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Copd Foundation Inc

The copd foundation was established to improve the lives of people with copd, bronchiectasis, and nontuberculous mycobacterial (ntm) lung disease through initiatives that expand services and speed innovations which will make treatment more effective and affordable.we do this through scientific research, education, advocacy, and awareness…

$21k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$1.9MScience & Tech$268kEducation$61k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$21,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY INC$21,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 14% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $37k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $6k → 22%AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY INC: $21k → 17%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $7k → 14%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $123k → 13%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $1.2M → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $26k → 19%AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $62k → 13%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $563k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $21k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $39k → 13%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

NY
OR
PA
CO
MD
NC
DC
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 4 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$2.1M
$156k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+60%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’24
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

  • NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1.8M · revenue +26%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $47k · revenue +42%
  • AT
    AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • WF
    WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +60%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $37k · revenue +44%
  • OH
    OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
6
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
7
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
8
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
9
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
10
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
11
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $1,800,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTHUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $224,103 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF…OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $29,995 · OtherOREGON HEALTH…+1 more: $7,300 · OtherWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $74,688 · EducationWAKE FORES…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $47,363 · EducationJOHNS HOPK…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $37,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY INC: $31,000 · EducationAMERICAN T…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $7,450 · Education+1 more: $6,000 · Education
Health$1,800,000Other$261,398Education$203,501

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 budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $1,800,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $74,688 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $47,363 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $37,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY INC: $31,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $7,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $7,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $6,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–20%
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.

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 10 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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