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American Lung Association

The AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease.

$13M
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
24
States reached
$825k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$41MScience & Tech$33MEducation$23MRecreation & Sports$4.9MPhilanthropy$1.5MCommunity Improvement$375kFood & Nutrition$252kArts & Culture$200kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $3.8M
  • $250k+24 grants · $9.6M
$201,085
Median grant
24
States reached
$226M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$825,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$790,907
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY$600,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$500,000
NEMOURS CHILDREN CLINIC$474,465
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH$467,495
DUKE UNIVERSITY$461,793
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$400,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$400,000
TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE$400,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC$350,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$350,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$350,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM$324,415
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT$323,130
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC: $548k → 16%THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $400k → 7%REGENTS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $400k → 14%TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $500k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $550k → 16%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $622k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH: $467k → 15%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $679k → 12%YALE UNIVERSITY: $500k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $585k → 11%NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER: $425k → 12%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $1.3M → 14%THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $450k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $414k → 10%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1.2M → 19%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $400k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $400k → 14%TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $400k → 16%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $495k → 16%NEMOURS CHILDREN CLINIC: $474k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $419k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH: $465k → 15%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $462k → 11%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $1.1M → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1.1M → 19%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $400k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $400k → 16%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $441k → 11%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $791k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $970k → 19%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $405k → 11%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $463k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $925k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $500k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $825k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $798k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $899k → 19%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $517k → 17%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $699k → 19%INSTITUTE FOR CANCER CENTER: $400k → 22%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $400k → 17%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $649k → 19%ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION (STAND UP 2 CANCER): $1.5M → 14%ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION (DBA STAND UP TO CANCER): $1.5M → 14%TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $600k → 16%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $845k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $500k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $500k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$85M · 80 repeat orgs$9.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

80 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
58

Total granted

$85M
$8.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+13%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
HealthEducationScience & TechRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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 · $8.0M · revenue +64%
  • Northwestern University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +41%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • AO
    ALA OF THE SOUTHWEST
    one grant, 2017 · $252k
  • THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +55%
  • KS
    KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $200k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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
3
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
4
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
5
University of Miami

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

Education
6
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
7
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
8
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
9
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
10
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

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.…

Health
11
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
12
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Ohio State University Research Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Community College Foundatio…Military Veterans SupportCancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%51%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%7%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%64%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/156
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,409

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 88 of the 155 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/88
Grantees still filing
74/88
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $3,060,886 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM — $2,949,774 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $2,918,834 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE — $2,447,463 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL CO…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $2,174,069 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — $2,022,070 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — $1,910,000 · OtherUTMD ANDERSON — $1,780,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $1,700,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $1,615,000 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,481,790 · Other+67 more — $19,777,614 · Other+67 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $8,006,179 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $2,853,179 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY …DUKE UNIVERSITY — $2,790,726 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $2,557,500 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SI…Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $2,055,168 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwea…Baylor College of Medicine — $1,997,799 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $1,525,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $1,135,483 · Education+27 more — $10,272,319 · Education+27 moreNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $2,171,819 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HE…THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION — $2,013,729 · HealthTHE NEMOURS FOUNDA…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $1,400,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KET…SEATTLE INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH — $1,227,654 · HealthSEATTLE INSTITUTE …Children's Hospital Corporation — $1,132,500 · HealthChildren's Hospita…ST VINCENT HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CARE CENTER INC — $961,842 · HealthST VINCENT HOSPITA…TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $900,000 · HealthH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $850,000 · HealthThe Institute For Cancer Research — $600,000 · Health+27 more — $5,647,415 · Health+27 moreNorthwestern University — $4,927,579 · Recreation & SportsENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $3,000,000 · PhilanthropyUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc — $1,925,491 · Science & TechThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies — $200,000 · Science & TechCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $100,000 · Science & TechBROWN UNIVERSITY — $42,000 · Community Improvement
Other$43,837,500Education$33,193,353Health$16,904,959Recreation & Sports$4,927,579Philanthropy$3,000,000Science & Tech$2,225,491Community Improvement$42,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $8,006,179 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $4,927,579 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $3,000,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $2,853,179 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $2,790,726 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $2,557,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $2,171,819 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $2,055,168 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION — $2,013,729 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $1,997,799 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc — $1,925,491 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $1,700,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $1,525,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $1,400,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH — $1,227,654 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $1,135,483 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $1,132,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $962,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CARE CENTER INC — $961,842 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $930,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $915,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $900,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNew York University — $898,105 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $850,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $730,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $630,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $600,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Institute For Cancer Research — $600,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY INC — $578,379 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation — $575,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH INC — $550,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $490,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $432,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH — $425,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $413,135 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY — $400,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $350,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $350,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $340,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUSF RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $315,200 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $280,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC — $275,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University — $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc — $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $240,000 over 2y, 85% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds University of Kansas Center for Research Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Cancer Socie…Johns Hopkins Univers…Vanderbilt University…American Heart Associ…Mayo ClinicYale UniversityThe Trustees of Colum…Cystic Fibrosis Found…The Children's Hospit…Cornell UniversityUniversity of Pittsbu…The George Washington…
American Cancer Society IncGA40.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · Johns Hopkins University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · American Heart Association Inc · Mayo Clinic · Yale University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Cornell University · University of Pittsburgh · The George Washington University

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization American Lung Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% 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
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research — 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 155 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines