Massachusetts · Public charity
Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation
To fund research with the highest probability of preventing, slowing or reversing alzheimer's disease. All overhead expenses are paid by the board of directors, trustees and core group of other donors, allowing 100% of general donations to fund our research programs.
- $37M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 161
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $34M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $201,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,955,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $43M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 47 | $31M | 23% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $22M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $20M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $18M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $13M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $11M | 19% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $14M | 36% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $13M | 46% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $35,278,456 | 8 | n/a |
| Washington University | $14,835,158 | 7 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $8,213,071 | 9 | n/a |
| Uc San Diego Foundation | $5,643,598 | 7 | 1% |
| New York Weill Cornell Medical Center Fund Inc | $5,580,050 | 7 | 11% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $4,953,134 | 8 | 0% |
| Mayo Clinic | $4,180,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Northwestern University | $3,939,809 | 8 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California | $3,594,546 | 5 | n/a |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $3,217,252 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $35,278,456 | 8 | n/a |
| Washington University | $14,835,158 | 7 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $8,213,071 | 9 | n/a |
| Uc San Diego Foundation | $5,643,598 | 7 | 1% |
| New York Weill Cornell Medical Center Fund Inc | $5,580,050 | 7 | 11% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $4,953,134 | 8 | 0% |
| Mayo Clinic | $4,180,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Northwestern University | $3,939,809 | 8 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California | $3,594,546 | 5 | n/a |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $3,217,252 | 2 | n/a |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $3,152,651 | 9 | 0% |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | $3,113,512 | 6 | n/a |
| The Rockefeller University | $3,007,500 | 6 | 0% |
| New York University | $2,892,882 | 7 | 0% |
| The Broad Institute Inc | $2,826,257 | 7 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | $2,368,725 | 5 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston University | $2,162,707 | 7 | 0% |
| The Salk Institute for Biological Studies | $2,019,250 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $1,949,625 | 6 | 0% |
| Ut Southwestern Health Systems | $1,879,000 | 6 | 24% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $1,756,370 | 4 | n/a |
| The Duke University School of Medicine Research Foundation | $1,699,093 | 5 | n/a |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $1,684,866 | 7 | 0% |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | $1,573,666 | 8 | 0% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $1,393,320 | 7 | 0% |
| Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research | $1,288,250 | 6 | 0% |
| The Univ of Tx Health Science Ctr of Sa | $1,187,254 | 3 | n/a |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $1,156,250 | 6 | 0% |
| The J David Gladstone Institutes | $1,120,938 | 2 | 0% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $946,875 | 6 | 0% |
| Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc | $928,234 | 3 | n/a |
| Johns Hopkins University | $747,447 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Rochester | $725,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Nihnia | $655,673 | 2 | n/a |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $611,557 | 4 | 0% |
| Wake Forest University Health Sciences | $546,250 | 3 | 0% |
| The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente | $517,276 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Connecticut | $460,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Duke University | $425,428 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Rhode Island | $402,500 | 2 | n/a |
| University of California San Francisco | $402,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Emory University | $402,500 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Washington | $401,293 | 2 | n/a |
| Regents Univ of California | $392,713 | 2 | n/a |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $381,050 | 1 | n/a |
| The University of North Carolina at Charlotte | $352,350 | 2 | n/a |
| Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research | $346,014 | 2 | 1% |
| Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research | $345,000 | 2 | 1% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $345,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $327,501 | 1 | n/a |
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute | $322,500 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation | $278,277 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | $271,375 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Michigan | $241,738 | 1 | n/a |
| Augusta University Research Institute Inc | $201,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $201,250 | 1 | 0% |
| University of South Florida | $201,250 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Massachusetts | $200,568 | 1 | n/a |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $184,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Seattle Neurosound Solutions | $175,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Univ of Conn Health Center Auxiliary | $172,500 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Kentucky | $172,500 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Maryland College Park | $171,037 | 1 | n/a |
| State University of New York College at Purchase | $132,217 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Pittsburgh | $100,625 | 1 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New York Genome Center Inc | $86,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Maryland Medical Legal Foundation Inc | $57,500 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Rhode Island Research Foundation | $56,404 | 1 | 1% |
| University of Miami | $49,178 | 2 | 0% |
| The Brain Donor Project | $35,050 | 1 | 26% |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | $4,721 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Yale University · Johns Hopkins University · American Heart Association Inc · Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression · Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn · Cornell University · Washington University · American Epilepsy Society · Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation · Brightfocus Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation with peer funders
About Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation
- How much does Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation give?
- Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation reported 161 itemized grants totaling $33,812,354, out of $37,323,497 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (96%), Education (3%), Recreation & Sports (0%).
- Who are Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($35M), Washington University ($15M), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($8.2M).
- Does Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, American Heart Association Inc.
- Where is Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation based?
- Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation is based in MA.
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