Funding search · EIN 430653611 · Saint Louis, MO

Washington University

Name: Washington 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.

1,357
grants reported: $384.9M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $59,993
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 sponsorship award spnsrshp cash

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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 biomedical research subawards to academic medical centers
Large consortium sites at public flagship research universities
St. Louis regional research and health infrastructure (BioSTL, Integrated Health Network)
Pediatric and children's hospital research sites
Independent research institutes (Broad, La Jolla Institute, Venter, Gladstone)
Small subcontracts to companies and national labs (Lectrolyst, Wysa, Livermore)

Typical grant

The median payment is about $60,000 and half of everything falls between $17,000 and $233,340, which is subcontract territory rather than philanthropic gift territory. The seven-figure checks, topping out around $6.2 million to Minnesota and $5.9 million to Pittsburgh, go to institutions hosting major sites of multi-center studies; the small ones are single-site data collection, core services, or partial-effort collaborations. With 1,357 payments to 606 recipients across four years, most relationships recur, and the same universities reappear year over year as long as the underlying project runs.

Their words

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

“RESEARCH”
“REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF”
“TRUSTEES OF”
“RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF”

Positioning adjacent work

Treat this as subaward flow. The route in is a WashU principal investigator, not a foundation contact.
Budget a realistic site subcontract of $50,000 to $250,000 per year rather than a program-scale ask.
Connect to consortium themes visible in the record: genomics, immunology, pediatric medicine, global nutrition.
If you are St. Louis based, lean on the local pattern: BioSTL, SLU, Integrated Health Network all recur.

Worth knowing: Every single line in this record is labeled simply RESEARCH, so there is no stated program language to mirror; the money follows federally funded multi-site projects where Washington University holds the prime award. Missouri takes 326 of 1,357 payments, and the largest recipients are peer research universities with established co-investigator ties, which makes this giving almost entirely relationship and protocol driven rather than open to unsolicited approach.

Top recipients

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

University of Pittsburgh4 grants · $18.0M
Regents of the University of Minnesota3 grants · $14.0M
Columbia University4 grants · $11.6M
University of North Carolina4 grants · $10.5M
Regents of the University of California6 grants · $10.2M
Vanderbilt University Medical Center4 grants · $9.8M
Mayo Clinic4 grants · $8.1M
Northwestern University4 grants · $7.7M
General Hospital Corp Dba Massachusett3 grants · $7.0M
Trustees of Boston University4 grants · $6.5M

Giving over time

$72.9M

2021

$91.3M

2022

$99.9M

2023

$120.7M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 1,357 grants.

$6.2M
Regents of the University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Research
$6.0M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Research
$4.6M
Regents of the University of California · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023
Research
$4.5M
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Dallas, TX · 2024
Research
$4.4M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Research
$4.2M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Research
$4.1M
Regents of the University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
Research
$4.1M
University of North Carolina · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024
Research
$3.6M
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2022
Research
$3.6M
Regents of the University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
Research
$3.5M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
Research
$3.4M
General Hospital Corporation Dba Mgh · Boston, MA · 2024
Research
$3.4M
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$2.9M
Regents of the University of California · Lajolla, CA · 2022
Research
$2.9M
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023
Research
$2.8M
University of North Carolina · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
Research
$2.8M
General Hospital Corp Dba Massachusett · Boston, MA · 2022
Research
$2.6M
University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2021
Research
$2.6M
Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2024
Research
$2.6M
General Hospital Corp Dba Massachusett · Boston, MA · 2023
Research
$2.6M
Regents of the University of Californi · Lajolla, CA · 2024
Research
$2.6M
Mayo Clinic · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
Research
$2.4M
University of Maryland Baltimore · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Research
$2.3M
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2022
Research
$2.2M
Broad Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Research
$2.2M
University of Cincinnati · Cleveland, OH · 2022
Research
$2.2M
Northwestern University · Chicago, IL · 2024
Research
$2.2M
Regents of the University of California · La Jolla, CA · 2021
Research
$2.1M
Mayo Clinic · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
Research
$2.0M
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
Research
$2.0M
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2023
Research
$2.0M
University of North Carolina · Chapel Hill, NC · 2022
Research
$2.0M
University of Missouri · Kansas City, MO · 2024
Research
$1.9M
University of Colorado · Dallas, TX · 2024
Research
$1.9M
Biostl · St Louis, MO · 2024
Research
$1.9M
Mayo Clinic · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Research
$1.8M
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Research
$1.8M
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Dallas, TX · 2023
Research
$1.8M
Yale University · Boston, MA · 2022
Research
$1.8M
Lectrolyst Llc · Wilmington, DE · 2023
Research
$1.8M
Northwestern University · Chicago, IL · 2023
Research
$1.8M
University of Washington · Chicago, IL · 2024
Research
$1.8M
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Research
$1.7M
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Dallas, TX · 2022
Research
$1.7M
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2024
Research
$1.7M
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2021
Research
$1.7M
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
Research
$1.7M
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2023
Research
$1.7M
La Jolla Institute for Allergy Immunology · La Jolla, CA · 2024
Research
$1.7M
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Research
$1.6M
Curators of the University of Missouri · St Louis, MO · 2022
Research
$1.6M
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2023
Research
$1.6M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Research
$1.6M
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2021
Research
$1.6M
General Hospital Corp Dba Massachusett · Boston, MA · 2021
Research
$1.6M
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Dallas, TX · 2021
Research
$1.6M
Curators of the University of Missouri · Columbia, MO · 2021
Research
$1.6M
University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2024
Research
$1.6M
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Research
$1.6M
Biostl · St Louis, MO · 2023
Research
$1.6M
Mount Sinai School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2023
Research
$1.6M
University of Wisconsin · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
Research
$1.5M
University of North Carolina · Chapel Hill, NC · 2021
Research
$1.5M
University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2021
Research
$1.5M
Mayo Clinic · Minneapolis, MN · 2021
Research
$1.5M
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2024
Research
$1.5M
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2024
Research
$1.5M
Lectrolyst Llc · Wilmington, DE · 2024
Research
$1.5M
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2021
Research
$1.5M
Biostl · St Louis, MO · 2022
Sponsorship
$1.5M
Yale University · Boston, MA · 2023
Research
$1.5M
Biostl · St Louis, MO · 2021
Sponsorship
$1.5M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Research
$1.5M
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Research
$1.5M
University of Washington · Chicago, IL · 2023
Research
$1.5M
Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2023
Research
$1.5M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2021
Research
$1.5M
Mount Sinai School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$1.5M
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2022
Research
$1.4M
University of Washington · Chicago, IL · 2022
Research
$1.4M
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2021
Research
$1.4M
University of Cincinnati · Cleveland, OH · 2021
Research
$1.4M
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2022
Research
$1.4M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Research
$1.4M
University of Maryland Baltimore · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Research
$1.3M
University of Maryland Baltimore · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Research
$1.3M
Broad Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Research
$1.3M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Research
$1.3M
Trustees of Boston University · New York, NY · 2021
Research
$1.3M
University of Cincinnati · Cleveland, OH · 2023
Research
$1.2M
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Research
$1.2M
Curators of the University of Missouri · St Louis, MO · 2023
Research
$1.2M
Kennedy Krieger · Baltimore, MD · 2021
Research
$1.2M
Yale University · Boston, MA · 2024
Research
$1.2M
St Louis University · St Louis, MO · 2024
Research
$1.2M
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
Research
$1.2M
Childrens Hospital Boston Corporation · Boston, MA · 2022
Research
$1.2M
University of California San Francisco · Oakland, CA · 2024
Research
$1.2M
Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2022
Research
$1.2M
Trustees University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
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.