Maryland · Nonprofit
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Maryland) receives grants from 1840 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,108,251,940 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,013,438,812). 1103 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10.6B
- Funders on record
- 1,840
- Grants received
- $7.1B
- Net assets
- $20.2B
What Johns Hopkins University does
Mission
The mission of the Johns Hopkins University is to educate its students and cultivate their capacity for life-long learning, to foster independent and original research, and to bring the benefits of discovery to the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction, research and clinical practice:education and related services (e.g., room and board) are provided to over 31,000 students including approximately 18,000 full-time and 13,000 part-time students. Research and related services (e.g., research training) are provided through approximately 2,300 government and private sponsors. The university remains a leader among the nation's research universities. University research highlights are available at www.jhu.edu. Professional medical services are provided by members of the university's faculty to patients at the johns hopkins hospital and other hospitals and outpatient care facilities in the baltimore area.
$8,047,181,000 spentof which $1,346,182,000 as grants$6,596,584,000 earned by the program95% of program spendingStudent services:includes admissions and registar offices and those activities whose primary purpose is to contribute to the student's emotional and physical well-being and to his or her intellectual, cultural and social development outside the context of the formal instruction program. Examples include: student services administration, social and cultural development, counseling and career guidance, financial aid administration, student records and student health services.
$246,290,000 spent3% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises:includes services furnished directly or indirectly to students, faculty and staff and charges related to, but not necessarily equal to the cost of services. Traditionally these services include; food services, student housing and bookstores. Also reflected in this category are activities related to vending machines, bus service and athletic concessions. In addition, the university includes the activities related to the Johns Hopkins University press for publication and distribution of scholarly books, journals and on-line collections.
$149,594,000 spent$120,332,000 earned by the program2% of program spendingLibraries
$58,984,000 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,502,049,000.
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 2020 to 2021, from $14.6B to $17.9B (+23%).
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 20% · 2018 19% · 2019 12% · 2020 14% · 2021 14% · 2022 15% · 2023 13% · 2024 14% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of JOHNS HOPKINS 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.
Chief executive
Deweese Theodore
Dean of medical faculty & CEO, jhm
Board chair
Forster Louis
Chair, trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 480 funders to 726 funders, grant income rose $242M → $1.4B.
160 of 1840 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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: $23M from 2 payers (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Hospital for Consumptives of Md-Eudowood); $40k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Johns Hopkins University). These are real filings, and they are not money JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1840 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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 26% · 2019 39% · 2020 39% · 2021 42% · 2022 33% · 2023 35% — growing more concentrated.
“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
42% of JOHNS HOPKINS 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
57% of JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.0B that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 48 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1B arriving through sponsors registered in 36 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
JOHNS HOPKINS 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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.3B on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$8.7B
- Agency for International Development$910.6M
- Department of Defense$720.8M
- National Science Foundation$404.2M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$289.0M
- Department of Energy$108.6M
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 JOHNS HOPKINS 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 8 states
Part of a family of 69 related entities
- 11101 Johns Hopkins Road Business Trust · disregarded
- 2733 North Charles LLC · disregarded
- Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory LLC · disregarded
- Charles & Blackstone Apartments LLC · disregarded
- Frederick Neonatal Services LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY?
- JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Maryland) receives grants from 1840 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,108,251,940 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,013,438,812). 1103 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 1840 organizations giving $7,108,251,940 in grants to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, 1103 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,013,438,812 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 1840 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