Organization · EIN 06-0646973 · New Haven, CT · Education

Who funds Yale University?

550 private foundations reported paying Yale University $126M on returns for tax year 2023.

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

Funders 550

FoundationPaidPurpose as filedMatchSource
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
Los Angeles, CA · Preselected only
$16,000,000 EDUCATION - TO ENDOW AND ESTABLISH THE BROAD CENTER AT THE YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The David Geffen Foundation
Los Angeles, CA · Preselected only
$15,000,000 GENERAL SUPPORT Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Stephen and Amandine Freidheim Foundation
Florham Park, NJ · Preselected only
$6,150,000 GENERAL SUPPORT Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Carol and Gene Ludwig Family Foundation
Washington, DC · Preselected only
$5,340,000 General Operating Support - General
Filed as “Yale Law School”
Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The Starr Foundation
New York, NY · Preselected only
$5,000,000 MAURICE R. GREENBERG SCHOLARSHIP FUND AT YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Seattle, WA
$3,724,652
7 grant lines
EMPOWER WOMEN AND GIRLS +6 more Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Coleman and Susan Burke Foundation
New York, NY · Preselected only
$3,600,000 COLEMAN P. BURKE VISITING PROFESSORSHIP IN CLIMATE CHANGE FUND/PEABODY MUSEUM Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The William & Lia G Poorvu Family Foundation
Cambridge, MA · Preselected only
$2,500,000 ENDOWMENT AND OPERATING SUPPORT Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Donnini-Rudolph Family Foundation
Champaign, IL · Preselected only
$2,300,000
2 grant lines
BEST USE Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation
Palo Alto, CA · Preselected only
$2,211,219 TO SUPPORT THE YALE CENTER FOR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN IMPLEMENTING AN INTEGRATED SUITE OF ASSESSMENT TOOLS THAT SUPPORT POSITIVE HEALTHY… Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The Simons Foundation
New York, NY · Preselected only
$2,011,841
15 grant lines
IDENTIFYING CONVERGENT NEURAL CIRCUIT DEFICITS IN AUTISM +13 more Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
S & L Marx Foundation
Wilmington, DE · Preselected only
$1,650,000
5 grant lines
Data Science Library fund +4 more Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
John Templeton Foundation
West Conshohocken, PA
$1,574,123
7 grant lines
GROWING THE LIFE WORTH LIVING NETWORK IN HIGHER EDUCATION +6 more Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Laura and John Arnold Foundation
Houston, TX · Preselected only
$1,564,309
4 grant lines
TO SUPPORT SCHOLARSHIP INVOLVING HEALTH MARKETS, INSURANCE PREMIUMS, BAD ACTORS, AND STATE-LEVEL INTERACTIONS. +3 more Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust
New York, NY · Preselected only
$1,505,438
3 grant lines
TARGETING NEWLY DISCOVERED HOST-MICROBIOTA INTERACTION NODES TO TREAT OR PREVENT CROHNS DISEASE +1 more Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 03/2024
Knobloch Family Foundation
Wilmington, DE · Preselected only
$1,437,465 Conservation- SCALING UP NATURAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTING Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The Anne Wojcicki Foundation
Los Altos, CA · Preselected only
$1,400,000
2 grant lines
STARS PROGRAM EXPANSION AND ENDOWMENT +1 more Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Colton Family Foundation
Short Hills, NJ · Preselected only
$1,260,000 UNRESTRICTED Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 11/2024
Alfred P Sloan Foundation
New York, NY
$1,197,622
9 grant lines
TO UNDERSTAND MECHANISTICALLY HOW CELLULAR INFORMATION-PROCESSING ENABLES AND BOUNDS THE ABILITY OF BACTERIA TO CARRY OUT KEY FUNCTIONS SUC… +8 more Known alias 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Nancy a Lauter & Alfred L McDougal Charitable
Chicago, IL · Preselected only
$1,165,716 GENERAL 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 Yale University

These foundations paid at least two of the 25 organizations that share the most funders with Yale University, 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. Fidelity Foundation Boston, MA
    Paid 21 of the 25 closest peers · $3.83M to them
  2. Ernest Wentcher Educational Fund Chicago, IL
    Paid 16 of the 25 closest peers · $497K to them
  3. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Princeton, NJ
    Paid 17 of the 25 closest peers · $806K to them
  4. Carnegie Corporation of New York New York, NY
    Paid 16 of the 25 closest peers · $12.5M to them
  5. Citizens Charitable Foundation Johnston, RI
    Paid 16 of the 25 closest peers · $53.3K to them · Says it funds preselected organizations only
  6. Smith Richardson Foundation Greensboro, NC
    Paid 16 of the 25 closest peers · $2.82M to them
  7. The Henry Luce Foundation New York, NY
    Paid 14 of the 25 closest peers · $2.97M to them
  8. The Jpb Foundation New York, NY
    Paid 14 of the 25 closest peers · $23.5M to them · Says it funds preselected organizations only

Organizations with the most funders in common

  1. President and Fellows of Harvard College Cambridge, MA
    129 shared funders · 831 funders in all
  2. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY
    89 shared funders · 568 funders in all
  3. The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Redwood City, CA
    83 shared funders · 560 funders in all
  4. Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
    83 shared funders · 628 funders in all
  5. Cornell University Ithaca, NY
    80 shared funders · 463 funders in all
  6. New York University New York, NY
    84 shared funders · 359 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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