Funding search · EIN 352528741 · Nashville, TN

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Name: Vanderbilt University Medical Center 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.

1,034
grants reported: $450.8M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $84,190
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 instruction public service

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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 academic medical centers on multi-site research consortia
Genomics and precision medicine partners: Broad Institute, Univ. of Washington, TGen
Nashville and Tennessee institutions: Meharry, Lipscomb, ETSU, Memphis
Clinical trial network sites at hospitals and health systems nationwide
Contracts to small biotechs for vaccines and therapeutics development
Practice-based and health-system data partners: Kaiser, Geisinger, Harvard Pilgrim

Typical grant

Median payment is $84,190, with the middle half between $24,022 and $335,445, so most recipients are single sites doing a defined piece of a larger study. The very large checks, $2M to $18M, go to core scientific partners on national programs: Vanderbilt's own subawards, Broad, University of Washington, Meharry, Hopkins, Columbia, Stanford. With 1,034 payments to 654 recipients over four years, repeat payment is the norm rather than the exception, which is what you would expect from multi-year study budgets.

Their words

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

“Research”
“Sub Awards”
“General”
“Research & Contribution”
“Office of Sponsored Research”

Positioning adjacent work

Treat this as subaward flow, not philanthropy. Target the VUMC principal investigator holding the prime award, not a grants office.
Connect to their genomics and cohort-science spine: Broad, University of Washington, TGen are the anchor partners.
Size a single-site scope in the $25K to $335K range; reserve seven-figure asks for coordinating-center roles.
Regional partners with enrollment reach into underserved Tennessee populations have a visible track record here.

Worth knowing: Tennessee accounts for 223 of 1,034 payments and a huge share of dollars sits with under twenty institutions, led by $18.4M in Vanderbilt University subawards and $7M to Broad. Nearly every payment is coded simply "Research," which signals sponsored-project pass-through tied to existing scientific collaborations rather than discretionary giving you can pitch cold.

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 Sub Awards3 grants · $37.6M
The Broad Institute3 grants · $19.9M
Vanderbilt University Contract & Grant1 grant · $17.2M
The Vanderbilt University Contract & Grant1 grant · $13.7M
University of Pittsburgh3 grants · $10.5M
Washington University3 grants · $10.4M
Meharry Medical College3 grants · $10.3M
Johns Hopkins University3 grants · $9.0M
University of Miami Office of Research Administration3 grants · $8.1M
University of Southern California3 grants · $7.6M

Giving over time

$112.2M

2021

$101.2M

2022

$112.3M

2023

$125.1M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 1,034 grants.

$18.4M
Vanderbilt University Sub Awards · Nashville, TN · 2024
Research
$17.2M
Vanderbilt University Contract & Grant · Nashville, TN · 2021
Research
$16.9M
Vanderbilt University Sub Awards · Nashville, TN · 2023
Research
$13.7M
The Vanderbilt University Contract & Grant · Nashville, TN · 2022
Research
$12.0M
The Broad Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Research
$7.0M
The Broad Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Research
$6.6M
The Broad Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Research
$6.3M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Research
$4.8M
Washington University · Saint Louis, MO · 2022
Research
$4.5M
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · Boston, MA · 2021
Research
$4.4M
University of Washington Student Fiscal Services · Seattle, WA · 2024
Research
$4.3M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
Research
$4.2M
Washington University · Saint Louis, MO · 2021
Research
$3.9M
Meharry Medical College · Nashville, TN · 2024
Research
$3.9M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Research
$3.7M
The Trustees of Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$3.5M
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Research
$3.5M
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Research
$3.4M
Meharry Medical College · Nashville, TN · 2022
Research
$3.3M
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · Boston, MA · 2023
Research
$3.2M
Washington University · St Louis, MO · 2023
Research
$3.2M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Redwood City, CA · 2024
Research
$3.2M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
General
$3.0M
The Children'S Hospital of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Research
$3.0M
Meharry Medical College · Nashville, TN · 2023
General
$3.0M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Research
$2.9M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Research
$2.9M
University of Miami Office of Research Administration · Miami, FL · 2023
General
$2.8M
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · Boston, MA · 2024
Research
$2.8M
University of Miami Office of Research Administration · Miami, FL · 2022
Research
$2.6M
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · New York, NY · 2023
Research
$2.5M
Renbio · Long Island City, NY · 2024
Research
$2.4M
Wake Forest University · Winston Salem, NC · 2021
Research
$2.4M
University of Miami Office of Research Administration · Miami, FL · 2024
General
$2.4M
Washington University · St Louis, MO · 2024
Research
$2.4M
Vanderbilt University Sub Awards · Nashville, TN · 2022
Research
$2.3M
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Research
$2.3M
Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Winston Salem, NC · 2023
Research
$2.3M
Regents of the University of Colorado · Aurora, CO · 2024
Research
$2.2M
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
Research
$2.2M
University of Miami · Atlanta, GA · 2021
Research
$2.2M
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2021
Research
$2.2M
University of Florida · Gainesville, FL · 2021
Instruction
$2.2M
Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Winston Salem, NC · 2024
Research
$2.1M
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Research
$2.1M
Johns Hopkins University · Chicago, IL · 2022
Research
$2.1M
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General
$2.1M
Regents of the University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2022
Research
$2.1M
Duke University · Charlotte, NC · 2024
Research
$2.1M
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2021
Research
$2.1M
University of Washington Student Fiscal Services · Seattle, WA · 2023
Research
$2.1M
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2024
General
$2.0M
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Research
$1.9M
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2022
Research
$1.9M
Stanford University Board of Trustees of the Leland Stan · Palo Alto, CA · 2022
Research
$1.8M
Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR · 2024
Research
$1.8M
Stanford University · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Research
$1.8M
University of Colorado Denver · Denver, CO · 2021
Research
$1.8M
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill · Atlanta, GA · 2021
Research
$1.7M
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2022
Research
$1.7M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
Research
$1.7M
University of New Mexico · Albuquerque, NM · 2021
Research
$1.7M
Regents of the University of Colorado · Aurora, CO · 2023
General
$1.7M
Duke University · Charlotte, NC · 2023
Research
$1.7M
University of Michigan · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
Research
$1.7M
Johns Hopkins University · Chicago, IL · 2021
Research
$1.7M
Regents of the University of Michigan · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Research
$1.7M
Meharry Medical College · Nashville, TN · 2021
Research
$1.6M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Research
$1.6M
University of Washington · Chicago, IL · 2021
Research
$1.5M
Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR · 2023
Research
$1.5M
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · New York, NY · 2022
Research
$1.5M
The Regents of the Univ of Cal Ucsf Office of Sponsored Research · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Research
$1.5M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
Research
$1.5M
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
Research
$1.5M
Renbio · Long Island City, NY · 2022
Research
$1.4M
Renbio · Long Island City, NY · 2023
Research
$1.4M
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Research
$1.4M
The General Hospital Corporation · Boston, MA · 2024
Research
$1.4M
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2023
General
$1.4M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Research
$1.4M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Research
$1.4M
The Children'S Hospital of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General
$1.4M
Duke University · Charlotte, NC · 2022
Research
$1.3M
Duke University · Charlotte, NC · 2021
Research
$1.3M
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2021
Research
$1.3M
Cleveland Clinic · Cleveland, OH · 2021
Research
$1.3M
Virginia Commonwealth University · Richmond, VA · 2021
Research
$1.3M
Wake Forest University · Winston Salem, NC · 2022
Research
$1.3M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Research
$1.2M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2021
Research
$1.2M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2021
Instruction
$1.2M
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin-Madison · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
Research
$1.2M
University of Texas Medical Branch · Galveston, TX · 2024
Research
$1.2M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2022
Research
$1.2M
Indiana University Trustees of Indiana Univ · Detroit, MI · 2024
Research
$1.1M
Brigham & Womens Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
Research
$1.1M
Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR · 2022
Research
$1.1M
Newton Wellesley Hospital · Newton, MA · 2021
Research
$1.1M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 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.