Funding search · EIN 362167817 · Evanston, IL

Northwestern University

Name: Northwestern University grants, 2021–2023
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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.

1,000
grants reported: $331.9M
total given: 2021–2023
filing years: $69,704
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2023. 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 community alumni fellowship fellowships fellowhips

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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 Northwestern-led sponsored research
Biomedical and clinical research at academic medical centers
Chicago-area health systems and safety-net clinics as study sites
Engineering, physical science and computing collaborations at peer universities
Subcontracts to for-profit labs and startups on research projects
Community organization support concentrated in Chicago

Typical grant

Median payment is $69,704, with the middle half between $23,725 and $299,387, which is the shape of single-investigator subaward budgets rather than discretionary gifts. The seven-figure checks go to a small set of prime research partners such as University of Chicago ($8.6M), Lurie Children's ($5.7M), Stanford ($4.7M) and UIC ($4.6M), typically multi-site clinical or center-scale projects. Because the underlying projects run multiple years, the same institutions recur across filings, and a first payment usually signals more to come.

Their words

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

“Support of research activities”
“Support for research”
“Support for community organization”

Positioning adjacent work

Do not approach this as a funder. Get named as a subaward partner on a Northwestern PI's federal proposal.
Target the Chicago clinical network: Lurie Children's, UIC, Erie Family Health, Rush, AllianceChicago all appear as study-site collaborators.
Size the ask like a subaward budget, $25K to $300K per year, not a program grant.
Nonprofit clinics should pitch as a recruitment or data site under "support of research activities" language.

Worth knowing: These are pass-through payments on sponsored research where Northwestern is prime, so the decision maker is a Northwestern faculty PI, not a program staff. Illinois takes 188 of 586 recipients and the top twenty institutions absorb a large share of the $332M, which tells you the money follows established co-investigator relationships.

1 grant matching “fellowhip” · $54,500

$54,500
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2022
Support for fellowhips

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 Chicago3 grants · $32.6M
University of Illinois at Chicago3 grants · $16.4M
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children'S Hospital of Chicago3 grants · $13.6M
Stanford University3 grants · $8.3M
Johns Hopkins University3 grants · $6.7M
Washington University in St Louis3 grants · $6.6M
Erie Family Health Center3 grants · $6.5M
University of California San Francisco3 grants · $6.0M
University of Pittsburgh3 grants · $5.6M
Rice University3 grants · $5.5M

Giving over time

$96.8M

2021

$112.7M

2022

$122.4M

2023

Grant history

The 100 largest of 1,000 grants.

$13.8M
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Support of research activities
$10.2M
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2021
Support of research activities
$8.6M
University of Chicago · 2023
Support of research activities
$6.1M
University of Illinois at Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Support of research activities
$5.7M
University of Illinois at Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2021
Support of research activities
$5.7M
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children'S Hospital of Chicago · 2023
Support of research activities
$4.7M
Stanford University · 2023
Support of research activities
$4.6M
University of Illinois at Chicago · 2023
Support of research activities
$4.0M
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children'S Hospital of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Support of research activities
$3.9M
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children'S Hospital of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2021
Support of research activities
$3.4M
Erie Family Health Center · 2023
Support of research activities
$3.0M
Washington University in St Louis · St Louis, MO · 2022
Support of research activities
$2.6M
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Support of research activities
$2.5M
University of California Berkeley · 2023
Support of research activities
$2.4M
Johns Hopkins University · 2023
Support of research activities
$2.4M
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2022
Support of research activities
$2.3M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Support of research activities
$2.2M
Washington University in St Louis · 2023
Support of research activities
$2.2M
Erie Family Health Center · Chicago, IL · 2021
Support of research activities
$2.2M
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2022
Support of research activities
$2.2M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Support of research activities
$2.1M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2021
Support of research activities
$2.0M
University of Minnesota · 2023
Support of research activities
$2.0M
University of California San Francisco · 2023
Support of research activities
$2.0M
University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
Support of research activities
$2.0M
Cornell University · 2023
Support of research activities
$2.0M
Columbia University · 2023
Support of research activities
$2.0M
Rice University · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.9M
Rice University · Houston, TX · 2021
Support of research activities
$1.8M
University of Pittsburgh · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.8M
Scripps Research Institute · La Jolla, CA · 2021
Support of research activities
$1.8M
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2021
Support of community organization
$1.8M
American Lung Association · Washington, DC · 2022
Support of research activities
$1.8M
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · 2023
Support for community organization
$1.7M
Rice University · Houston, TX · 2022
Support of research activities
$1.6M
University of California San Diego · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.6M
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Support of research activities
$1.5M
Schlesinger Group Holdings Llc · Iselin, NJ · 2022
Support of research activities
$1.5M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
Support of research activities
$1.5M
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Support of research activities
$1.5M
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Support of research activities
$1.4M
Ss Holdings Group Llc · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.4M
University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2021
Support of research activities
$1.4M
Washington University in St Louis · St Louis, MO · 2021
Support of research activities
$1.3M
Carnegie Mellon University · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.3M
Indiana University · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.3M
University of Michigan · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.3M
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2021
Support of research activities
$1.3M
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Support of research activities
$1.3M
Middlebury College · Middlebury, VT · 2022
Support of research activities
$1.3M
Lanzatech · Skokie, IL · 2022
Support of research activities
$1.3M
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
Support of research activities
$1.3M
Northshore University Healthsystem · Evanston, IL · 2021
Support of research activities
$1.3M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.3M
University of Wisconsin-Madison · Madison, WI · 2022
Support of research activities
$1.3M
Brigham and Women'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2022
Support of research activities
$1.2M
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
Support of research activities
$1.2M
Sage Bionetworks · Seattle, WA · 2021
Support of research activities
$1.2M
Blackrock Microsystems · Salt Lake City, UT · 2021
Support of research activities
$1.2M
University of California Los Angeles · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.2M
Broad Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Support of research activities
$1.2M
Vanderbilt University · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.2M
University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2022
Support of research activities
$1.2M
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Support of research activities
$1.2M
University of Florida · Gainesville, FL · 2022
Support of research activities
$1.2M
American Lung Association · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.2M
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.2M
J David Gladstone Institutes · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Support of research activities
$1.2M
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2021
Support of research activities
$1.2M
University of Florida · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.1M
Rush University Medical Center · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.1M
Brigham and Women'S Hospital · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.1M
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2021
Support of research activities
$1.1M
Rush University Medical Center · Chicago, IL · 2021
Support of research activities
$1.1M
Rush University Medical Center · Chicago, IL · 2022
Support of research activities
$1.1M
University of Louisiana at Lafayette · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.1M
Sage Bionetworks · Seattle, WA · 2022
Support of research activities
$1.1M
Duke University · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.1M
Lanzatech · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.1M
University of Utah · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.1M
Rutgers University · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.1M
University of Colorado Denver · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.0M
Allen Institute · 2023
Support of research activities
$1.0M
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2021
Support of research activities
$1.0M
Northshore University Healthsystem Research Institute · Evanston, IL · 2022
Support of research activities
$993,085
Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2022
Support of research activities
$990,131
Swiftscale Biologics · 2023
Support of research activities
$978,910
University of Kentucky · 2023
Support of research activities
$973,782
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Support of research activities
$964,994
Scripps Research Institute · La Jolla, CA · 2022
Support of research activities
$959,950
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Support of research activities
$945,843
New York University School of Medicine · 2023
Support of research activities
$942,176
University of Pennsylvania · 2023
Support of research activities
$935,559
Massachusetts General Hospital · 2023
Support of research activities
$934,900
University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2022
Support of research activities
$932,403
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations · 2023
Support of research activities
$926,660
Bscs Science Learning · 2023
Support of research activities
$926,574
Schlesinger Group Holdings Llc · Iselin, NJ · 2021
Support of research activities
$923,958
Purdue University · 2023
Support of research activities
$920,426
University of Colorado Denver · Boulder, CO · 2022
Support of research activities

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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.