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Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation

Cparf funds us-based research to change what's possible for people with cerebral palsy, implements proven science, and advances innovation to benefit all people with disabilities around the world.

$351k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$325k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$1.7MHealth$1.2MScience & Tech$120kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$1.6M
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
  • $250k+1 grant · $325k
$324,929
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CP NOW$324,929
Washington University in St Louis$22,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $60k → 11%University of Arizona: $41k → 15%NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY: $75k → 16%ANALYSIS GROUP: $50k → 16%CHOP RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $38k → 22%UCP OF NORTH BAY: $31k → 9%UC IRVINE: $44k → 10%SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS: $70k → 11%SPINEX: $80k → 14%UCP of Central California: $31k → 19%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $36k → 14%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $120k → 14%Washington University in St Louis: $105k → 21%AMERICAN ACADEMY FOR CEREBRAL PALSY & DEVELOPMENT: $35k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 11%RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE'S CHILDREN: $50k → 15%AMERICA ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS: $30k → 7%NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH CLINICAL CENTER: $63k → 8%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $60k → 19%PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $28k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $50k → 15%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL - THOUGHT TO SPEECH PROJECT: $73k → 16%Children's Hospital of Phila Research Institute: $38k → 22%SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS: $60k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $152k → 14%UCP Central California: $99k → 19%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $70k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AT ST LOUIS: $50k → 21%RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE'S CHILDREN: $40k → 15%AMERICA ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS: $30k → 7%NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH CLINICAL CENTER: $50k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $60k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL - THOUGHT TO SPEECH PROJECT: $40k → 16%UCP OF ORANGE COUNTY: $69k → 10%SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS: $35k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $64k → 14%Washington University in St Louis: $45k → 11%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AT ST LOUIS: $50k → 21%NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH CLINICAL CENTER: $38k → 8%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $60k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL - THOUGHT TO SPEECH PROJECT: $33k → 16%UCP OF ORANGE COUNTY: $47k → 10%SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS: $25k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $64k → 14%KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE: $60k → 19%UCP OF ORANGE COUNTY: $36k → 10%KENNEDY KREIGER INSTITUTE: $60k → 19%KENNEDY KREIGER INSTITUTE: $60k → 19%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 21 repeat orgs$407k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
12

Total granted

$3.9M
$407k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+51%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsScience & TechOther

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

  • CN
    CP NOW
    4× · 2017–2025 · $839k · revenue +787% · 33% of their budget
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $320k · revenue +76%
  • UC
    UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOC OF OC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $182k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • S
    SPINEX
    one grant, 2022 · $80k
  • NA
    NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
  • KK
    KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $60k

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.

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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
Children's Research Institute

Children's research institute dba children's national research institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research and education programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of…

Health
3
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
4
Curepsp Inc

To raise awareness, build community, improve care and find a cure for psp, cbd and msa.

Health
5
Critical Path Institute

The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…

Health
6
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
7
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

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Health
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
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
10
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
11
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
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Ut Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Inc

Ulps exists to support the missions of university of tennessee health science center and le bonheur children's hospital to provide high quality patient care, education, research and advocacy. ulps will collaborate with patients and their…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Cerebral Palsy Assoc of Oc and the most unlike its peers is New England Institute of Developmental Pediatrics. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

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%7%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%52%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%11%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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/35
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,530

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 35 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)
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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

CP NOW — $838,613 · EducationCP NOWWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $320,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $303,300 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $180,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY+3 more — $57,063 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $472,597 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $189,798 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — $181,787 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $145,758 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $131,380 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC — $107,000 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INCSPINEX — $80,000 · OtherNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY — $75,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE — $67,860 · OtherKENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE INC — $60,000 · Other+2 more — $70,000 · OtherSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $190,000 · HealthSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICA…UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOC OF OC — $182,277 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOC O…Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc — $175,000 · HealthFoundation for the National I…UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA — $154,649 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIA…AMERICAN ACADEMY FOR CEREBRAL PALSY AND DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE — $116,264 · HealthAMERICAN ACADEMY FOR CEREBRAL…AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS — $90,000 · HealthAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRIC…Phoenix Children's Hospital — $88,000 · HealthPhoenix Children's HospitalTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $75,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PH…+5 more — $105,949 · Health+5 moreHUGO W MOSER RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT KENNEDY KRIEGER INC — $120,000 · Science & TechCEREBRAL PALSY SOCCER INC — $3,545 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $105 · Recreation & Sports
Education$1,698,976Other$1,581,180Health$1,177,139Science & Tech$120,000Recreation & Sports$3,650

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCP NOW — $838,613 over 4y, 33% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $320,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $303,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $190,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOC OF OC — $182,277 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $180,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc — $175,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA — $154,649 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetHUGO W MOSER RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT KENNEDY KRIEGER INC — $120,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY FOR CEREBRAL PALSY AND DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE — $116,264 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS — $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital — $88,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY INC — $36,251 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF THE NORTH BAY INC — $30,998 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $23,914 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SACRAMENTO INC — $11,384 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $8,898 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEREBRAL PALSY SOCCER INC — $3,545 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS — $3,402 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $3,165 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF MUSIC CITY — $105 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN6.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Hugo W Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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

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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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