Grants for professional schools

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 universities, high schools, youth development programs, art museums, and animal shelters.

Foundation size

Foundation sizeNumber 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 typeNumber of grantmakers
Community
 
21
Private
 
321
Corporate
 
23
Other
 
34

Grants made

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

Top 10 foundations supporting graduate and professional schools

GrantmakerStateGeographic focusPercent of grant dollars to professional schoolsNumber of grants made to professional schoolsMedian grant size
The Rhode Island FoundationRIMetro0.1%16$1,000
Baird FoundationWINational0.2%9$875
Mount Sinai HospitalNYMetro78.4%7$58,458,000
Shell Oil Company FoundationTXNational0.1%7$2,000
Seattle FoundationWAState0.0%7$1,000
Community Foundation of Greater Des MoinesIAState0.0%6$3,750
Johnson Controls FoundationWINational0.0%4$200
Abbvie FoundationILNational0.0%4$120
New England Society in the City of BrooklynNYRegional26.9%3$5,000
The Boston Foundation (TBF)MAMetro0.0%3$1,250

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 grantNumber of grants
<$10k
 
475
$10k-$25k
 
0
$25k-$100k
 
0
$100k+
 
20

Grant amount by grantee size

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

Grantee states

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

Grantee metros

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

Top 25 grants made to professional schools

GranteeGrant sizePurposeGrantmaker
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$317,049,180CostMount Sinai Hospital
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$317,049,180CostMount Sinai Hospital
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$58,458,000CostMount Sinai Hospital
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$58,458,000CostMount Sinai Hospital
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$58,457,849Fund Physician Practice ProjectMount Sinai Hospital
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$32,197,797CostMount Sinai Hospital
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)$10,535,000EducationSilicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$9,549,508CostMount Sinai Hospital
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM)$9,108,621Community ServiceHouston Methodist Leading Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$6,146,000Disaster ReliefGoldman Sachs Gives
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM)$6,036,056EducationalHouston Methodist
Dartmouth College$5,062,000EducationSilicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)
Altierus Career College Altierus Career Education and WyoTech$5,000,000Mission & Career ReadinessECMC Foundation
Dartmouth College$4,317,660Quality ImprovementCystic Fibrosis Foundation
Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS)$4,255,962General SupportDallas Seminary Foundation
Catholic University of America (CUA)$3,111,000Program SupportNapa Institute Foundation
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$3,000,000CharitableThe Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundation
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM)$3,000,000CashFidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM)$3,000,000Medical ResearchFidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation
High Tech High Graduate School of Education$2,997,000K-12 EducationBill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Mccormick Theological Seminary 22-22148$5,000The Bowen Scholarship FundKatherine L Olson Charitable Foundation
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$5,000Study of MedicineDr Kharag Singh and Bhopinder Sachdeva Charitable Foundation
Virginia Beach Theological Seminary$5,000General SupportCommonwealth Foundations
Southern College of Optometry (SCO)$5,000DonationBane Foundation
Pat Tillman Foundation$5,000T30 Public FoundationsThe Community Foundation of Louisville Depository
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.