Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1505 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,109,647,391 to it, the largest being MEDSTAR HEALTH INC ($109,984,227). 909 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3B
- Funders on record
- 1,505
- Grants received
- $1.1B
- Net assets
- $3.1B
What Georgetown University does
Mission
Established in 1789 in the spirit of the new republic, the university was founded on the principle that serious and sustained discourse among people of different faiths, cultures and beliefs promotes intellectual, ethical and spiritual understanding. We embody this principle in the diversity of our students, faculty and staff, our commitment to justice and the common good, our intellectual openness and our international character. An academic community dedicated to creating and communicating knowledge, georgetown provides excellent undergraduate, graduate and professional education in the jesuit tradition for the glory of god and the well-being of humankind. Georgetown educates women and men to be reflective lifelong learners, to be responsible and active participants in civic life and to live generously in service to others.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction: the university consists of the college of arts & sciences, georgetown law center, the graduate school of arts & sciences, the mccourt school of public policy, the robert e. Mcdonough school of business, the school of continuing studies, the berkley school of nursing, the school of health, the school of medicine, and the edmund a. Walsh school of foreign service. These schools offer undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees, executive education, advanced professional certificates, custom education, and special programs. During the year ended june 30, 2025, Georgetown University enrolled approximately 20,000 students and awarded 7,622 degrees.
$941,827,747 spentof which $285,510,731 as grants$1,093,415,445 earned by the program50% of program spendingAcademic support: this includes activities that support the university's primary educational and research missions. These activities include academic administration, academic computing support, academic personnel development, course and curriculum development, departmental administration, educational media services, and libraries.
$420,639,832 spentof which $2,598,515 as grants$37,342,863 earned by the program22% of program spendingResearch: one of the primary objectives of the university is the development of knowledge through basic science, clinical research and other research. During the year ended june 30, 2025, faculty and students participated in over 2,400 research projects in science and other areas.
$350,787,203 spentof which $29,045,969 as grants$105,838,138 earned by the program19% of program spendingLine 4d (other program services): auxiliary services: various goods and services are provided for the benefit of students, faculty and staff. The primary categories included are banking, bookstores, conference center and hotel, food and vending, mail, parking, printing and graphics, and transportation.
$123,869,821 spent$118,668,045 earned by the program7% of program spendingLine 4d (other program services): public service: the university provides community service programs and noninstructional services that are intended to benefit individuals and groups external to the university.
$39,625,824 spentof which $2,985,985 as grants$45,404,663 earned by the program2% of program spendingLine 4d (other program services): other program services: includes expenditures for student services that contribute to the emotional and physical well-being and the intellectual, cultural, and social development of students outside the context of the formal instruction program.
$1,413,399 spent$25,054,449 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,878,163,826.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $6.0B to $6.9B (+14%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 8% · 2018 7% · 2019 8% · 2020 8% · 2021 11% · 2022 12% · 2023 10% · 2024 10% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Thomas A Reynolds Iii B'74 P'03
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 395 funders to 603 funders, grant income rose $46M → $169M.
145 of 1505 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $41M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Big East Conference Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1505 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 12 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 12 funders to its left
47% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 10% · 2018 19% · 2019 17% · 2020 14% · 2021 10% · 2022 11% · 2023 11% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
45% of GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 48 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $286M arriving through sponsors registered in 35 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3B on record — $1.3B federal, $1.5M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$778.1M
- Department of State$166.3M
- Department of Defense$85.7M
- National Science Foundation$73.8M
- Department of Education$49.4M
- Department of Commerce$34.8M
- VT$609k
- OR$300k
- NJ$289k
- MD$175k
- CT$103k
- DE$41k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 11 states
Part of a family of 16 related entities
- Georgetown Dogu Akdeniz Egitim Hizmetleri Ticaret Limited Sirketi · disregarded
- Georgetown East Africa LLC · disregarded
- Georgetown Global Health LLC · disregarded
- Hoya LLC · disregarded
- The UK Friends of Georgetown Limited · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY?
- GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1505 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,109,647,391 to it, the largest being MEDSTAR HEALTH INC ($109,984,227). 909 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 1505 organizations giving $1,109,647,391 in grants to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, 909 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY?
- MEDSTAR HEALTH INC is the largest funder on record, with $109,984,227 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1505 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing