Trustees of Boston University
Boston, MA · EIN 04-2103547. Reported 1,386 grants totalling $586.1M to 448 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
448organizations funded
$113,056median reported grant
$586.1Mgranted, 2020-2024
80%of grantees funded again the next year
4%of dollars to its largest recipient
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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 448 distinct organizations, with 4% 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. 80% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $113,056. Half of what it reported fell between $35,166 and $348,682; the smallest was $5,092 and the largest $10.4M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Every organization it funded
All 448 recipients appear in its filings; the 250 largest are listed here. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received a reported grant.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day Zero Diagnostics Inc | Boston, MA | $21.5M | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $20.5M | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Pattern Bioscience Inc | Austin, TX | $16.8M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Integrated Biotherapeutics | Rockville, MD | $14.7M | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $13.4M | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Peptilogics Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $13.2M | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | Boston, MA | $13.1M | 10 | 5 | 2024 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $12.7M | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Amicrobe Inc | Carlsbad, CA | $12.2M | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Avails Medical Inc | Menlo Park, CA | $12.2M | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Cellics Therapeutics Inc | San Diego, CA | $10.2M | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Vaxcyte Inc | San Carlos, CA | $10.1M | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $9,344,528 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Clarametyx Biosciences Inc | Columbus, OH | $9,212,428 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $8,728,227 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| Locus Biosciences Inc | Morrisville, NC | $8,542,735 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Lumen Bioscience Inc | Seattle, WA | $8,428,812 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Vedanta Biosciences Inc | Cambridge, MA | $8,300,531 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | $7,762,298 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $7,529,280 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Glaxosmithkline Holdings Americas Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $7,512,879 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $6,802,370 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Massachusetts | Worcester, MA | $6,214,546 | 9 | 5 | 2024 |
| Micurx Pharmaceuticals | Palo Alto, CA | $6,176,810 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Venatorx Pharmaceuticals Inc | Malvern, PA | $6,021,417 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | Charlestown, MA | $5,951,831 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| American College of Radiology | Reston, VA | $5,754,932 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Seres Therapeutics Inc | Cambridge, MA | $5,652,512 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $5,587,239 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Contrafect Corp | Yonkers, NY | $5,463,988 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $5,417,856 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Entasis Therapeutics Inc | Waltham, MA | $5,115,647 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Washington | Chicago, IL | $5,076,166 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $4,994,398 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Microbiotix Inc | Worcester, MA | $4,955,014 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bugworks Research Inc | Fremont, CA | $4,831,246 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Yeshiva University | New York, NY | $4,753,901 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $4,670,278 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Forge Therapeutics Inc | San Diego, CA | $4,569,083 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Lytica Therapeutics Inc | Boston, MA | $4,518,343 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Trellis Bioscience Inc | Redwood City, CA | $4,127,443 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Visby Medical Inc | San Jose, CA | $4,085,885 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Microbion Corporation | Bozeman, MT | $4,011,670 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $3,888,115 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Trellis Bioscience LLC | Redwood City, CA | $3,871,316 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Broad Institute Inc | Cambridge, MA | $3,851,007 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $3,730,602 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $3,705,015 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Baebies Inc | Durham, NC | $3,681,664 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN | $3,581,009 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Affinivax Inc | Cambridge, MA | $3,541,924 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Helixbind Inc | Marlborough, MA | $3,377,724 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Texas Health Science | San Antonio, TX | $3,352,037 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Medford, MA | $3,208,918 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| Florida International Univ Bot | Miami, FL | $3,121,718 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | $3,040,404 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $2,963,983 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $2,885,870 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Childrens Hospital Corporation | Boston, MA | $2,875,704 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Zabbio Inc | San Diego, CA | $2,856,636 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | $2,815,298 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc | Boston, MA | $2,804,572 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical | Torrance, CA | $2,741,233 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospitals | Oakland, CA | $2,542,981 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $2,509,869 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Vermont and State Agricultural College | Burlington, VT | $2,429,164 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Novel Microdevices Inc | Baltimore, MD | $2,396,269 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Taxis Pharmaceuticals Inc | Monmouth Junction, NJ | $2,388,284 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| State of Maryland | College Park, MD | $2,333,604 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Louisville | Louisville, KY | $2,301,395 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $2,261,178 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Brown University of Providence | Providence, RI | $2,253,038 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Indiana University | Detroit, MI | $2,240,225 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $2,116,629 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Califo - La 2 | Los Angeles, CA | $2,058,301 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jackson Laboratory | Bar Harbor, ME | $1,956,323 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Institute for Life Science Entrepreneurship Inc | Union, NJ | $1,948,086 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc | Boston, MA | $1,918,698 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center Inc | Holyoke, MA | $1,910,238 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX | $1,816,916 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Denver | Denver, CO | $1,806,114 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Ada Forsyth Institute Inc | Somerville, MA | $1,753,037 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $1,712,230 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Butler Hospital | Providence, RI | $1,709,095 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | $1,703,568 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $1,688,771 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc | Athens, GA | $1,680,648 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Health Research Incorporated Elizabeth Wood | Menands, NY | $1,644,570 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $1,579,780 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $1,540,497 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Connecticut | Storrs, CT | $1,516,261 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Sutter Bay Hospitals | Sacramento, CA | $1,485,883 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc | San Francisco, CA | $1,483,883 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $1,474,164 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Zikani Therapeutics Inc | Watertown, MA | $1,470,409 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $1,453,425 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| J Craig Venter Institute Inc | La Jolla, CA | $1,405,888 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $1,295,129 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Novel Microdevices LLC | Baltimore, MD | $1,257,820 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Syntiron LLC | Saint Paul, MN | $1,235,567 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rush University Medical Center | Chicago, IL | $1,217,970 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $1,208,145 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $1,187,728 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute & St | Blacksburg, VA | $1,157,851 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $1,157,465 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $1,157,276 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | $1,155,404 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Oregon | Eugene, OR | $1,096,192 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ge Medical Systems Information Tech | Niskayuna, NY | $1,051,379 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Georgia State University | Atlanta, GA | $1,048,476 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Temple University-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Educ | Philadelphia, PA | $1,039,074 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $1,033,369 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| State of Mississippi-University of Ms | Jackson, MS | $1,017,452 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Holyoke Health Center Inc | Holyoke, MA | $1,005,958 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Planetary Science Institute | Tucson, AZ | $1,005,509 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Uh-Oh Labs Inc | Santa Clara, CA | $1,000,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Meliolabs Inc | Santa Clara, CA | $985,807 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Terc Inc | Cambridge, MA | $966,152 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Texas Health Science | Dallas, TX | $952,138 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL | $944,907 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Research Triangle Institute | Rtp, NC | $916,016 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $870,601 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | $866,535 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| North Carolina State University | Raleigh, NC | $845,481 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research | Seattle, WA | $842,798 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ut MD Anderson Cancer Center | Houston, TX | $838,844 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Methodist Hospital | Houston, TX | $832,131 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $826,108 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The John B Pierce Laboratory Inc | New Haven, CT | $808,727 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Texas A&m Engineering Experiment St | College Station, TX | $807,701 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Johns Hopkins Univ Applied Physics | Laurel, MD | $806,473 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc | Boston, MA | $803,358 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Wisconsin | Milwaukee, WI | $787,097 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| BB100 LLC | Schnectady, NY | $777,152 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Center for Innovative Public Health Research | San Clemente, CA | $761,413 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| General Electric Company | Pittsburgh, PA | $729,454 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | $728,491 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Oregon Health & Science University | Portland, OR | $710,449 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences | Arlington, VA | $710,038 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | W Hollywood, CA | $694,306 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Techulon Inc | Blacksburg, VA | $693,582 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $689,633 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nova Southeastern University Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $688,312 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | $666,490 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Southwest Research Institute | San Antonio, TX | $659,587 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $638,221 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | $636,463 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Beckman Research Institute | Duarte, CA | $635,320 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Houston | Houston, TX | $629,800 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Notre Dame Du Lac | Notre Dame, IN | $620,761 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Rmc Research Corporation | Arlington, VA | $609,320 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Facile Therapeutics Inc | Belmont, CA | $602,259 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Horizon Research Inc | Chapel Hill, NC | $596,423 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Missouri | Kansas City, MO | $594,082 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Raytheon Company | Boston, MA | $579,261 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Louisiana State University and Agriculture | Baton Rouge, LA | $567,383 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Sostenica Inc | Cambridge, MA | $558,631 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | $547,865 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| William Marsh Rice University | Houston, TX | $546,583 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Embry-Riddle Aeronautical | Daytona Beach, FL | $541,873 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Eastern Virginia Medical School | Norfolk, VA | $533,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $529,354 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Ohio University | Athens, OH | $522,580 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Wayne State University | Detroit, MI | $516,027 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Cardiovascular Engineering Inc | Norwood, MA | $514,455 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Banner Health | Phoenix, AZ | $502,821 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $495,290 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Lexington, KY | $486,926 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $463,906 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY | $455,061 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The University of Alabama in Huntsv | Huntsville, AL | $455,004 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The University of Central Florida B | Orlando, FL | $451,789 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Colorado State University | Fort Collins, CO | $449,430 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Faraday Energy LLC | Lexington, KY | $441,532 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Veterans Education & Research Assoc of Northern New England Inc | White Riv Jct, VT | $440,234 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation | Pittsburgh, PA | $437,908 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Arrepath Inc | Princeton, NJ | $437,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nexleaf Analytics | Los Angeles, CA | $435,579 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | New Orleans, LA | $435,551 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rabin Strategic Partners Inc | New York, NY | $428,211 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $416,916 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Academy of Pediatrics Inc | Itasca, IL | $409,452 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Talis Biomedical Corp | Menlo Park, CA | $403,664 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hebrew Rehabilitation Center | Boston, MA | $397,334 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Commonwealth of Kentucky Cabinet Fo | Louisville, KY | $389,730 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| George Washington University | Ashburn, VA | $368,999 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Henry Ford Health System | Detroit, MI | $357,352 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Wake Forest University Health Sciences | Winstonsalem, NC | $351,928 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| Pearl Diagnostics Inc | Baltimore, MD | $347,864 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $347,410 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Greenroots Inc | Chelsea, MA | $346,533 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Wellesley College | Wellesley, MA | $344,091 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of North Dakota | Grand Forks, ND | $344,018 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic | Lebanon, NH | $342,639 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University System of New Hampshire | Concord, NH | $339,238 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Raytheon Bbn Technologies Corporatiion | Boston, MA | $333,689 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Massachusetts Health Officers Association Incorporated | Walpole, MA | $332,454 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| State of Alabama | Montgomery, AL | $321,266 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Innovations for Poverty Action | New York, NY | $314,622 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bentley University | Waltham, MA | $313,636 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Endicott College | Beverly, MA | $313,136 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Worcester, MA | $304,160 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Public Health Institute | Oakland, CA | $299,185 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Augusta University Research Institute Inc | Augusta, GA | $295,181 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Health Management Associates Inc | Lansing, MI | $287,706 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Denver Research Institute | Denver, CO | $283,301 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc | Charleston, SC | $282,145 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Utica University | Utica, NY | $280,337 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| State of Indiana | Indianapolis, IN | $280,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $276,823 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Bronx Veterans Medical Research Foundation Inc | Bronx, NY | $275,846 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| George Mason University | Fairfax, VA | $266,896 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Third Sector New England Inc | Boston, MA | $262,421 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Seattle Childrens Hospital | Seattle, WA | $260,655 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| South Florida Veterans Affairs Foundation for Research & Educaton | Miami, FL | $260,523 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA | $259,617 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Rhode Island Hospital | Providence, RI | $256,827 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | $255,254 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Thresholds | Chicago, IL | $253,893 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Fermi Research Alliance LLC | Batavia, IL | $250,539 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The University of South Carolina | Columbia, SC | $249,273 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Astradx Inc | Chestnut Hill, MA | $247,679 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lutie Legacy Society | Austin, TX | $246,045 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Accelerate Diagnostics Inc | Tucson, AZ | $245,433 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mentor Washington | Bellevue, WA | $245,075 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Gillette Childrens Specialty Health Care | Saint Paul, MN | $244,968 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| New Jersey Institute of Technology | Newark, NJ | $241,180 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The University of Tennessee | Memphis, TN | $237,368 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lahey Clinic Inc | Charlestown, MA | $233,977 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| State of South Dakota | Vermillion, SD | $232,109 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $229,976 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA | $229,123 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of America | Boston, MA | $225,519 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Center for Health Policy Development | Washington, DC | $223,346 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of California Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $221,238 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of New England | Biddeford, ME | $218,404 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Bedford Va Research Corporation | Bedford, MA | $217,789 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Achaogen Plan Trust | San Rafael, CA | $216,611 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Francisco State University | San Francisco, CA | $215,230 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Research Foundation of the City University of New York | New York, NY | $205,094 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Andrews University | Berrien Sprgs, MI | $204,864 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Family Voices | Concord, MA | $204,833 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Advanced Building Analysis LLC | Amesbury, MA | $204,698 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| OSU Oregon State University | Corvallis, OR | $201,324 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Topodyne LLC | Chino Hills, CA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Arkansas Fayetteville | Fayetteville, AR | $193,976 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina Greensboro | Greensboro, NC | $186,948 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Family Health International | Durham, NC | $186,580 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Texas at Dallas | Richardson, TX | $183,205 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $181,512 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
328 of 448 (73%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
It also reported 22 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.
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.
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What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 241 of 448 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 | 289 | $141.1M | $111,716 |
| 2021 | 270 | $136.9M | $124,559 |
| 2022 | 296 | $106.3M | $100,598 |
| 2023 | 263 | $92.0M | $107,146 |
| 2024 | 268 | $109.8M | $125,223 |
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
29% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. 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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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund122 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc107 shared recipientsJohns Hopkins University106 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc100 shared recipientsThe Trustees of Columbia University91 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program85 shared recipients
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 $113,056 -- 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 Massachusetts.
- 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 Trustees of Boston University's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 231 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 37 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: 881 Commonwealth Ave 4TH Fl, Boston, MA, 02215.
EIN 04-2103547 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.
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