TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

881 COMMONWEALTH AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• SEE SCHEDULE O

  Expenses $2,032,098,482 · Grants $785,453,162 · Revenue $2,075,071,922

• RESEARCH - WHAT SETS BOSTON UNIVERSITY APART AS A RESEARCH UNIVERSITY IS THE BREADTH AND DEPTH OF ITS RESEARCH AND THE UNIQUELY ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT OF ITS FACULTY. RESEARCHERS AT BU ARE NOT AFRAID TO CROSS DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES, AS CAN BE SEEN BY STRATEGIC EFFORTS TO SUPPORT INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN NEUROSCIENCE, RELIGION AND WORLD AFFAIRS, INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY, CLEAN ENERGY, SUSTAINABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH CARE DELIVERY, AND GLOBAL HEALTH, TO NAME A FEW. IN EACH CASE, THE EMPHASIS IS NOT ON INTERDISCIPLINARITY FOR ITS OWN SAKE, BUT ON USING A MULTIFACETED APPROACH TO SOLVE THE IMPORTANT AND COMPLEX PROBLEMS FACING SOCIETY TODAY.

  Expenses $455,046,330 · Grants $153,160,685 · Revenue $21,307,556

• AUXILIARIES - AUXILIARY ENTERPRISES SUPPORT THE MISSION OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY BY PROVIDING ESSENTIAL SERVICES TO THE CAMPUS COMMUNITY. THEY ARE ENTERPRISES IN THAT THEY ARE GENERALLY SELF-SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES, RECOVERING THEIR COSTS THROUGH THE FEES OR PRICES THEY CHARGE FOR THEIR GOODS AND SERVICES. AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY, AUXILIARY ENTERPRISES ARE DESIGNED TO DELIVER SUPERIOR QUALITY SERVICES THAT ARE EXPECTED BY THE STUDENTS, FACULTY, STAFF AND ALUMNI.

  Expenses $393,000,184 · Revenue $392,755,164

• OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES CONSIST OF LIBRARIES, ACADEMIC SERVICES, STUDENT SERVICES, EXTERNAL PROGRAMS, AND OTHER DEDUCTIONS.

  Expenses $228,242,031

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $3,513,830,353

  Expenses

  $3,419,039,088

  Contributions

  $783,991,107

  Grants paid

  $938,613,847

• 2023

  Revenue

  $3,257,563,350

  Expenses

  $3,195,959,811

  Contributions

  $709,188,163

  Grants paid

  $858,377,304

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,310,909,056

  Expenses

  $3,006,440,897

  Contributions

  $838,648,817

  Grants paid

  $821,349,638

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,129,652,283

  Expenses

  $2,838,264,646

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,017,718,487

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,827,583,539

  Expenses

  $2,471,119,524

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,292,157,093

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,615,858,845

  Expenses

  $2,505,252,148

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,207,997,851

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,661,508,568

  Expenses

  $2,428,902,662

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,019,919,366

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,503,487,956

  Expenses

  $2,238,507,237

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,392,541,992

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,416,360,302

  Expenses

  $2,061,034,585

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,890,986,351

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2025

Tax period

1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026

Principal officer

Not named on the postcard

Mailing address

330 S Campus AvenueOxford OH 45056

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

• Day Zero Diagnostics Inc

  $6,891,431

  2022 · Research Research

• THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION

  $5,480,365

  2023 · RESEARCH

• The General Hospital Corporation

  $5,414,096

  2022 · Research Research

• DAY ZERO DIAGNOSTICS INC

  $5,338,365

  2024 · RESEARCH

• THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION

  $5,102,054

  2024 · RESEARCH

• CELLICS THERAPEUTICS INC

  $4,970,180

  2024 · RESEARCH

• PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLL

  $4,382,219

  2024 · RESEARCH

• Avails Medical Inc

  $3,799,715

  2022 · Research Research

• LOCUS BIOSCIENCES INC

  $3,757,563

  2024 · RESEARCH

• Peptilogics Inc

  $3,637,924

  2022 · Research Research

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• NOVO NORDISK FONDEN

  $25,205,437

  2023 · INFDIS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $15,352,768

  2023 · EDUCATION

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $14,946,601

  2024 · EDUCATION

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $7,579,393

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $7,346,496

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION

  $6,164,041

  2022 · SUBAWARD

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $5,334,758

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION

  $4,929,254

  2023 · SUBAWARD

• BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION

  $4,630,374

  2024 · SUBAWARD

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $3,569,245

  2022 · EDUCATION

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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