Connecticut · Nonprofit
Yale University
Yale University (Connecticut) receives grants from 901 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,215,782,234 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($179,396,524). 561 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. Yale University 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
Yale University 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 programYale University 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
$806M
Recipients
747
Contributions on record
$1.5B
Donors on record
913
Payments out are 0.56x 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.
- American Educational Research Associationshared funders
- John C & Bernice a Rieg Charitableportfolio match
- Henry David Thoreau Foundation Incportfolio match
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 11% · 2018 10% · 2019 11% · 2020 11% · 2021 9% · 2022 10% · 2023 12% · 2024 13% · 2025 11%. 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 261 funders to 367 funders, grant income rose $68M → $155M.
178 of 901 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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: $230M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Board of Trustees of the Sheffield Scientific School); $525k from 3 payers (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Yale University raised.
From the IRS filings of Yale University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 901 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
50% of Yale 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 $604M that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 43 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $610M arriving through sponsors registered in 39 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 901 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- American Educational Research Associationshared fundersDC · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- John C & Bernice a Rieg Charitableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Henry David Thoreau Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Science Olympiad Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dr Calvin Martin Memorial Scholarship Fdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Urology Care Foundation Incshared fundersMD · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- Knights Templar Eye Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
- Huntington's Disease Society of America Incshared fundersNY · backs 61 organizations that share your funders
- Lehigh Universityshared fundersPA · backs 60 organizations that share your funders
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratoryshared fundersNY · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- The Israel Institute Incshared fundersDC · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- University of Kansas Medical Center Research Instituteshared fundersKS · backs 69 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 Yale University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.7B on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.8B
- National Science Foundation$334.3M
- Department of Defense$297.4M
- Department of Energy$86.6M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$63.7M
- Department of Education$35.7M
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 233 related entities
- Investment Holdco LLC · disregarded
- Fir Co LLC · disregarded
- Boylston LLC · disregarded
- Alder Co LLC · disregarded
- Anaxagoras LP · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Yale University: 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 Yale University?
- Yale University (Connecticut) receives grants from 901 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,215,782,234 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($179,396,524). 561 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. Yale University 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 Yale University have?
- IRS filings report 901 organizations giving $1,215,782,234 in grants to Yale University, 561 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Yale University?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $179,396,524 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Yale University find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 901funders 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