You might come to the conclusion after examining the situation that Stanford University is actually an agency of the US government. Last year the highly-rated institution was the recipient of $1.98 billion in government funding for research.
There are currently 7,500 externally-funded research projects at the school and about 2/3 of them are financed by the federal government. This article from The Stanford Daily explains how it works.
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