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Act for Nih Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$364k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
59%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$18,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 22
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$2.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 59% of the organizations Act for Nih Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
HealthPublic BenefitEnvironmentEducationInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving19$364k68%
FY202322$390k59%
FY202221$784k62%
FY202111$149k55%
FY202015$179k87%
FY20199$140k100%
FY20181$500n/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$1.2MScience & Tech$140kHousing & Shelter$111kArts & Culture$111kPhilanthropy$110kEducation$108kHuman Services$105kInternational$29kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of Cancer Research$302,00043%
Researchamerica$152,00051%
Usagainstalzheimer's$72,00040%
Casa de Esperanza$55,0153n/a
Ellis Island Honors Society Inc$50,00015%
Adopt-A-Scientist$50,00015%
Ozuah Family Foundation Inc Philip Ozuah Director$50,00016%
Mote Marine Laboratory Inc$25,00010%
Children's Inn at Nih Inc$25,00010%
South Fork Natural History Society$20,00031%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Act for Nih Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of Cancer Research: $302,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetResearchamerica: $152,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetUsagainstalzheimer's: $72,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEllis Island Honors Society Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetAdopt-A-Scientist: $50,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetOzuah Family Foundation Inc Philip Ozuah Director: $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetMote Marine Laboratory Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Inn at Nih Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSouth Fork Natural History Society: $20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Citizen Foundation Inc: $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHalo House Foundation: $13,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Baruch College Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBct Brooklyn Children's Theatre Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontefiore Medical Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAbrahams Tent Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPublic Citizen Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rotary Club of Houston Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJonahs Gsd 1b Research Foundation: $4,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetThe Bicol Clinic Foundation Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Peace Studio: $518 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe American Society for Cell Biology: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Andrew Sabin Family FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Andrew Sabin Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Act for Nih Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Act for Nih Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Act for Nih Foundation Inc

How much does Act for Nih Foundation Inc give?
Act for Nih Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $363,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Act for Nih Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (62%), Science & Tech (7%), Housing & Shelter (6%).
Who are Act for Nih Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Friends of Cancer Research ($302k), Researchamerica ($152k), Usagainstalzheimer's ($72k).
Does Act for Nih Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Act for Nih Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Act for Nih Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Andrew Sabin Family Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Act for Nih Foundation Inc based?
Act for Nih Foundation Inc is based in DC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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