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Who does Northwestern University fund?

Northwestern University has awarded $3.9 billion across 2,000 grants to 722 grantees between 2019 and 2024. Its giving concentrates in education. Its typical grant is $73,722, with most between $23,413 and $299,597. Repeat grantees receive a median $93,163 versus $28,614 for first-time grantees.

Total awarded
$3.9B
Typical grant
$74K
Grantees
722
Grants
2,000
Years
2019–2024

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Organizations this funder supports

Each grantee's funding from this organization, summed across all reported years. Largest first — click any column to re-sort.

100 of 722 grantees
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Grantee Total receivedGrantsYearsLatestState Support
University of Chicago $60.1M62019–20242024IL
T The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois $35.2M62019–20242024IL
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago $30.2M62019–20242024IL
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University $17.2M62019–20242024CA
Johns Hopkins University $12.4M62019–20242024MD
University of Pittsburgh $11.3M62019–20242024PA
Washington University $11.1M62019–20242024MO
Erie Family Health Center INC $9.7M62019–20242024IL
U University of Minnesota $9.7M62019–20242024— —
U University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $9.0M62019–20242024NC
Rush University Medical Center $8.1M62019–20242024IL
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago $7.9M52019–20242024IL
Teachers College Columbia University $7.6M52019–20232023NY
Vanderbilt University $7.2M62019–20242024TN
William Marsh Rice University $7.0M52020–20242024TX
The Scripps Research Institute $6.8M62019–20242024CA
President and Fellows of Harvard College $6.6M62019–20242024MA
L Lanzatech INC $6.3M62019–20242024— —
Duke University $6.2M62019–20242024NC
M Mass General Brigham Incorporated $6.2M62019–20242024MA
R Regents of the University of California at Berkeley $6.1M62019–20242024CA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology $5.8M62019–20242024MA
R Regents of the University of California at San Diego $5.8M62019–20242024CA
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania $5.7M62019–20242024PA
U University of Washington $5.7M62019–20242024— —
U University of Florida $5.5M62019–20242024FL
Cornell University $5.5M62019–20242024NY
R Regents of the University of Colorado $5.5M62019–20242024CO
Carnegie Mellon University $5.4M62019–20242024PA
I Indiana University $5.2M62019–20242024IN
Sage Bionetworks $5.2M52019–20232023WA
S Shirley Ryan Ability Lab $5.2M72019–20242024IL —
American Lung Association $5.1M62019–20242024IL
U University of Louisiana at Lafayette $4.9M62019–20242024— —
R Regents Univ of California $4.8M62019–20242024CA
N Northshore University Healthsystem Research Institute $4.8M42019–20222022— —
U University of Michigan $4.7M52019–20232023— —
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai $4.5M62019–20242024NY
U University of Wisconsin-Madison $4.3M52019–20232023— —
R Regents of the University of California at Riverside $4.1M62019–20242024CA
Yale University $4.0M62019–20242024CT
S Ss Holdings Group LLC $3.9M42020–20242024— —
U University of Alabama at Birmingham $3.8M62019–20242024— —
R Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia $3.8M62019–20242024VA
T Trustees of Purdue University $3.8M62019–20242024IN
A Alliance of Chicago Community Health Services LLC $3.6M32019–20242024— —
The J David Gladstone Institutes $3.6M62019–20242024CA
Trustees of Boston University $3.5M62019–20242024MA
R Rutgers the State University $3.4M62019–20242024NJ
U University of Utah $3.4M52019–20232023— —
The Broad Institute INC $3.3M62019–20242024MA
M Mass General Brigham Incorporated $3.3M52019–20232023MA
Illinois Institute of Technology $3.2M42019–20242024IL
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund $3.1M52019–20232023LA
U University of Texas at Austin $3.1M62019–20242024— —
U University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas $3.1M62019–20242024— —
T The Ohio State University $3.0M62019–20242024OH
Hektoen Institute for Medical Research $3.0M62019–20242024IL
C City of Evanston $3.0M120242024— —
University of Southern California $2.9M62019–20242024CA
U University of Arizona $2.9M62019–20242024— —
Baylor College of Medicine $2.8M62019–20242024TX
Access Community Health Network $2.8M62019–20242024IL
Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation $2.8M62019–20242024PA
New York University $2.7M52019–20232023NY
Georgia Tech Research Corporation $2.6M62019–20242024GA
Boston Medical Center Corporation $2.5M62019–20242024MA
U University of Massachusetts Medical School $2.5M62019–20242024— —
U University of California San Francisco $2.5M120242024—
Emory University $2.4M62019–20242024GA
R Regents of the University of Michigan $2.4M120242024—
B Blackrock Microsystems INC $2.4M32021–20242024— —
National Opinion Research Center $2.1M52019–20232023IL
Bscs Science Learning $2.1M32022–20242024CO
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia $2.1M62019–20242024PA
M Minute Molecular Diagnostics $2.1M22020–20212021— —
U University of Wisconsin-Madison $2.0M120242024— —
St Jude Children's Research Hospital INC $2.0M62019–20242024TN
O Oregon Health & Science University $1.9M62019–20242024— —
R Regents of the University of California at Irvine $1.9M62019–20242024CA
Children's Hospital Medical Center $1.9M62019–20242024OH
U University of Kentucky $1.9M52019–20232023— —
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals $1.8M62019–20242024CA
U University of Maryland Baltimore County $1.8M62019–20242024— —
A Alliance of Chicago Community Health Services LLC $1.8M32021–20232023IL —
Depaul University $1.7M62019–20242024IL
I Indus Consulting INC $1.7M32020–20222022— —
L Luci LLC $1.7M32022–20242024— —
U University of California Davis $1.7M62019–20242024— —
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York $1.7M32022–20242024NY
The Translational Genomics Research Institute $1.6M52020–20242024AZ
University of Miami $1.6M62019–20242024FL
Loyola University of Chicago $1.6M62019–20242024IL
Georgetown University $1.5M62019–20242024DC
Geisinger Health $1.5M52019–20232023PA
M Michigan State University $1.5M52020–20242024MI
G Gingiber Labs $1.5M42019–20222022— —
Research Foundation of the City University of New York $1.5M62019–20242024NY
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center $1.5M62019–20242024CA
K Kitware INC $1.5M52020–20242024— —

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