TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY

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 12% · 2018 12% · 2019 13% · 2020 14% · 2021 16% · 2022 15% · 2023 13% · 2024 14% · 2025 15%. 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.

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 316 funders to 566 funders, grant income rose $45M → $122M.

88 of 1358 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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: $89M from 82 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Boston Medical Center). These are real filings, and they are not money TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY raised.

From the IRS filings of TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1358 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

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 15 funders to reach half.

64% 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 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY.

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 27% · 2019 12% · 2020 17% · 2021 26% · 2022 9% · 2023 21% — 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

44% of TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 49 states in all.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $212M arriving through sponsors registered in 32 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.