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Ats Foundation Inc

The ats foundation supports the ats mission by funding research, education, and training to prevent, treat, and cure respiratory diseases worldwide.

$8.2M
Granted FY2020
9
Grants FY2020
7
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2020.

Science & Tech$1.8MHealth$1.4MEducation$700kRecreation & Sports$410k
02FY2020 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $470,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,163,447 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,693,447 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 · FY2020

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$40,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO$90,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$80,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSIPITAL$80,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO$40,000
NEMOURSALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$40,000
BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$40,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS$20,000
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 (FY17–20) 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%NEMOURSALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $40k → 10%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $80k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $120k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $40k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $136k → 11%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $40k → 17%BAYLOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%UT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON: $40k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $50k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL: $40k → 14%WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 21%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $90k → 11%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 12%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $40k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $40k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $40k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $80k → 12%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $130k → 15%UH RAINBOW BABIES & CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 17%SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $40k → 9%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $140k → 14%STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $40k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $40k → 19%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $80k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $70k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $40k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $130k → 11%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $40k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $40k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $40k → 11%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $40k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $40k → 12%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $130k → 15%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $40k → 9%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $140k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $80k → 19%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $40k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $40k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $100k → 11%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 12%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 15%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $130k → 14%BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER: $40k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $40k → 11%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $40k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $80k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $40k → 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

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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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 18 repeat orgs$673k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2020, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
17

Total granted

$3.3M
$633k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+64%

Still filing today

44%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
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

  • Northwestern University
    3× · 2017–2019 · $410k · revenue +41%
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $300k · revenue +36%
  • University of Chicago
    3× · 2017–2020 · $160k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • BR
    Baylor Research Institute
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +20%
  • SU
    State University of Iowa
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • WS
    WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $40k

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
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
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
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
4
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
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
10
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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11
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
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Baylor Research Institute. 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 65 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%59%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%63%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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/38
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,527

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

23 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. 23 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
20/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO — $406,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGOPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $320,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITYMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $240,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM — $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $150,000 · OtherWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINEMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $120,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO — $120,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $80,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $80,000 · Other+7 more — $290,000 · Other+7 moreOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $300,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONYale University — $240,000 · EducationYale UniversityUniversity of Chicago — $160,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoUniversity of San Francisco — $140,000 · EducationUniversity of San FranciscoJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $120,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $120,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELA…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · Education+6 more — $173,000 · Education+6 moreNorthwestern University — $410,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthweste…Children's Hospital Pediatric Associates Inc — $80,000 · HealthBaylor Research Institute — $50,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER — $46,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center — $40,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation — $40,000 · HealthNEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC — $40,000 · HealthTHE LEAPFROG GROUP — $40,000 · Health
Other$2,306,000Education$1,303,000Recreation & Sports$410,000Health$336,000

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 budgetNorthwestern University — $410,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYale University — $240,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $160,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco — $140,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Pediatric Associates Inc — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor Research Institute — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER — $46,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LEAPFROG GROUP — $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $23,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $10,000 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ats Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — 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 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ats Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ats Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 38 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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