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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

EIN 36-2167817 EVANSTON, IL

Revenue 2024
$4,056,663,344
Expenses 2024
$4,288,569,939

Program services were 91.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N500
Classification
2000
Street
633 CLARK ST

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).

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.

  • Adam R Karr

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christine E Brennan

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael S Shannon

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peter J Barris

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steven A Cahillane

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Virginia M Rometty

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Adam L Hoeflich

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Annette Rippert

    Trustee (as of 5/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian S Posner

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charles A Tribbett III

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • D Cameron Findlay

    Trustee (until 7/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David A Sachs

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Deborah L DeHaas

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • E Scott Santi

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ellen Kullman

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Emily Heisley Stoeckel

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gwynne E Shotwell

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Harreld N Kirkpatrick III

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Heather B Baker

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James A DeNaut

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jane DiRenzo Pigott

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jane S Hoffman

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jay C Hoag

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jennifer Leischner Litowitz

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Z Kukral

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,056,663,344
    Expenses
    $4,288,569,939
    Contributions
    $497,344,598
    Grants paid
    $780,323,456
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,177,750,770
    Expenses
    $3,933,998,499
    Contributions
    $500,396,039
    Grants paid
    $749,377,157
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,319,115,351
    Expenses
    $3,655,717,485
    Contributions
    $545,275,891
    Grants paid
    $707,068,007

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 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

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.