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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1102 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,766,637,514 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($383,514,503). 688 of them have funded it in more than one year. Massachusetts Institute of Technology administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
Massachusetts Institute of Technology administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programMassachusetts Institute of Technology runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$79M
Recipients
339
Contributions on record
$2.8B
Donors on record
1,119
Payments out are 0.03x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- National Multiple Sclerosis Societyshared funders
- American Educational Research Associationshared funders
- Urology Care Foundation Incshared funders
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.
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 10% · 2018 8% · 2019 7% · 2020 9% · 2021 7% · 2022 7% · 2023 8% · 2024 8% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 277 funders to 443 funders, grant income fell $327M → $262M.
130 of 1102 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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: $69M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest MIT International Inc); $10k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Massachusetts Institute of Technology). These are real filings, and they are not money Massachusetts Institute of Technology raised.
From the IRS filings of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1102 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.
Where its funders are
Massachusetts Institute of Technology draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 45 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $935M arriving through sponsors registered in 34 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 1102 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- National Multiple Sclerosis Societyshared fundersNY · backs 98 organizations that share your funders
- American Educational Research Associationshared fundersDC · backs 73 organizations that share your funders
- Urology Care Foundation Incshared fundersMD · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- American Diabetes Association Research Foundation Incshared fundersVA · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
- Knights Templar Eye Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 60 organizations that share your funders
- Lupus Research Alliance Incshared fundersNY · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- American Lung Associationshared fundersIL · backs 98 organizations that share your funders
- Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 85 organizations that share your funders
- Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncologyshared fundersVA · backs 72 organizations that share your funders
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Incshared fundersNJ · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- Huntington's Disease Society of America Incshared fundersNY · backs 53 organizations that share your funders
- American Epilepsy Societyshared fundersIL · backs 77 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Massachusetts Institute of Technology receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.8B on record — $15.7B federal, $44.6M state.
- Department of Defense$12.6B
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.3B
- National Science Foundation$879.5M
- Department of Energy$587.5M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$271.4M
- Agency for International Development$38.6M
- MA$44.6M
- OK$23k
- OR$5k
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
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 209 related entities
- MIT Investments 2009 LP · disregarded
- MIT Investments 2010 LP · disregarded
- MIT Private Equity Management Company LLC · disregarded
- MIT Private Equity Management Company II LLC · disregarded
- MIT Private Equity Management Company III LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology?
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1102 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,766,637,514 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($383,514,503). 688 of them have funded it in more than one year. Massachusetts Institute of Technology administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does Massachusetts Institute of Technology have?
- IRS filings report 1102 organizations giving $2,766,637,514 in grants to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 688 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $383,514,503 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Massachusetts Institute of Technology find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 1102funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing