· Public charity
Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation
To fund research with the highest probability of preventing, slowing or reversing alzheimer's disease.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k120 grants · $21M
- $250k+36 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $1,955,000 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $575,000 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $431,250 |
| WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $402,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $402,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE | $402,492 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $398,521 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS | $345,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS | $345,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS | $345,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $344,528 |
| THE MCLEAN HOSPITAL CORPORATION | $327,501 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $320,033 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $300,000 |
| NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS & STROKE | $287,673 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $15M · revenue +44%- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $5.6M · revenue +106%
- NYNEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC7× · 2019–2025 · $5.6M · revenue +182%
Funded once
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $3.5M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $450k
DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $425k · revenue +27%
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.
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.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
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…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…
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.
The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.
How this is measured
53 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. 53 of the 100 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds THE DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Brain Donor Project: 67% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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