About Georgetown University
Georgetown University primarily funds internal research, scholarship, and experiential learning across its campus with strong emphasis on health disparities in Washington, D.C., Western Hemisphere/Americas scholarship, and student-led social innovation and public service. Grants typically support faculty research projects, student fellowships/experiential activities, center-led programs, and NIH-funded center initiatives rather than community nonprofit awards. Many programs prioritize investigator development, community engagement (especially for Black and Latino communities in D.C.), and building scholarly networks on governance, economic development, and sustainability in the Americas.
Focus Areas
D.C. Health Disparities Research (Black and Latino communities)Faculty Research Support and Non-Salary Project FundingStudent Social Innovation Fellowships and Experiential LearningWestern Hemisphere / Americas Collaborative Research on Governance and DevelopmentUniversity-based Community Engagement and Investigator Development
Giving Approach
Primarily internal, program-driven awards: annual campus research grants, center-specific competitive grants, student fellowship funds, and multi-year NIH center funding. Access is mixed—many opportunities are open to Georgetown faculty or students on a cyclical basis, while large center awards (e.g., NIH DISCOVER) do not accept unsolicited external proposals.
About Georgetown University
Georgetown University’s grantmaking is shaped by internal research and training programs that use subawards to move faculty projects, student learning, and center initiatives forward. Recent grants show that pattern clearly: a $2,238,704 subaward to Howard University and a $1,744,977 subaward to International Monitoring & Evaluation LLC were both among the largest awards in 2024, alongside other large university and research-institute subawards. The foundation’s work reaches across health disparities, democracy research, technology commercialization, and student social innovation, but the common thread is institutional capacity rather than community nonprofit grantmaking. Several programs are built around investigator development, community-engaged scholarship, and experiential learning. In Washington, D.C., it supports projects tied to Black and Latino health disparities and local public-sector partners, while other grants support research teams, data collection, travel, and translation for comparative and U.S. democracy work. Georgetown University also funds campus-based fellowship and training programs, including initiatives for early intervention, neurodevelopmental disabilities, child and adolescent mental health, and public service. The portfolio includes both NIH- and HRSA-linked programs and university-managed grant funds, which helps explain why many awards take the form of subawards or general support tied to specific research or educational functions.
What Georgetown University Funds
In health disparities work, Georgetown University backed the DISCOVER Initiative, an NIH-funded Center of Excellence focused on investigator development and community engagement around health disparities in Washington, D.C., especially for Black and Latino communities. That same community orientation appears in grants to District of Columbia Government for general support, linking the university’s research agenda to local public systems. For democracy research, the Georgetown Democracy Initiative supports projects on U.S. and global democratic practice. The program can cover travel, field research, dataset acquisition, research assistants, and translation, and it prefers collaborative faculty-student projects. The foundation also funds student-facing social impact work through the Social Innovation & Public Service Fund, which supports fellowships, study abroad, research, internships, community-engaged programs, and innovative social impact ventures. On the workforce side, GULEND and GULEND+ support early intervention and neurodevelopmental disabilities training.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$27.9M
Total Assets
$6.9B
Total Revenue
$2.3B
Total Expenses
$2.1B
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $21K and $125K, with a median of $60K.
25th Percentile
$21K
Median
$60K
75th Percentile
$125K
Geographic Reach
National40 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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