Funding search · EIN 520595110 · Baltimore, MD

Johns Hopkins University

Name: Johns Hopkins 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.

3,047
grants reported: $1.82B
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $116,916
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

award honorarium honoraria

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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

Defense and space hardware sub-awards to aerospace primes
University sub-awards on federally funded biomedical and clinical research
Global health program delivery through international NGOs
Cybersecurity and autonomy research with specialized technology firms
Baltimore-area children's health and hospital partners (contributions)

Typical grant

Median award is about $117,000, with the middle half running $34,000 to $406,000. The eight-figure checks go almost entirely to defense and space contractors like Lockheed Martin, Rockwell Collins and Hamilton Sundstrand, while academic and clinical partners typically land between $1 million and $5 million and the long tail of small awards sits under $50,000. With 3,047 awards to 1,535 recipients over four years, roughly half of recipients appear more than once, so renewal on multi-year projects is normal.

Their words

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

“SUB-AWARD”
“CONTRIBUTION”

Positioning adjacent work

Treat this as flow-through of federal prime awards; find the JHU PI holding the prime, not the foundation.
Biomedical groups should mirror the university sub-award tier and scope $1M to $5M multi-year.
Engineering and cyber work fits the APL portfolio: space instruments, autonomy, secure systems, signal processing.
Global health proposals should show in-country delivery capacity like Jhpiego, FHI and Save the Children.

Worth knowing: This is not a grantmaking foundation in the usual sense; nearly every dollar is a sub-award passing federal research funding to project collaborators, with a handful of aerospace and defense firms absorbing the largest amounts. Maryland recipients dominate by count (543), and the small number of true CONTRIBUTION entries go to Baltimore-affiliated organizations.

Top recipients

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

Lockheed Martin Corporation4 grants · $182.6M
Southwest Research Institute5 grants · $74.4M
Westat Corp4 grants · $46.6M
University of Colorado5 grants · $46.5M
Research Triangle Institute4 grants · $35.4M
University of Maryland4 grants · $34.5M
Save the Children4 grants · $27.8M
Rockwell Collins1 grant · $27.5M
Family Health International4 grants · $25.6M
University of North Carolina6 grants · $24.5M

Giving over time

$352.4M

2021

$404.5M

2022

$467.3M

2023

$593.7M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 3,047 grants.

$95.0M
Lockheed Martin Corporation · Lancaster, CA · 2024
Sub-award
$55.5M
Lockheed Martin Corporation · Sunnyvale, CA · 2023
Sub-award
$27.5M
Rockwell Collins · Cedar Rapids, IA · 2024
Sub-award
$23.7M
Lockheed Martin Corporation · Lancaster, CA · 2022
Sub-award
$22.5M
Southwest Research Institute · San Antonio, TX · 2022
Sub-award
$19.9M
Southwest Research Institute · Dallas, TX · 2023
Sub-award
$17.0M
Southwest Research Institute · Dallas, TX · 2024
Sub-award
$15.2M
Hamilton Sundstrand Space Sys Int (Utas) · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Sub-award
$15.0M
Southwest Research Institute · San Antonio, TX · 2021
Sub-award
$14.0M
Anduril Industries · Irvine, CA · 2024
Sub-award
$13.9M
Westat Corp · Rockville, MD · 2022
Sub-award
$13.8M
University of Colorado · Aurora, CO · 2023
Sub-award
$13.4M
Westat Corp · Rockville, MD · 2023
Sub-award
$12.6M
Westat Corp · Rockville, MD · 2024
Sub-award
$11.3M
University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2022
Sub-award
$11.1M
University of Colorado · Aurora, CO · 2024
Sub-award
$11.1M
University of New Hampshire · Dover, NH · 2023
Sub-award
$10.5M
University of Maryland · College Park, MD · 2024
Sub-award
$10.3M
University of Colorado · Aurora, CO · 2021
Sub-award
$10.0M
Malin Space Science Systems · San Diego, CA · 2024
Sub-award
$10.0M
Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle, NC · 2021
Sub-award
$9.6M
University System of New Hampshire · Durham, NH · 2022
Sub-award
$9.4M
Save the Children · Westport, CT · 2021
Sub-award
$9.3M
Two Six Labs Llc Dba Two Six Technologies · Detroit, MI · 2024
Sub-award
$9.1M
University of Maryland · College Park, MD · 2022
Sub-award
$8.9M
GE Aviation Systems Llc · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Sub-award
$8.9M
University System of New Hampshire · Durham, NH · 2021
Sub-award
$8.6M
Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle, NC · 2022
Sub-award
$8.6M
Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle, NC · 2023
Sub-award
$8.4M
Save the Children · Westport, CT · 2022
Sub-award
$8.3M
Lockheed Martin Corporation · Goodyear, AZ · 2021
Sub-award
$8.2M
Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle, NC · 2024
Sub-award
$8.1M
University of Maryland · College Park, MD · 2023
Sub-award
$8.1M
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Sub-award
$7.6M
Malin Space Science Systems · San Diego, CA · 2023
Sub-award
$7.5M
University of North Carolina · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
Sub-award
$7.2M
Family Health International · Durham, NC · 2023
Sub-award
$7.2M
Aerojet Rocketdyne · Redmond, WA · 2022
Sub-award
$7.0M
Believe in Tomorrow National Children'S Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Contribution
$6.8M
University of Maryland · Baltimore, MD · 2021
Sub-award
$6.8M
Westat Corp · Rockville, MD · 2021
Sub-award
$6.7M
Family Health International · Durham, NC · 2022
Sub-award
$6.6M
University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2024
Sub-award
$6.5M
Family Health International · Durham, NC · 2024
Sub-award
$6.5M
Galois · Beaverton, OR · 2024
Sub-award
$6.4M
University of North Carolina · Chapel Hill, NC · 2021
Sub-award
$6.4M
Oceus Networks Llc · Reston, VA · 2022
Sub-award
$5.9M
University of North Carolina · Chapel Hill, NC · 2022
Sub-award
$5.8M
Lakenheath Electronics Design · Bethesda, MD · 2022
Sub-award
$5.7M
Save the Children · Westport, CT · 2023
Sub-award
$5.6M
University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023
Sub-award
$5.6M
Kennedy Krieger Institute · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Sub-award
$5.6M
Lakenheath Electronics Design · Bethesda, MD · 2023
Sub-award
$5.5M
Pennsylvania State University · Hershey, PA · 2023
Sub-award
$5.2M
Family Health International · Durham, NC · 2021
Sub-award
$5.2M
University of New Hampshire · Dover, NH · 2024
Sub-award
$5.1M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024
Sub-award
$5.1M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Sub-award
$5.0M
Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2022
Sub-award
$4.9M
Kennedy Krieger Institute · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Sub-award
$4.8M
University of North Carolina · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024
Sub-award
$4.6M
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Sub-award
$4.5M
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory · Boston, MA · 2024
Sub-award
$4.5M
Anthem Engineering Llc · Elkridge, MD · 2023
Sub-award
$4.3M
Save the Children · Westport, CT · 2024
Sub-award
$4.2M
Moog · Northbrook, IL · 2023
Sub-award
$4.2M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
Sub-award
$4.1M
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Sub-award
$4.0M
University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2021
Sub-award
$4.0M
Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2021
Sub-award
$4.0M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Sub-award
$3.9M
University of Mississippi · University, MS · 2021
Sub-award
$3.9M
Oceus Networks Llc · Reston, VA · 2023
Sub-award
$3.9M
Oceus Networks Llc · Reston, VA · 2021
Sub-award
$3.9M
Moog · Gilbert, AZ · 2024
Sub-award
$3.9M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Sub-award
$3.9M
Kennedy Krieger Institute · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Sub-award
$3.8M
Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International (Utas) · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Sub-award
$3.8M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2021
Sub-award
$3.7M
Lakenheath Electronics Design · Bethesda, MD · 2024
Sub-award
$3.7M
University of Minnesota · St Paul, MN · 2022
Sub-award
$3.7M
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Sub-award
$3.7M
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024
Sub-award
$3.7M
Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Winstonsalem, NC · 2022
Sub-award
$3.7M
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Sub-award
$3.6M
Brigham and Womens Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
Sub-award
$3.6M
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2023
Sub-award
$3.6M
Mahoney Management · Middletown, VA · 2024
Sub-award
$3.6M
Systems & Technology Research · Woburn, MA · 2024
Sub-award
$3.6M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022
Sub-award
$3.5M
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Sub-award
$3.5M
Smithsonian Institution · Washington, DC · 2024
Sub-award
$3.5M
Meggitt Defense Systems · Irvine, CA · 2022
Sub-award
$3.4M
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2024
Sub-award
$3.4M
Lakenheath Electronics Design · Bethesda, MD · 2021
Sub-award
$3.4M
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Sub-award
$3.3M
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
Sub-award
$3.3M
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Sub-award
$3.3M
Anthem Engineering Llc · Elkridge, MD · 2022
Sub-award
$3.3M
University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2024
Sub-award

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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.