Grants for educational institutions

Name: Top 25 grants made to schools and educational institutions
Creator: Cause IQ
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28,651 schools and educational institutions received at least $11.3 billion in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 47,850 grants made from 14,870 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,500. Of these 14,870 foundations, 51% made just a single grant to schools, and 17% made grants to four or more schools. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$11,265,546,555

Total grant dollars given to educational institutions

47,850

Number of grants made annually to educational institutions

14,870

Number of grantmakers funding educational institutions

$1,500

Median grant size to educational institutions

Foundations that support schools and educational institutions

Out of all grants made to educational institutions, 84% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 46% of the dollar-value of grants to schools. Foundations funding schools also made grants to universities, religious organizations, educational service providers, high schools, and elementary schools.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	12,525
Medium	1,419
Large	913

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	204
Private	12,736
Corporate	463
Other	1,467

Grants made

Grants made to schools	Number of grantmakers
1	7,651
2-3	4,650
4-10	2,188
11+	381

Top 10 foundations supporting schools and educational institutions

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to schools	Number of grants made to schools	Median grant size
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	2.5%	936	$250
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	4.8%	672	$750
Baird Foundation	WI	National	12.0%	643	$500
Chubb Charitable Foundation	PA	National	6.5%	605	$250
Fidelity Foundation	MA	National	21.9%	568	$1,000
Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines	IA	State	1.5%	471	$1,000
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.8%	428	$1,500
Dollar General Literacy Foundation	TN	National	6.6%	356	$2,000
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT)	TN	Metro	10.7%	353	$1,000
The Rhode Island Foundation	RI	Metro	1.3%	334	$1,000

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Schools and educational institutions grantees

Educational institutions with more than $5 million in total revenues received 95% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 60% of all schools.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	47,111
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	739

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,000
$100k-$500k	$1,000
$500k-$1M	$1,500
$1M-$5M	$1,500
>$5M	$1,500

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
New York	4,933
California	4,931
Massachusetts	3,012
Pennsylvania	2,652
Other	32,322

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
New York City	4,336
Boston	2,071
Chicago	2,046
Los Angeles	1,722
Other	33,150

Top 25 grants made to educational institutions

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
New York University (NYU)	$882,312,690	Support Clinical, Educational, and Research Activities of Nyu School of Medicine.	Nyu Langone Hospitals
Gothic Corporation	$872,006,506	FMV	Duke University
Flintridge Preparatory School	$452,895,679	Accrual	Saint Joseph Health (SJH)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$317,049,180	Cost	Mount Sinai Hospital
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$317,049,180	Cost	Mount Sinai Hospital
Gothic HSP Corporation	$314,079,830	FMV	Duke University Health System
Regents of the University of Colorado	$180,789,283	See Part Iv	University of Colorado Foundation
University of Oregon Foundation	$178,018,647	Activities of University of Oregon	U of O Foundation Supporting Organization
University of Oregon Foundation	$178,018,647	FMV	U of O Foundation Supporting Organization
CoxHealth	$167,025,613	Cost	Lester E Cox Medical Centers
Apwa-Asp University of Nebraska College of Pharmacy	$166,120,154	University Support	University of Nebraska Foundation
Stanford University	$121,264,579	Book	Stanford Health Care
Stanford University	$113,641,277	Children's Health	Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health
Harvard University	$100,000,000	Support for Education and Research	Blavatnik Family Foundation
Altierus Career College Altierus Career Education and WyoTech	$92,228,000	Non-Cancelable Operating Leases Guaranteed	ECMC Group
Strada Education Network	$87,120,164	Support Their Philanthropic Efforts Pursuant To the December 6, 2016 Transfer of Ownership of United Student Aid Funds and Northwest Education Loan Association From Usa Funds (Now Strada) To Ascendium.	Ascendium Education Solutions
Stanford University	$77,672,477	Access To Care and Research Support	Stanford Health Care
University of Washington Foundation	$75,000,000	Family Interest Grantmaking	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Apwa-Asp University of Nebraska College of Pharmacy	$73,638,961	General Support	Nebraska Medicine
Georgia Institute of Technology	$70,965,702	Scholarships, Fellowships, Awards & Other	Georgia Tech Foundation
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$69,837,002	Cost/pledge	Partnership for Haas Preeminence
Albert Einstein College of Medicine	$60,000,000	Cost	Montefiore Medical Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine	$60,000,000	Cost	Montefiore Medical Center
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$58,458,000	Cost	Mount Sinai Hospital
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$58,458,000	Cost	Mount Sinai Hospital

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Educational institutions" category for this page is determined by the "B00: Education: General" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.