Who funds Northwestern University?
Evanston, Illinois · EIN 36-2167817 · NTEE N500 · 501(c)(3)
631 private foundations paid Northwestern University 1,393 grants on IRS Form 990-PF returns for tax year 2022 or later, $184.5M in all. Its IRS activity code (NTEE N500) places it in youth sports.
All years on file, including returns before 2022.
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Foundations that funded it
The 200 largest by total, of 634 on file.
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Largest grants since 2022
Largest first. The purpose is what the foundation wrote on its return, for the tax year shown.
- Pritzker Family Foundation · 2024 - Law school operations$10,000,000
- Pritzker Family Foundation · 2023 - Law school operations$10,000,000
- The Benificus Foundation · 2024 - General purpose$8,078,312
- Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc · 2024 - Cryoelectron Microscopy Advancement$7,500,000
- Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc · 2023 - Cryoelectron Microscopy Advancement$7,500,000
- Hevolution Foundation US · 2025 - Develop the proteostasis index of healthy aging (piha)$6,935,190
- Eleven Eleven Foundation · 2024 - Unrestricted charitable gift$6,600,000
- The Simons Foundation Inc · 2024 - National institute for theory and mathematics in biology$4,125,000
- The Bernard Osher Foundation · 2023 - Osher online endowment$3,150,000
- Gates Foundation · 2023 - K-12 education$2,200,270
- K5 Foundation · 2024 - to support creation of an integrated program to ensure enhanced academic, social, and career to support$2,000,000
- The Simons Foundation Inc · 2023 - National institute for theory and mathematics in biology$1,875,000
- Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · 2023 - To support efforts to develop an open-access state-of-the-art binary-star modeling tool that leads to a deeper understanding of stellar…$1,816,384
- Glenn Greenberg and Linda Vester Foundation Inc · 2024 - Charitable$1,640,000
- Gates Foundation · 2023 - Empower women and girls$1,541,339
- The Simons Foundation Inc · 2024 - Nsf-Simons center for quantitative biology$1,500,000
- Scanlan Family Foundation · 2024 - All contributions made for the intent established by the various charities$1,500,000
- Scanlan Family Foundation · 2023 - All contributions made for the intent established by the various charities$1,500,000
- Gates Foundation · 2024 - Create novel technology platform capabilities$1,402,228
- W M Keck Foundation · 2024 - To test for violation of quantum linearity due to gravity$1,300,000
- Gates Foundation · 2023 - Create novel technology platform capabilities$1,289,614
- Gates Foundation · 2023 - Malaria$1,133,880
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · 2024 - To support research, mentorship, and capacity building for the research for indigenous social action and equity center$1,115,997
- Beard Scholarship Fund · 2024 - Unrestricted general$1,108,075
- Sacks Family Foundation · 2025 - To further the exempt purpose of the organization$1,077,500
Organizations the same foundations fund
Organizations paid by many of the same foundations since 2022, by how much their lists of funders overlap.
- University of ChicagoChicago, IL · 128 shared funders
- Greater Chicago Food DepositoryChicago, IL · 83 shared funders
- Georgetown UniversityWashington, DC · 89 shared funders
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA · 69 shared funders
- New York UniversityNew York, NY · 81 shared funders
- Art Institute of ChicagoChicago, IL · 63 shared funders
- University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA · 78 shared funders
- Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY · 84 shared funders
By tax year of the funder's return
| Year | Grants | Foundations | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 220 | 207 | $19.8M |
| 2024 | 537 | 439 | $90M |
| 2023 | 549 | 424 | $68.8M |
| 2022 | 87 | 79 | $5.9M |
| 2021 | 7 | 7 | $108K |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | $20K |
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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 36-2167817
- IRS Business Master File record updated Nov 9, 2026; listed in Publication 78 (eligible for deductible contributions)
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