Funding search · EIN 530196584 · Ashburn, VA

The George Washington University

Name: The George Washington 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.

729
grants reported: $196.2M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $104,000
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

subaward campaign fundraising joint award

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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

Research subawards to academic medical centers on GW-led multi-site studies
HIV and sexual health services with DC community providers
Women's, maternal and infant health research collaborations
Clinical trial site payments to hospitals and research institutes
Health equity and community health center partnerships in Washington, DC
Global women's programming through DC-based international NGOs

Typical grant

Median payment is $104,000, with the middle half between $34,000 and $308,000, which is the normal range for a single site on a sponsored project. The seven-figure checks go to GW's own clinical practice group, Medical Faculty Associates, and to large research universities and DC service providers carrying big service or enrollment loads, such as Whitman-Walker Institute at $2.2 million and Women for Women International at $1.4 million. Repeat flow is the rule: 729 payments spread across 288 recipients over four years, so most partners are paid across multiple periods as project years roll forward.

Their words

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

“SUBAWARD”
“JOINT FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN”
“RESEARCH FOUNDATION”
“RESEARCH INSTITUTE”
“HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER”

Positioning adjacent work

Approach a GW principal investigator as a subrecipient site, not the institution as a grantmaker.
Connect to their heaviest themes: HIV services, women's and infant health, multi-site clinical trials.
Size the ask at $100,000 to $300,000 per project year, matching their site-level median.
Lead with enrollment capacity, IRB readiness and a negotiated indirect rate, not mission fit.

Worth knowing: Nearly every line is labeled SUBAWARD, meaning this is pass-through money on prime awards GW already holds, so timing depends on GW's federal and sponsor pipeline rather than any internal cycle. DC dominates with 92 payments and GW's affiliated Medical Faculty Associates takes the single largest amounts; recipient addresses in the filings are frequently wrong (Johns Hopkins listed in Chicago, University of Michigan in Pittsburgh), so treat the state ranking as rough.

Top recipients

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

Medical Faculty Associates4 grants · $8.9M
Medical Faculty Associates Inc 22 grants · $7.9M
Whitman-Walker Institute4 grants · $7.8M
University of California San Francisco4 grants · $6.5M
Northwestern University4 grants · $5.4M
University of Minnesota4 grants · $4.7M
Johns Hopkins University4 grants · $4.5M
Columbia University4 grants · $4.2M
University of Colorado4 grants · $4.2M
University of Alabama Birmingham4 grants · $4.0M

Giving over time

$47.2M

2021

$44.4M

2022

$50.5M

2023

$54.1M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 729 grants.

$4.0M
Medical Faculty Associates Inc 2 · Washington, DC · 2021
subaward
$3.9M
Medical Faculty Associates Inc 2 · Washington, DC · 2022
subaward
$3.5M
Medical Faculty Associates · Washington, DC · 2023
Subaward
$3.4M
Medical Faculty Associates · Washington, DC · 2024
Subaward
$2.2M
Whitman-Walker Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
subaward
$2.2M
Whitman-Walker Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
Subaward
$2.1M
Whitman-Walker Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
Subaward
$2.0M
University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2021
subaward
$2.0M
University of California San Francisco · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
subaward
$1.9M
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2021
subaward
$1.8M
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2024
Subaward
$1.7M
University of California San Francisco · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Subaward
$1.6M
University of North Carolina · Chapel Hill, NC · 2021
subaward
$1.6M
Women & Infants Hospital · Providence, RI · 2021
subaward
$1.6M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Subaward
$1.5M
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2023
Subaward
$1.5M
University of California San Francisco · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Subaward
$1.5M
University of Alabama Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2021
subaward
$1.5M
Ohio State University Research Foundation · Columbus, OH · 2021
subaward
$1.5M
Johns Hopkins University · Chicago, IL · 2022
subaward
$1.4M
University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2021
subaward
$1.4M
Women for Women International · Washington, DC · 2024
Subaward
$1.4M
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2021
subaward
$1.4M
University of California San Francisco · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
subaward
$1.3M
Johns Hopkins University · Chicago, IL · 2023
Subaward
$1.3M
Whitman-Walker Institute · Washington, DC · 2021
subaward
$1.3M
Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH · 2021
subaward
$1.3M
Medical Faculty Associates · Washington, DC · 2023
Joint fundraising campaign
$1.3M
University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2021
subaward
$1.2M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Subaward
$1.2M
Howard University- · New York, NY · 2024
Subaward
$1.2M
Howard University · Washington, DC · 2022
subaward
$1.1M
University of Texas Medical Branch-Imh Galveston · Galveston, TX · 2021
subaward
$1.1M
Duke University · Charlotte, NC · 2024
Subaward
$1.1M
University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Subaward
$1.0M
University of Alabama Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2024
Subaward
$1.0M
University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2023
Subaward
$1.0M
University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023
Subaward
$1.0M
Johns Hopkins University · Chicago, IL · 2024
Subaward
$1.0M
General Hospital Corporation · Boston, MA · 2021
subaward
$996,000
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2021
subaward
$975,000
Healthbegins Llc · Burbank, CA · 2022
subaward
$967,029
University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
Subaward
$955,593
Ohio State University Research Foundation · Columbus, OH · 2024
Subaward
$939,000
Childrens Research Institute · Silver Spring, MD · 2021
subaward
$925,440
Washington University · St Louis, MO · 2024
Subaward
$920,967
Women for Women International · Washington, DC · 2023
Subaward
$899,056
University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2024
Subaward
$878,493
University of Michigan · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Subaward
$841,125
Medstar Health Research Institute · Boston, MA · 2023
Subaward
$837,000
Institution for Healthcare Improvement · Boston, MA · 2022
subaward
$836,000
University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2022
subaward
$833,369
Childrens Research Institute · Silver Spring, MD · 2024
Subaward
$829,000
Baylor College of Medicine · Dallas, TX · 2021
subaward
$828,000
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2022
subaward
$824,306
Institute for Healthcare Improvement · Boston, MA · 2023
Subaward
$824,000
University of Texas · Houston, TX · 2021
subaward
$803,719
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2023
Subaward
$801,533
University of California San Diego · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Subaward
$797,203
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
Subaward
$788,000
Johns Hopkins University · Chicago, IL · 2021
subaward
$784,467
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Subaward
$781,740
University of Michigan · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Subaward
$781,650
University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Subaward
$777,000
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
subaward
$775,000
Baylor College of Medicine · Dallas, TX · 2022
subaward
$759,509
Magee Womens Research Inst · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Subaward
$754,731
University of Alabama Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2023
Subaward
$752,357
General Hospital Corporation · Boston, MA · 2023
Subaward
$745,000
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2022
subaward
$742,091
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023
Subaward
$741,863
Medical Faculty Associates · Washington, DC · 2024
Joint fundraising campaign
$718,356
University of New Mexico · Albuquerque, NM · 2024
Subaward
$714,779
General Hospital Corporation · Boston, MA · 2024
Subaward
$713,918
Howard University · Washington, DC · 2023
Subaward
$704,000
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2021
subaward
$692,000
Magee Womens Research Inst · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
subaward
$690,832
Medstar Health Research Institute · Boston, MA · 2024
Subaward
$690,116
Women & Infants Hospital · Providence, RI · 2024
Subaward
$686,000
University of Alabama Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2022
subaward
$684,000
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2022
subaward
$676,295
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Subaward
$657,000
University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
subaward
$656,900
Ohio State University Research Foundation · Columbus, OH · 2023
Subaward
$656,000
University of North Carolina · Chapel Hill, NC · 2022
subaward
$653,133
University of North Carolina · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Subaward
$652,313
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Subaward
$651,039
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2023
Subaward
$642,085
University of Texas · Houston, TX · 2024
Subaward
$638,659
Childrens Research Institute · Silver Spring, MD · 2023
Subaward
$630,000
Georgetown University · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
subaward
$625,000
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2022
subaward
$618,000
General Hospital Corporation · Boston, MA · 2022
subaward
$618,000
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
subaward
$614,000
Medstar Health Research Institute · Boston, MA · 2022
subaward
$612,165
University of New Mexico · Albuquerque, NM · 2023
Subaward
$609,328
US Helping US People Into Living · Washington, DC · 2024
Subaward
$595,857
Healthbegins Llc · Burbank, CA · 2023
Subaward
$583,448
Washington University · St Louis, MO · 2023
Subaward
$581,592
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
Subaward

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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.