Grants for professional schools

Name: Top 25 grants made to graduate and professional schools
Creator: Cause IQ
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210 graduate and professional schools received at least $917.8 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 495 grants made from 399 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $2,000. Of these 399 foundations, 88% made just a single grant to professional schools, and 2% made grants to four or more professional schools. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$917,836,165

Total grant dollars given to professional schools

495

Number of grants made annually to professional schools

399

Number of grantmakers funding professional schools

$2,000

Median grant size to professional schools

Foundations that support graduate and professional schools

Out of all grants made to professional schools, 74% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 99% of the dollar-value of grants to professional schools. Foundations funding professional schools also made grants to colleges, universities, multiservice human service organizations, scholarship organizations, and religious organizations.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	297
Medium	45
Large	57

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	21
Private	321
Corporate	23
Other	34

Grants made

Grants made to professional schools	Number of grantmakers
1	354
2-3	37
4-10	7
11+	1

Top 10 foundations supporting graduate and professional schools

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to professional schools	Number of grants made to professional schools	Median grant size
The Rhode Island Foundation	RI	Metro	0.1%	16	$1,000
Baird Foundation	WI	National	0.2%	9	$875
Mount Sinai Hospital	NY	Metro	78.4%	7	$58,458,000
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	0.1%	7	$2,000
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.0%	7	$1,000
Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines	IA	State	0.0%	6	$3,750
Johnson Controls Foundation	WI	National	0.0%	4	$200
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	4	$120
New England Society in the City of Brooklyn	NY	Regional	26.9%	3	$5,000
The Boston Foundation (TBF)	MA	Metro	0.0%	3	$1,250

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Graduate and professional schools grantees

Professional schools with more than $5 million in total revenues received 99% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 87% of all professional schools.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	475
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	20

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$580
$100k-$500k	$800
$500k-$1M	$2,200
$1M-$5M	$1,750
>$5M	$2,000

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
New York	90
Texas	55
Illinois	45
California	45
Other	260

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
New York City	90
Chicago	45
Providence	29
Houston	25
Other	253

Top 25 grants made to professional schools

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
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
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
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$58,457,849	Fund Physician Practice Project	Mount Sinai Hospital
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$32,197,797	Cost	Mount Sinai Hospital
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)	$10,535,000	Education	Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$9,549,508	Cost	Mount Sinai Hospital
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM)	$9,108,621	Community Service	Houston Methodist Leading Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$6,146,000	Disaster Relief	Goldman Sachs Gives
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM)	$6,036,056	Educational	Houston Methodist
Dartmouth College	$5,062,000	Education	Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)
Altierus Career College Altierus Career Education and WyoTech	$5,000,000	Mission & Career Readiness	ECMC Foundation
Dartmouth College	$4,317,660	Quality Improvement	Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS)	$4,255,962	General Support	Dallas Seminary Foundation
Catholic University of America (CUA)	$3,111,000	Program Support	Napa Institute Foundation
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$3,000,000	Charitable	The Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundation
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM)	$3,000,000	Cash	Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM)	$3,000,000	Medical Research	Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation
High Tech High Graduate School of Education	$2,997,000	K-12 Education	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Mccormick Theological Seminary 22-22148	$5,000	The Bowen Scholarship Fund	Katherine L Olson Charitable Foundation
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$5,000	Study of Medicine	Dr Kharag Singh and Bhopinder Sachdeva Charitable Foundation
Virginia Beach Theological Seminary	$5,000	General Support	Commonwealth Foundations
Southern College of Optometry (SCO)	$5,000	Donation	Bane Foundation
Pat Tillman Foundation	$5,000	T30 Public Foundations	The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository

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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 "Professional schools" category for this page is determined by the "B50: Graduate, Professional Schools" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.