Funding search · EIN 250969449 · Pittsburgh, PA

Carnegie Mellon University

Name: Carnegie Mellon University grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

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

752
grants reported: $162.2M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $71,522
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

education research subcontracts service

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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

Subaward research to universities, led by University of Pittsburgh
Engineering, robotics, and computing research at R1 institutions
Biomedical and neurotechnology work, including device and implant companies
Contracts to for-profit R&D firms on federally sponsored projects
Education research, learning analytics, and assessment organizations
Pittsburgh-region workforce and manufacturing intermediaries

Typical grant

Median payment is $71,522, with the middle half between $24,020 and $205,528. The seven-figure checks go to prime research partners on large sponsored programs, University of Pittsburgh at $6.1M, Illinois at $2.1M, Velentium at $1.9M, Ginkgo Bioworks at $1.9M; the small ones are single-task subawards to individual labs. With 752 payments to 334 recipients over four years, the same institutions get paid repeatedly, often multiple times a year as project milestones close.

Their words

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

“EDUCATION/RESEARCH”
“PROGRAM SERVICE”

Positioning adjacent work

Treat this as subaward flow, not philanthropy. Get named as a co-investigator on a CMU-led proposal before money moves.
Connect to their engineering, robotics, and biomedical device clusters, the areas drawing repeat seven-figure partner payments.
Budget a subaward in the $25K to $200K range unless you are prime-adjacent on a large program.
Pittsburgh-area affiliation helps; PA recipients outnumber the next four states combined.

Worth knowing: This is a university's outgoing research subaward record, not a grantmaking program, so the money follows federal and sponsored awards CMU already holds. Pennsylvania takes 238 of 752 payments and University of Pittsburgh alone took $6.1M in 2024, so proximity and existing collaboration drive nearly everything.

3 grants matching “millennium” · $1.5M

$841,154
Millennium Corporation · Arlington, VA · 2024
Education/research
$576,613
Millennium Corporation · Arlington, VA · 2023
Education/research
$63,050
Millennium Corporation · Arlington, VA · 2022
Education/research subcontracts

Top recipients

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

University of Pittsburgh4 grants · $22.7M
Penn State University4 grants · $5.6M
University of Washington4 grants · $5.1M
University of California Berkeley3 grants · $4.7M
University of Illinois4 grants · $4.1M
University of California Los Angeles4 grants · $3.4M
University of Pennsylvania4 grants · $3.3M
University of Missouri4 grants · $3.2M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology4 grants · $3.1M
Stanford University4 grants · $2.9M

Giving over time

$37.5M

2021

$35.2M

2022

$40.0M

2023

$49.5M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 752 grants.

$6.1M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$6.1M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Education/research
$5.5M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Education/research
$4.9M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$2.1M
University of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2024
Education/research
$2.1M
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$1.9M
Velentium Llc · Richmond, TX · 2024
Education/research
$1.9M
Ginkgo Bioworks · Boston, MA · 2024
Education/research
$1.8M
Penn State University · State College, PA · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$1.8M
Regents of the Univ of California · La Jolla, CA · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$1.8M
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laborator · Laurel, MD · 2024
Education/research
$1.6M
Penn State University · State College, PA · 2024
Education/research
$1.6M
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Education/research
$1.5M
Regents of the University of California · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Education/research
$1.4M
Stanford University · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Education/research
$1.4M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$1.3M
Penn State University · State College, PA · 2023
Education/research
$1.3M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023
Education/research
$1.3M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Education/research
$1.2M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024
Education/research
$1.2M
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$1.2M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$1.1M
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2024
Education/research
$1.1M
University of Missouri · Kansas City, MO · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$1.1M
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$1.1M
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Education/research
$1.1M
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$1.1M
University of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2023
Education/research
$1.0M
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$1.0M
Synchron · Palo Alto, CA · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$1.0M
Stanford University · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Education/research
$997,190
University of Missouri · Kansas City, MO · 2023
Education/research
$988,806
University of Maryland · Baltimore, MD · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$953,409
University of Missouri · Kansas City, MO · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$941,555
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$851,469
Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Education/research
$841,154
Millennium Corporation · Arlington, VA · 2024
Education/research
$839,567
Georgia Tech Research Corp · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Education/research
$836,165
Rice University · Houston, TX · 2024
Education/research
$833,450
Virginia Polytech Institute · Blacksburg, VA · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$827,807
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · New York, NY · 2023
Education/research
$805,175
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$793,759
Research Foundation for State Univ of Ny · Albany, NY · 2024
Education/research
$790,932
Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2024
Education/research
$789,169
Harvard University · Boston, MA · 2023
Education/research
$784,425
Penn State University · State College, PA · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$778,004
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$778,000
Ursus Medical Designs Llc · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Education/research
$760,263
Delta Risk Llc · San Antonio, TX · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$728,794
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$727,904
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laborator · Laurel, MD · 2023
Education/research
$723,869
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Education/research
$722,661
University of Florida · Gainesville, FL · 2024
Education/research
$678,811
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2023
Education/research
$672,273
Iomaxis Llc · Lorton, VA · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$664,815
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Education/research
$663,402
Research Foundation for State Univ of Ny · Albany, NY · 2023
Education/research
$640,753
University of Wisconsin Foundation · Madison, WI · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$633,834
Boston University · New York, NY · 2024
Education/research
$628,496
University of Wisconsin Madisonthe · Milwaukee, WI · 2023
Education/research
$625,994
Delta Risk Llc · San Antonio, TX · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$613,766
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$583,265
Advanced Respiratory Technologies Llc · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$580,061
University of Delaware · Newark, DE · 2024
Education/research
$579,797
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024
Education/research
$576,613
Millennium Corporation · Arlington, VA · 2023
Education/research
$576,016
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2024
Education/research
$563,339
Research Foundation for State Univ of Ny · Albany, NY · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$554,131
Purdue University · Chicago, IL · 2024
Education/research
$546,056
Georgia Tech Research Corp · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Education/research
$540,999
University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2023
Education/research
$529,432
Robert Bosch Llc · Farmington Hills, MI · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$528,540
Ursus Medical Designs Llc · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$527,354
Virginia Polytech Institute · Blacksburg, VA · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$517,625
University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$513,248
University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$510,500
University of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$506,446
San Diego Biomedical Research Institute · San Diego, CA · 2024
Education/research
$503,046
Carnegie Learning · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Education/research
$475,496
Texas a and M Engineering Experiment Station · College Station, TX · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$475,001
University of Miami · Coral Gables, FL · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$461,923
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Education/research
$453,517
University of Florida · Gainesville, FL · 2023
Education/research
$450,943
San Diego Biomedical Research Institute · San Diego, CA · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$446,395
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$441,157
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research · Boulder, CO · 2024
Education/research
$436,508
Stanford University · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$413,161
University of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$410,998
Synchron · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Education/research
$406,102
Brigham Young University · Provo, UT · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$403,150
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research · Boulder, CO · 2023
Education/research
$398,649
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Education/research
$397,274
Drexel University · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$392,024
San Diego Biomedical Research Institute · San Diego, CA · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$389,417
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Education/research
$385,428
Iomaxis Llc · Lorton, VA · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$381,082
University of Massachusetts · Amherst, MA · 2021
Education/research subcontracts
$380,215
University of Massachusetts · Amherst, MA · 2022
Education/research subcontracts
$378,639
Advanced Optronics · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Education/research
$378,278
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute · Troy, NY · 2021
Education/research subcontracts

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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.