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Tennessee · Nonprofit
Vanderbilt University (Tennessee) is funded by 934 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $547,646,377 in grants to it, the largest being Vanderbilt University Medical Center ($90,544,397). 586 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Vanderbilt University runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 651 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 651 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2023
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
18% of Vanderbilt University’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
$7.0M from 59 funders in 2025, up from $15M and 198 in 2017.
110 of 934 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Vanderbilt University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 934 funders by total. Association, not causation.
Vanderbilt University has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 18 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 18 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 12% · 2018 21% · 2019 19% · 2020 22% · 2021 19% · 2022 18% · 2023 20% · 2024 7% · 2025 44% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
38% of Vanderbilt University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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.
Vanderbilt University draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 45 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 934 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
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.
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8B on record — $1.8B federal, $2.7M state.
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.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
84% of spending goes to programs.
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Part of a family of 26 related entities
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 934funders 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. view filing