Funding search · EIN 250965591 · Pittsburgh, PA

University of Pittsburgh

Name: University of Pittsburgh 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.

1,460
grants reported: $577.6M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $85,790
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 subcontract sponsorship

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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

Subaward research contracts to peer academic medical centers
Multi-site clinical and biomedical trial networks
Engineering and computing collaboration with Carnegie Mellon
Community-engaged research delivered by Pittsburgh-area nonprofits
Women's health research through Magee-Womens Research Institute

Typical grant

Median subaward is $85,790, with the middle half between $20,936 and $364,005, so most partners are single-site collaborators on someone else's project. The seven-figure checks go to large research universities and hospitals carrying major arms of multi-site studies, topping out near $7.9 million to Carnegie Mellon and $7.5 million to the University of California Regents. With 1,460 awards to only 541 recipients over four years, the same institutions recur, which reflects multi-year subaward periods rather than fresh annual decisions.

Their words

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

“RESEARCH- SUBCONTRACT”
“RESEARCH FOUNDATION”
“REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF”
“TRUSTEES OF”

Positioning adjacent work

Get written into a Pitt PI's federal proposal as a named subaward site before submission, not after.
Price a single-site role at $20,000 to $365,000; reserve seven-figure asks for multi-site coordination.
Pittsburgh-area nonprofits win real money for recruitment and community-engaged delivery; lead with local access.
Connect to existing themes: clinical trials networks, women's health via Magee, CMU-style engineering and computing.

Worth knowing: Every line in this record reads RESEARCH- SUBCONTRACT, which means this is federal and sponsored research money flowing outward from Pitt-led projects rather than discretionary philanthropy, so the decision happens between investigators at proposal-writing time. Pennsylvania takes 318 of 1,460 awards, and the top of the list is dominated by large research universities and academic hospitals that already hold long-standing collaborations with Pitt faculty.

Top recipients

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

Carnegie Mellon University5 grants · $34.8M
Regents of the University of California4 grants · $28.8M
New York University4 grants · $26.7M
Washington University in St Louis4 grants · $18.7M
Regents of the University of Michigan5 grants · $17.3M
University of Illinois4 grants · $10.5M
Massachusetts General Hospital4 grants · $10.1M
Johns Hopkins University4 grants · $9.9M
Brigham and Womens Hospital4 grants · $9.5M
Trustees of Columbia University4 grants · $8.9M

Giving over time

$129.4M

2021

$146.6M

2022

$152.4M

2023

$149.1M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 1,460 grants.

$17.1M
New York University · New York, NY · 2021
Research- subcontract
$9.9M
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Research- subcontract
$9.3M
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Research- subcontract
$8.7M
Regents of the University of California · Oakland, CA · 2022
Research- subcontract
$7.9M
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Research- subcontract
$7.7M
Regents of the University of California · Oakland, CA · 2023
Research- subcontract
$7.7M
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
Research- subcontract
$7.5M
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
Research- subcontract
$7.5M
Regents of the University of California · Oakland, CA · 2024
Research- subcontract
$7.1M
Washington University in St Louis · Clayton, MO · 2024
Research- subcontract
$5.0M
University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2021
Research- subcontract
$5.0M
Regents of the University of California · Oakland, CA · 2021
Research- subcontract
$4.9M
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
Research- subcontract
$4.5M
Washington University in St Louis · Clayton, MO · 2022
Research- subcontract
$4.4M
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
Research- subcontract
$4.3M
Washington University in St Louis · Clayton, MO · 2023
Research- subcontract
$4.2M
University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2022
Research- subcontract
$4.0M
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2021
Research- subcontract
$3.9M
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Research- subcontract
$3.7M
Trustees of Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
Research- subcontract
$3.2M
Brigham and Womens Hospital · Boston, MA · 2022
Research- subcontract
$3.1M
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Research- subcontract
$3.1M
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
Research- subcontract
$3.0M
Brigham and Womens Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
Research- subcontract
$2.9M
University of Maryland · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Research- subcontract
$2.8M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Research- subcontract
$2.8M
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2024
Research- subcontract
$2.8M
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
Research- subcontract
$2.7M
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2024
Research- subcontract
$2.7M
Washington University in St Louis · Clayton, MO · 2021
Research- subcontract
$2.7M
Brigham and Womens Hospital · Boston, MA · 2021
Research- subcontract
$2.6M
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Research- subcontract
$2.6M
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2023
Research- subcontract
$2.5M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2021
Research- subcontract
$2.5M
Trustees of Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023
Research- subcontract
$2.5M
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2022
Research- subcontract
$2.4M
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Research- subcontract
$2.4M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Research- subcontract
$2.4M
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2022
Research- subcontract
$2.3M
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2023
Research- subcontract
$2.2M
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024
Research- subcontract
$2.2M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Research- subcontract
$2.2M
University of Iowa · Iowa City, IA · 2023
Research- subcontract
$2.2M
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System · Madison, WI · 2022
Research- subcontract
$2.2M
University of Maryland · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Research- subcontract
$2.1M
Broad Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Research- subcontract
$2.1M
Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2022
Research- subcontract
$2.1M
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2022
Research- subcontract
$2.0M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Research- subcontract
$2.0M
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2024
Research- subcontract
$2.0M
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System · Madison, WI · 2023
Research- subcontract
$2.0M
Mount Sinai School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2023
Research- subcontract
$2.0M
University of Delaware · Newark, DE · 2022
Research- subcontract
$2.0M
Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Research- subcontract
$1.9M
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Research- subcontract
$1.9M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Research- subcontract
$1.9M
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
Research- subcontract
$1.9M
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2022
Research- subcontract
$1.9M
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
Research- subcontract
$1.8M
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Nashville, TN · 2024
Research- subcontract
$1.8M
University of Delaware · Newark, DE · 2024
Research- subcontract
$1.8M
Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2021
Research- subcontract
$1.8M
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System · Madison, WI · 2024
Research- subcontract
$1.8M
University of Massachusetts · Boston, MA · 2023
Research- subcontract
$1.8M
Consortium for Public Education · McKeesport, PA · 2024
Research- subcontract
$1.8M
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2021
Research- subcontract
$1.8M
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Research- subcontract
$1.8M
Consortium for Public Education · McKeesport, PA · 2022
Research- subcontract
$1.7M
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Nashville, TN · 2021
Research- subcontract
$1.7M
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System · Madison, WI · 2021
Research- subcontract
$1.7M
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Nashville, TN · 2023
Research- subcontract
$1.7M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
Research- subcontract
$1.7M
Trustees of Columbia University · New York, NY · 2022
Research- subcontract
$1.7M
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2021
Research- subcontract
$1.7M
University of Maryland · Baltimore, MD · 2021
Research- subcontract
$1.7M
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
Research- subcontract
$1.7M
Consortium for Public Education · McKeesport, PA · 2023
Research- subcontract
$1.6M
Versiti Wisconsin · Milwaukee, WI · 2021
Research- subcontract
$1.6M
Broad Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Research- subcontract
$1.6M
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2024
Research- subcontract
$1.6M
University of Delaware · Newark, DE · 2023
Research- subcontract
$1.6M
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Research- subcontract
$1.6M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Research- subcontract
$1.6M
Ohio State University Research Foundation · Columbus, OH · 2021
Research- subcontract
$1.6M
University of Florida · Gainesville, FL · 2024
Research- subcontract
$1.6M
Consortium for Public Education · McKeesport, PA · 2021
Research- subcontract
$1.5M
Houston Methodist Research Institute · Houston, TX · 2024
Research- subcontract
$1.5M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Research- subcontract
$1.5M
University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2023
Research- subcontract
$1.5M
Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Research- subcontract
$1.5M
University of Iowa · Iowa City, IA · 2022
Research- subcontract
$1.5M
Boston Children'S Hospital · Denver, PA · 2024
Research- subcontract
$1.5M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
Research- subcontract
$1.5M
Jackson Laboratory · Bar Harbor, ME · 2023
Research- subcontract
$1.5M
Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Research- subcontract
$1.5M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Research- subcontract
$1.4M
Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2024
Research- subcontract
$1.4M
University of Cincinnati · Cincinnati, OH · 2022
Research- subcontract
$1.4M
Mount Sinai School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2022
Research- subcontract
$1.4M
Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2023
Research- subcontract

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