Grants for educational institutions

Name: Top 10 Grants for educational institutions
Creator: Cause IQ
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32,246 schools and educational institutions received at least $19.4 billion in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 49,186 grants made from 15,463 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,500. Of these 15,463 foundations, 52% made just a single grant to schools, and 16% 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.

$19,366,904,381

Total grant dollars given to educational institutions

49,186

Number of grants made annually to educational institutions

15,463

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 44% of the dollar-value of grants to schools. Foundations funding schools also made grants to universities, public health programs, community clinics, general hospitals, and educational service providers.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	12,990
Medium	1,460
Large	997

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	205
Private	13,062
Corporate	469
Other	1,727

Grants made

Grants made to schools	Number of grantmakers
1	8,161
2-3	4,703
4-10	2,208
11+	391

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
Gothic Corporation	NC	Metro	100.0%	2	$1,504,275,093
Duke University	NC	Metro	99.1%	7	$0
Nyu Langone Hospitals	NY	Metro	88.5%	1	$882,312,690
Mount Sinai Hospital	NY	Metro	78.4%	7	$58,458,000
Ohio State University Physicians (OSUP)	OH	Metro	100.0%	5	$101,042,237
The Lord Foundation of North Carolina	NC	Metro	66.7%	3	$261,795,784
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	WA	National	11.0%	69	$3,909,000
Big Ten Conference (B1G)	IL	Regional	37.0%	9	$54,280,781
Saint Joseph Health (SJH)	WA	Metro	14.9%	1	$452,895,679
National Philanthropic Trust	PA	National	20.1%	26	$6,379,158

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Schools and educational institutions grantees

Educational institutions with more than $5 million in total revenues received 96% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 60% of all schools.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	48,078
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	1,108

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,000
$100k-$500k	$1,032
$500k-$1M	$1,500
$1M-$5M	$1,750
>$5M	$1,700

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
California	5,097
New York	5,038
Massachusetts	3,059
Pennsylvania	2,706
Other	33,286

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
New York City	4,435
Chicago	2,117
Boston	2,109
Los Angeles	1,783
Other	34,110

Top 25 grants made to educational institutions

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
Duke University	$1,504,279,593	Support	Gothic Corporation
Duke University	$1,504,270,593	FMV	Gothic Corporation
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)
Ohio State University	$325,379,066		Ohio State University Physicians (OSUP)
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
Duke University	$266,517,700	General Support	The Lord Foundation of North Carolina
Duke University	$261,795,784	Cash Contribution To Establish Various Endowments To Support Pratt School of Engineering & Duke Univ.	The Lord Foundation of North Carolina
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$247,666,646	Support Education	University of California Berkeley Foundation
Johns Hopkins University (JHU)	$213,556,087	Education	National Philanthropic Trust
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$206,255,185	Support for the University of Illinois	University of Illinois Foundation
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
Ohio State University	$129,868,842		Ohio State University Physicians (OSUP)
Stanford University	$121,264,579	Book	Stanford Health Care
Emory University	$119,510,943	Support Winship Cancer Institute and Woodruff Health Sciences Center Programs and Facilities	Robert W Woodruff Health Sciences Center Fund
Stanford University	$113,641,277	Children's Health	Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health
Ohio State University	$101,042,237		Ohio State University Physicians (OSUP)
Harvard University	$100,000,000	Support for Education and Research	Blavatnik Family Foundation

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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.