· Public charity
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 624 grants below total $189,565,612 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $202,017,166 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,451,554 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k69 grants · $2.3M
- $50k–250k382 grants · $49M
- $250k+169 grants · $138M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Seattle Children's Hospital | $12,893,328 |
| Seattle Children's Hospital | $10,180,397 |
| Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation Inc | $6,907,230 |
| Seattle Children's Hospital | $5,459,200 |
| Trustees of Indiana University | $4,014,448 |
| HEALTHWELL FOUNDATION | $3,000,000 |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | $2,962,497 |
| Case Western Reserve University | $2,183,802 |
| University of Washington | $2,155,537 |
| State University of Iowa | $2,053,746 |
| Case Western Reserve University | $2,022,810 |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $1,738,647 |
| University of Washington | $1,709,639 |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | $1,671,124 |
| The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | $1,415,822 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
286 repeat relationships — 209 still active in FY2024, 77 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $746k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SCSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL8× · 2017–2024 · $156M · revenue +110%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $36M · revenue +64%- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $32M · revenue +53%
Funded once
- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION THERAPEUTICS INCone grant, 2017 · $116M · 92% of their budget
- DHDIGNITY HEALTHone grant, 2022 · $431k · revenue +22%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMAone grant, 2017 · $349k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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…
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.
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
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…
Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…
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.…
Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…
As the region's leading safety net hospital, tampa general hospital is committed to providing area residents with excellent and compassionate health care ranging from the simplest to the most complex medical services. our shared purpose:…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Breathe Bravely Inc. 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.
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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
200 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 200 of the 335 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION THERAPEUTICS INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Healthwell Foundation ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds JAEB CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc · Public Health Institute · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · American Cancer Society Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Inc · Mayo Clinic · St Baldrick's Foundation Inc · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Yale University
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 Cystic Fibrosis 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.
- Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation Inc — 60% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Baystate Medical Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- Variety Children's Hospital — 1% of income from government
- The University of Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
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.
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