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The Trustees of Columbia University

Name: The Trustees of Columbia 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.

1,658
grants reported: $674.3M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $80,486
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

research services capital

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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

Subawards to universities on sponsored biomedical research projects
Academic medical centers and children's hospitals as research partners
Capital contributions to Columbia's own affiliated entities
Multi-site clinical and population health research consortia
Genomics, mental health, and neuroscience research institutes

Typical grant

Median grant is about $80,000, with the middle half between $21,000 and $362,000, so most payments are modest subaward-scale amounts. The seven-figure and eight-figure checks go to Columbia's own affiliates (Columbia University Health Care at $15.1M, Knight First Amendment Institute at $2.7M) and to lead research partners like George Washington University at $11.0M and Weill Medical College at $6.9M. With 1,658 payments across 818 recipients over four years, roughly two payments per recipient, repeat flow is the norm rather than the exception.

Their words

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

“Research”
“Edu/Research”
“CAPITAL CONTRIBUTION”
“Capital Contribution”

Positioning adjacent work

Approach as a subaward partner on a Columbia-led project, not as an independent grant seeker.
Identify the Columbia PI whose consortium touches your work; the money moves through prime awards.
Size the ask in the $20,000 to $360,000 range unless you would lead a site.
Emphasize clinical or population health research capacity; that is where nearly every dollar sits.

Worth knowing: This is not conventional philanthropy. The record is Columbia passing through sponsored research dollars to collaborating institutions, so 533 of the payments stay in New York and the largest single line is a capital contribution to its own health care affiliate. Access comes from being on a Columbia investigator's project team, not from a proposal to the university.

Top recipients

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

Columbia University Health Care3 grants · $33.6M
George Washington University4 grants · $22.4M
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai4 grants · $13.5M
Columbia University Health Care1 grant · $13.1M
Johns Hopkins University4 grants · $12.5M
Weill Medical College2 grants · $12.1M
University of Alabama at Birmingham4 grants · $12.1M
Regents of the University of Michigan4 grants · $9.8M
New York University3 grants · $9.3M
Research Foundation for Mental2 grants · $9.0M

Giving over time

$122.1M

2021

$162.8M

2022

$181.5M

2023

$207.9M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 1,658 grants.

$15.1M
Columbia University Health Care · New York, NY · 2024
Capital contribution
$13.1M
Columbia University Health Care · New York, NY · 2022
Capital Contribution
$12.8M
Columbia University Health Care · New York, NY · 2023
Capital contribution
$11.0M
George Washington University · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Research
$9.5M
George Washington University · Ashburn, VA · 2023
Research
$7.9M
Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers · New York, NY · 2022
Research
$6.9M
Weill Medical College · Manhattan, NY · 2024
Research
$6.3M
Cornell University Medical College · New York, NY · 2021
Research
$5.8M
Columbia University Health Care · New York, NY · 2021
Capital contribution
$5.6M
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Warwick, RI · 2023
Program services
$5.2M
Weill Medical College · Manhattan, NY · 2023
Research
$4.8M
Research Foundation for Mental · Menands, NY · 2021
Research
$4.8M
New York University · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$4.4M
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2024
Research
$4.2M
Research Foundation for Mental · Menands, NY · 2022
Research
$4.0M
Johns Hopkins University · Chicago, IL · 2023
Research
$3.8M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvan · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Edu/Research
$3.8M
Johns Hopkins University · Chicago, IL · 2024
Research
$3.7M
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · New York, NY · 2024
Edu/Research
$3.7M
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · New York, NY · 2021
Research
$3.6M
Regents of the University of Michigan · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Research
$3.6M
Medical University of South Carolina · Charleston, SC · 2024
Research
$3.4M
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · New York, NY · 2023
Edu/research
$3.4M
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2023
Research
$3.2M
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
Research
$3.2M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Sta the · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Research
$3.2M
New York Genome Ctr · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$3.2M
New York University · Boston, MA · 2022
Research
$3.0M
Cornell University · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$2.9M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023
Research
$2.8M
Research Foundation for the State U the · Albany, NY · 2024
Research
$2.8M
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia · New York, NY · 2023
Capital contribution
$2.8M
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia · New York, NY · 2022
Capital Contribution
$2.8M
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Research
$2.8M
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Research
$2.8M
University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2022
Research
$2.8M
New York Genome Ctr · New York, NY · 2022
Research
$2.8M
Research Foundation for the State U the · Albany, NY · 2023
Research
$2.7M
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Research
$2.7M
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia · New York, NY · 2024
Capital Contribution
$2.7M
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia · New York, NY · 2021
Capital contribution
$2.7M
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · New York, NY · 2022
Research
$2.7M
Johns Hopkins University · Chicago, IL · 2022
Research
$2.6M
Rutgers the State University · Piscataway, NJ · 2024
Research
$2.6M
University of Washington · Chicago, IL · 2024
Research
$2.6M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Research
$2.5M
University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwe · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Research
$2.5M
University of Chicago the · Chicago, IL · 2023
Research
$2.5M
Duke University · Charlotte, NC · 2023
Research
$2.5M
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Research
$2.4M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
Research
$2.4M
Regents of the University of Michigan · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Research
$2.4M
Research Foundation of the City · New York, NY · 2021
Research
$2.4M
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · Bronx, NY · 2022
Research
$2.4M
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2021
Research
$2.3M
University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwe · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Research
$2.3M
University of Cincinnati · Cleveland, OH · 2023
Research
$2.3M
The Regents of University of California · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Research
$2.3M
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · Bronx, NY · 2024
Research
$2.2M
University of Cincinnati · Cleveland, OH · 2022
Research
$2.2M
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Research
$2.2M
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Oakland, CA · 2024
Research
$2.2M
Research Foundation of the City Universi · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$2.1M
Research Foundation of the State · Albany, NY · 2022
Research
$2.1M
Children'S Hospital of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Research
$2.1M
Regents of the University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2024
Research
$2.1M
Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene · Menands, NY · 2024
Research
$2.1M
The Brigham and Womens Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
Research
$2.1M
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2021
Research/Programs
$2.1M
Johns Hopkins University · Chicago, IL · 2021
Research
$2.0M
Rockefelller University the · New York, NY · 2023
Research
$2.0M
Rutgers the State University · Piscataway, NJ · 2023
Research
$2.0M
Research Foundation of the City · New York, NY · 2023
Research
$2.0M
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2022
Research
$2.0M
University of Miami · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Research
$2.0M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2021
Research
$1.9M
University of Washington · Chicago, IL · 2022
Research
$1.9M
The Regents of University of California · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Research
$1.9M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Sta the · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Research
$1.9M
University of California San Francisco · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Research
$1.8M
Northwestern Univeristy · Evanston, IL · 2023
Research
$1.8M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Research
$1.8M
Regents of the University of Califo the · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Research
$1.8M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Research
$1.8M
University of Miami · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Research
$1.8M
Regents of the University of Califo the · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Research
$1.8M
Harvard University · Boston, MA · 2022
Research
$1.8M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
Research
$1.8M
Rush University Medical Center · Chicago, IL · 2022
Research
$1.8M
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Research
$1.7M
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Research
$1.7M
University of California San Diego · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Research
$1.7M
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Research
$1.7M
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2022
Research
$1.7M
Children'S Hospital Corporation the · Boston, MA · 2024
Research
$1.7M
Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2024
Research
$1.7M
Brigham & Women'S Hospital Inc the · Boston, MA · 2024
Research
$1.7M
The Regents of the University · Irvine, CA · 2024
Research
$1.7M
University of Miami · Atlanta, GA · 2021
Research
$1.7M
Rockefeller University the · New York, NY · 2024
Research

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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.