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Bryon Riesch Paralysis Foundation Inc

The bryon riesch paralysis foundation's goal is to find a cure for paralysis through funding the latest in medical research and to provide assistance to those that suffer from neurological disorders.

$893k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Health$2.3M
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $326,926 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $892,963 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $566,037 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.

$91,926
Median grant
3
States reached
$902k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC$125,000
JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL$91,926
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$60,000
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY$50,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%WORCHESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $43k → 11%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $60k → 16%TEXAS A & M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $50k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $47k → 15%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $99k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $79k → 19%MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $67k → 14%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $92k → 19%TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50k → 22%MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $179k → 17%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $130k → 17%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $125k → 17%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $125k → 17%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $125k → 17%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $100k → 17%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $100k → 17%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $100k → 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.

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 4 repeat orgs$550k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$1.7M
$458k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+24%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $984k · revenue +54%
  • MU
    Marquette University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +46%
  • UO
    University of Miami
    5× · 2017–2024 · $262k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • FS
    FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $99k · revenue +1%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
    one grant, 2017 · $79k
  • EU
    Emory University
    one grant, 2022 · $67k · revenue +15%

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
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

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
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
5
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
6
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
7
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
8
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
9
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
10
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
11
University of Notre Dame du Lac

See Schedule O. See explanation for Form 990, Part I, Line 1 - Organization's Mission above.

Education
12
Illinois Institute of Technology

To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the most unlike its peers is Us Foundation for Queen's University at Kingston. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $984,285 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INCMarquette University — $400,000 · EducationMarquette UniversityUniversity of Miami — $262,103 · EducationUniversity of MiamiTEXAS A&M RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $99,735 · EducationFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $98,699 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $91,926 · Education+2 more — $116,402 · Education+2 moreUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA — $79,088 · OtherUNIVERSITY …US Foundation for Queen's University at Kingston — $60,800 · OtherUS Foundati…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $60,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF…WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $43,059 · OtherWORCESTER P…
Education$2,053,150Other$242,947

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 budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $984,285 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University — $400,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $262,103 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS A&M RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $99,735 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $98,699 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $91,926 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $66,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUS Foundation for Queen's University at Kingston — $60,800 over 1y, 11% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $49,702 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $43,059 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 Bryon Riesch Paralysis 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University11% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute6% of income from government
  • University of Miami5% 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, FY2025

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

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How do I get to Bryon Riesch Paralysis Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bryon Riesch Paralysis 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 12 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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