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ASN Foundation for Kidney Research

To prevent and cure kidney diseases through research and innovation.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$136k
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 FY2021–2024.

Science & Tech$4.6MHealth$4.5MEducation$2.1MRecreation & Sports$150k
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 39 grants below total $2,821,202 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,021,202 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $200,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k35 grants · $2.7M
$50,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of California San Francisco$136,350
University of Alabama at Birmingham$109,852
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York$105,000
University of Pittsburgh$100,000
Boston University and Boston Medical Center$100,000
Johns Hopkins University$100,000
The Regents of the University of Michigan$100,000
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York$100,000
University of Miami$100,000
The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System on behalf of the$100,000
University of Southern California$100,000
The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc$100,000
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York$100,000
University of Michigan$100,000
The Regents of the University of Michigan$100,000
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 (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc: $100k → 8%The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc: $100k → 12%Boston Children's Hospital: $100k → 16%University of Pittsburgh: $100k → 11%University of Southern California: $100k → 14%The Research Foundation for the State University of New York: $100k → 14%The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York: $105k → 17%Baylor College of Medicine: $100k → 11%Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $100k → 14%University of South Florida: $100k → 13%University of Michigan: $100k → 14%University of Alabama at Birmingham: $110k → 16%Washington University in St Louis: $100k → 21%The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System on behalf of the: $100k → 10%Duke University: $100k → 10%National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: $105k → 11%University of Miami: $100k → 13%Emory University: $100k → 14%Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center: $100k → 16%Northwestern University: $100k → 14%The Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia: $100k → 8%The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc: $100k → 8%The Children's Hospital Corporation dba Boston Children's Hospital: $100k → 16%University of Pittsburgh: $100k → 11%University of Southern California: $100k → 14%The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York: $100k → 17%Baylor College of Medicine: $100k → 11%Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $100k → 14%University of South Florida: $100k → 13%The Regents of the University of Michigan: $100k → 14%Washington University: $100k → 21%National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: $105k → 11%University of Miami: $100k → 13%Emory University: $100k → 14%Children's Hospital Medical Center: $100k → 16%The Brigham and Women's Hospital: $100k → 8%Boston Children's Hospital: $100k → 16%University of Pittsburgh: $100k → 11%University of Southern California: $100k → 14%The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York: $100k → 17%The Regents of the University of Michigan: $100k → 14%Washington University: $100k → 21%National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: $105k → 11%University of Miami: $100k → 13%The Brigham and Women's Hospital: $100k → 8%University of Pittsburgh: $100k → 11%Washington University: $100k → 21%University of California San Francisco: $136k → 14%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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
KS
AR
TN
NC
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.
$9.1M · 33 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
10

Total granted

$9.1M
$620k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+36%

Still filing today

58%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $430k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthRecreation & 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

  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $700k · revenue +21%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    4× · 2021–2024 · $610k · revenue +11%
  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    4× · 2021–2024 · $500k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • Northwestern University
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +14%
  • RU
    REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • TR
    The Research Foundation for The State University of New Yorkgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +43%

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
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
2
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
3
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
4
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
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
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
7
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
8
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
9
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
10
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
11
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
12
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

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

Your grantees are a median of 58 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%19%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%57%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%50%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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,512

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

31 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. 31 of the 53 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
29/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $1,000,162 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $410,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM — $326,129 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMNIHNIA — $315,000 · OtherNIHNIAUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $310,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $300,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA — $300,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDATHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — $275,000 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLIN…THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE — $264,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CEN…RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $200,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO — $200,000 · Other+12 more — $930,000 · Other+12 moreWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $700,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $610,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHUniversity of Miami — $450,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $427,117 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIATHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $355,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CI…DUKE UNIVERSITY — $286,650 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $250,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIBaylor College of Medicine — $200,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $200,000 · EducationEmory University — $200,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $170,000 · Education+10 more — $680,000 · Education+10 moreVanderbilt University Medical Center — $500,000 · HealthVanderbilt Univers…Children's Hospital Corporation — $450,000 · HealthChildren's Hospita…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $250,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITA…BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $200,000 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CEN…BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $150,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACON…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $100,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOS…MAYO CLINIC — $100,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC+1 more — $60,000 · HealthNorthwestern University — $150,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$4,830,291Education$4,528,767Health$1,810,000Recreation & Sports$150,000

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 budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $700,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $610,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $500,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $450,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $450,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $427,117 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $355,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $286,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $170,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • 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 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗

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.

Cystic Fibrosis Found…Washington UniversityMuscular Dystrophy As…The Children's Hospit…Yale UniversityJohns Hopkins Univers…American Heart Associ…
Cystic Fibrosis FoundationMD15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · Washington University · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Yale University · Johns Hopkins University · American Heart Association Inc

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 ASN Foundation for Kidney Research 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 · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% 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
  • 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
0get no government money at all
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 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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