· Public charity
Yale University
To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 364 grants below total $168,243,967 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $861,177,007 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $692,933,040 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $180k
- $10k–50k88 grants · $2.1M
- $50k–250k110 grants · $14M
- $250k+141 grants · $152M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL | $14,308,657 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO | $8,554,704 |
| NEW HAVEN PROMISE INC | $4,559,905 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $3,611,092 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | $2,920,916 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $2,910,442 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $2,857,317 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $2,761,334 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $2,687,586 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $2,621,902 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $2,396,871 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $2,277,990 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $2,200,431 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $2,196,012 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $2,107,463 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $39.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
499 repeat relationships — 286 still active in FY2025, 213 since wound down; 62 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NHNEW HAVEN PROMISE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $34M · revenue +28% · 83% of their budget
DUKE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $19M · revenue +51%- YNYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL4× · 2019–2025 · $16M · revenue +40%
Funded once
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue 0%- WCWellesley Collegegraduatedone grant, 2018 · $901k · revenue +81%
- ARAPPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES INCone grant, 2021 · $654k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meharry Medical College and the most unlike its peers is The Breed Academy Inc. 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.
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 41 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
491 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 491 of the 747 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds NEW HAVEN PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Newalliance Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Cornell University · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Brown University · Trustees of Boston University · Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation
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 organization Yale 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine — 100% of income from government
- Continuum of Care Inc — 100% of income from government
- Liberty Community Services — 78% of income from government
- Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc — 75% of income from government
- Bridges Healthcare Inc — 67% of income from government
- New Haven Works Inc — 58% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Climatehaven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Portland Va Research Foundation — 34% of income from government
- Urban Community Allianceinc — 30% of income from government
- Apnha Place to Nourish Your Health — 24% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Apt Foundation Inc — 21% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Fair Haven Community Health Clinic Inc — 18% of income from government
- Veterans Education and Research Association of Northern New England Inc — 17% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins 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
- Northeastern University — 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
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Squash Haven Inc — 4% of income from government
- Griffin Hospital — 2% of income from government
- New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- The Cooper Health System a New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- New Haven Promise Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Health Sciences Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Achievement First Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.