Funding search · EIN 362177139 · Chicago, IL

University of Chicago

Name: University of Chicago 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.

787
grants reported: $335.8M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $146,173
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

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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-site clinical and imaging trial networks (radiology, oncology cohorts)
Chicago-area academic medical centers running clinical study sites
Genomics, microbiome and infectious disease sequencing centers
Field experiments in global development and cash transfers
Education and social policy research, including Chicago Public Schools
Advanced computing, data commons, and physics/astronomy instrumentation

Typical grant

Median award is $146,173, with the middle half between $43,086 and $358,661. The multimillion checks go to peer research universities and consortium coordinating bodies carrying whole work packages, such as Northwestern at $8.8M, the American College of Radiology at $4.8M, UIC at $4.7M, Pittsburgh at $4.4M and Rush at $4.3M; the sub-$100k awards read as single-site data collection, core services, or one enrolling clinic. With 787 awards across 512 recipients, roughly half of recipients appear more than once, consistent with multi-year continuations on the same underlying project.

Their words

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

“SUBAWARD”
“OPERATING SUPPORT”
“UCHICAGO RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL”

Positioning adjacent work

Nearly every dollar is coded SUBAWARD, so target a UChicago PI holding a prime award, not the institution.
Match a funded theme precisely: imaging trials, genomics sequencing, development RCTs, education research, or data-commons computing.
Ask $150k to $400k for a defined work package; reserve seven-figure asks for coordinating-center or multi-site roles.
Lead with capacity you own: enrolling sites, cohorts, sequencing cores, field operations, compute infrastructure.

Worth knowing: This is pass-through sponsored research money, so the giving follows existing collaborations and federal prime awards rather than any charitable priority, and a dozen recipients absorb a large share of the $335M. Illinois dominates with 161 recipients, more than double California, and Chicago health systems, universities, and research nonprofits recur constantly, which makes local relationships and proximity to UChicago investigators the real determinant.

Top recipients

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

American College of Radiology3 grants · $16.8M
University of Pittsburgh3 grants · $16.3M
Northwestern University3 grants · $14.9M
University of Illinois-Chicago3 grants · $12.9M
Mdrc3 grants · $10.7M
Health Research Inc- Roswell Park Cancer Institute3 grants · $10.5M
Rush University Medical Center3 grants · $10.4M
University of Illinois-Chicago1 grant · $6.9M
Rush University Medical Center1 grant · $5.5M
J Craig Venter Institute3 grants · $5.5M

Giving over time

$74.4M

2021

$75.4M

2022

$95.1M

2023

$90.9M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 787 grants.

$8.8M
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2024
Subaward
$8.1M
Mdrc · New York, NY · 2023
Subaward
$6.9M
University of Illinois-Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
Subaward
$6.8M
American College of Radiology · Reston, VA · 2021
Subaward
$6.6M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
Subaward
$5.5M
Rush University Medical Center · Chicago, IL · 2023
Subaward
$5.3M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Subaward
$5.2M
American College of Radiology · Reston, VA · 2022
Subaward
$4.8M
American College of Radiology · Reston, VA · 2024
Subaward
$4.7M
University of Illinois-Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Subaward
$4.7M
American College of Radiology · Reston, VA · 2023
Subaward
$4.6M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Subaward
$4.4M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Subaward
$4.3M
Rush University Medical Center · Chicago, IL · 2024
Subaward
$4.3M
University of Illinois-Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Subaward
$4.3M
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2023
Subaward
$3.9M
Health Research Inc- Roswell Park Cancer Institute · Menands, NY · 2021
Subaward
$3.9M
University of Illinois-Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2021
Subaward
$3.6M
Health Research Inc- Roswell Park Cancer Institute · Menands, NY · 2022
Subaward
$3.4M
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2021
Subaward
$3.4M
Rush University Medical Center · Chicago, IL · 2022
Subaward
$3.3M
Health Research Inc- Roswell Park Cancer Institut · Menands, NY · 2023
Subaward
$3.2M
Givedirectly · New York, NY · 2023
Subaward
$2.9M
Health Research Inc- Roswell Park Cancer Institute · Menands, NY · 2024
Subaward
$2.7M
J Craig Venter Institute · La Jolla, CA · 2022
Subaward
$2.7M
Rush University Medical Center · Chicago, IL · 2021
Subaward
$2.6M
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2022
Subaward
$2.3M
University of Illinois-Champaignurbana · Champaign, IL · 2024
Subaward
$2.3M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2021
Subaward
$2.2M
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2023
Subaward
$2.2M
National Opinion Research Center · Chicago, IL · 2023
Subaward
$2.1M
Mdrc · New York, NY · 2022
Subaward
$2.1M
J Craig Venter Institute · La Jolla, CA · 2023
Subaward
$2.0M
New York University · New York, NY · 2021
Subaward
$1.9M
Amer Inst for Rsch in the Behav Scien · Chicago, IL · 2024
Subaward
$1.9M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
Subaward
$1.8M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
Subaward
$1.8M
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2021
Subaward
$1.8M
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2024
Subaward
$1.6M
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2022
Subaward
$1.6M
Penn State University · University Park, PA · 2024
Subaward
$1.6M
University of Wisconsin-Madison · Madison, WI · 2024
Subaward
$1.6M
Heartland Health Centers · Chicago, IL · 2022
Subaward
$1.6M
Uchicago Research International · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operating support
$1.5M
J Craig Venter Institute · La Jolla, CA · 2024
Subaward
$1.5M
Givedirectly · New York, NY · 2024
Subaward
$1.4M
University of Maryland · Adelphi, MD · 2021
Subaward
$1.4M
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Subaward
$1.4M
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2023
Subaward
$1.3M
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2024
Subaward
$1.3M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2022
Subaward
$1.3M
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2024
Subaward
$1.3M
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2022
Subaward
$1.3M
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
Subaward
$1.3M
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
Subaward
$1.3M
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Subaward
$1.3M
Washington University · St Louis, MO · 2024
Subaward
$1.2M
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Subaward
$1.2M
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
Subaward
$1.2M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Subaward
$1.2M
Chicago State University · Chicago, IL · 2024
Subaward
$1.2M
University of Maryland · Adelphi, MD · 2023
Subaward
$1.2M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024
Subaward
$1.2M
Ut Southwestern Medical Center · Dallas, TX · 2021
Subaward
$1.2M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Subaward
$1.2M
J Craig Venter Institute · La Jolla, CA · 2021
Subaward
$1.2M
Radiological Society of North America · Oak Brook, IL · 2022
Subaward
$1.2M
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
Subaward
$1.2M
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2021
Subaward
$1.2M
Texas Biomedical Research Institute · San Antonio, TX · 2024
Subaward
$1.1M
Loyola University · Chicago, IL · 2023
Subaward
$1.1M
Northshore University Health System · Evanston, IL · 2023
Subaward
$1.1M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2021
Subaward
$1.1M
Translational Genomics Research Institute · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
Subaward
$1.1M
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2021
Subaward
$1.0M
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Subaward
$1.0M
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2021
Subaward
$1.0M
University of Wisconsin-Madison · Madison, WI · 2022
Subaward
$987,314
Radiological Society of North America · Oak Brook, IL · 2021
Subaward
$986,581
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022
Subaward
$984,571
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2023
Subaward
$984,347
Radiological Society of North America · Oak Brook, IL · 2023
Subaward
$966,876
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center · Norman, OK · 2023
Subaward
$964,315
Harvard University · Boston, MA · 2023
Subaward
$909,461
Penn State University · University Park, PA · 2023
Subaward
$866,099
Loyola University · Chicago, IL · 2024
Subaward
$856,329
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2023
Subaward
$848,130
National Opinion Research Center · Chicago, IL · 2024
Subaward
$841,439
University of Wisconsin-Madison · Madison, WI · 2023
Subaward
$828,313
Tactical Computing Laboratories Llc · Muenster, TX · 2023
Subaward
$827,381
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2021
Subaward
$814,329
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Subaward
$813,898
Mayo Clinic · Rochester, MN · 2023
Subaward
$789,129
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2024
Subaward
$784,394
Washington University · St Louis, MO · 2022
Subaward
$774,104
University of Maryland · Adelphi, MD · 2024
Subaward
$771,333
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2023
Subaward
$769,047
University of Maryland · Adelphi, MD · 2022
Subaward
$768,057
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Dba Shirley Ryan Abilitylab · Chicago, IL · 2022
Subaward
$767,509
Harvard University · Boston, MA · 2022
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.