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ADA Forsyth Institute Inc

For more than 100 years, forsyth has been a leader in oral health research and pediatric dental care. Today, we are grounded in a 3-pillared strategic plan focused on biological research, clinical service and public health outreach, and technological innovation.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Itemized grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$1.6M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$130,879
Largest grant, FY2024
$413,922
Organizations funded a year
6 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$32M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations ADA Forsyth Institute Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationScience & TechRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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 arriving9$1.5M33%
FY20237$586k29%
FY20228$1.4M38%
FY20216$837k17%
FY20209$938k22%
FY20199$1.3M0%
FY201812$1.2M33%
FY201713$2.0Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$5.0MHealth$2.8MScience & Tech$2.8MRecreation & Sports$385k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
KY
MD
TN
NC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Washington$1,717,0387n/a
Marine Biological Laboratory$1,593,75381%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$1,063,7418n/a
J Craig Venter Institute$1,005,922334%
Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc$873,7043n/a
Trustees of Boston University$651,19440%
Regents of the University of Michigan$497,9873n/a
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$385,9741n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$373,0844n/a
University of Florida$274,9285n/a
Show all 27 grantees
All grantees of ADA Forsyth Institute Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Washington$1,717,0387n/a
Marine Biological Laboratory$1,593,75381%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$1,063,7418n/a
J Craig Venter Institute$1,005,922334%
Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc$873,7043n/a
Trustees of Boston University$651,19440%
Regents of the University of Michigan$497,9873n/a
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$385,9741n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$373,0844n/a
University of Florida$274,9285n/a
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York$196,08720%
University of Pittsburgh$166,28120%
Northwestern University$146,08130%
Trustees of Tufts College$144,87410%
University of California San Francisco$140,1832n/a
University at Buffalo Foundation Inc$131,08920%
University of Chicago$88,84710%
The Jackson Laboratory$85,33420%
University of Louisville$32,4651n/a
Kennebec Valley Dental Coalition$26,50015%
Vanderbilt University$25,09430%
Duke University$23,85610%
University of Maryland College Park$20,4351n/a
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville$16,9421n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado$9,1601n/a
The University of Tennessee$7,6291n/a
Massachusetts General Hospital$7,4001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

ADA Forsyth Institute Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarine Biological Laboratory: $1,593,753 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetJ Craig Venter Institute: $1,005,922 over 3y, 34% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $651,194 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $196,087 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $166,281 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $146,081 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $144,874 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $131,089 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $88,847 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jackson Laboratory: $85,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKennebec Valley Dental Coalition: $26,500 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetVanderbilt University: $25,094 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDuke University: $23,856 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 13.

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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.

Northeastern UniversityMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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About ADA Forsyth Institute Inc

How much does ADA Forsyth Institute Inc give?
ADA Forsyth Institute Inc reported 10 itemized grants totaling $1,620,100, out of $1,712,387 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does ADA Forsyth Institute Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (46%), Health (26%), Science & Tech (25%).
Who are ADA Forsyth Institute Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Washington ($1.7M), Marine Biological Laboratory ($1.6M), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($1.1M).
Does ADA Forsyth Institute Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as ADA Forsyth Institute Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northeastern University, Washington University.
Where is ADA Forsyth Institute Inc based?
ADA Forsyth Institute Inc is based in MA.

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 32 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 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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