Funding search · EIN 620476822 · Nashville, TN

Vanderbilt University

Name: Vanderbilt University grants, 2021–2024
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A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

726
grants reported: $282.6M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $52,698
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 training sponsored sponsorship instruction membership

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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

Biomedical research subawards to Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Research subcontracts to R1 university partners on multi-site projects
Education and learning science research through policy consultancies
Program support for Nashville-area HBCUs and Tennessee public universities
Engineering and defense-adjacent research with firms like Leidos, Dynetics
Nashville civic organizations: design, music, conservancy, chamber

Typical grant

Median payment is $52,698, with the middle half falling between $15,862 and $181,781. The very large checks are internal or near-internal: VUMC alone took $54.3 million in 2024, and the next tier of $500,000 to $2.5 million goes to Scripps, Yale, UT Austin, Northwestern and similar research partners carrying big shares of multi-site projects. With 726 payments to 357 recipients over four years, most institutions appear more than once, so these are multi-year project relationships rather than one-time gifts.

Their words

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

“Research”
“Program Support”
“Instruction”
“Sponsorship”
“Membership”

Positioning adjacent work

Approach a Vanderbilt PI as a subaward partner, not the university as a grantmaker; money follows prime awards.
Price a first collaboration at $50,000 to $180,000, the range where most partner institutions sit.
Education researchers should connect to the learning-analytics line funded through The Learning Agency and Basis Policy Research.
HBCU and Tennessee public-institution faculty should note Fisk, Meharry, Tennessee State and Jackson State all draw Program Support.

Worth knowing: This is research money moving outward from Vanderbilt's own sponsored projects, so 263 of 726 payments stay in Tennessee and VUMC absorbs a large share of every year's total. Getting funded here means being written into a Vanderbilt investigator's proposal before submission, which makes the relationship with the PI the entire path in.

Top recipients

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

Vanderbilt University Medical Center4 grants · $177.6M
University of Texas at Austin4 grants · $3.4M
The University of Tennessee4 grants · $3.4M
Northwestern University4 grants · $3.2M
University of Wisconsin System4 grants · $2.7M
The Scripps Research Institute2 grants · $2.6M
Yale University4 grants · $2.5M
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois4 grants · $2.3M
Johns Hopkins University4 grants · $2.3M
University of Memphis4 grants · $2.2M

Giving over time

$58.3M

2021

$61.2M

2022

$71.8M

2023

$91.2M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 726 grants.

$54.3M
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Nashville, TN · 2024
Research
$47.0M
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Nashville, TN · 2023
Research
$39.6M
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Nashville, TN · 2022
Research; Training; Other Sponsored; Instruction
$36.7M
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Nashville, TN · 2021
Contribution; Research; Training; Other Sponsored
$2.5M
The Scripps Research Institute · La Jolla, CA · 2024
Research
$1.6M
The Learning Agency Llc · Washington, DC · 2024
Research
$1.4M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
Research
$1.4M
University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2023
Research
$1.3M
The University of Tennessee · Knoxville, TN · 2023
Research
$1.1M
Johns Hopkins University · Chicago, IL · 2024
Research
$1.1M
University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2024
Research
$1.0M
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2024
Research
$943,580
Leidos · Reston, VA · 2024
Research
$939,555
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2021
Research
$928,097
Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2024
Research
$898,895
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2023
Contribution
$895,141
University of Memphis · Memphis, TN · 2022
Research; Training
$879,073
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2021
Research; Training
$855,779
University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024
Research
$834,788
University of Wisconsin System · Madison, WI · 2021
Research
$830,945
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Research
$807,023
The University of Tennessee · Knoxville, TN · 2022
Research; Training; Other Sponsored
$805,643
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2022
Research
$779,216
University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2022
Research; Training
$777,523
The University of Tennessee · Knoxville, TN · 2021
Research; Training; Other Sponsored
$771,303
University of Wisconsin System · Madison, WI · 2022
Research
$767,113
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
Contribution
$742,095
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Research
$728,596
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
Research
$697,263
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Research
$696,450
Dana Farber Cancer Institute · Boston, MA · 2021
Research
$664,681
The Learning Agency Lab · Tempe, AZ · 2023
Research
$654,410
University of Wisconsin System · Madison, WI · 2023
Research
$649,221
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2022
Research; Training
$644,023
George Mason University · Fairfax, VA · 2024
Program Support
$641,275
University of South Alabama · Mobile, AL · 2024
Research
$633,883
Augusta University Research Institute · Augusta, GA · 2021
Research
$628,973
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Research
$617,297
Fisk University · Nashville, TN · 2024
Research
$609,917
University of South Florida · Tampa, FL · 2024
Research
$588,304
University of Minnesota Regents · Minneapolis, MN · 2021
Research; Training
$586,569
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022
Research
$582,807
University of Memphis · Memphis, TN · 2023
Contribution
$581,217
Ohio State Univ Research Foundation · Columbus, OH · 2022
Research
$568,467
Ohio State Univ Research Foundation · Columbus, OH · 2021
Research
$562,779
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Research
$556,232
Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR · 2021
Research
$551,006
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2021
Research
$550,947
North Carolina State University · Raleigh, NC · 2022
Research
$550,000
The Learning Agency · Tempe, AZ · 2022
Research
$548,908
Ohio State Univ Research Foundation · Columbus, OH · 2023
Research
$526,707
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2024
Research
$524,076
Georgia Institute of Technology · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Research
$511,090
The University of Tennessee · Knoxville, TN · 2024
Research
$510,848
Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Winston Salem, NC · 2022
Research
$501,700
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Research
$495,823
University of Minnesota Regents · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
Research
$473,217
Augusta University Research Institute · Augusta, GA · 2023
Research
$471,312
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2023
Research
$466,163
University of Connecticut · Storrs Mansfield, CT · 2021
Research; Training
$465,761
Regents of the University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Research
$462,504
North Carolina State University · Raleigh, NC · 2021
Research
$457,490
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Research
$436,535
Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2023
Research
$435,083
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2023
Research
$433,433
Ohio State University Research Foundation · Columbus, OH · 2024
Research
$425,445
Regents University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Research
$423,000
Augusta University Research Institute · Augusta, GA · 2022
Research
$418,654
The Pennsylvania State University · State College, PA · 2024
Research
$415,206
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Research
$412,619
Dana Farber Cancer Institute · Boston, MA · 2024
Research
$408,743
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Research
$407,873
Regents University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Research
$406,725
University of Wisconsin System · Madison, WI · 2024
Research
$406,404
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2021
Research
$398,969
Rutgers University · Piscataway, NJ · 2021
Research
$394,798
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023
Research
$392,463
The General Hospital Corporation Dba Massachusetts General Hospital · Somerville, MA · 2024
Research
$391,587
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2023
Research
$389,831
Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
Research
$389,718
University of South Florida · Orlando, FL · 2023
Research
$387,460
University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2022
Research
$380,672
Oregon State University · Corvallis, OR · 2021
Research
$380,378
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2021
Research
$378,300
Centennial Park Conservancy · Nashville, TN · 2023
Sponsorship
$377,845
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Research
$377,179
Washington University · St Louis, MO · 2024
Research
$375,506
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Research
$370,050
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2021
Research
$362,984
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Research
$362,835
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Research
$358,249
University of Connecticut · Storrs Mansfield, CT · 2024
Research
$356,333
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Research
$352,445
Southeastern Regional Education Service Center · Bedford, NH · 2021
Research
$352,399
Rutgers the State University · Piscataway, NJ · 2024
Research
$348,783
Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools · Nashville, TN · 2021
Research
$347,916
Alphacore · Tempe, AZ · 2022
Research
$347,093
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Research
$346,958
University of Minnesota Regents · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
Research; Training
$345,536
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · Champaign, IL · 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.