NonprofitsNorthwestern University

Recreation & Sports

Northwestern University

EVANSTON, IL

Total revenue

$4.2B

Total expenses

$3.9B

Net assets

$15.6B

Grants received

$1.5B

4,204 grants

EIN

362167817

Tax year

2023

Mission

Education and research

Programs

2 programs

Research activities: the research program at northwestern university is a major component of university efforts, assuring institutional leadership in scientific discovery, intellectual inquiry, and creative performance. The character of this research shapes all areas of university endeavor, especially graduate education as well as undergraduate studies.

Expenses: $703.4MGrants: $157.2M

Auxiliary enterprises serve the educational mission by primarily providing residences and food services, and other various goods and services to support university student, faculty, and staff activities.

Expenses: $213.0M

Financials

FY 2023

Revenue

Contributions & grants$500.4M
Program service revenue$2.8B
Investment income$840.0M
Other revenue$57.6M
Total revenue$4.2B

Expenses

Grants paid$749.4M
Salaries & benefits$1.8B
Fundraising$68.3M
Other expenses$1.4B
Total expenses$3.9B
Total assets$19.2B
Net assets$15.6B

People

50 listed

NameRoleCompensation

Amy Falls

VP & Chief Investment Officer

Board

$2.2M

40 hrs/wk

Robert E McQuinn

VP of Alumni Rel & Development

Board

$1.5M

40 hrs/wk

Derrick L Gragg

VP Athletics Rec

Board

$1.4M

40 hrs/wk

Michael H Schill

President

Board

$1.4M

40 hrs/wk

Stephanie Mills Graham

VP & General Counsel

Board

$1.1M

40 hrs/wk

Kathleen M Hagerty

Provost

Board

$1.0M

40 hrs/wk

Eric G Neilson

VP Medical Affairs

Board

$666K

40 hrs/wk

Sean Brian Reynolds

VP & Chief Information Officer

Board

$605K

40 hrs/wk

Amanda J Distel

VP & Chief Financial Officer

Board

$597K

40 hrs/wk

Luke Figora

VP and Chief Operations Officer

Board

$579K

40 hrs/wk

Lorraine A Goffe

VP & Chief HR Officer

Board

$516K

40 hrs/wk

David A Lively

Interim VP Alumni Relations Development

Board

$452K

40 hrs/wk

Robin Renee Means Coleman

VP Assoc Prov Div and Inc

Board

$381K

40 hrs/wk

Susan Davis

VP Student Affairs

Board

$363K

40 hrs/wk

Eric J Perreault

Vice President for Research

Board

$360K

40 hrs/wk

Jon Yates

VP Global Mkt & Comm

Board

$320K

40 hrs/wk

Devora Grynspan

VP of International Relations

Board

$271K

40 hrs/wk

Stacey Kostell

VP and Dean of Enrollment

Board

$180K

40 hrs/wk

Wendy M Nelson

Trustee

Board

1 hrs/wk

Adam L Hoeflich

Trustee

Board

1 hrs/wk

Yie-Hsin Hung

Trustee

Board

1 hrs/wk

Adam R Karr

Trustee

Board

1 hrs/wk

Brian S Posner

Trustee

Board

1 hrs/wk

Charles A Tribbett III

Trustee

Board

1 hrs/wk

Christine E Brennan

Trustee

Board

1 hrs/wk

D Cameron Findlay

Trustee

Board

1 hrs/wk

David A Sachs

Trustee

Board

1 hrs/wk

Deborah L DeHaas

Trustee

Board

1 hrs/wk

E Scott Santi

Trustee

Board

1 hrs/wk

Ellen Kullman

Trustee

Board

1 hrs/wk

Emily Heisley Stoeckel

Trustee

Board

1 hrs/wk

Patrick William Fitzgerald II

Head Coach

Staff

$4.1M

40 hrs/wk

Christopher Ryan Collins

Head Coach

Staff

$3.7M

40 hrs/wk

Mohanbir S Sawhney

Professor-Kellogg

Staff

$2.3M

40 hrs/wk

Morton O Schapiro

President Emeritus

Staff

$1.8M

40 hrs/wk

Peter A Belytschko

Managing Dir Absolute Return

Staff

$1.3M

40 hrs/wk

Chad A Mirkin

Professor-Chemistry

Staff

$1.3M

40 hrs/wk

Harisha Koneru Haigh

Mng Dir Priv Inv & Real Assets

Staff

$1.2M

40 hrs/wk

Craig A Johnson

Executive Vice President

Staff

$1.1M

40 hrs/wk

Marilyn McCoy

VP of Admin & Planning

Staff

$710K

40 hrs/wk

Milan Mrksich

VP of Research

Staff

$669K

40 hrs/wk

Julie Allen

Board Secretary and Advisor to President

Staff

$517K

40 hrs/wk

Priya Jenveja Harjani

Assoc VP & Dep General Counsel & Former Interim VP HR

Staff

$509K

40 hrs/wk

Alexander J Darragh

VP of Facilities Management

Staff

$496K

40 hrs/wk

Daniel Lee Durack

Assoc VP Budget & Planning

Staff

$345K

40 hrs/wk

Mike Polisky

Former VP Athletics

Staff

$307K

1 hrs/wk

Andy Madorsky

Co-interim VP Global Mkt & Comm

Staff

$303K

40 hrs/wk

Janna V Blais

Assoc Ad Intercollegiate Srvcs Athletics & Former Interim VP Athletics

Staff

$284K

40 hrs/wk

Jeri Beth Ward

VP Global Mkt & Comm

Staff

$264K

40 hrs/wk

Patricia Lampkin

Interim VP Student Affairs

Staff

$263K

40 hrs/wk

Independent contractors

THE FAMILY INSTITUTE

Instruction services

$43.0M

NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL GROUP

Healthcare services

$10.7M

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Medical and clinical services

$9.5M

NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE

Clinical services

$7.8M

IES Abroad

Instruction services

$5.0M

Grants received

Showing 200 of 4,204

FromAmountPurposeYear
$8.1M
GENERAL PURPOSE
2024
$7.5M
Cryoelectron Microscopy Advancement
2024
$7.5M
PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
2024
$6.6M
UNRESTRICTED CHARITABLE GIFT
2024
$5.7M
UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$4.1M
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THEORY AND MATHEMATICS IN BIOLOGY
2024
$2.8M
SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL RESEARCH
2024
$1.5M
NSF-SIMONS CENTER FOR QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY
2024
$1.4M
CREATE NOVEL TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM CAPABILITIES
2024
$1.4M
GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$1.3M
TO TEST FOR VIOLATION OF QUANTUM LINEARITY DUE TO GRAVITY
2024
$1.1M
EDUCATIONAL
2024
$1.1M
TO SUPPORT RESEARCH, MENTORSHIP, AND CAPACITY BUILDING FOR THE RESEARCH FOR INDIGENOUS SOCIAL ACTION AND EQUITY CENTER
2024
$1.1M
MEDICAL RESEARCH
2024
$1M
K-12 EDUCATION
2024
$1M
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2024
$1M
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR MECHANISMS OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE
2024
$1M
2024 PLEDGE PAYMENT
2024
$970K
TO SUPPORT EFFORTS TO DEVELOP AN OPEN-ACCESS STATE-OF-THE-ART BINARY-STAR MODELING TOOL THAT LEADS TO A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF STELLAR EVOLUTION AND ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS.
2024
$950K
FOR GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES
2024
$948K
TO FUND RESEARCH TO FIND A CURE FOR EB
2024
$925K
Extramural Research
2024
$850K
FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ($100K)KELLOGG VETERANS SCHOLARSHIPS ($750K)
2024
$835K
MATCHING GIFTS
2024
$789K
MALARIA
2024
$700K
RESEARCH TO FIND A CURE
2024
$690K
UNRESTRICTED
2024
$639K
FOR THE CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD ENGAGED RESEARCH AND SCIENCE (CORNERS), MEDILL METRO MEDIA LAB: TEACH FOR CHICAGO AND MEDILL ILLINOIS NEWS BUREAU, SPONSORSHIP AND MATCHING GIFTS
2024
$627K
TO DRIVE RESPONSIBLE ADOPTION OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AMONG NEWS ORGANIZATIONS BY MAKING RELEVANT, EXPERT-LEVEL KNOWLEDGE AND TOOLS WIDELY ACCESSIBLE.
2024
$534K
DELIVERY OF SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE GLOBAL HEALTH
2024
$502K
EARLY LEARNING
2024
$500K
general support
2024
$500K
NSF-SIMONS CENTER FOR QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY
2024
$500K
ROBERT H LURIE COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER RESEARCH
2024
$460K
EMPOWER WOMEN AND GIRLS
2024
$400K
Kellogg Fifteen Group Undergraduate Real Estate Curriculum Fund and Weinberg College Fifteen Group Undergraduate Real Estate Curriculum Fund
2024
$388K
TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS
2024
$375K
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
2024
$360K
EVIDENCE SYNTHESES AND META-ANALYSIS- CAPITAL AND WOMEN'S LIVELIHOODS
2024
$350K
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2024
$345K
MBC: INTERACTION OF THE MICROBIOME WITH ASTROCYTES AND AMYLOID PATHOLOGY
2024
$325K
TO FURTHER PROGRAM SERVICES
2024
$312K
MULTIPLE GRANTS FOR MULTIPLE PURPOSES
2024
$310K
MATERIALS SCIENCE RESEARCH
2024
$305K
OPERATING FUNDS
2024
$302K
TO BUILD AMERICAS MOST COMPREHENSIVE DATABASE OF LOCAL NEWS OUTLETS, ONE THAT CAN BE A DIAGNOSTIC TOOL FOR THE CURRENT HEALTH OF THE INDUSTRY AND PINPOINT AREAS AT RISK OF BECOMING NEWS DESERTS.
2024
$300K
FUNDS SUPPORT RESEARCH BY DR. TALIA LERNER, A NEUROSCIENTIST AND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, WHERE SHE LEADS A LAB FOCUSED ON THE NEURAL CIRCUITRY OF MOTIVATION, LEARNING, AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN BEHAVIOR. AT NORTHWESTERN, HER LAB USES ADVANCED TOOLS TO MAP DOPAMINERGIC CONNECTIVITY AND IN VIVO ACTIVITY, WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON HOW STRESS AND INDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY SHAPE BEHAVIOR AND MAY INFORM NEW APPROACHES TO PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT.
2024
$300K
STEIN INNOVATION GRANT
2024
$300K
SUPPORTS RICHTER DOCTORAL
2024
$300K
SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORT
2024
$300K
IN SUPPORT OF ITS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD ENGAGED RESEARCH & SCIENCE (CORNERS) TO ESTABLISH A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE THAT WOULD INCLUDE LEADING RESEARCHERS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO IDENTIFY, COMPILE, AND DISSEMINATE EMERGING PUBLIC SAFETY RESEARCH
2024
$300K
CORE SUPPORT FOR THE CENTER ON DISABILITY AND RACIAL JUSTICE
2024
$300K
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BY JUSTYNA DOBROWOLSKA ZAKARIA, PHD ENTITLED: A2025019S
2024
$287K
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE TAU CONSORTIUM: THE ROLE OF AB - INDUCED MEMBRANE DAMAGE IN TAU PATHOLOGY
2024
$250K
GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES
2024
$250K
CLEANTECH EXPLORATION
2024
$250K
Sports, Athletic
2024
$250K
QUANTUM-LIMITED DETECTION OF ONE-QUANTUM TRANSITIONS OF ONE ISOLATED ELECTRON
2024
$240K
Endowment Fund Willens Center for Nano Oncology
2024
$238K
AI FOR THE SKY - THE SKAI INSTITUTE
2024
$231K
SE-LE STIPEND
2024
$225K
CANCER RESEARCH
2024
$225K
CONTRIBUTION
2024
$200K
SUPPORTING KELLOGG CENTER FOR ENLIGHTENED DISAGREEMENT (K-CED)
2024
$200K
HAVEY INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH
2024
$200K
YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD
2024
$200K
TO FUND RESEARCH IN EMERGING CANCER THERAPIES/CURES
2024
$200K
MEDICAL RESEARCH
2024
$200K
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
2024
$200K
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
2024
$200K
Full Circle Campaign - Center for Enlightened Disagreement
2024
$200K
Innovative Clinical or Translational Science Health Disparities
2024
$188K
FOR FOIA PRACTICUM FUND FOR PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW
2024
$186K
CATALYST TO INDEPENDENCE AWARD
2024
$185K
COMPUTATION TIMESCALES AND COMPOSITIONALITY AS ORGANIZING PRINCIPLES OF DECISION-MAKING DYNAMICS ACROSS THE CORTEX
2024
$167K
IN SUPPORT OF THE DATA SCIENCE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM, WHOSE MISSION IS TO SUPPLEMENT GRADUATE EDUCATION IN ASTRONOMY WITH IN-DEPTH TRAINING IN THE SKILLS FOR DOING SCIENCE WITH BIG DATA FROM THE RUBIN OBSERVATORY'S LEGACY SURVEY OF SPACE AND TIME.
2024
$156K
SIMONS COLLABORATION ON PERFECTION IN ALGEBRA, GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY
2024
$150K
CF CARE CENTER
2024
$150K
NEW INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH GRANT
2024
$150K
Education
2024
$150K
DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY RESEARCH GRANT
2024
$150K
DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY RESEARCH GRANT
2024
$150K
BIPOLAR DISORDER RESEARCH
2024
$150K
NEW INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH GRANT
2024
$150K
NEW INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH GRANT
2024
$143K
TO FURTHER PROGRAM SERVICES
2024
$142K
CLINICAL RESEARCH
2024
$139K
CLINICAL RESEARCH STUDY
2024
$127K
To help explore barriers to emloyment for people of color in media in the Midwest.
2024
$125K
TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH GRANTS
2024
$125K
MEDICAL RESEARCH
2024
$125K
MEDICAL RESEARCH
2024
$125K
NEXT STEPS: ADVANCING DRUG DISCOVERY TO IDENTIFY NEW THERAPIES AWARD
2024
$125K
RESEARCH & EDUCATION
2024
$120K
NU-UCHICAGO BRINSON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN ASTROPHYSICS
2024
$117K
SUPPORT CHARITABLE PROGRAMS
2024
$115K
UNRESTRICTED RESEARCH GRANT: DEPARTMENT OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
2024
$110K
RESEARCH SUBAWARD
2024
$110K
General operating support
2024
$106K
HEALTH
2024
$100K
RESEARCH GRANT
2024
$100K
ENDOWMENT FOR ALS RESEARCH AND PATIENT CENTER
2024
$100K
Student Affairs Fund
2024
$100K
UNRESTRICTED GENERAL
2024
$100K
GENERAL OPERATIONS
2024
$100K
GENERAL PUBLIC SUPPORT
2024
$100K
IN SUPPORT OF GENERAL OPERATIONS
2024
$100K
A Chicago Biomedical Consortium Hub of Innovative Technologies for Entrepreneurship and Science (CBC-HITES)
2024
$100K
2024 AAAAI FOUNDATION AWARD TO SUSTAIN RESEARCH EXCELLENCE
2024
$100K
SUPPORT BRAIN CANCER RESEARCH
2024
$97K
INDIGENOUS EDUCATION SALONS
2024
$96K
SIMONS INVESTIGATOR IN MATHEMATICS
2024
$95K
CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER
2024
$95K
TO FURTHER THE ORGANIZATION'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
2024
$87K
CISINFORMED: MISINFORMATION AND THE MEDIA WAR ON TRANSGENDER YOUTH
2024
$86K
GENERAL OPERATING
2024
$81K
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
2024
$81K
MULTISCALE ORGANIZATIONAL PRINCIPLES IN ACTIVE MATTER AND LIVING SYSTEMS
2024
$79K
HUMAN LEARNING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
2024
$76K
OUTER BRAIN AND INNER BRAIN: COMPUTATIONAL PRINCIPLES AND INTERACTIONS
2024
$75K
RESEARCH SUBGRANT
2024
$75K
CHARITABLE PURPOSE
2024
$75K
MEDICAL RESEARCH
2024
$75K
INDIGENOUS EDUCATION INITIATIVE
2024
$75K
MEDICAL RESEARCH
2024
$75K
DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY RESEARCH GRANT
2024
$75K
EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH ALLIANCE OF CHICAGO
2024
$75K
NEURAL BASIS FOR OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING IN AUTISM MOUSE MODELS
2024
$75K
SUPPORT FOR PREP4TEENS
2024
$74K
RESEARCH - WELLSTONE SUPPLEMENT
2024
$67K
SPIN GLASSES, DIMENSION REDUCTION, AND APPLICATIONS
2024
$67K
SABBATICAL 2023
2024
$65K
UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$65K
ADVANCEMENT OF VIOLIN STUDIES
2024
$64K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$63K
GENERAL SUPPORT GRANT
2024
$63K
FOIA Practicum Fund
2024
$60K
PROGRAM SUPPORT
2024
$60K
CENTER OF EXCELLENCE GRANTS
2024
$60K
DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION
2024
$57K
CIVIL SOCIETY SUPPORT AND RULE OF LAW
2024
$51K
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
2024
$50K
FUNDING SUPPORTS GENERAL OPERATIONS AND PROGRAMMING.
2024
$50K
FELLOWSHIP AWARD
2024
$50K
GENERAL NONPROFIT SUPPORT
2024
$50K
EDUCATIONAL
2024
$50K
KSM Dean's Scholarship Fund
2024
$50K
OWEN L COON DEBATE TOURNAMENT
2024
$50K
Annual Fund
2024
$50K
Bumpus Innovation Award
2024
$50K
Resources for People Impacted by Mass Incarceration
2024
$50K
TO SUPPORT THE EXPANSION OF BLACK KIDS PREDICT PROGRAMMING
2024
$50K
Support for Metrics of Employment Quality
2024
$50K
TO SUPPORT FOR SCIENTIFIC STUDIES IN THE ARTS (NU-ACCESS): TO BE MATCHED TWO-TO-ONE WITHIN APPROXIMATELY FOUR YEARS, TO SUPPORT THE POSITION OF CODIRECTOR; & FOR USE OVER APPROXIMATELY FIVE YEARS, TO SUPPORT THE CENTER
2024
$48K
Aircraft Respiratory Disease Surveillance
2024
$48K
SEE PART IV
2024
$46K
CHICAGO FIELD STUDIES INTERNSHIP PROGRAM SUPPORT, BYRNS & VILL FAMILIES ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUND SUPPORT, BYRNS & VILL FAMILIES SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORT
2024
$45K
SCHOLARSHIPS
2024
$43K
FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
2024
$42K
COMMUNITY SERVICES
2024
$41K
TO FURTHER THE EXEMPT PURPOSE OF THE ORGANIZATION
2024
$40K
GENERAL OPERATIONS
2024
$40K
TOFFLER SCHOLAR PROGRAM
2024
$40K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$39K
DONOR ADVISED, EDUCATION
2024
$38K
Medical Assistance
2024
$38K
USING DUPILUMAB TO IMPROVE CIRCADIAN FUNCTION, SLEEP AND PRURITUS IN CHILDREN WITH MODERATE/SEVERE ATOPIC DERMATITIS
2024
$35K
UNIVERSITIES, GRADUATE SCHOOLS OR LAW SCHOOLS
2024

Funded by

$1.5B from 1,376 funders · 4,204 grants · 2016–2024

The Big Ten Conference Inc

$339.7M · 6 grants · 2017–2023

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare

$258.3M · 7 grants · 2017–2023

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

$85.0M · 6 grants · 2017–2023

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

$79.4M · 8 grants · 2017–2023

The Chicago Community Trust

$49.5M · 8 grants · 2017–2023

The Michael J Fox Foundation

$29.6M · 7 grants · 2018–2024

Pritzker Family Foundation

$28.1M · 5 grants · 2020–2023

Gates Foundation

$20.5M · 23 grants · 2017–2024

Details

EIN362167817
NTEE codeN500
Subsection03
Ruling date1945-05
Formed1851
Employees27279
Volunteers145