Funding search · EIN 150532082 · Ithaca, NY

Cornell University

Name: Cornell University grants, 2021–2024
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A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

1,280
grants reported: $434.7M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $88,682
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

research sciences biomedical agricultural biological engineering sponsorship community

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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 universities on federally sponsored research projects
Biomedical and cancer research at academic medical centers and hospitals
Genomics, molecular biology, and life sciences institutes
Agricultural and plant science research, including Ithaca-area institutes
Engineering and physical sciences at large public research universities
International agricultural development and extension partners

Typical grant

Median transfer is $88,682, with the middle half falling between $25,000 and $340,838. The multimillion-dollar checks, up to $5.7 million to Memorial Sloan-Kettering, go to major research universities and academic medical centers acting as subrecipients on large multi-site programs; the small ones are single-investigator collaborations or short project scopes. With 1,280 payments to 643 recipients across four years, most institutions appear more than once, so relationships repeat year over year as multi-year awards pay out.

Their words

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

“Research”
“Regents of the University of”
“Research Foundation”

Positioning adjacent work

Treat this as subaward flow, not philanthropy: get named as a collaborator on a Cornell PI's federal proposal.
Connect to their heaviest themes: cancer biology, genomics, plant and agricultural science, or biomedical engineering.
Size an initial scope at $25,000 to $100,000, the median band, and expect multi-year renewal if the parent award continues.
Emphasize your institution's ability to receive federal pass-through funds and manage sponsored-research compliance.

Worth knowing: This is not discretionary grantmaking. The money is Cornell distributing subawards on sponsored research, so New York (326 recipients) plus Massachusetts, California, Texas, and Pennsylvania dominate, and nearly every dollar goes to universities, hospitals, and research institutes. Access runs through a Cornell faculty collaboration, not through the foundation's office.

0 grants matching “women's health”

No grants to show here.

Top recipients

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

Duke University4 grants · $7.8M
Brigham & Womens Hospital4 grants · $6.4M
John Hopkins University2 grants · $6.3M
Regents of the University of California3 grants · $6.3M
Sloan Kettering Institute1 grant · $6.2M
Rockefeller University3 grants · $6.2M
University of Illinois2 grants · $5.8M
Board of Trustees Leland Stanford Univ3 grants · $5.7M
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr1 grant · $5.7M
Johns Hopkins University2 grants · $5.6M

Giving over time

$92.6M

2021

$94.6M

2022

$120.8M

2023

$126.7M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 1,280 grants.

$6.2M
Sloan Kettering Institute · New York, NY · 2023
Research
$5.7M
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$4.5M
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$4.1M
John Hopkins University · Chicago, IL · 2023
Research
$3.8M
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023
Research
$3.7M
Rutgers the State University of Nj · Piscataway, NJ · 2021
Research
$3.4M
University of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2024
Research
$3.4M
Memorial Sloan Kettering · New York, NY · 2022
Research
$3.4M
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Cen · New York, NY · 2021
Research
$3.4M
University of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2023
Research
$3.2M
Rutgers · Piscataway, NJ · 2022
Research
$3.1M
Johns Hopkins University · Chicago, IL · 2024
Research
$3.1M
Regents Univ of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Research
$2.9M
The Research Foundation of Suny · Syracuse, NY · 2024
Research
$2.9M
University of Massachusetts · Worcester, MA · 2023
Research
$2.8M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
Research
$2.8M
Rockefeller University · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$2.8M
Brigham & Womens Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
Research
$2.7M
The Regents Univ California San Francisco · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Research-Mechanical Engineering
$2.6M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Research
$2.6M
Duke University · Charlotte, NC · 2024
Research
$2.6M
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount S · New York, NY · 2022
Research
$2.5M
Regents of the University of California · La Jolla, CA · 2024
Research
$2.5M
Johns Hopkins University · Chicago, IL · 2021
Research
$2.5M
University of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2022
Research
$2.4M
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · New York, NY · 2021
Research
$2.4M
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Research
$2.4M
Rutgers State Uni of Nj · Piscataway, NJ · 2023
Research
$2.3M
University of Florida · Gainesville, FL · 2023
Research
$2.3M
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2024
Research
$2.2M
John Hopkins University · Chicago, IL · 2022
Research
$2.2M
Board of Trustees Leland Stanford Univ · Stanford, CA · 2023
Research
$2.1M
Duke University · Charlotte, NC · 2023
Research-Agricultural Sciences
$2.1M
Rutgers State Uni of Nj · Piscataway, NJ · 2024
Research
$2.1M
Yale University Grants and Contract · New Haven, CT · 2023
Research
$2.1M
Rector&Visitors University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2021
Research
$2.0M
The Regents Univ California San Francisco · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Research-Mechanical Engineering
$2.0M
The Rockefeller University · New York, NY · 2021
Research
$2.0M
University of Notre Dame Du Lac · Notre Dame, IN · 2023
Research-Physics
$2.0M
University of Massachusetts Amherst · Worcester, MA · 2024
Research
$1.9M
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Research
$1.9M
Regents of the University of California · Berkeley, CA · 2021
Research
$1.9M
Rockefeller University · New York, NY · 2022
Research-Biological & Biomedical Sciences
$1.9M
The Regents Univ California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Research
$1.9M
Trustees of Columbia Univ City of New York · New York, NY · 2021
Research
$1.9M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Research
$1.9M
Trustees of Columbia Univ City of New York · New York, NY · 2022
Research
$1.8M
Research Found for the State Uni of Ny · Albany, NY · 2023
Research
$1.8M
Regents of the University of California · Riverside, CA · 2022
Research
$1.8M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Research
$1.8M
Board of Trustees Leland Stanford Univ · Stanford, CA · 2022
Research
$1.8M
Regents the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
Research
$1.7M
University of Massachusetts · Worcester, MA · 2021
Research
$1.7M
Board of Trustees Leland Stanford Univ · Stanford, CA · 2021
Research
$1.7M
The Florida State University · Miami, FL · 2021
Research
$1.7M
Umass Medical School · Worcester, MA · 2022
Research
$1.7M
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2022
Research
$1.6M
Regents of the University of · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Research
$1.6M
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Research
$1.6M
Boyce Thompson Inst for Plant Rsh · Ithaca, NY · 2024
Research
$1.6M
Scripps Research Institute · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Research
$1.6M
New York University · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$1.6M
The Brd of Trustees of the Univ of Il · Chicago, IL · 2021
Research
$1.6M
Duke University · Charlotte, NC · 2021
Research
$1.6M
Univ of Pghcmlth Sys of Higher Ed · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Research
$1.6M
Board of Regents of the Uw System · Madison, WI · 2023
Research
$1.5M
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Research
$1.5M
Trustees of the Univ of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Research
$1.5M
University of Florida · Gainesville, FL · 2021
Research
$1.5M
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2023
Research
$1.5M
New York University · New York, NY · 2021
Research
$1.5M
Duke University · Charlotte, NC · 2022
Research
$1.5M
Tulane University Health · New Orleans, LA · 2024
Research
$1.4M
Rockefeller University · New York, NY · 2023
Research
$1.4M
Regents the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2021
Research
$1.4M
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2024
Research
$1.4M
New York Genome Center · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$1.4M
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Research
$1.4M
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Research
$1.4M
Hackensack Univ Medical Center · Nutley, NJ · 2023
Research
$1.4M
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
Research-Physics
$1.4M
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2023
Research
$1.3M
University of Florida · Gainesville, FL · 2022
Research
$1.3M
Regents Univ of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
Research
$1.3M
Brigham & Womens Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
Research
$1.3M
Regents of the University of California · Merced, CA · 2023
Research
$1.3M
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2022
Research
$1.3M
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2024
Research
$1.3M
Regents the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
Research
$1.3M
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill · Atlanta, GA · 2021
Research
$1.3M
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
Research
$1.3M
The Regents of the University of California · Santa Barbara, CA · 2024
Research
$1.3M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Research
$1.2M
University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Research
$1.2M
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Research
$1.2M
Tulane University Health · New Orleans, LA · 2023
Research
$1.2M
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · Boston, MA · 2024
Research
$1.2M
Hospital for Special Surgery · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$1.2M
Boyce Thompson Inst for Plant Rsh · Ithaca, NY · 2022
Research
$1.2M
Brigham & Womens Hospital · Boston, MA · 2022
Research

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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.