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American Diabetes Association Research Foundation Inc

The Foundation was founded to give focus to the American Diabetes Associations research program and to ensure the availability of funds to support research.

$16M
Granted FY2021
119
Grants FY2021
29
States reached
$309k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Health$27MScience & Tech$19MEducation$13MEmployment$690k
02FY2021 · 119 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k2 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $132k
  • $50k–250k93 grants · $10M
  • $250k+20 grants · $6.1M
$109,250
Median grant
29
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute$308,750
University of California San Francisco$308,750
University of California Santa Barbara$308,750
University of Pennsylvania$308,750
Joslin Diabetes Center$308,750
Washington University$308,750
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign$308,750
The Rockefeller University$308,750
Columbia University$308,750
University of Notre Dame$308,750
Joan & Sanford I Weill Medical College of Cornell University$308,750
Yale University$308,750
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$308,750
Indiana University$308,750
Jackson Laboratory$308,548
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%University of Arizona: $325k → 15%Harvard Pilgrim Health Care: $323k → 7%The Regents of the University of California Santa Barbara: $325k → 14%Cornell University: $325k → 16%New York University School of Medicine: $323k → 17%Children's Research Institute: $314k → 14%University of Michigan: $325k → 14%Washington University: $309k → 21%Yale University: $325k → 12%North Carolina State University: $325k → 8%Regents of the University of Colorado: $325k → 12%University of Notre Dame: $325k → 13%Indiana University: $309k → 18%University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: $325k → 19%Princeton University: $325k → 11%Jackson Laboratory: $325k → 11%University of California Santa Barbara: $309k → 14%Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $309k → 16%The Rockefeller University: $309k → 17%Washington University: $309k → 21%Yale University: $309k → 12%University of Notre Dame: $309k → 13%Indiana University: $309k → 18%University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: $309k → 19%Jackson Laboratory: $309k → 11%University of Pennsylvania: $309k → 22%University of California Santa Barbara: $309k → 14%Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $309k → 16%The Rockefeller University: $309k → 17%Yale University School of Medicine: $309k → 12%University of Notre Dame: $309k → 13%University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: $309k → 19%University of Pennsylvania: $309k → 22%University of Southern California: $325k → 14%Cornell University: $309k → 16%University of Washington: $325k → 9%The Rockefeller University: $325k → 17%Joan & Sanford I Weill Medical College of Cornell University: $309k → 17%Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: $325k → 16%Joan & Sanford IWeill Medical College of Cornell University: $309k → 17%Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: $309k → 16%Columbia University: $309k → 17%Joslin Diabetes Center: $309k → 16%Columbia University: $309k → 17%Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: $309k → 16%Joslin Diabetes Center: $309k → 16%Joan & Sanford I Weill Medical College of Cornell University: $325k → 17%Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $325k → 17%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

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IL
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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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46M · 62 repeat orgs$7.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2021, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
35

Total granted

$46M
$6.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+33%

Still filing today

55%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $762k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21
EducationHealthScience & TechRecreation & 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

  • Cornell University
    3× · 2018–2021 · $2.0M · revenue +49%
  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +45%
  • NY
    New York University
    3× · 2018–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • WM
    Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers
    one grant, 2018 · $563k
  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    one grant, 2018 · $495k · revenue +8%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $440k · revenue +52%
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
Drexel University

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…

Education
2
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
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
5
Rush University Medical Center

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.

Health
6
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
7
University of Minnesota Physicians

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…

Health
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
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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10
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
11
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
12
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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

67 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. 67 of the 109 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
57/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cornell University: $1,968,705 · EducationCornell UniversityYale University: $1,842,202 · EducationYale UniversityTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,593,312 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIO…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,459,950 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIATHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $1,304,351 · EducationNew York University: $1,248,515 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,224,018 · EducationBaylor College of Medicine: $1,053,014 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,015,798 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $961,820 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $942,500 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $942,500 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $931,268 · Education+30 more: $10,339,202 · Education+30 moreWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,530,434 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $1,442,273 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $1,367,646 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $1,366,445 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT S…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $1,206,883 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $1,030,126 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $996,141 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $942,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $868,740 · OtherState University of Iowa: $841,298 · OtherCOOLEY DICKINSON HEALTH CARE CORPORATION: $837,996 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $796,620 · Other+31 more: $10,623,723 · Other+31 moreJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $1,223,346 · HealthJOSLIN DIABETES C…CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $983,978 · HealthCHILDREN'S RESEAR…THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $941,319 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABOR…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $925,330 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KE…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $853,057 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDI…Children's Hospital Corporation: $636,361 · HealthChildren's Hospit…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $617,500 · HealthDana-Farber Cance…BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $479,990 · HealthThe Broad Institute Inc: $380,000 · HealthHARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $337,866 · Health+11 more: $1,821,646 · Health+11 moreThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $304,215 · Science & TechNorthwestern University: $115,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$26,827,155Other$23,850,825Health$9,200,393Science & Tech$304,215Recreation & Sports$115,000

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 budgetCornell University: $1,968,705 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $1,842,202 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,593,312 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,459,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $1,304,351 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $1,248,515 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,224,018 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $1,223,346 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $1,053,014 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,015,798 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $983,978 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $961,820 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $942,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $942,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $941,319 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $931,268 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $925,330 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $861,143 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $853,057 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $795,412 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $760,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $669,146 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $636,361 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation: $625,506 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $617,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $607,200 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $495,432 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $479,990 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $449,666 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $440,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $423,322 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $380,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $372,655 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $353,828 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $337,866 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $331,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $325,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $324,988 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $304,215 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $283,744 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $261,517 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $251,504 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $248,388 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $240,942 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $239,353 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $230,804 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWright State University Foundation Inc: $230,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL CARIBE: $218,500 over 2y, 0.5% 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 Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds The Ohio University Foundation ↗

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.

Johns Hopkins UniversityMD24.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University · American Diabetes Association · American Cancer Society Inc · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Mayo Clinic · Yale University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · American Heart Association Inc · Breakthrough T1d · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · The George Washington University

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 American Diabetes Association Research Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Diabetes Association Research Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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.
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Find your warmest path to American Diabetes Association Research 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.

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 109 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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