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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.

$942k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Health$2.3M
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $420,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $942,388 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $522,388 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $375k
$75,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$323k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC$125,000
CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$75,000
CHRISTOPHER & DANA REEVE FOUNDATION$75,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$50,000
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$45,000
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 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%WORCHESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $43k → 11%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $60k → 16%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 22%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%CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $75k → 16%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%CHRISTOPHER & DANA REEVE FOUNDATION: $75k → 16%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%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: $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
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.
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 4 repeat orgs$750k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$2.0M
$550k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
EducationHealthOther
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

  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +54%
  • MU
    Marquette University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +46%
  • UO
    University of Miami
    6× · 2017–2025 · $307k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • FS
    FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $99k · revenue +1%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $92k · revenue +1%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
    one grant, 2017 · $79k
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
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 Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
4
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
5
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

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
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
8
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
9
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
10
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester Polytechnic Institute; 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

14 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. 14 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $1,109,285 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INCMarquette University: $450,000 · EducationMarquette UniversityUniversity of Miami: $307,103 · EducationUniversity of MiamiTEXAS A&M RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $99,735 · EducationFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $98,699 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $91,926 · Education+3 more: $166,402 · Education+3 moreUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $79,088 · OtherUNIVERSITY…US Foundation for Queen's University at Kingston: $60,800 · OtherUS Foundat…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · OtherTRUSTEES O…WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $43,059 · OtherWORCESTER …CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $75,000 · Health
Education$2,323,150Other$242,947Health$150,000

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 budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $1,109,285 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $450,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $307,103 over 6y, 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 budgetCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $75,000 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 budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $50,000 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bryon Riesch Paralysis Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bryon Riesch Paralysis Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 11% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 6% 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 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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