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Dana's Angels Research Trust

Danas Angels Research Trusts mission is furthering medical research, medical education,or medical or hospital care for the treatment of Niemann-Pick type C disease or similargenetic diseases

$220k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$58k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$564kEducation$66kScience & Tech$50k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $195,315, the rows itemized in this filing. The $220,315 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,000 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

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $111k
$21,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$855k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rush University Medical Center$57,500
Hide & Seek Foundation$53,895
Washington & Lee University$32,920
University of Illinois Chicago$21,000
University of Florida Foundation$12,500
University of Illinois Chicago$12,500
Nat'l Institutes of Health$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Lundquist Institute: $1k → 14%Weill Cornell Medical College: $50k → 17%Fordham University: $13k → 28%University of Michigan: $20k → 14%Rush University Medical Center: $58k → 14%Washington & Lee University: $33k → 12%Nat'l Institutes of Health: $5k → 8%Dartmouth College: $69k → 10%Hide & Seek Foundation: $54k → 14%Fordham University: $11k → 28%Rush University Medical Center: $5k → 14%Washington and Lee University: $20k → 12%Nat'l Institutes of Health: $5k → 8%Dartmouth College: $50k → 10%Hide and Seek Foundation: $4k → 14%Fordham University: $4k → 28%Washington & Lee University: $16k → 12%Nat'l Institutes of Health: $5k → 8%Fordham University: $3k → 28%Nat'l Institutes of Health: $5k → 8%Montefiore Children's Hospital: $50k → 28%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

NH
IL
MI
NY
CT
CA
VA
MD
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $25k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$25k · 100% · 1 person

Stated purpose: Medical research related services

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$389k · 7 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$389k
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+36%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • Washington and Lee University
    3× · 2022–2024 · $69k · revenue +75%
  • RU
    Rush University Medical Center
    2× · 2023–2024 · $63k · revenue +4%
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $38k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • MM
    MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +36%
  • WM
    Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
University of Miami

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

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
5
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
6
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
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
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
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University; the most unlike its peers is The Hide and Seek Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Trustees of Dartmouth College: $119,311 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth CollegeWashington and Lee University: $68,620 · EducationWashington and Lee UniversityYale University: $50,000 · EducationYale UniversityTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCFordham University: $30,920 · EducationFordham UniversityTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $111,375 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV…Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers: $50,000 · OtherWeill Medical College of Cornell …REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $20,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICH…NIHNIA: $20,000 · OtherNIHNIARush University Medical Center: $62,700 · HealthRush University Me…MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 · HealthMONTEFIORE MEDICAL…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthTHE HIDE AND SEEK FOUNDATION: $58,301 · PhilanthropyTHE HIDE …
Education$306,351Other$201,375Health$113,700Philanthropy$58,301

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $119,311 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $68,620 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $62,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HIDE AND SEEK FOUNDATION: $58,301 over 2y, 26% of budgetYale University: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $30,920 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000 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 Dana's Angels Research Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dana's Angels Research Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 Dana's Angels Research Trust 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 13 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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