University of Chicago
Chicago, IL · EIN 36-2177139. Reported 767 grants totalling $306.5M to 283 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
283organizations funded
$125,568median reported grant
$306.5Mgranted, 2020-2023
83%of grantees funded again the next year
7%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. For University of Chicago, 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. 283 distinct organizations, with 7% 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. 83% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $125,568. Half of what it reported fell between $39,570 and $325,444; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $8,121,346. 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 283 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 money -- the clearest signal of who this grantmaker actually has a relationship with.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $23.0M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $20.7M | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| American College of Radiology | Reston, VA | $18.6M | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Rush University Medical Center | Chicago, IL | $14.8M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $13.3M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Health Research Incorporated Elizabeth Wood | Menands, NY | $11.0M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mdrc | New York, NY | $10.2M | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| J Craig Venter Institute Inc | La Jolla, CA | $8,458,117 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $6,320,840 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $5,614,557 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Maryland | Adelphi, MD | $5,429,450 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $5,324,117 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Indiana University | Bloomington, IN | $5,010,060 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American College of Radiology Association | Reston, VA | $4,703,172 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $4,479,119 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $4,309,622 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Roswell Park Alliance Foundation | Buffalo, NY | $4,299,727 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $4,093,102 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $4,047,408 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Radiological Society of North America Inc | Oak Brook, IL | $3,573,276 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $3,213,618 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Givedirectly Inc | New York, NY | $3,164,552 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Loyola University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $3,098,424 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Northshore University Healthsystem | Arlington Hts, IL | $2,576,273 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $2,526,971 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, WI | $2,514,094 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes | Burr Ridge, IL | $2,442,904 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ut Southwestern Health Systems | Dallas, TX | $2,406,406 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $2,389,685 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| National Opinion Research Center | Chicago, IL | $2,205,239 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $2,086,072 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $2,070,144 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Illinois Institute of Technology | Chicago, IL | $1,924,751 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Tapestry 360 Health | Chicago, IL | $1,870,462 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Seattle Childrens Hospital | Seattle, WA | $1,865,819 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Penn State University | University Park, PA | $1,796,322 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | $1,787,006 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $1,749,703 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $1,735,020 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $1,729,688 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Southern Illinois University- Carbondale | Carbondale, IL | $1,704,013 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center | Norman, OK | $1,592,580 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $1,586,094 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Broad Institute Inc | Cambridge, MA | $1,568,458 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $1,539,945 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $1,531,375 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $1,491,520 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $1,435,407 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $1,396,865 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc | Memphis, TN | $1,350,862 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $1,316,551 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $1,257,491 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $1,213,319 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Battelle Memorial Institute | Columbus, OH | $1,187,515 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $1,185,790 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California | Santa Cruz, CA | $1,162,690 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Oregon Health & Science University | Portland, OR | $1,162,244 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Tactical Computing Laboratories LLC | Muenster, TX | $1,158,488 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Institute for Medicaid Innovation Inc | Washington, DC | $1,148,420 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of California-Davis | Davis, CA | $1,121,106 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $1,111,023 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Childrens Hospital Medical Center | Cincinnati, OH | $1,110,649 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $1,076,511 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Innovations for Poverty Action | New York, NY | $1,027,875 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Joslin Diabetes Center Inc | Boston, MA | $979,800 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $962,397 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | $926,108 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $908,483 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Center for Health Care Strategies Inc | Hamilton, NJ | $904,680 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | $899,959 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Oregon Foundation | Eugene, OR | $897,753 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Florida Foundation Inc | Gainesville, FL | $882,543 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Colorado Denver | Denver, CO | $867,889 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Mind Research Network | Albuquerque, NM | $852,468 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Center for Computational Science Research Inc | River Forest, IL | $845,379 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation | Downers Grove, IL | $803,326 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Texas Hsc at Houston | Houston, TX | $799,038 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Alliance of Chicago Community Health Services L3C | Chicago, IL | $785,590 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Hawaii Foundation | Honolulu, HI | $750,369 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, OH | $744,247 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | $730,314 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $727,029 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Community Action Place Inc | Murphysboro, IL | $718,210 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $712,689 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | $711,463 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Access Community Health Network | Chicago, IL | $697,839 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $692,827 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Alabama | Birmingham, AL | $667,225 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | $663,870 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Notre Dame Du Lac | Notre Dame, IN | $657,406 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Mississippi Medical Center | Jackson, MS | $647,771 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Childrens National | Washington, DC | $643,448 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Arkansas Medical Sciences | Little Rock, AR | $606,712 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Colorado State University Foundation | Fort Collins, CO | $599,235 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | $591,635 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Bright Star Community Outreach Corporation | Chicago, IL | $590,814 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $583,483 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Chicago Police Department | Chicago, IL | $550,620 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | $544,497 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX | $529,660 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospitals | Oakland, CA | $521,725 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Umass Chan Medical School Foundation Inc | Worcester, MA | $521,573 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fraunhofer USA Inc | Plymouth, MI | $516,660 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Howard Brown Health Center | Chicago, IL | $502,057 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $499,262 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Colorado School of Mines Foundation | Golden, CO | $483,095 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Marine Biological Laboratory | Woods Hole, MA | $464,513 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Carolina State University Foundation Inc | Raleigh, NC | $457,382 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | $455,984 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| City College Auxilary Enterprises Corporation | New York, NY | $447,401 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| William Marsh Rice University | Houston, TX | $441,840 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Association of Physicists in Medicine | Alexandria, VA | $399,098 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Research to End Healthcare Disparities Corp | Los Angeles, CA | $398,360 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| School Board of Miami Dade County | Miami, FL | $388,940 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Thomas Jefferson University | Philadelphia, PA | $380,201 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | $375,514 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $352,805 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Board of Education of the City of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $346,035 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| New York Medical College | Valhalla, NY | $338,559 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Aurora Health Care Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $329,262 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northeastern Illinois University | Chicago, IL | $327,191 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Depaul University | Chicago, IL | $316,597 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Colorado-Boulder | Boulder, CO | $305,209 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sri International | Menlo Park, CA | $300,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | Tempe, AZ | $294,680 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Oakland University Foundation | Rochester, MI | $291,515 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Society of Hospital Medicine | Philadelphia, PA | $288,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Research Triangle Institute | Durham, NC | $287,830 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Smithsonian Institute | Washington, DC | $287,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Somalogic Inc | Boulder, CO | $285,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The School Board of Broward County Florida | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $274,378 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Foundation Inc | Tampa, FL | $271,778 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Rand Corporation | Santa Monica, CA | $264,808 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc | Athens, GA | $255,760 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Inova Health Care Services | Fairfax, VA | $244,177 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Associated Students Inc California State University Fullerton | Fullerton, CA | $243,380 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Chicago State University | Chicago, IL | $240,522 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Neimand Collaborative | Washington, DC | $236,570 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Albany Med Health System | Albany, NY | $231,567 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Iit Research Institute | Chicago, IL | $231,524 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| George Mason University Foundation Inc | Fairfax, VA | $228,453 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| AIDS Action Coalition of Huntsville | Huntsville, AL | $225,101 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Research Foundation of the City University of New York | New York, NY | $225,055 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Hospital Corporation | Boston, MA | $221,871 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Kentucky | Lexington, KY | $217,234 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Seattle, WA | $214,002 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Justice Collective | Oakland, CA | $213,096 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friendsville Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department Inc | Friendsville, MD | $212,305 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Precision Development Inc | Newton Hlds, MA | $208,613 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Texas Austin | Austin, TX | $198,984 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | $195,676 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Success for All Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $193,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Kansas Center for Research Inc | Lawrence, KS | $193,385 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Justice Collective | Oakland, CA | $189,114 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $184,405 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Open Research Lab Inc | San Francisco, CA | $179,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Illinois Action for Children | Chicago, IL | $177,709 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Florida International University Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | $176,895 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Western Michigan University Foundation | Kalamazoo, MI | $173,125 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Care Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $170,682 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Texas A&m Foundation | College Sta, TX | $168,376 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $168,046 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $165,341 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences | Arlington, VA | $164,225 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sanford | Sioux Falls, SD | $161,258 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Geisinger Medical Center | Danville, PA | $161,121 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Autonomous Therapeutics Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $158,664 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Saga Innovations | Newton, MA | $151,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Broad Institute | Cambridge, MA | $148,376 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of South Carolina | Columbia, SC | $147,922 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Montana | Missoula, MT | $147,148 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hektoen Institute for Medical Research | Chicago, IL | $146,589 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Morgridge Institute for Researchinc | Madison, WI | $144,478 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Wake Forest University | Winstonsalem, NC | $143,202 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Oak Street Health Mso LLC | Chicago, IL | $143,109 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Field Museum of Natural History | Chicago, IL | $142,065 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Brown University of Providence | Providence, RI | $135,969 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Embry-Riddle Aeronautical | Daytona Beach, FL | $134,309 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Alabama Huntsville Foundation | Huntsville, AL | $134,039 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chicago Hyde Park Village Nfp | Chicago, IL | $132,397 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of New Mexico | Albuquerque, NM | $128,583 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Revolution Impact LLC | Chicago, IL | $128,398 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Daylight Design LLC | San Francisco, CA | $125,451 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Midwest Clinicians Network Inc | East Lansing, MI | $122,837 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| John Snow Inc | Boston, MA | $121,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $117,662 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Data 2 Insight LLC | Seattle, WA | $115,844 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| George Washington University | Ashburn, VA | $115,838 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Birmingham AIDS Outreach Inc | Birmingham, AL | $112,290 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Associated Universities Inc | Vienna, VA | $111,333 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| East Tennessee State University Foundation | Johnson City, TN | $109,864 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sinai Health System | Chicago, IL | $106,226 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Connecticut | Storrs, CT | $105,485 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Latino Policy Forum | Chicago, IL | $105,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Teachers College Columbia University | New York, NY | $103,985 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Henry Ford Health System | Detroit, MI | $100,980 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Texas Biomedical Research Institute | San Antonio, TX | $96,046 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chicago Department of Public Health | Chicago, IL | $95,505 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Uchicago Impact LLC | Chicago, IL | $84,304 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Governors State University | University Park, IL | $81,976 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Education Development Center Inc | Waltham, MA | $79,120 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | New Orleans, LA | $79,101 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Institute for Cancer Research | Philadelphia, PA | $77,600 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| City of Hope | Duarte, CA | $76,534 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Black Belt African American Genealogical & Historical Society | Selma, AL | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| M D Anderson Foundation | Houston, TX | $74,362 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fermi Research Alliance LLC | Batavia, IL | $73,879 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Marine Biology Laboratory | Woods Hole, MA | $69,225 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New York Medical College | Valhalla, NY | $64,705 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Hospital of Orange County | Orange, CA | $63,638 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Chicago Family Health Center | Chicago, IL | $61,855 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Math Talk Pbc | Cambridge, MA | $61,513 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA | $60,341 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Georgia Tech Research Corporation | Atlanta, GA | $60,230 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $57,591 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| William Paterson University of New Jersey | Wayne, NJ | $56,497 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Lutheran University Association Inc | Valparaiso, IN | $55,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Marquette University | Milwaukee, WI | $51,398 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Baystate Medical Center Inc | Springfield, MA | $48,764 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Charles Drew University of Medicine & Science | Los Angeles, CA | $47,239 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Tides Center | San Francisco, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Dupage Medical Group | Lisle, IL | $44,330 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Educational Testing Service | Charlotte, NC | $43,094 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago | Chicago, IL | $43,060 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Northwest Lipid Metabolism and Diabetes Research Laboratories | Seattle, WA | $42,826 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA | $42,801 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northern Illinois University | De Kalb, IL | $39,899 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universit | Blacksburg, VA | $39,570 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Brookings Institution | Washington, DC | $38,180 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Clemson University | Clemson, SC | $37,985 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Isles Inc | Trenton, NJ | $37,535 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Data 2 Insight LLC | Seattle, WA | $37,518 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Berkeley, CA | $36,970 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Medford, MA | $36,577 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Adventist Health System-Sunbelt Inc | Orlando, FL | $36,114 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Childrens Hospital Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Full Frame Initiative | Greenfield, MA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The New School | New York, NY | $34,362 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chicago House and Social Service Agency | Chicago, IL | $32,813 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Super Tech Labs Inc | Chicago, IL | $32,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Thresholds | Chicago, IL | $30,201 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Girls Collaborative | Seattle, WA | $28,063 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Decatur Memorial Hospital | Springfield, IL | $28,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Jose State University Research Foundation | San Jose, CA | $26,891 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Busara Center for Behavioral Economics Inc | Princeton, NJ | $26,784 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boston College Trustees | Chestnut Hill, MA | $26,553 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Kids Off the Block Nfp | Chicago, IL | $25,446 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Clinical Directors Network Inc | New York, NY | $25,108 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science | Los Angeles, CA | $24,972 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Taking Effective Action Inc | Bowie, MD | $24,964 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
201 of 283 (71%) 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.
It also reported 12 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 185 of 283 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 | 180 | $61.5M | $104,508 |
| 2021 | 192 | $74.4M | $140,255 |
| 2022 | 191 | $75.4M | $141,692 |
| 2023 | 204 | $95.1M | $153,413 |
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
26% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois. 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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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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 $125,568 -- 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 Illinois.
- 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 University of Chicago'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 198 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 5 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: 6054 S Drexel Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60637.
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