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The Howard University
Washington, DC · EIN 53-0204707. Reported 209 grants totalling $29.7M to 94 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Howard University, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B430) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 94 distinct organizations, with 15% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 71% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $55,700. Half of what it reported fell between $23,540 and $131,390; the smallest was $5,105 and the largest $1,661,236. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Maryland Baltimore County | College Park, MD | $4,581,377 | 13 | 4 | 2023 |
| Gilbane Building Company | Providence, RI | $2,476,587 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Mercy Medical Center Inc | Baltimore, MD | $2,447,054 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $2,068,281 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Medstar Health Research Institute Inc | Columbia, MD | $2,020,002 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Association for the Study of African American Life and History | Washington, DC | $1,237,708 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Puerto Rico | Mayaguez, PR | $1,221,783 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $1,062,058 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | $885,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Texas Southern University | Houston, TX | $747,956 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Marys Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc | Washington, DC | $667,356 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Old Dominion University Research Foundation | Norfolk, VA | $666,381 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Texas at El Paso | El Paso, TX | $613,580 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Anacostia Economic Development Corporation | Washington, DC | $583,895 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $536,043 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jackson State University | Jackson, MS | $479,910 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Young Mens Christian Association | Washington, DC | $466,092 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | $366,086 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| San Jose State University Research Foundation | San Jose, CA | $339,410 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Bronx, NY | $335,485 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Humble Ventures LLC | Alexandria, VA | $323,300 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $305,994 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Womens Institute for Science Equity and Race | Mechanicsvlle, VA | $275,440 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN | $271,133 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $242,531 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Houston | Houston, TX | $233,340 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $224,060 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Clark Atlanta University Inc | Atlanta, GA | $195,545 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Unity Health Care Inc | Washington, DC | $179,322 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| San Francisco State University | San Francisco, CA | $177,245 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Family and Medical Counseling Service Inc | Washington, DC | $172,381 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Morehouse College | Atlanta, GA | $134,603 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Virginia State University | Petersburg, VA | $120,458 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Term | Tallahassee, FL | $118,159 | 5 | 3 | 2022 |
| Southern Illinois University- Carbondale | Carbondale, IL | $109,160 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Zane Networks LLC | Washington, DC | $109,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| National Society of Black Engineers | Alexandria, VA | $107,633 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $107,300 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $107,103 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Lexington, KY | $105,842 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education | Reno, NV | $105,105 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wichita State University | Wichita, KS | $101,068 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Communication and Culture LLC | Madison, AL | $99,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cyber-Green Group Inc | Bowie, MD | $98,700 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Greater Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc | Washington, DC | $97,418 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation | Beltsville, MD | $96,514 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX | $85,631 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Miller Medical Communications LLC | New York, NY | $84,375 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University | Greensboro, NC | $79,106 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Oregon | Eugene, OR | $74,312 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| US Army Corps of Engineers | Vicksburg, MS | $72,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $68,952 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $65,886 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Washington Montessori Institute Inc | Riverdale Pk, MD | $64,750 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The George Washington University | Washington, DC | $64,128 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Anne Arundel Community College | Beltsville, MD | $57,858 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Dillard University | New Orleans, LA | $56,174 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Visitors Services Center Inc | Washington, DC | $55,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hampton University | Hampton, VA | $53,372 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Temple University-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Educ | Philadelphia, PA | $51,540 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Era Entrepreneur Network Inc Dba Motherland Connect | Tallahassee, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lincoln Square Group | Washington, DC | $49,572 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Breathe DC | Washington, DC | $47,697 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Education Opportunity Network Inc | New York, NY | $39,430 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Medford, MA | $38,879 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alabama A&m University | N Huntsville, AL | $34,821 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cooper Soft Inc | Bowie, MD | $33,935 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Microtraffic Inc | Winnipeg, Manitoba | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Whole Genome Science Foundation (wgsf) | Kensington, MD | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Texas Christian University | Fort Worth, TX | $29,377 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Institute for Public Health Innovation | Washington, DC | $28,524 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Michelle Tran | Annandale, VA | $27,270 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Mayatech Corporation | Silver Spring, MD | $26,287 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Oh Buoy LLC | Denver, CO | $25,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Encounter Marketing and Public Relations | New York, NY | $25,150 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences | Arlington, VA | $22,229 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $22,211 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Family & Youth Institute | Canton, MI | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc | Athens, GA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Council of University Directors of Clinical Psychology | Starkville, MS | $18,017 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Utah State University | Logan, UT | $17,208 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| College of William and Mary | Williamsburg, VA | $16,784 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Smithsonian Institute | Washington, DC | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Curators of the University of Missouri | Columbia, MO | $15,085 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Norfolk State University | Norfolk, VA | $11,427 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Tete Group LLC | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wayne Patterson | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| All Wrapped Up | Columbia, MD | $9,450 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Skyvalley Tai Ji | Camp Springs, MD | $7,575 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Internal Life Detox | Washington, DC | $7,295 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| North Carolina State University | Raleigh, NC | $6,223 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rag Tyme LLC | Upper Marlboro, MD | $5,995 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church | Washington, DC | $5,400 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
51 of 94 (54%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Gilbane Building Company
SUPPORT RESEARCH & EDUCATION
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 43 of 94 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 37 | $3,667,403 | $43,421 |
| 2021 | 65 | $11.8M | $66,960 |
| 2022 | 52 | $5,866,972 | $44,432 |
| 2023 | 55 | $8,410,024 | $63,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
34% of its giving went to organizations in Maryland. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $55,700 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Maryland.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Howard University's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 36 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 19 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 2400 6TH Street Nw, Washington, DC, 20059.
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