,473,743 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGEISINGER CLINIC: $3,062,634 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $3,004,879 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $3,004,753 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor Research Institute: $2,791,556 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $2,738,488 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $2,627,783 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetBAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $2,559,626 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBAPTIST CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $2,529,203 over 9y, 47% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $2,435,466 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,189,644 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $2,098,678 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTHCARE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,998,244 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,905,283 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,813,315 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $1,809,335 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $1,793,222 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAMSON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1,731,500 over 8y, 62% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $1,697,701 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1,649,997 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY AIDS OUTREACH INC: $1,631,517 over 7y, 1.5% 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 Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds IHC HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗

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 Children's Hospit…Yale UniversityThe Trustees of Colum…Mayo ClinicUniversity of Pittsbu…Emory UniversityVanderbilt UniversityCystic Fibrosis Found…American Cancer Socie…Johns Hopkins Univers…The George Washington…Washington University
The Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaPA82× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Yale University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Mayo Clinic · University of Pittsburgh · Emory University · Vanderbilt University · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · American Cancer Society Inc · Johns Hopkins University · The George Washington University · 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 Vanderbilt University Medical Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%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%
  • Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc: 37% 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 Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Rural Health Care Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Baystate Medical Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Lahey Clinic Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hartford Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report 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 538 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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