Organization · EIN 04-2103594 · Cambridge, MA · Education

Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology?

290 private foundations reported paying Massachusetts Institute of Technology $140M on returns for tax year 2023.

290 funders · 8 foundations that fund peers · 6 closest peers

Funders 290

FoundationPaidPurpose as filedMatchSource
Stephen a Schwarzman Foundation
New York, NY · Preselected only
$24,078,911 SUPPORT A BUILDING FOCUSED ON PROMOTING THE APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The Morningside Foundation
Newton Centre, MA · Preselected only
$19,903,524 GENERAL USE - EDUCATION
Filed as “MIT”
Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Seattle, WA
$18,850,675
23 grant lines
HIV +14 more Same street 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The Simons Foundation
New York, NY · Preselected only
$11,338,625
55 grant lines
COMPUTATIONAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELING OF MARINE ECOSYSTEMS +43 more
Filed as “MIT”
Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The Jpb Foundation
New York, NY · Preselected only
$7,470,000
7 grant lines
THE PICOWER INSTITUTE INNOVATION FUND (PIIF) +6 more Same street 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
New York, NY · Preselected only
$3,995,224
5 grant lines
JOBS AND OPPORTUNITY INITIATIVE - SOFT SKILLS CONSOLIDATION RESEARCH +4 more Same street 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 11/2024
Good Ventures Foundation
Palo Alto, CA · Preselected only
$3,825,565
3 grant lines
RESEARCH RELATED TO AI AND COMPUTING TRENDS AND IMPACTS +1 more Same street 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 06/2024
Laura and John Arnold Foundation
Houston, TX · Preselected only
$3,809,154
3 grant lines
TO SUPPORT THE ABDUL LATIF JAMEEL POVERTY ACTION LAB NORTH AMERICA IN ITS WORK TO GENERATE RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS THAT MEASURE THE IM… +2 more Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation
Palo Alto, CA · Preselected only
$2,866,142
10 grant lines
IN SUPPORT OF THEORETICAL AND SYNTHESIS EFFORTS TO STABILIZE HIGH-TEMPERATURE HYDROGEN CHALCOGENIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS AT AMBIENT PRESSURE USI… +9 more Same street 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Alfred P Sloan Foundation
New York, NY
$2,682,570
19 grant lines
TO EXPAND AND DIVERSIFY THE COMMUNITY OF RESEARCHERS CONDUCTING RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS (RCTS) THAT INVESTIGATE AND ADDRESS THE UNDERL… +18 more Same street 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Tull Family Foundation
Chicago, IL · Preselected only
$2,500,000 MUSIC BUILDING Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The Lemelson Foundation
Portland, OR · Preselected only
$2,390,000
2 grant lines
TO SEEK TO DEVELOP THE NEXT GENERATION OF INVENTORS, WITH A FOCUS ON DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION, AND SPECIFICALLY TO EXPAND INCLUSIVE… +1 more Same street 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The Morgenthaler Foundation
New York, NY · Preselected only
$2,050,000 GRANT SUPPORT Same street 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 11/2024
Aphorism Foundation
San Francisco, CA · Preselected only
$1,840,000 GENERAL SUPPORT Same street 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Menlo Park, CA
$1,433,333
5 grant lines
FOR A CLEAN ENERGY INVESTMENT TRACKER +4 more Same street 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
Irvine, CA
$1,427,246
11 grant lines
RESEARCH, GENERAL SUPPORT & EDUCATION Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 08/2024
Carnegie Corporation of New York
New York, NY
$1,406,000
6 grant lines
For core support for projects on East Asian security dynamics and wargaming +5 more Same street 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 09/2024
Sequoia Climate Foundation
Irvine, CA · Preselected only
$1,350,000
2 grant lines
TO SUPPORT RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS IN FURTHERANCE OF THE CLEAN ENERGY TRANSITION +1 more Same street 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 11/2024
Founders Pledge
New York, NY · Preselected only
$1,100,100 GENERAL SUPPORT AND TEGMARK LAB FUND Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for
Palo Alto, CA · Preselected only
$1,050,000
3 grant lines
TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF FEMALE FACULTY MEMBERS WHO COMMERCIALIZE THEIR TECHNOLOGY AT UNIVERSITIES. +2 more Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023

Amounts are as filed on each foundation's 990-PF for a tax year beginning in 2023. The match shows how the payee on the filing was linked to this EIN (what each match type means); hover or tap it for the score. Wrong? Report it.

Foundations that fund organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology

These foundations paid at least two of the 25 organizations that share the most funders with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but don't appear on its own funder list for 2023. This is a factual overlap from filings, not a recommendation or an endorsement.

  1. American Express Foundation New York, NY
    Paid 21 of the 25 closest peers · $921K to them
  2. William Randolph Hearst Foundation New York, NY
    Paid 17 of the 25 closest peers · $1.79M to them
  3. Chubb Charitable Foundation Philadelphia, PA
    Paid 17 of the 25 closest peers · $310K to them
  4. The Commonwealth Fund New York, NY
    Paid 16 of the 25 closest peers · $5.3M to them
  5. John Templeton Foundation West Conshohocken, PA
    Paid 16 of the 25 closest peers · $22.3M to them
  6. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation New York, NY
    Paid 16 of the 25 closest peers · $5.59M to them
  7. The Spencer Foundation Chicago, IL
    Paid 13 of the 25 closest peers · $2.71M to them
  8. John S and James L Knight Foundation Miami, FL
    Paid 12 of the 25 closest peers · $8.88M to them

Organizations with the most funders in common

  1. President and Fellows of Harvard College Cambridge, MA
    88 shared funders · 831 funders in all
  2. The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Redwood City, CA
    63 shared funders · 560 funders in all
  3. Yale University New Haven, CT
    63 shared funders · 550 funders in all
  4. Cornell University Ithaca, NY
    58 shared funders · 463 funders in all
  5. New York University New York, NY
    59 shared funders · 359 funders in all
  6. Trustees of Tufts College Medford, MA
    50 shared funders · 257 funders in all

Where this comes from

Each row is a grant line from Part XV of a private foundation's Form 990-PF. The 990-PF has no field for the recipient's tax ID, so WHOFUNDS matched the payee's name and address to the IRS Business Master File. How matching works and where it fails.

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