Funding search · EIN 042103881 · Charlestown, MA
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.
- 479
- grants reported
- $170.1M
- total given
- 2021–2023
- filing years
- $100,804
- 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
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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
- Primary and specialty care access through affiliated Boston physician organization
- Research subcontracts to academic medical centers on BIDMC-led studies
- Medical education and research support at Harvard Medical School
- Boston-area community organizations addressing identified community health needs
- Housing, workforce, digital access and immigrant services in Roxbury, Chelsea, Brighton
Typical grant
Median award is about $100,800, with the middle half between $33,333 and $258,581. The very large checks are internal or near-internal: $40M to Medical Care of Boston Management Corp, $4.8M to Harvard Medical School, and $2M to $3.3M research subcontracts to Brigham, Mass General, Dana Farber and Broad. Community health awards cluster tightly at $138,889, $216,667, $230,000 and $283,333, figures that look like annual installments of multi-year commitments, and 479 grants going to 280 recipients over three years means most relationships repeat.
Their words
Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.
- “"RESEARCH SUBCONTRACT"”
- “"CARE ACCESS AND/OR TO ADDRESS OTHER IDENTIFIED COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS"”
- “"ACCESS TO PRIMARY AND/OR SPECIALTY CARE"”
- “"MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH"”
Positioning adjacent work
- Treat the research money as subcontracts: get named as a site by a BIDMC principal investigator, not by writing in.
- Site-level subcontracts to universities run $130,000 to $800,000; scale a single-site budget to that band.
- For community work, tie the proposal to a specifically identified community health need in Boston neighborhoods.
- Community organizations should ask in the $138,000 to $283,000 range and frame it as a three-year commitment.
Worth knowing: This is a hospital's giving record, not a discretionary foundation: one affiliated entity took $40M of the $170M total, and most of the rest is pass-through of sponsored research to collaborating institutions. Community giving is concentrated in Boston, Roxbury, Chelsea and Brighton, with 206 of 479 grants staying in Massachusetts, and the recipient list skews toward organizations already embedded in the hospital's service area.
Top recipients
Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.
- Medical Care of Boston Management Corp1 grant · $40.0M
- Harvard Medical School5 grants · $11.1M
- Massachusetts General Hospital3 grants · $8.0M
- Oregon Health & Science University2 grants · $5.0M
- New England Life Flight Inc (Dba Boston Medflight)3 grants · $4.4M
- Brigham & Women'S Hospital2 grants · $4.1M
- Broad Institute3 grants · $3.7M
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute2 grants · $3.7M
- Boston Children'S Hospital3 grants · $3.1M
- Dana Farber Partners Cancer Care2 grants · $3.1M
Giving over time
Grant history
The 100 largest of 479 grants.
- $40.0M
Medical Care of Boston Management Corp · Charlestown, MA · 2023
Access to primary and/or specialty care
- $4.8M
Harvard Medical School · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Medical education and research
- $4.8M
Harvard Medical School · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Support teaching and research
- $3.7M
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2021
Research- subaward
- $3.3M
Brigham & Women'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
Research subcontract
- $3.0M
Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR · 2021
Research- subaward
- $2.7M
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
Research subcontract
- $2.5M
Dana Farber · Boston, MA · 2021
Research- subaward
- $2.3M
Brigham & Womens Hosp · Boston, MA · 2021
Research- subaward
- $2.0M
Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR · 2022
Research subcontract
- $2.0M
Dana Farber Cancer Institute · Boston, MA · 2023
Research subcontract
- $1.9M
Broad Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Research subcontract
- $1.7M
Oregon Health & Science University-Ohsu · Portland, OR · 2023
Research subcontract
- $1.6M
Dana Farber Cancer Institute · Boston, MA · 2022
Research subcontract
- $1.6M
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2022
Research subcontract
- $1.6M
Leidos Biomedical Research · Frederick, MD · 2021
Research- subaward
- $1.6M
Dana Farber Partners Cancer Care · Boston, MA · 2022
Research subcontract
- $1.5M
New England Life Flight Inc (Dba Boston Medflight) · Bedford, MA · 2022
Care access and/or to address other identified community health needs
- $1.5M
New England Life Flight Inc (Dba Boston Medflight) · Bedford, MA · 2023
Care access and/or to address other identified community health needs
- $1.5M
Dana Farber Partners Cancer Care · Boston, MA · 2023
Research subcontract
- $1.4M
New England Life Flight Inc (Dba Boston Medflight) · Bedford, MA · 2021
Community support
- $1.3M
Boston Children'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2021
Research- subaward
- $1.3M
Boston Children'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
Research subcontract
- $1.2M
Mass General Brigham · Boston, MA · 2022
Research subcontract
- $1.1M
Broad Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Research subcontract
- $1.1M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Research subcontract
- $938,479
Johns Hopkins University Dba Immunogenetics Laboratory · Chicago, IL · 2023
Research subcontract
- $916,557
University of Cincinnati · Cincinnati, OH · 2021
Research- subaward
- $892,769
President & Fellows of Harvard College · Boston, MA · 2021
Research- subaward
- $860,162
Brigham & Women'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2022
Research subcontract
- $853,987
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2023
Research subcontract
- $826,403
Trialwise · Foster City, CA · 2023
Research subcontract
- $819,677
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2021
Research- subaward
- $793,004
University of Cincinnati · Cincinnati, OH · 2023
Research subcontract
- $768,070
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Research subcontract
- $751,062
Rush University Medical Center · Chicago, IL · 2023
Research subcontract
- $750,000
South Cove Community Health Center · Boston, MA · 2023
Care access and/or to address other identified community health needs
- $750,000
South Cove Community Health Center · Boston, MA · 2022
Care access and/or to address other identified community health needs
- $750,000
South Cove Community Health Center · Boston, MA · 2021
Community support
- $735,128
Leidos Biomedical Research · Frederick, MD · 2023
Research subcontract
- $733,570
Columbia University · New York, NH · 2023
Research subcontract
- $727,887
President & Fellows of Harvard College · Boston, MA · 2022
Research subcontract
- $725,928
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Research subcontract
- $724,818
Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2021
Research- subaward
- $721,667
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Research subcontract
- $718,760
University of Cincinnati · Cleveland, OH · 2022
Research subcontract
- $707,426
Weill Medical College of Cornell Univ · New York, NY · 2023
Research subcontract
- $701,938
Dimock Community Health Center · Boston, MA · 2021
Community support
- $688,363
Broad Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Research- subaward
- $662,363
Mass General Brigham Incpartners · Boston, MA · 2023
Research subcontract
- $656,590
Harvard Medical School · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Research subcontract
- $636,500
Fenway Community Health Center · Boston, MA · 2022
Care access and/or to address other identified community health needs
- $636,500
Fenway Community Health Center · Boston, MA · 2021
Community support
- $633,560
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2021
Research- subaward
- $630,000
Fenway Community Health Center · Boston, MA · 2023
Care access and/or to address other identified community health needs
- $614,532
Change Healthcare · Nashville, MA · 2021
Community support
- $602,039
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Research- subaward
- $582,968
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Research subcontract
- $561,991
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Research subcontract
- $550,116
Harvard Medical School · Boston, MA · 2022
Research subcontract
- $546,193
Health Resources in Action · Boston, MA · 2023
Care access and/or to address other identified community health needs
- $534,516
Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH · 2021
Research- subaward
- $532,652
Health Resources in Action · Boston, MA · 2021
Community support
- $528,119
Boston Children'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2022
Research subcontract
- $523,199
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
Research- subaward
- $508,383
University of Massachusetts · Worcester, MA · 2022
Research subcontract
- $504,243
University of Massachusetts · Boston, MA · 2021
Research- subaward
- $499,267
Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH · 2022
Research subcontract
- $489,048
Family Nurturing Center · Dorchester, MA · 2022
Care access and/or to address other identified community health needs
- $474,427
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Research subcontract
- $469,505
Northeastern University · Worcester, MA · 2023
Research subcontract
- $466,017
The Henry M Jackson Foundation for · Bethesda, MD · 2021
Research- subaward
- $460,125
The Dimock Center · Roxbury, MA · 2023
Care access and/or to address other identified community health needs
- $460,125
Dimock Community Health Center · Boston, MA · 2022
Care access and/or to address other identified community health needs
- $459,925
Florida State University · Tallahassee, FL · 2023
Research subcontract
- $458,718
Mass General Brigham · Boston, MA · 2021
Research- subaward
- $458,203
Medical Univ of South Carolina · Charleston, SC · 2023
Research subcontract
- $448,245
Medical University of South Carolina · Charleston, SC · 2021
Research- subaward
- $439,839
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Research subcontract
- $432,797
Trialwise · Foster City, CA · 2021
Research- subaward
- $431,396
Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH · 2023
Research subcontract
- $420,195
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center · Seattle, WA · 2022
Research subcontract
- $395,399
Trustees of Columbia University · New York, NY · 2021
Research- subaward
- $394,612
The Henry M Jackson Foundation for · Bethesda, MD · 2022
Research subcontract
- $380,000
Metro Housing Boston · Boston, MA · 2022
Care access and/or to address other identified community health needs
- $380,000
Metro Housing Boston · Boston, MA · 2021
Community support
- $377,580
Columbia University · New York, NH · 2022
Research subcontract
- $372,387
Harvard Medical School · Boston, MA · 2021
Support for harvard medical school sponsorship
- $371,570
Orlando Immunology Center Pa · Orlando, FL · 2023
Research subcontract
- $369,167
Fenway Cdc · Boston, MA · 2022
Care access and/or to address other identified community health needs
- $368,689
Umass Chan Medical School · Worcester, MA · 2023
Research subcontract
- $361,092
University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2021
Research- subaward
- $359,824
University of Mississippi · Jackson, MS · 2021
Research- subaward
- $356,647
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Research subcontract
- $345,809
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center · Seattle, WA · 2023
Research subcontract
- $345,740
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center · Seattle, WA · 2021
Research- subaward
- $340,939
Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2022
Research subcontract
- $338,385
Trustees of the University of Pennsyl- · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Research subcontract
- $335,340
The Henry M Jackson Foundation for · Bethesda, MD · 2023
Research subcontract
- $335,004
Yale University · West Haven, CT · 2023
Research subcontract
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