Who funds Princeton University?

Princeton, New Jersey · EIN 21-0634501 · NTEE B430 · 501(c)(3)

449 private foundations paid Princeton University 994 grants on IRS Form 990-PF returns for tax year 2022 or later, $78.7M in all. Its IRS activity code (NTEE B430) places it in education.

All years on file, including returns before 2022.

Foundations that funded it

The 200 largest by total, of 455 on file.

Largest grants since 2022

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

• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · 2024 - Continuing direct technical assistance to states, including promoting community leadership in policymaking and advancing health equity,…$4,242,404
• The Sarofim Foundation · 2024 - General charitable purposes$4,000,000
• Gong Family Foundation · 2024 - To support the gong *91 bioengineering postdoctoral fellows and graduate fellows fund$3,000,000
• The Addy Foundation · 2023 - Education$2,500,000
• The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation · 2024 - Support for scientific research on sargassum seaweed as a future renewable feedstock for sustainable biomanufacturing$2,030,381
• The Sarofim Foundation · 2023 - General charitable purposes$2,000,000
• Hugh L Adams Charitable Trust · 2024 - General purpose grant$1,284,847
• Hugh L Adams Charitable Trust · 2023 - General purpose grant$1,132,950
• Hugh L Adams Charitable Trust · 2022 - General purpose grant$1,053,023
• Hugin Family Foundation Inc · 2023 - Any general purpose of the recipient org$1,016,400
• The Swani Family Foundation · 2025 - To support swani family venture forward scholarship fund$1,000,000
• The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · 2024 - To support critical race approaches and curricular experimentation in classical studies$1,000,000
• The Swani Family Foundation · 2023 - To support swani family venture forward scholarship fund.$1,000,000
• Gong Family Foundation · 2023 - To support the gong *91 bioengineering postdoctoral fellows and graduate fellows fund$1,000,000
• EGL Charitable Foundation · 2023 - General support$1,000,000
• James and Elizabeth Pickman Foundation Inc · 2022 - To further donee's exempt purpose$1,000,000
• The Mclain Foundation (US) · 2022 - Educational$1,000,000
• Gabelli Foundation Inc · 2024 - Provide operating funds$750,000
• The Simons Foundation Inc · 2024 - Hidden symmetries and fusion energy$609,688
• The Simons Foundation Inc · 2024 - A new laboratory search for dark matter with a small-scale experiment$573,449
• Shipley Foundation Inc #0755496 · 2024 - For helen shipley hunt fund for practical engineering applictions and graduate alumni annual giving fund$550,000
• Shipley Foundation Inc #0755496 · 2023 - For helen shipley hunt fund for practical engineering applictions and graduate alumni annual giving fund$550,000
• Berlin Family Fund Arnold M Berlin · 2024 - Unrestricted$510,000
• The Addy Foundation · 2025 - Education$500,000
• Berlin Family Fund Arnold M Berlin · 2025 - Unrestricted$500,000

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 · 37 shared funders
• Vanderbilt UniversityNashville, TN · 39 shared funders
• Georgetown UniversityWashington, DC · 40 shared funders
• Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY · 43 shared funders
• Wellesley CollegeWellesley, MA · 26 shared funders
• New York UniversityNew York, NY · 37 shared funders
• Rockefeller UniversityNew York, NY · 21 shared funders
• Barnard CollegeNew York, NY · 22 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 21-0634501
• IRS Business Master File record updated Nov 9, 2026; listed in Publication 78 (eligible for deductible contributions)

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