Funding search · EIN 050258809 · Providence, RI

Brown University

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

889
grants reported
$182.1M
total given
2021–2024
filing years
$92,699
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20212024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

  • Subawards to affiliated Lifespan hospitals: Rhode Island, Miriam, Butler
  • Aging and long-term care research consortia (AHCA, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center)
  • Academic medical center partners for multi-site clinical trials
  • Social science and policy collaborators: RAND, Census Bureau, Innovations for Poverty Action
  • Rhode Island community health organizations: Free Clinic, Amos House, RIPHI
  • Environmental and marine science partners such as Gulf of Maine Research Institute

Typical grant

Median payment is $92,699, with the middle half falling between $32,637 and $237,066. The seven-figure checks go to consortium hubs on large multi-site aging and nursing home studies and to Brown's own teaching hospitals; the small ones are single-site data collection or community partner roles. Because these ride on multi-year federal awards, the same recipients reappear year after year with similar amounts.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

  • SUBCONTRACT GRANT
  • OFFICE OF RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION
  • OFFICE OF SPONSORED PROGRAMS
  • GRANTS AND CONTRACT FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION
  • RESEARCH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Positioning adjacent work

  • Treat this as subaward flow, not philanthropy. Get named as a site on a Brown PI's federal proposal.
  • Aging, nursing home, and dementia care research draws the largest subcontracts. Connect adjacent work there.
  • Size a site budget at $30,000 to $240,000 per year; that matches most of their payments.
  • Route the conversation through your sponsored programs office early; every recipient here is an institutional research administration unit.

Worth knowing: This is a university passing federal research dollars to subaward partners, so the record reflects Brown faculty collaborations rather than any grantmaking priority. Money concentrates heavily in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and Brown's affiliated hospitals (Rhode Island Hospital, Miriam, Butler, Women and Infants) plus a handful of aging research partners absorb a large share of the total.

0 grants matching “primary care access

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Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • Rhode Island Hospital - Office of Research Adminis2 grants · $6.4M
  • Rhode Island Hospital2 grants · $5.7M
  • US Government Census Bureau2 grants · $4.3M
  • Hebrew Rehabilitation Center2 grants · $3.9M
  • Indiana University - Office of Research Administra2 grants · $2.9M
  • American Health Care Association2 grants · $2.6M
  • Hebrew Rehabilitation Center2 grants · $2.6M
  • Regents of the University of Michigan2 grants · $2.4M
  • New York University School of Medicine2 grants · $2.3M
  • Case Western Reserve University2 grants · $2.3M

Giving over time

$42.1M
2021
$47.5M
2022
$45.5M
2023
$47.0M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 889 grants.

  • $3.4M

    Rhode Island Hospital - Office of Research Adminis · Providence, RI · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $3.1M

    Rhode Island Hospital · Providence, RI · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $3.0M

    Rhode Island Hospital - Office of Research Adminis · Providence, RI · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $2.5M

    Rhode Island Hospital · Providence, RI · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $2.2M

    Hebrew Rehabilitation Center · Boston, MA · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $2.1M

    US Government Census Bureau · Washington, DC · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $2.1M

    US Government Census Bureau · Washington, DC · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $1.7M

    American Health Care Association · Washington, DC · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $1.7M

    Indiana University - Office of Research Administra · Bloomington, IN · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $1.7M

    Hebrew Rehabilitation Center · Boston, MA · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $1.6M

    Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $1.4M

    New York University School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $1.4M

    Hebrew Rehabilitation Center · Boston, MA · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $1.4M

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $1.4M

    Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $1.2M

    University of Rochester - Oracs · Columbia, SC · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $1.2M

    Indiana University - Office of Research Administra · Bloomington, IN · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $1.2M

    Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $1.1M

    Hebrew Rehabilitation Center · Boston, MA · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $1.1M

    University of Rochester - Oracs · Columbia, SC · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $1.0M

    Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $994,642

    University of Pittsburgh - Office of Researchcost · Kingston, RI · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $988,526

    University of Rhode Island - Research and Economic · Rochester, NY · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $984,746

    Salk Institute of Biological Studies · La Jolla, CA · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $967,228

    Rhode Island Quality Institute · Providence, RI · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $941,293

    American Health Care Association · Washington, DC · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $928,708

    Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $917,003

    Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $899,315

    New York University School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $893,760

    Massachusetts General Hospital - Research Cor · Boston, MA · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $890,040

    Yale University - 25 Science Park · New Haven, CT · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $887,696

    University of Rhode Island - Research and Economic · Rochester, NY · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $886,001

    University of Pittsburgh - Office of Researc · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $874,706

    University of Connecticut - Office for Sponsored P · Storrs, CT · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $863,357

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $833,722

    Mystic Seaport Museum · Mystic, CT · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $803,846

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $779,139

    Butler Hospital - Grants Administration · Providence, RI · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $777,167

    Harvard University - President and Fellows O · Cambridge, MA · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $763,973

    University of Rhode Island - Office of Gran · Kingston, RI · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $758,167

    University of Rochester - Oracs · Rochester, NY · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $756,678

    New York University School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $747,509

    University of Pennsylvania - Office of Resea · Philadelphia, PA · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $747,379

    University of Pittsburgh - Office of Researchcost · Kingston, RI · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $743,331

    Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $728,479

    Regents of University of California · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $721,365

    American Health Care Association · Washington, DC · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $711,221

    Duke University - P O Box 602651 · Durham, NC · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $708,885

    Butler Hospital · Providence, RI · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $698,402

    Duke University - P O Box 602651 · Durham, NC · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $690,898

    Miriam Hospital · Providence, RI · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $689,287

    Cvs Health Clinical Trial Services Llc · Woonsocket, RI · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $684,881

    Butler Hospital - Grants Administration · Providence, RI · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $679,737

    Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $670,717

    Temple University · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $657,094

    Salk Institute of Biological Studies · La Jolla, CA · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $653,390

    Yale University - Grants and Contract Financial Ad · New Haven, CT · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $647,460

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $646,454

    Temple University · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $643,667

    Miriam Hospital - Lifespan Office of Research Admi · Providence, RI · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $639,770

    University of Connecticut - Office for Sponsored P · Storrs, CT · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $633,931

    Massachusetts General Hospital - Research Finance · Boston, MA · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $633,698

    Rhode Island Quality Institute · Providence, RI · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $610,594

    Mystic Seaport Museum · Mystic, CT · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $610,174

    Salk Institute of Biological Studies · La Jolla, CA · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $597,385

    Butler Hospital · Providence, RI · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $582,451

    Temple University · Philadelphia, PA · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $581,483

    University of Utah-Grants and Accounting · Salt Lake City, UT · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $577,279

    Indiana University - Office of Research Administra · Bloomington, IN · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $576,666

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cashi · Cambridge, MA · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $564,084

    Dartmouth College Office of Sponsored Projects · Hanover, NH · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $560,490

    University of Rhode Island - Office of Grants and · Kingston, RI · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $558,216

    University of Rhode Island - Research and Economic · Kingston, RI · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $552,585

    Brigham & Women'S Hospital Inc the · Boston, MA · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $551,788

    Dartmouth College Office of Sponsored Projects · Hanover, NH · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $550,000

    US Government Census Bureau · Washington, DC · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $550,000

    US Government Census Bureau · Washington, DC · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $549,974

    California Institute of Technology - Mc 234-6 · Pasadena, CA · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $543,476

    Harvard University - President and Fellows of Harv · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $541,252

    Duke University - P O Box 602651 · Durham, NC · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $537,167

    Kaiser Foundation Hospitals Center for Health Re · Oakland, CA · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $528,705

    Indiana University - Office of Research Admi · Bloomington, IN · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $523,785

    New York University School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $522,421

    Veterans Health Research Institute of Cny · Syracuse, NY · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $520,773

    Ocean State Research Institute · Providence, RI · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $503,799

    Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $503,496

    Dartmouth College Office of Sponsored Project · Hanover, NH · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $490,908

    University of Rhode Island - Office of Grants and · Kingston, RI · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $490,006

    Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR · 2021

    Subcontract Grant Award

  • $488,693

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · New York, NY · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $483,780

    Trustees of Boston University - P O Box 28770 · New York, NY · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $478,555

    California Institute of Technology - Mc 234-6 · Pasadena, CA · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $471,464

    Stanford University - Office of Sponsored Research · Palo Alto, CA · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $468,307

    Yale University - 25 Science Park · New Haven, CT · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $464,000

    Chimerix · Durham, NC · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $461,850

    Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island · Providence, RI · 2024

    Subcontract grant

  • $457,327

    Fenway Community Health Center · Boston, MA · 2022

    Subcontract grant

  • $454,021

    Emory University - Office of Sponsored Programs Co · Atlanta, GA · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $453,359

    Stanford University - Office of Sponsored Research · Palo Alto, CA · 2023

    Subcontract grant

  • $450,086

    Children'S Hospital of Philadelphia the · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

    Subcontract grant

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.