Massachusetts · Nonprofit
The Broad Institute Inc
The Broad Institute Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 207 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,577,252,937 to it, the largest being THE ELI AND EDYTHE BROAD FOUNDATION ($511,243,742). 132 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $846M
- Funders on record
- 207
- Grants received
- $1.6B
- Net assets
- $2.4B
What The Broad Institute Inc does
Mission
The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public. We are a research organization dedicated to understanding the roots of disease and closing the gap between new biological insights and impact for patients.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The broad institute operates for educational and scientific purposes to improve human health by using genomics to advance the understanding of the biology and treatment of human disease, and to help lay the groundwork for a new generation of therapies. The institute defines a new collaborative model for biomedical research, bringing together extraordinary scientists across harvard, mit and harvard-affiliated hospitals and uses new approaches that combine biology, chemistry, mathematics, computation and engineering with medical science and clinical research. Its scientists are committed to understanding the fundamental basis of genome and cell biology, and to developing transformative new approaches to biomedical research. Scientific areas include chemical biology and therapeutics science, drug discovery, genome regulation, cellular circuitry and epigenomics, immunology, medical and population genetics, and metabolism. Broad's researchers bring expertise in different technology areas, called platforms, to collaborate on challenging projects and develop new tools and generate data and insights at a scale that could not be done within a typical research laboratory. Technology areas…
$629,825,966 spentof which $98,808,899 as grants$54,166,478 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $629,825,966.
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 $1.7B to $2.6B (+58%).
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 31% · 2018 27% · 2019 22% · 2020 23% · 2021 13% · 2022 21% · 2023 24% · 2024 27% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of The Broad Institute Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 45 funders to 81 funders, grant income rose $135M → $232M.
23 of 207 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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: $163M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Stanley Fund for the Broad Institute). These are real filings, and they are not money The Broad Institute Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of The Broad Institute Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 207 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
The Broad Institute Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
34% 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 The Broad Institute Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 53% · 2019 66% · 2020 32% · 2021 26% · 2022 28% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“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 The Broad Institute Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
The Broad Institute Inc draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 29 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $330M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
The Broad Institute Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding The Broad Institute Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5B on record — $1.4B federal, $14.1M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.4B
- Department of Defense$45.3M
- Department of the Interior$8.8M
- Department of Agriculture$3.6M
- National Science Foundation$1.3M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$606k
- MA$14.1M
- FL$10
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 The Broad Institute Inc
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Broad Clinical Labs LLC · disregarded
- Genome Bridge LLC · disregarded
- The Stanley Fund for the Broad Institute · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Broad Institute Inc: 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 The Broad Institute Inc?
- The Broad Institute Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 207 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,577,252,937 to it, the largest being THE ELI AND EDYTHE BROAD FOUNDATION ($511,243,742). 132 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Broad Institute Inc have?
- IRS filings report 207 organizations giving $1,577,252,937 in grants to The Broad Institute Inc, 132 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Broad Institute Inc?
- THE ELI AND EDYTHE BROAD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $511,243,742 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Broad Institute Inc 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 207 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