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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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$414k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $1,620,100, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,712,387 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $92,287 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $751k
  • $250k+2 grants · $809k
$130,879
Median grant
7
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
J Craig Venter Institute$413,922
Marine Biological Laboratory$394,729
Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc$225,577
The Regents of the University of Michigan$166,084
President and Fellows of Harvard College$130,879
The Research Foundation for SUNY$123,772
University of Washington$104,838
University of Louisville$32,465
University of Maryland$20,435
360 Degree Engineering LLC DBA Optimuos$7,399
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $308k → 8%MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $429k → 8%Brigham & Women's Hospital: $305k → 16%University of Pittsburgh: $123k → 11%Stanford University: $144k → 8%J Craig Venter Institute: $414k → 11%STATE UNIVERSITY OF NY: $105k → 13%University of Michigan: $295k → 14%The Regents of the University of Michigan: $166k → 21%University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill: $386k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $446k → 9%Northwestern University: $60k → 14%Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $123k → 8%Marine Biological Laboratory: $395k → 8%Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc: $226k → 16%Stanford University: $105k → 8%VENTER (NIH2720A): $384k → 11%University of Washington: $409k → 9%Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $61k → 8%Marine Biological Laboratory: $149k → 8%Massachusetts General Hospital: $155k → 16%J Craig Venter Institute: $208k → 11%University of Washington: $283k → 9%President and Fellows of Harvard College: $131k → 8%Marine Biological Laboratory: $146k → 8%Massachusetts General Hospital: $131k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON GC: $239k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $89k → 14%Marine Biological Laboratory: $146k → 8%Brigham & Women's Hospital: $115k → 16%University of Washington: $167k → 9%MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $142k → 8%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $111k → 16%University of Washington: $105k → 9%Marine Biological Laboratory: $135k → 8%Brigham & Women's Hospital: $111k → 16%University of Washington: $69k → 9%Harvard Medical School: $87k → 16%Brigham & Women's Hospital: $84k → 16%President & Fellows of Harvard College: $70k → 16%Massachusetts General Hospital: $58k → 16%Tufts Medical Center: $343k → 16%Tufts Medical Center: $277k → 16%Tufts Medical Center: $254k → 16%Tufts Medical Center: $145k → 16%Boston University: $244k → 16%Boston University: $236k → 16%Boston University: $149k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
KY
MD
TN
NC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.9M · 16 repeat orgs$771k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
9

Total granted

$8.9M
$711k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+41%

Still filing today

56%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationScience & TechHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MB
    MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +37%
  • JC
    J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue ×13 · 34% of their budget
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $651k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2017 · $386k
  • Trustees of Tufts Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $145k · revenue +39%
  • University of Chicago
    one grant, 2022 · $89k · revenue +22%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
4
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
7
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
10
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
11
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
12
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College; the most unlike its peers is Kennebec Valley Dental Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
17/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $1,717,038 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $1,063,741 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDTUFTS MEDICAL CENTER PARENT INC: $873,704 · OtherTUFTS MEDICAL CENTER PARENT INCTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $651,194 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $497,987 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $385,974 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $373,084 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $274,928 · Other+8 more: $241,613 · OtherMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $1,593,753 · Science & TechMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATO…J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $1,005,922 · Science & TechJ CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTEMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $492,747 · EducationMassachusetts Instit…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $348,699 · EducationPresident and Fellow…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $259,451 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEE…The Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $196,087 · EducationThe Research Foundat…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $166,281 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSB…Trustees of Tufts College: $144,874 · EducationTrustees of Tufts Co…University at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $131,089 · EducationUniversity at Buffal…Yale University: $124,754 · EducationYale UniversityUniversity of Chicago: $88,847 · Education+2 more: $48,950 · EducationNorthwestern University: $146,081 · Recreation & SportsTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $85,334 · HealthKENNEBEC VALLEY DENTAL COALITION: $26,500 · Health
Other$6,079,263Science & Tech$2,599,675Education$2,001,779Recreation & Sports$146,081Health$111,834

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $492,747 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $348,699 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $259,451 over 3y, 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 budgetYale University: $124,754 over 2y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY DENTAL COALITION ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗

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 Universi…Washington University
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization ADA Forsyth Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from ADA Forsyth Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Marine Biological Laboratory: 20% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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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