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Arthritis National Research Foundation

To provide initial research funding to brilliant, investigative scientists with new ideas to cure arthritis and related autoimmune diseases.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$375k
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$15MScience & Tech$90k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+2 grants · $625k
$125,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$375,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN STLOUIS$250,000
SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH$125,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$125,000
YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$125,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER (VUMC)$125,000
WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY$125,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$125,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER AMC AND DC$125,000
THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH$125,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$125,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$125,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$125,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO$125,000
IMMUNE BOOST CAPITAL$12,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SUSAN MACLAUCHLAN PHD: $100k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL: $100k → 11%BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPITAL INC: $125k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $100k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $125k → 11%FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH-: $300k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $100k → 10%LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY: $100k → 11%THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $125k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $125k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $125k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER: $100k → 16%HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $100k → 8%VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $100k → 11%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $100k → 14%HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $125k → 21%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN STLOUIS: $250k → 11%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $125k → 21%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER (VUMC): $125k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $100k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMUS: $125k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $125k → 16%OHIO UNIVERISTY: $125k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $125k → 9%WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 12%RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGININA: $100k → 8%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $200k → 10%THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $225k → 11%THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $125k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $100k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $125k → 17%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $125k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $250k → 11%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $125k → 12%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $125k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER AMC AND DC: $125k → 10%THE RECTORS & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY: $125k → 8%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC: $200k → 10%THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $125k → 11%HOSPITAL OF SPECIAL SURGERY: $125k → 17%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $125k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $125k → 11%WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $125k → 17%WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $125k → 17%SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $125k → 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

WA
MN
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OK
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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.
$13M · 26 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
13

Total granted

$13M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+45%

Still filing today

62%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $512k 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
HealthEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & 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

  • AN
    ARTHRITIS NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $3.0M · revenue +97% · 59% of their budget
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    5× · 2017–2025 · $950k · revenue +91%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $625k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • Vanderbilt University
    one grant, 2023 · $225k · revenue +24%
  • OH
    OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $125k
  • OU
    Ohio University
    one grant, 2023 · $125k
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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
University of Miami

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

Education
3
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
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
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
6
Thomas Jefferson University

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…

Education
7
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
8
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
9
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
10
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
11
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of San Francisco; the most unlike its peers is Children's Hospital Corporation. 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

27 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. 27 of the 46 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)
27/27
Grantees still filing
26/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $1,050,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $975,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $525,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $512,302 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $475,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $450,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGOUC SAN FRANCISCO PEDIATRICS: $300,000 · OtherWeill Medical College of Cornell Univers: $250,000 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $225,000 · Other+12 more: $1,477,411 · Other+12 moreARTHRITIS NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,998,068 · HealthARTHRITIS NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATIONChildren's Hospital Corporation: $950,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $450,000 · HealthTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARC…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $350,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical CenterRush University Medical Center: $300,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $275,000 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $225,000 · Health+4 more: $525,000 · Health+4 moreWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $625,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSI…New York University: $450,000 · EducationNew York UniversityYale University: $250,000 · EducationYale UniversityUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $225,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHE…Vanderbilt University: $225,000 · EducationVanderbilt Universi…Baylor College of Medicine: $200,000 · EducationBaylor College of M…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTH…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $125,000 · EducationUniversity of San Francisco: $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $100,000 · Education+1 more: $50,000 · EducationVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $200,000 · PhilanthropyNorthwestern University: $200,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$6,239,713Health$6,073,068Education$2,600,000Philanthropy$200,000Recreation & Sports$200,000

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 budgetARTHRITIS NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,998,068 over 2y, 59% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $950,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $625,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $450,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $450,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $450,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $350,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $275,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $225,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED & AFFILIATES GROUP RETURN: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 ARTHRITIS NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds University of San Francisco ↗

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 Pew Charitable Tr…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Pew Charitable TrustsDC13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pew Charitable Trusts · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Arthritis National Research Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthritis National Research Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 46 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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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 endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home