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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Inc

The mission is to cure cystic fibrosis and to provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives.

$68M
Granted FY2017
186
Grants FY2017
39
States reached
$7.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 186 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 186 grants below total $61,754,672, the rows itemized in this filing. The $68,089,482 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,334,810 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 · FY2017

  • $10k–50k30 grants · $944k
  • $50k–250k107 grants · $15M
  • $250k+49 grants · $45M
$158,000
Median grant
39
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$7,005,252
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$6,615,931
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION (BOSTON CHILDREN'S$2,679,083
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER (CINCINNATI CHI$2,612,382
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$2,372,118
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$1,926,110
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM$1,300,244
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$1,259,876
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$1,234,288
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$1,096,288
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT DENVER$1,094,607
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$764,603
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$759,114
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM$728,344
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$673,043
02The need
02

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 (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION (BOSTON CHILDREN'S: $2.7M → 16%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $262k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $247k → 22%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UN: $239k → 8%THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SUNY: $271k → 14%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER AT DALLAS: $236k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $1.2M → 15%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $593k → 14%SOUTHERN RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $600k → 16%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $307k → 21%BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SY: $366k → 10%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $228k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $324k → 11%THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $2.4M → 13%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $224k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $520k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT DENVER: $1.1M → 10%NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER: $322k → 12%THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HO: $254k → 15%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER (CINCINNATI CHI: $2.6M → 16%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $1.3M → 17%SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $7.0M → 9%ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIEN: $390k → 8%RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY: $324k → 8%THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $765k → 19%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION (BOSTON CHILDREN'S: $285k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $404k → 14%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $280k → 17%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $459k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $576k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $220k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT DENVER: $413k → 10%THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HO: $240k → 15%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER (CINCINNATI CHI: $331k → 16%UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND RAINBOW BABIES: $498k → 17%SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $6.6M → 9%THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $759k → 19%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $242k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $556k → 13%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT DENVER: $368k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER (CINCINNATI CHI: $234k → 16%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $384k → 17%SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1.9M → 9%THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $339k → 19%SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1.1M → 9%THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $326k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $631k → 9%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $220k → 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

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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 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
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
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
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
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
6
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
7
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
8
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
9
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
10
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
11
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center; 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.
03the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 100 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
54/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $16,643,581 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $3,394,916 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTERChildren's Hospital Corporation: $3,177,496 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation+29 more: $5,161,004 · Health+29 moreUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $3,542,103 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL…UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $2,249,823 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $2,080,839 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1,429,878 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANState University of Iowa: $1,385,593 · OtherState University of IowaUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $905,847 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $780,285 · Other+37 more: $8,863,642 · Other+37 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2,425,779 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVER…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $1,730,143 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,269,466 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSB…Emory University: $847,912 · EducationEmory UniversityUniversity of Miami: $591,270 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $556,442 · EducationBaylor College of Medicine: $539,158 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $458,638 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $447,367 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $442,415 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $430,921 · Education+11 more: $1,677,701 · Education+11 moreSOUTHERN RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $600,000 · Science & TechNorthwestern University: $122,453 · Recreation & Sports
Health$28,376,997Other$21,238,010Education$11,417,212Science & Tech$600,000Recreation & Sports$122,453

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $16,643,581 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $3,394,916 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $3,177,496 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2,425,779 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $1,730,143 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,269,466 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $847,912 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $665,288 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $591,270 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $556,442 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $539,158 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $482,176 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $458,638 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $452,623 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $447,367 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $442,415 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $430,921 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science: $390,059 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $369,511 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $298,447 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $279,906 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $224,884 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $224,280 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $220,293 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $216,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $208,407 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHitchcock Foundation: $204,756 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $190,789 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $182,337 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $181,660 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCook Children's Medical Center: $180,431 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER: $173,334 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $172,644 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaineHealth: $169,307 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $145,973 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE: $139,579 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $135,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASCENSION SETON: $132,238 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $125,110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $122,453 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Luke's Regional Medical Center Ltd: $121,975 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $114,869 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOLEDO HOSPITAL: $105,623 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON: $94,718 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $90,238 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $84,305 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $65,556 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $65,232 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.

Cystic Fibrosis Found…The Children's Hospit…The Children's Oncolo…Public Health Institu…Seattle Children's Ho…American Heart Associ…Muscular Dystrophy As…Vanderbilt University…American Cancer Socie…St Baldrick's Foundat…Emory UniversityAmerican Thrombosis a…
Cystic Fibrosis FoundationMD61.8× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc · Public Health Institute · Seattle Children's Hospital · American Heart Association Inc · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · American Cancer Society Inc · St Baldrick's Foundation Inc · Emory University · American Thrombosis and Hemostasis Network Inc

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 Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% 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
  • The Nemours Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Inc?

Find your warmest path to Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Inc 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 100 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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