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American Heart Association Inc

The american heart association's mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives.

$212M
Granted FY2025still arriving
833
Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$9.9M
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 2025.

Health$698MScience & Tech$636MEducation$248MRecreation & Sports$26MFood & Nutrition$24MYouth Development$15MHuman Services$7.6MCommunity Improvement$5.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 833 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 833 grants below total $198,231,343, the rows itemized in this filing. The $211,912,565 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,681,222 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k129 grants · $888k
  • $10k–50k438 grants · $8.1M
  • $50k–250k150 grants · $18M
  • $250k+116 grants · $171M
$20,000
Median grant
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States reached
$2.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Michigan$9,926,820
Leland Stanford Junior University$8,609,742
Augusta University Research Institute Inc$6,725,406
Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General)$6,170,675
The Ohio State University$5,725,318
Kaiser Foundation Research Institute$5,595,488
Washington University$4,880,322
Johns Hopkins University JHURA$4,489,912
Emory University$3,666,672
Duke University School of Medicine$3,316,966
University of Pennsylvania$3,154,043
University of Pittsburgh$2,982,095
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center$2,872,823
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston$2,564,885
Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc$2,561,279
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KESSLER FOUNDATION INC: $231k → 4%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $230k → 13%KIDS FORWARD INC: $200k → 10%LATINO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES: $135k → 8%SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP: $351k → 10%SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL NATL PARTNERS: $300k → 10%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $2.1M → 11%NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YMCAS OF THE USA: $250k → 14%SMART FROM THE START: $200k → 16%SMART FROM THE START: $200k → 16%SMART FROM THE START INC: $150k → 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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4B · 954 repeat orgs$84M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

954 repeat relationships: 439 still active in FY2025, 515 since wound down; 260 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

954
766

Total granted

$1.4B
$75M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+16%

Still filing today

69%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45M · revenue +64%
  • Northwestern University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $35M · revenue +41%
  • NY
    New York University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $30M · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $9.6M · revenue +36%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    2× · 2017–2019 · $3.2M · revenue +33%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $2.9M
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
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
2
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
3
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
4
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
5
Central Maine Medical Center

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
6
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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7
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health
8
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
9
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
10
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
11
Humc Cardiovascular Partners Pc

The organization provides high quality medical care to the community that it serves and specifically provides cardiology & related professional medical services in conjunction with hmh hospitals corp.

Health
12
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Trusolace Counseling & Wellness Center. 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

1351 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. 1351 of the 2,000 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.

39
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
195
Early backer (in before they grew)
1314/1351
Grantees still filing
903/1351
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $83,992,883 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $30,182,887 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $29,043,733 · Other+105 more: $617,704,474 · Other+105 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $64,263,451 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND ST…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $44,910,533 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYNew York University: $29,992,040 · EducationNew York UniversityYale University: $29,414,840 · EducationYale UniversityUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $28,100,743 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHVanderbilt University: $25,431,079 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $22,867,461 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $21,991,642 · EducationAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $19,249,467 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $18,802,685 · EducationEmory University: $18,200,024 · Education+41 more: $183,650,442 · Education+41 moreCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $13,709,629 · HealthCHILDREN'S …BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $12,422,897 · HealthBETH ISRAEL…Children's Hospital Corporation: $12,141,986 · HealthChildren's …THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $11,514,652 · HealthTHE CLEVELA…MAYO CLINIC: $9,922,313 · HealthMAYO CLINICVanderbilt University Medical Center: $9,784,656 · HealthVanderbilt …UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $9,600,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY …CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $7,189,662 · HealthBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $6,793,225 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $6,676,629 · HealthKAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS: $6,672,224 · HealthTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $5,464,904 · HealthPALO ALTO VETERANS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH: $5,236,818 · Health+20 more: $36,174,872 · Health+20 moreNorthwestern University: $35,191,284 · Recreation & SportsThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $20,397,953 · Science & TechHUGO W MOSER RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT KENNEDY KRIEGER INC: $1,274,893 · Science & TechALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHIER GENERATION INC: $7,833,412 · Youth DevelopmentLIVEWELL GREENVILLE: $2,386,856 · Youth DevelopmentMARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $2,256,782 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,701,446 · Community Improvement
Other$760,923,977Education$506,874,407Health$153,304,467Recreation & Sports$35,191,284Science & Tech$21,672,846Youth Development$10,220,268Community Improvement$3,958,228

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $64,263,451 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $44,910,533 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $35,191,284 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetNew York University: $29,992,040 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetYale University: $29,414,840 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $28,100,743 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetVanderbilt University: $25,431,079 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $22,867,461 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $21,991,642 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $20,397,953 over 5y, 10% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $19,728,077 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $19,249,467 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $18,802,685 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $18,200,024 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $13,709,629 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $13,294,078 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $12,809,033 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $12,422,897 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $12,152,658 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $12,141,986 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $11,940,232 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $11,514,652 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $10,607,155 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $9,922,313 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $9,784,656 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $9,600,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $9,406,241 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $9,307,383 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHIER GENERATION INC: $7,833,412 over 6y, 20% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $7,189,662 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $6,793,225 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $6,676,629 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS: $6,672,224 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $6,570,289 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $5,861,236 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $5,753,605 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $5,464,904 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetPALO ALTO VETERANS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH: $5,236,818 over 6y, 11% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,231,275 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $5,151,294 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $4,984,411 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation: $4,800,701 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $4,791,318 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $4,459,267 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $4,279,512 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3,882,836 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $3,828,136 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $3,787,199 over 7y, 0.9% 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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗

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.

The Leona M and Harry…North Dakota Hospital…American Cancer Socie…Cystic Fibrosis Found…The Children's Hospit…Vanderbilt University…Alzheimer's Disease &…Alliance for Clinical…Montana Health Resear…The Children's Oncolo…Alliance Nctn Foundat…National Alliance for…
The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable TrustNY73.4× affinity76 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust · North Dakota Hospital Foundation · American Cancer Society Inc · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc · Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation · Montana Health Research & Education Foundation · The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc · Alliance Nctn Foundation · National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Hugo W Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: 31% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% 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
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 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
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report 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.

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 2000 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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