Funding search · EIN 041679980 · Boston, MA

Northeastern University

Name: Northeastern University 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.

659
grants reported: $169.9M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $83,329
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

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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

Multi-institution networking and smart-community testbeds (US Ignite, $6.8M)
Engineering and computing consortia co-led with large public research universities
Biomedical and clinical subawards to Boston hospitals and cancer centers
STEM education research, evaluation, and broadening-participation partners
Small technology firms and LLCs performing contracted R&D tasks
Minority-serving and Puerto Rico campuses on federally funded projects

Typical grant

Median subaward is $83,329, with the middle half between $30,592 and $242,396. The seven-figure checks go to co-leading institutions on large multi-site federal programs, US Ignite at $6.8M and UMass Amherst at $2.45M being the outliers; the sub-$100K awards are single-task roles like evaluation, a clinical site, or one faculty effort line. With 659 awards to 408 recipients across four years, roughly a third of partners appear more than once, consistent with multi-year project periods rather than renewed discretionary giving.

Their words

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

“SUB-AWARD”
“RESEARCH FOUNDATION”
“REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF”
“TRUSTEES OF THE”

Positioning adjacent work

Every dollar here is a federal pass-through. Find the Northeastern PI, not a program officer.
Connect to their networking, testbed, and smart-community line where the largest partner shares sit.
Ask $50K to $250K per year for a defined task; that is the dominant band.
Offer what they lack in-house: a clinical site, evaluation capacity, or an MSI partner role.
Time outreach to federal solicitation deadlines, since subawards are budgeted before the prime proposal goes in.

Worth knowing: This is a university's sponsored-research pass-through record, not philanthropy: 990-PF lines all read SUB-AWARD, so there is no open call and no discretionary pool. Massachusetts holds 161 of 408 recipients, and partner selection is plainly relationship-driven through faculty collaborations, with a visible mix of R1 publics, Boston teaching hospitals, and small R&D companies.

Top recipients

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

US Ignite3 grants · $24.8M
US Ignite1 grant · $6.0M
Temple University3 grants · $5.1M
University of Massachusetts-Amherst3 grants · $5.1M
University of Pittsburgh3 grants · $4.9M
University of North Texas3 grants · $4.6M
University of Georgia Research Foundation3 grants · $4.2M
Northern Arizona University3 grants · $4.0M
Regents of the University of Michigan3 grants · $3.6M
University of South Florida3 grants · $3.3M

Giving over time

$29.5M

2021

$42.2M

2022

$52.1M

2023

$46.1M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 659 grants.

$9.7M
US Ignite · Washington, DC · 2022
Sub-award
$8.2M
US Ignite · Washington, DC · 2023
Sub-award
$6.8M
US Ignite · Washington, DC · 2024
Sub-award
$6.0M
US Ignite · Washington, DC · 2021
Sub-award
$2.6M
University of Massachusetts-Amherst · Amherst, MA · 2023
Sub-award
$2.5M
University of North Texas · Denton, TX · 2023
Sub-award
$2.5M
University of Massachusetts-Amherst · Amherst, MA · 2024
Sub-award
$2.4M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Sub-award
$2.3M
Temple University · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Sub-award
$2.2M
Northern Arizona University · Flagstaff, AZ · 2023
Sub-award
$2.1M
Lukla · Portland, OR · 2023
Sub-award
$2.0M
University of North Texas · Denton, TX · 2024
Sub-award
$1.9M
University of Georgia Research Foundation · Athens, GA · 2023
Sub-award
$1.7M
University of Massachusetts · Boston, MA · 2022
Sub-award
$1.7M
Temple University · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Sub-award
$1.7M
Integrated Solutions for Systems · Hunstville, AL · 2024
Sub-award
$1.6M
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
Sub-award
$1.5M
Lukla · Portland, OR · 2021
Sub-award
$1.5M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Sub-award
$1.4M
University of Georgia Research Foundation · Athens, GA · 2021
Sub-award
$1.3M
University of Georgia Research Foundation · Athens, GA · 2022
Sub-award
$1.2M
Northern Arizona University · Flagstaff, AZ · 2024
Sub-award
$1.2M
University of South Florida · Tampa, FL · 2023
Sub-award
$1.2M
Temple University · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Sub-award
$1.1M
University of South Florida · Tampa, FL · 2024
Sub-award
$1.1M
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2024
Sub-award
$1.1M
General Hospital Corporation · Boston, MA · 2021
Sub-award
$1.1M
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
Sub-award
$1.0M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Sub-award
$1.0M
University of Georgia Research Foundation · Athens, GA · 2024
Sub-award
$1.0M
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Sub-award
$999,723
Nexgen Composites Llc · Cincinnati, OH · 2023
Sub-award
$952,744
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2024
Sub-award
$950,088
Worcester Polytechnic Institute · Worcester, MA · 2022
Sub-award
$918,117
University of South Florida · Tampa, FL · 2022
Sub-award
$837,185
Lukla · Portland, OR · 2022
Sub-award
$789,289
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Sub-award
$776,625
Sarcos Corp · Salt Lake City, NV · 2022
Sub-award
$774,538
The University of Alabama in Huntsville · Huntsvill, AL · 2023
Sub-award
$758,605
Rutgers the State University · Piscataway, NJ · 2022
Sub-award
$739,717
Rutgers the State University · Piscataway, NJ · 2023
Sub-award
$724,825
Regents of the University of California · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Sub-award
$683,196
Tufts University · Somerville, MA · 2023
Sub-award
$666,731
University of Florida · Gainesville, FL · 2022
Sub-award
$640,951
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Sub-award
$640,383
University of Michigan · Ann Harbor, MI · 2021
Sub-award
$626,937
General Hospital Corporation · Boston, MA · 2022
Sub-award
$625,032
University of Houston · Houston, TX · 2023
Sub-award
$615,668
University of Massachusetts · Boston, MA · 2023
Sub-award
$606,432
University of Rhode Island · Kingston, RI · 2022
Sub-award
$602,881
Worcester Polytechnic Instute · Worcester, MA · 2023
Sub-award
$600,355
Recinto De Ciencias Medicas · San Juan, PR · 2024
Sub-award
$594,971
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Sub-award
$585,717
Rutgers the State University · Piscataway, NJ · 2024
Sub-award
$585,000
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
Sub-award
$583,268
University of Florida · Gainesville, FL · 2024
Sub-award
$572,493
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2023
Sub-award
$562,455
Dana Farber Cancer Inst · Boston, MA · 2021
Sub-award
$558,427
Research Foundation for the State University of Ny · Buffalo, NY · 2024
Sub-award
$554,157
Command Strategies Llc · Arlington, VA · 2023
Sub-award
$553,422
University of Houston · Houston, TX · 2022
Sub-award
$550,872
Research Foundation for the State University of Ne · Buffalo, NY · 2022
Sub-award
$543,790
University of Washington · Olympia, WA · 2024
Sub-award
$541,546
Northern Arizona University · Flagstaff, AZ · 2022
Sub-award
$537,265
University of Michigan · Ann Harbor, MI · 2022
Sub-award
$529,999
Vrc Metal Systems Llc · Box Elder, SD · 2022
Sub-award
$526,022
University of Rhode Island · Kingston, RI · 2023
Sub-award
$523,900
The Computing Research Association · Washington, DC · 2024
Sub-award
$520,978
Concurrent Technologies Corporation · Johnstown, PA · 2021
Sub-award
$520,371
University of Florida · Gainesville, FL · 2023
Sub-award
$511,896
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2022
Sub-award
$506,444
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Sub-award
$501,276
The Trustee of Columbia University in the City of · New York, NY · 2024
Sub-award
$500,507
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2021
Sub-award
$484,115
Los Alamos National Laboratory · Los Almos, NM · 2024
Sub-award
$481,406
Recinto De Ciencias Medicas · San Juan, PR · 2022
Sub-award
$473,977
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Sub-award
$471,929
Regents of the University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Sub-award
$471,671
Nexgen Composites Llc · Cincinnati, OH · 2024
Sub-award
$465,669
Dana Farber Cancer Inst · Boston, MA · 2022
Sub-award
$463,572
Vrc Metal Systems Llc · Box Elder, SD · 2023
Sub-award
$461,443
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2022
Sub-award
$456,209
Command Strategies Llc · Arlington, VA · 2021
Sub-award
$454,832
Recinto De Ciencias Medicas · San Juan, PR · 2023
Sub-award
$453,050
Washington University · Saint Louis, MO · 2023
Sub-award
$447,918
Tufts University · Somerville, MA · 2022
Sub-award
$446,656
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
Sub-award
$444,637
John Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Sub-award
$437,556
John Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Sub-award
$436,059
University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2023
Sub-award
$435,841
Vrc Metal Systems Llc · Box Elder, SD · 2021
Sub-award
$435,743
Makscientific Llc · Burlington, MA · 2024
Sub-award
$435,388
University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2024
Sub-award
$434,530
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · Boston, MA · 2021
Sub-award
$431,938
University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2022
Sub-award
$431,434
University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2021
Sub-award
$421,977
Makscientific Llc · Burlington, MA · 2021
Sub-award
$421,537
Univ of California Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2024
Sub-award
$418,215
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
Sub-award
$406,995
Brigham and Women'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2021
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.