· Public charity
Christopher Reeve Foundation
The christopher and dana reeve foundation is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by advancing innovative research and improving quality of life for individuals and families impacted by paralysis.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k125 grants · $2.9M
- $50k–250k12 grants · $945k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PSYCHOGENICS INC | $185,950 |
| UPSTATE-CAROLINA ADAPTIVE GOLF | $100,000 |
| ADAPTIVE FITNESS LEGION | $100,000 |
| CUTTING FENCES FOUNDATION | $98,826 |
| NEUROWORX-DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC | $87,250 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | $67,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $55,000 |
| ATLANTIS COMMUNITY INCADAPT (CIL) | $50,000 |
| SCIBOSTON | $50,000 |
| RAMP - REGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT (CIL) | $50,000 |
| SHAKE-A-LEG MIAMI INC | $50,000 |
| ACCESS TO INDEPENDENCE INC (CIL) | $50,000 |
| BAY AREA OUTREACH & RECREATION PROGRAM (BORP) | $40,000 |
| PUSHING FORWARD | $40,000 |
| RANCHO RESEARCH INSTITUTE (RANCHO LOS AMIGOS NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER | $40,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $5.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
189 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2025, 133 since wound down; 89 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation6× · 2017–2022 · $6.8M · revenue +61%
- UOUniversity of Miami9× · 2017–2025 · $412k · revenue +96%
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $359k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- IMInclusion Matters by Shanes Inspirationone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -12%
- LWLIFE WATERSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +58% · 62% of their budget
- ASADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIOone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -8%
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.
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.
The national ability center (the center) empowers individuals with disabilities by building self-esteem, confidence and lifetime skills through sport, recreation and educational programs.
The organization's goal is to foster a healthy lifestyle through outdoor sports for individuals with disabilities in a fun, accessible, and inclusive environment.
To serve all north carolinians with significant disabilities by ensuring they can live independently in a barrier-free community of their choice through consumer-controlled, self-directed services.
Celebrating all abilities and unlocking potential.
To serve individuals with disabilities by educating, counseling, providing residential, social, therapeutic and employment supports, so as to empower them to achieve meaningful and valued roles in society.
Our mission is to empower people with disabilities and their families to grow, develop, and thrive by providing essential skill-building, therapeutic, and recreational programs.
To provide therapeautic benefits to handicapped citizens through a horseback riding program.
Together, we create a warm and welcoming community enriching the lives of those we support.
To enhance the quality of life for people with disabilities by providing sports and recreational activities and to offer opportunities for empowerment through education, leadership, and training in collaboration with community-based…
Abilites Inc is a non-profit agency dedicated to facilitating integrated employment and full participation of persons with disabilities in their work and living communities. Employment is accomplished through direct service to youth and…
Provide disabled individuals with opportunities to develop independence, confidence, life skills, and fitness through participation in sports, therapy, training and recreation programs.
How this is measured
811 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. 811 of the 989 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds University of Louisville Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
- Who funds HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REHABILITATION HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CUTTING FENCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE FITNESS LEGION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES ACTIVELY LIVING INDEPENDENT & FREE ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds ALS UNITED GREATER CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE CAROLINA ADAPTIVE GOLF ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration ↗
- Who funds LIFE WATERS ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY ACCESS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENESIS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Move United · Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn · Rei Cooperative Action Fund · The Hanger Charitable Foundation · Dralla Foundation Inc · Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust · Oliver-Hoffmann Foundation · Kessler Foundation Inc · Innovating Worthy Projects Foundation · Disabled Veterans National Foundation · The Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism Inc · Special People in Need
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Christopher Reeve Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christopher Reeve Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine: 100% of income from government
- Community Vision Inc: 92% of income from government
- Triangle Inc: 90% of income from government
- South Florida Institute On Aging Inc: 69% of income from government
- Center for Medicare Advocacy Inc: 63% of income from government
- Kessler Foundation Inc: 54% of income from government
- Abilitree: 44% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Bay Area Center for Independent Living Inc: 7% of income from government
- Cheshire Home Inc: 6% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc: 6% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- New Horizons Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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