Who funds Northeastern University?

Boston, Massachusetts · EIN 04-1679980 · NTEE B83 · 501(c)(3)

365 private foundations paid Northeastern University 757 grants on IRS Form 990-PF returns for tax year 2022 or later, $111.8M in all. Its IRS activity code (NTEE B83) places it in education.

All years on file, including returns before 2022.

Foundations that funded it

The 200 largest by total, of 365 on file.

Largest grants since 2022

Largest first. The purpose is what the foundation wrote on its return, for the tax year shown.

• The Roux Family Foundation · 2024 - General charitable contribution for education$15,000,000
• The Roux Family Foundation · 2023 - General charitable contribution for education$12,300,000
• Harold Alfond Foundation · 2024 - The harold alfond scholars initiative at the roux institute$12,000,000
• Harold Alfond Foundation · 2023 - The harold alfond scholars initiative at the roux institute$11,000,000
• Gordon Foundation Bernard M Gordon Et Al Trustees · 2024 - Unrestricted grant$4,200,500
• Gordon Foundation Bernard M Gordon Et Al Trustees · 2023 - Unrestricted grant$4,133,500
• Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation · 2024 - To increase access to computing education$3,800,000
• The Roux Family Foundation · 2025 - General charitable contribution for education$2,100,000
• Gates Foundation · 2023 - Mnch discovery and tools$1,345,743
• Ruby W and Lavon P Linn Foundation · 2023 - General Support$1,017,165
• Hopper-Dean Foundation · 2023 - Charitable$1,014,664
• Ray of Hope Foundation · 2025 - Portland Campus Development Fund$1,000,000
• The Jct Foundation · 2023 - General support$1,000,000
• Gates Foundation · 2024 - Maternal, newborn, child nutrition and health$976,835
• Ruby W and Lavon P Linn Foundation · 2024 - General Support$949,399
• Unlikely Collaborators Foundation · 2024 - Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett is among the top one percent most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psychology and…$799,153
• Unlikely Collaborators Foundation · 2023 - Support Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett's research and writing into the evolution and development of the human brain to understand meaning-making…$779,372
• The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · 2024 - To support efforts across the humanities, libraries, and local community organizations in boston to create a digital and analog local…$750,000
• The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · 2023 - To support efforts across the humanities, libraries, and local community organizations in boston to create a digital and analog local…$750,000
• The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment · 2024 - Food and agriculture research$728,696
• The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation · 2024 - To provide support for the study of the emergence of exceptional performance in the creative arts and science$684,500
• The Lowell Institute · 2023 - General Purpose$656,908
• John S and James L Knight Foundation Inc · 2024 - To support the internet and democracy initiative at northeastern university.$580,515
• Good Ventures Foundation · 2024 - Research on the interpretability of large language models$547,509
• Good Ventures Foundation · 2023 - Research on the interpretability of large language models$547,509

Organizations the same foundations fund

Organizations paid by many of the same foundations since 2022, by how much their lists of funders overlap.

• Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA · 57 shared funders
• Rochester Institute of TechnologyRochester, NY · 46 shared funders
• Syracuse UniversitySyracuse, NY · 49 shared funders
• New York UniversityNew York, NY · 65 shared funders
• Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY · 75 shared funders
• Brandeis UniversityWaltham, MA · 45 shared funders
• Vanderbilt UniversityNashville, TN · 52 shared funders
• Providence CollegeProvidence, RI · 34 shared funders

By tax year of the funder's return

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How this page is made

Each grant comes from a foundation's IRS Form 990-PF and was linked to this EIN only when this was the single organization in the IRS Business Master File with that name in that state. Grants written under a different spelling, or where several organizations share the name, are not counted here, so the real totals can be higher. Government grants and gifts from individuals do not appear on these returns.

• IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 04-1679980
• IRS Business Master File record updated Nov 9, 2026; listed in Publication 78 (eligible for deductible contributions)

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