How much did WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY grant in FY2023?

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY reported 340 grants totaling $542,424,837 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY based?

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY is based in MO.

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

The WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

$542M

Granted FY2023

340

Grants

Communities

$4.4M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

louisvillejazzcivil rightsseminarsuniversity's healthsciences studentslehhc

2020

israellegalmicafirepsychosocialehocseeks ensure

2021

scientific technologicalvassarunderrepresentedinnovationssurgeonsrace religioncortex

2022

louis zooflancezoo'sspnsrshpgatewayepriendeavor health

2023

hphcharvard pilgrimworkersoperaguidebuiltmember

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 340 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k39 grants · $276k
$10k–50k131 grants · $2.8M
$50k–250k92 grants · $11M
$250k+78 grants · $77M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$19.8B

Total assets

Largest grants

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$4,363,550
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$3,603,814
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$3,602,499
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$2,928,203
GENERAL HOSPITAL CORP DBA MASSACHUSETT$2,793,235
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$2,253,093
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI$2,208,773
MAYO CLINIC$2,052,723
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA$1,980,447
YALE UNIVERSITY$1,839,977
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$1,759,479
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$1,739,373
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$1,668,662
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$1,655,630
CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$1,644,494

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $657k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$347M · 374 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

374 repeat relationships — 262 still active in FY2023, 112 since wound down; 78 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

374

163

Total granted

$347M

$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+32%

Still filing today

61%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesScience & TechArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
5× · 2019–2023 · $15M · revenue +23%
CU
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
5× · 2019–2023 · $8.7M · revenue +13%
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
5× · 2019–2023 · $8.1M · revenue +33%

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
one grant, 2021 · $805k
DF
DEACONESS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $250k
NI
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DHHS
one grant, 2021 · $185k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission is to provide superior health care in a compassionate manner, ever mindful of each patient's dignity and individuality. to accomplish our mission, we call upon the skills and expertise of all who work together to advance…

Health

Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

To improve the wellness of all people through innovative, interprofessional education of health and biomedical professionals and the discovery and implementation of knowledge.

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Washington University Medical Center

To provide and assist its member organizations in providing hospital facilities, physical properties, and programs appropriate for the care and treatment of patients, for the continued on Schedule O

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Faculty Physicians & Surgeons of Llusm

The employment of the clinical faculty of Loma Linda University School of Medicine. Faculty Physicians and Surgeons assists in the formation of Christian Physicians educated to serve as generalists and specialists providing competent…

Health

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The howard hughes medical institute is a philanthropy that serves society through the direct conduct of biomedical research and support for programs in science education.

Health

Philadelphia University

To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.

Education

Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.

Health

Upmc

Support of subsidiary tax-exempt healthcare, education and research organizations

Health

New York Medical College

Educate physicians, scientists, public health specialists & other healthcare professionals.

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University of Kansas School of Medicine-

Patient care and research are offered to provide education to members and students and to offer quality care to individuals without regard to the patients ability to pay.

Human Services

Medical University of South Carolina

The medical university of south carolina foundation (the "foundation") was incorporated in july 1966 under the laws of south carolina as an educational, charitable, eleemosynary foundation to promote educational, research, clinical, and…

Health

Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Juniata College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%7/617

the rest of the field

11%

206,161/1,818,948

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

399 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

388/399

Grantees still filing

301/399

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$187,928,434Education$97,620,237Health$51,432,903Recreation & Sports$8,128,218Community Improvement$3,021,715Science & Tech$2,581,849Philanthropy$2,065,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO95.5× affinity101 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · University of Pittsburgh · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · The Trustees of Columbia University · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Centene Foundation · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts · Mayo Clinic · Edward Jones Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SLING HEALTH.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2504.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 465658453 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SLING HEALTH, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 99% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Washington University?

Find your warmest path to Washington University through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

399 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Washington University?

More from the funding graph

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

399 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Washington University?

More from the funding graph