How much does American Lung Association give?

American Lung Association reported 51 grants totaling $12,872,936 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does American Lung Association fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Science & Tech (32%), Education (22%).

Who are American Lung Association's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Johns Hopkins University ($8.0M), Northwestern University ($4.9M), Regents of the University of Michigan ($3.1M).

Does American Lung Association fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as American Lung Association?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Cancer Society Inc, Johns Hopkins University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Where is American Lung Association based?

American Lung Association is based in IL.

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Illinois · Public charity

American Lung Association

The AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. We do this through education, advocacy, and research.

$13M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 51
Grants FY2025: 46
Organizations funded FY2024: 7%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $201,085
Largest grant, FY2025: $825,000
Organizations funded a year: 41 to 51; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 24
Total assets, FY2025: $226M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations American Lung Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationScience & TechOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	48	$13M	17%
FY2024	46	$12M	7%
FY2023	45	$13M	29%
FY2022	48	$11M	21%
FY2021	51	$12M	31%
FY2020	47	$11M	34%
FY2019	41	$8.1M	24%
FY2018	45	$7.4M	20%

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What it funded, over time

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

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

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
Johns Hopkins University	$8,006,179	9	0%
Northwestern University	$4,927,579	9	0%
Regents of the University of Michigan	$3,060,886	9	n/a
University of Alabama at Birmingham	$2,949,774	9	n/a
University of California San Francisco	$2,918,834	9	n/a
Duke University	$2,790,726	9	0%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$2,557,500	7	0%
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College	$2,447,463	9	n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$2,174,069	8	n/a
National Jewish Health	$2,171,819	9	0%

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All grantees of American Lung Association by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Johns Hopkins University	$8,006,179	9	0%
Northwestern University	$4,927,579	9	0%
Regents of the University of Michigan	$3,060,886	9	n/a
University of Alabama at Birmingham	$2,949,774	9	n/a
University of California San Francisco	$2,918,834	9	n/a
Duke University	$2,790,726	9	0%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$2,557,500	7	0%
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College	$2,447,463	9	n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$2,174,069	8	n/a
National Jewish Health	$2,171,819	9	0%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education	$2,055,168	9	0%
University of Arizona	$2,022,070	9	n/a
The Nemours Foundation	$2,013,729	9	0%
Baylor College of Medicine	$1,997,799	9	0%
University of Kansas Center for Research Inc	$1,925,491	6	0%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$1,910,000	7	n/a
Utmd Anderson	$1,780,000	6	n/a
Trustees of Boston University	$1,700,000	6	0%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$1,615,000	6	n/a
University of Pittsburgh	$1,525,000	7	0%
The Ohio State University	$1,481,790	6	n/a
Regents Univ of California	$1,454,500	6	n/a
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	$1,400,000	5	0%
Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research	$1,227,654	9	1%
Washington University	$1,135,483	8	0%
Children's Hospital Corporation	$1,132,500	6	0%
Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers	$1,041,085	7	n/a
Oregon Health & Science University	$1,028,600	3	n/a
St Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center Inc	$961,842	7	0%
Texas Biomedical Research Institute	$900,000	2	1%
John Sealy Hospitalutmb	$900,000	5	n/a
New York University	$898,105	4	0%
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc	$850,000	6	0%
Rutgers the State University	$816,700	4	n/a
Indiana University School of Medicine	$750,000	5	n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado	$732,500	5	n/a
University of Chicago	$730,000	5	0%
Trustees of Tufts College	$630,000	6	0%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	$600,000	4	0%
The Institute For Cancer Research	$600,000	2	0%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego	$598,455	5	n/a
University of Utah	$590,000	4	n/a
American Thoracic Society Inc	$578,379	5	1%
University of Louisville Research Foundation	$575,000	3	0%
Health Research Inc	$550,000	3	0%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$545,000	3	n/a
University of Maryland College Park	$500,000	2	n/a
Case Western Reserve University	$490,000	4	0%
University of California Davis	$440,000	3	n/a
Gateway for Cancer Research	$425,000	2	5%
University of Florida	$412,500	4	n/a
The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology	$400,000	2	0%
State University of Iowa	$400,000	3	n/a
The University of Tennessee	$350,000	2	n/a
Seattle Children's Hospital	$350,000	2	0%
Vanderbilt University Medical Center	$350,000	1	0%
University of Central Florida	$350,000	2	n/a
Usf Research Foundation Inc	$315,200	4	1%
University of Washington	$300,000	2	n/a
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc	$300,000	2	0%
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente	$300,000	2	n/a
Trustees of Purdue University	$300,000	2	n/a
Vcuvcu Health Campus	$300,000	2	n/a
Portland State University	$300,000	1	n/a
University of Rochester	$280,000	3	0%
Albert Einstein College of Medicine Inc	$275,000	2	0%
Ala of the Southwest	$252,403	1	n/a
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences	$250,000	2	n/a
Emory University	$250,000	2	0%
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc	$250,000	2	0%
University of Minnesota	$250,000	2	n/a
University of Massachusetts	$240,000	2	n/a
Ohio State University Research Foundation	$240,000	2	85%
Children's Hospital Medical Center	$225,000	2	0%
The Univ of Tx Health Science Ctr of Sa	$215,389	2	n/a
Kansas State University	$200,000	1	n/a
Dignity Health	$200,000	1	0%
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation	$200,000	2	0%
Texas A&M Health Science Center	$200,000	2	n/a
Albert Einstein College of Medicine	$200,000	1	0%
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado	$200,000	1	0%
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago	$200,000	1	0%
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc	$200,000	2	0%
Georgetown University	$200,000	1	0%
Michigan State University	$200,000	1	n/a
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies	$200,000	1	0%
The Rockefeller University	$200,000	1	0%
New York Genome Center Inc	$200,000	1	0%
Loyola University Medical Center	$200,000	1	0%
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation	$200,000	1	0%
Lovelace Biomedical Research Institute	$200,000	1	0%
University Hospitals Health System Inc	$200,000	1	n/a
The Regents of the University of California San Diego	$200,000	1	n/a
Central Washington University	$200,000	1	n/a
Texas Tech University System	$200,000	1	n/a
Rutgers the State University	$200,000	1	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Irvine	$200,000	1	n/a
Colorado State University	$200,000	1	n/a
Curators of the University of Missouri	$200,000	1	n/a
Wright State University	$200,000	1	n/a
American Lung Association	$193,205	1	n/a
American Lung Association Of The Upper Midwest	$182,070	1	n/a
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia	$150,000	1	n/a
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York	$150,000	1	0%
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	$150,000	1	n/a
Children's Health System of Texas	$150,000	1	0%
Georgia Tech Research Corporation	$150,000	1	0%
University of Hawaii System	$150,000	1	n/a
University of Kentucky Research Foundation	$150,000	1	0%
University of Cincinnati	$150,000	1	n/a
University of South Florida	$150,000	1	n/a
Mayo Clinic	$150,000	1	n/a
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston	$140,000	2	n/a
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute	$133,375	1	0%
Columbia University	$132,500	1	n/a
Thomas Jefferson University	$100,000	1	0%
Mayo Clinic	$100,000	1	n/a
The Broad Institute Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Nihnia	$100,000	1	n/a
The University of Texas at Dallas Center for Brainhealth	$100,000	1	n/a
Chapman University	$100,000	1	0%
University of Georgia Research	$100,000	1	n/a
Veterans Medical Research Foundation of San Diego	$100,000	1	1%
Rhode Island Hospital	$100,000	1	0%
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research	$100,000	1	0%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	$100,000	1	0%
Trustees of Boston College	$100,000	1	0%
Northeastern University	$100,000	1	0%
National Committee for Quality Assurance	$96,987	1	0%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	$80,000	2	0%
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska	$80,000	2	n/a
New York Medical College	$79,850	1	0%
University of Wisconsin Foundation	$75,000	1	0%
University of Wisconsin Madison	$75,000	1	n/a
Delfi Diagnostics	$75,000	1	n/a
American Lung Association of the Midland States Inc	$73,955	1	n/a
American Lung Association of the Northeast Inc	$68,000	1	0%
American College of Chest Physicians	$60,000	1	0%
American Lung Association of the Mountain Pacific	$54,553	1	1%
Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn	$50,000	2	0%
American Lung Association in California	$46,000	1	0%
Pennsylvania State University	$40,000	1	n/a
The Thoracic Surgery Foundation	$40,000	2	1%
Drexel University	$40,000	1	0%
La Jolla Institute for Immunology	$32,500	1	0%
American Lung Association of the Southeast Inc	$27,402	1	n/a

American Lung Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 78 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 78.

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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.

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

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.

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About American Lung Association

How much does American Lung Association give?: American Lung Association reported 51 grants totaling $12,872,936 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does American Lung Association fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Science & Tech (32%), Education (22%).
Who are American Lung Association's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Johns Hopkins University ($8.0M), Northwestern University ($4.9M), Regents of the University of Michigan ($3.1M).
Does American Lung Association fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Lung Association?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Cancer Society Inc, Johns Hopkins University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Where is American Lung Association based?: American Lung Association is based in IL.