Funding search · EIN 590735717 · Chevy Chase, MD

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Name: Howard Hughes Medical Institute grants, 2021–2024
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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.

321
grants reported: $183.1M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $470,666
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

learning community inclusive excellence gray scholars change driving

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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

Hanna Gray Scholars awards to early-career faculty at research universities
Driving Change: undergraduate STEM inclusion at public and regional universities
Science Education Alliance and SEA-PHAGES phage discovery courses
Medical research payments to host institutions of HHMI investigators
BioInteractive classroom science materials and K-12 science education

Typical grant

Median grant is roughly $470,000, with the middle half running from $25,000 to about $678,000. The big money is formulaic: Hanna Gray Scholars faculty awards land at $1,280,000, Hanna Gray research grants cluster at $414,690 or $829,380, and Driving Change institutional awards come in at a flat $2,500,000. Small checks of $10,000 to $50,000 are supplements to existing scholars and their host institutions, and the same universities appear repeatedly across years.

Their words

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

“Medical Research”
“Hanna Gray Scholars”
“Driving Change”
“Science Education Alliance”
“BioInteractive”
“SUPPORT OF K-12 SCIENCE EDUCATION ACTIVITIES”

Positioning adjacent work

Connect to Hanna Gray Scholars if you are early-career; awards to host institutions are fixed at $1,280,000.
For undergraduate STEM equity work, mirror the Driving Change frame and the $2,500,000 institutional scale.
Course-based research proposals should reference SEA-PHAGES and Science Education Alliance directly, sized $20,000 to $675,000.
Emphasize the host institution's commitment; nearly all money flows through universities, not standalone nonprofits.

Worth knowing: This is not open-door philanthropy. Most dollars follow individual scientists HHMI already selected, so the institution receives the check because the person is there, and giving concentrates hard in California, Massachusetts, and New York. The exceptions are Driving Change and Science Education Alliance, which reach public regionals, HBCUs, and Hispanic-serving institutions, and those are the realistic entry points for a new relationship.

98 grants matching “gray” · $55.9M

$2.6M
Vanderbilt University · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.7M
Stanford University · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$1.3M
University of California - San Francisco · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
The Rockefeller University · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
University of Washington School of Medicine · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
Washington University · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
Case Western Reserve Univ · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
Harvard University · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
Northeastern University · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
Boston University · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
University of California - San Diego · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
University of California - Berkeley · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
University of California - Davis · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
University of Colorado Boulder · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.2M
University of California - Berkeley · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$829,380
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$829,380
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$678,071
University of Michigan · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$414,719
Harvard University · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$414,719
University of California-San Francisco · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$414,719
Massachusetts General Hospital · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$414,690
Oregon Health & Science University · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$414,690
Carnegie Institution of Washington · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$414,690
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$414,690
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$414,690
Northwestern University · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$414,690
Princeton University · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$414,690
Salk Institute for Biological Studies · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$414,690
University of Utah · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$414,690
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$414,690
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$50,000
Harvard University · 2023
Hanna Gray Scholars
$20,000
University of Pennsylvania · 2023
Hanna Gray Scholars
$20,000
Stanford University · 2023
Hanna Gray Scholars
$20,000
University of California - Berkeley · 2023
Hanna Gray Scholars
$10,000
The University of Chicago · 2023
Hanna Gray Scholars
$10,000
Duke University · 2023
Hanna Gray Scholars
$10,000
Princeton University · 2023
Hanna Gray Scholars
$10,000
Northwestern University · 2023
Hanna Gray Scholars
$10,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · 2023
Hanna Gray Scholars
$1.3M
Broad Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - faculty
$1.3M
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2022
H. Gray scholars - faculty
$1.3M
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - faculty
$1.3M
University of California-San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - faculty
$1.3M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2022
H. Gray scholars - faculty
$1.3M
Stanford Univ · Po Box, CA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - faculty
$1.2M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$898,256
Stanford University · San Francisco, CA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$816,447
The Rockefeller University · New York, NY · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$813,187
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · Dallas, TX · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$810,366
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$422,209
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$408,004
University of California - Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$408,004
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$408,004
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research · Cambridge, MA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$405,457
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$405,457
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$405,457
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center · Seattle, WA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$405,457
Stowers Institute for Medical Research · Kansas City, MO · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$405,183
Dartmouth College · Hanover, NH · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$405,183
Regents University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$405,183
Arizona State University · Tempe, AZ · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$372,854
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$99,385
Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$20,378
The Trustees of Columbia University · New York, NY · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$19,442
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$19,442
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$19,442
University of Massachusetts Amherst · Amherst, MA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$19,442
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$18,860
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard · Cambridge, MA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$18,860
Cleveland Clinic Foundation · Cleveland, OH · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$18,860
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine · Nashville, TN · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$16,158
Case Western Reserve Univ · Cleveland, OH · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$16,158
Washington University · St Louis, MO · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$15,780
Scripps Research Institute · La Jolla, CA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$10,000
University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2022
Hanna gray scholars
$10,000
California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2022
Hanna gray scholars
$10,000
Columbia University the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New · New York, NY · 2022
Hanna gray scholars
$10,000
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Hanna gray scholars
$10,000
New York University School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2022
Hanna gray scholars
$10,000
President & Fellows of Harvard Coll · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Hanna gray scholars
$10,000
President & Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Hanna gray scholars
$10,000
Salk Institute for Biological Studies · La Jolla, CA · 2022
Hanna gray scholars
$10,000
Stanford University · Redwood City, CA · 2022
Hanna gray scholars
$10,000
The Regents of the University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Hanna gray scholars
$10,000
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · New York, NY · 2022
Hanna gray scholars
$10,000
The Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2022
Hanna gray scholars
$10,000
The Vanderbilt University - Gifts · Nashville, TN · 2022
Hanna gray scholars
$10,000
University of California San Francisco Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Hanna gray scholars
$5,231
Regents of the University of Colorado · Aurora, CO · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$1.3M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2021
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2021
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
UCLA · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
Stanford University · San Francisco, CA · 2021
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
The Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2021
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
University of Minnesota Medical School · Minneapolis, MN · 2021
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$745,789
Stanford University · San Francisco, CA · 2021
H. Gray Scholars - Grant

Top recipients

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

Stanford University6 grants · $4.6M
Vanderbilt University3 grants · $3.7M
Harvard University5 grants · $3.5M
University of Alaska Anchorage2 grants · $3.3M
Illinois State University3 grants · $3.3M
University of California San Francisco1 grant · $3.1M
University of Pittsburgh1 grant · $3.0M
Loudoun County Public Schools1 grant · $3.0M
University of California - Berkeley4 grants · $3.0M
Allen Institute1 grant · $2.9M

Giving over time

$21.5M

2021

$101.2M

2022

$51.6M

2023

$8.8M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 321 grants.

$3.2M
University of Alaska Anchorage · Fairbanks, AK · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$3.1M
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Medical research
$3.0M
University of Pittsburgh · 2023
Science Education Alliance
$3.0M
Loudoun County Public Schools · Ashburn, VA · 2021
Support of K-12 science education activities
$2.9M
Allen Institute · Seattle, WA · 2021
Medical Research
$2.6M
Vanderbilt University · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$2.5M
Illinois State University · 2023
Driving Change
$2.5M
Rice University · 2023
Driving Change
$2.5M
Rutgers University-Camden · 2023
Driving Change
$2.5M
University of California at Los Angeles · 2023
Driving Change
$2.5M
University of Massachusetts Amherst · 2023
Driving Change
$2.5M
University of Vermont · 2023
Driving Change
$2.5M
Loyola Marymount Univ · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Driving change learn. Comm.
$2.5M
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2022
Driving change learn. Comm.
$2.5M
State Univ of New York- Albany · Albany, NY · 2022
Driving change learn. Comm.
$2.5M
Univ of Md Eastern Shore · Princess Anne, MD · 2022
Driving change learn. Comm.
$2.5M
Univ of Montana · Missoula, MT · 2022
Driving change learn. Comm.
$2.5M
Univ of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2022
Driving change learn. Comm.
$2.1M
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Medical research
$2.0M
Unc Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2021
Medical Research
$1.9M
Marine Biological Lab · Woods Hole, MA · 2022
Advanced courses
$1.7M
Stanford University · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$1.5M
Cold Spring Harbor Lab · Cold Sp Harbor, NY · 2022
Advanced courses
$1.5M
Montgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation · Rockvillle, MD · 2022
Support of k-12 science education activities
$1.4M
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Medical Research
$1.3M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
Medical research
$1.3M
Boston University · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
Case Western Reserve Univ · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
Harvard University · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
Northeastern University · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
The Rockefeller University · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
University of California - Berkeley · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
University of California - Davis · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
University of California - San Diego · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
University of California - San Francisco · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
University of Colorado Boulder · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
University of Washington School of Medicine · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
Washington University · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
Broad Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - faculty
$1.3M
Stanford Univ · Po Box, CA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - faculty
$1.3M
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2022
H. Gray scholars - faculty
$1.3M
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - faculty
$1.3M
University of California-San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - faculty
$1.3M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2022
H. Gray scholars - faculty
$1.3M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2021
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2021
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
Stanford University · San Francisco, CA · 2021
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
The Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2021
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
UCLA · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.3M
University of Minnesota Medical School · Minneapolis, MN · 2021
H. Gray Scholars - Faculty
$1.2M
University of California - Berkeley · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$1.2M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$1.2M
Drexel University · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$1.1M
National University · La Jolla, CA · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$1.1M
Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$1.1M
University of La Verne · La Verne, CA · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$1.0M
Loudoun County Public Schools · Ashburn, VA · 2024
Support of k-12 science education activities
$984,188
Boise State University · Boise, ID · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$965,000
Centre College · Danville, KY · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$931,600
Furman University · Greenville, SC · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$900,000
The Jackson Lab · Bar Harbor, ME · 2022
Advanced courses
$898,256
Stanford University · San Francisco, CA · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$883,668
University of Wyoming · Laramie, WY · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$871,067
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr · New York, NY · 2021
Medical Research
$829,380
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$829,380
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$823,668
Florida International University · Miami, FL · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$823,668
Florida State University · Tallahassee, FL · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$823,668
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee · Milwaukee, WI · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$823,668
Washington State University · Pullman, WA · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$816,447
The Rockefeller University · New York, NY · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$813,187
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · Dallas, TX · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$810,366
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
H. Gray scholars - grant
$803,065
Pomona College · Claremont, CA · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$783,065
Bryn Mawr College · Bryn Mawr, PA · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$782,600
Illinois State University · Normal, IL · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$750,959
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2022
Medical research
$745,789
Stanford University · San Francisco, CA · 2021
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$704,025
Gustavus Adolphus College · Saint Peter, MN · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$678,071
University of Michigan · 2023
H. Gray Scholars - Grant
$675,000
Iup Research Institute · 2023
Science Education Alliance
$649,500
College of the Holy Cross · Worcester, MA · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$625,000
Coker University · Hartsville, SC · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$625,000
University of Richmond · Richmond, VA · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$600,000
James Madison University · 2023
Science Education Alliance
$591,600
Franklin & Marshall College · Lancaster, PA · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$531,600
California State University-Stanislaus · Turlock, CA · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$531,600
Dalton State College · Dalton, GA · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$531,600
Fordham University · Bronx, NY · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$531,600
Gannon University · Erie, PA · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$531,600
Haverford College · Haverford, PA · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$531,600
Middlebury College · Middlebury, VT · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$531,600
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville · Edwardsville, IL · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$531,600
Suny Empire State College · Saratoga Springs, NY · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$531,600
Trinity University · San Antonio, TX · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$531,600
Universidad Ana G Mendez-Cupey Campus · San Juan, PR · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$531,600
University of California-Riverside · Riverside, CA · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$531,600
University of California-Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community
$529,500
Allegheny College · Meadville, PA · 2022
Inclusive excellence 3 learning community

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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.