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Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance

Carra members work together to capitalize on opportunities, actively develop a structure and a scientific agenda, and collaborate with potential funding sources to create a research alliance that benefits our patients.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$546k
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$3.0MEmployment$1.3MEducation$1.2MArts & Culture$714kScience & Tech$226kSocial Science$10k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $1,729,384, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,917,390 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $188,006 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $236k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $373k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER$545,993
UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$287,500
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$287,500
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$124,965
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$99,857
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$98,000
ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$50,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$49,999
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA$49,920
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$48,804
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$48,600
COHEN CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER OF NEW YORK-FEINSTEIN$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-SOUTHWESTERN$13,246
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $374k → 16%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $41k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $25k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $288k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $59k → 10%UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $288k → 15%FEINSTEIN INST FOR MED RES: $30k → 6%RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SUNY: $49k → 14%SETON HEALTHCARE: $25k → 10%ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 17%CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $54k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $150k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $98k → 21%EAST TENNESSEE ST UNIV: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $50k → 13%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $150k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $100k → 8%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $71k → 18%RESEARCH INST AT NATIONWIDE: $50k → 15%CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $546k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $49k → 9%ANN & ROBERT LURIE CHILDRENS: $25k → 14%HACKENSACK UMC RESEARCH: $100k → 7%RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY: $50k → 8%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $150k → 16%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PITTSB: $25k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILA: $152k → 22%THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $35k → 10%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $25k → 17%MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 28%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $49k → 16%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $100k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $50k → 8%CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $70k → 16%SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $374k → 9%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $100k → 22%THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $25k → 10%COHEN CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER OF NEW YORK-FEINSTEIN: $25k → 6%ICAHN SCHOOL MED-MOUNT SINAI: $50k → 17%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL MONTEFIOR: $50k → 28%CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $55k → 16%SEATTLE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $30k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $48k → 14%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILA: $50k → 22%CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $36k → 16%CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $26k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
AR
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 25 repeat orgs$833k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
20

Total granted

$5.5M
$546k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+67%

Still filing today

60%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $287k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TC
    The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati
    7× · 2018–2024 · $784k · revenue +157%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $636k · revenue +88%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    6× · 2017–2024 · $626k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • Indiana University Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $71k · revenue +30%
  • CR
    CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $54k · revenue +73%
  • RT
    RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
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
Upmc Group

Healthcare, education, and research

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9
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
10
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
11
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
12
Upmc

Support of subsidiary tax-exempt healthcare, education and research organizations (see schedule o)

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montefiore Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is Charity Navigator. 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

33 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. 33 of the 53 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)
32/33
Grantees still filing
31/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $406,568 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOSeattle Children's Foundation: $386,138 · OtherSeattle Children's FoundationREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $296,329 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $208,309 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $198,600 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $151,844 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $99,973 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $76,445 · Other+13 more: $463,508 · Other+13 moreTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $636,232 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPH…Children's Hospital Corporation: $626,248 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationHMH HOSPITALS CORPORATION: $189,587 · HealthHMH HOSPITALS CORPORATIONTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATIONMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $125,749 · HealthMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTERTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $105,408 · Health+10 more: $280,216 · Health+10 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $319,802 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $271,497 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERS…The Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $97,552 · EducationThe Research Founda…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $75,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTS…University of Chicago: $73,454 · EducationUniversity of Chica…Indiana University Foundation: $70,736 · EducationIndiana University …THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $50,000 · Education+5 more: $113,355 · Education+5 moreThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati: $783,531 · Arts & CultureThe Children'…Charity Navigator: $124,965 · Human ServicesNORTHWELL HEALTH INC: $24,910 · Community Improvement
Other$2,287,714Health$2,113,440Education$1,131,396Arts & Culture$783,531Human Services$124,965Community Improvement$24,910

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati: $783,531 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $636,232 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $626,248 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $386,138 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $319,802 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $271,497 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $125,749 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $124,965 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $105,408 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $97,552 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $73,454 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $70,736 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $54,985 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $53,973 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $41,236 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $37,592 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $24,998 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $24,918 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlbert Einstein College of Medicine: $23,768 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $23,351 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $22,032 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $20,694 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $9,269 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $4,755 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $2,000 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Johns Hopkins Univers…Cystic Fibrosis Found…American Academy of P…Vanderbilt University…Yale UniversityThe Trustees of Colum…American Heart Associ…Alexs Lemonade Stand …Hyundai Hope on WheelsThe Children's Oncolo…Muscular Dystrophy As…Georgetown University
Johns Hopkins UniversityMD17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · American Academy of Pediatrics · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Yale University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · American Heart Association Inc · Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation · Hyundai Hope on Wheels · The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · Georgetown University

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Connecticut Children's Medical Center: 5% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report 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
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 Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance 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 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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