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David M C Ju Foundation at a glance

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David M C Ju Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$269k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$128k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$1.0MEducation$442kCommunity Improvement$50kEnvironment$31kPhilanthropy$10kInternational$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $500
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $228k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADVANCING INNOVATION IN DERMATOLOGY$128,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ATTN CYNTHIA GOREY$50,000
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$50,000
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$25,000
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIV FOUNDATION$15,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$500
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MIT HACKING MEDICINE: $40k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $20k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $50k → 9%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $26k → 22%RECYCLABLU INC: $31k → 10%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $1k → 9%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLUMBIA: $50k → 17%USA FOR UNHCR: $1k → 14%DIGITAL MEDICINE SOCIETY: $83k → 9%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $75k → 21%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%SOCIETY FOR INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY: $10k → 17%ADVANCING INNOVATION IN DERMATOLOGY: $144k → 4%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%AMERICAN TELEMEDICINE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 7%MIT HACKING MEDICINE: $1k → 8%MAYO CLINIC DEPT OF DEVELOPMENT: $48k → 9%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $500 → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT: $50k → 17%ISID - INTERNAL SOC FOR INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY: $2k → 17%ADVANCING INNOVATION IN DERMATOLOGY: $140k → 4%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%HARVARD MEDICAL FACULTY PHYSICIANS AT BIDMC: $50k → 8%MAYO CLINIC DEPT OF DEVELOPMENT: $2k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ATTN CYNTHIA GOREY: $50k → 17%SOCIETY FOR INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY: $300 → 17%ADVANCING INNOVATION IN DERMATOLOGY: $128k → 4%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%ADVANCING INNOVATION IN DERMATOLOGY: $75k → 4%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT VAGELOS COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS: $50k → 17%ADVANCING INNOVATION IN DERMATOLOGY: $44k → 4%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MED AT MT SINAI: $75k → 17%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

MN
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
DC
FL
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$734k · 7 repeat orgs$567k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
13

Total granted

$734k
$517k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
-23%

Still filing today

71%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationInternationalOther
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

  • AI
    ADVANCING INNOVATION IN DERMATOLOGY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $531k · revenue +31% · 33% of their budget
  • OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +79%
  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • DM
    DIGITAL MEDICINE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $83k
  • IS
    ICAHN SCHOOL OF MED AT MT SINAI
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • CU
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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
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
4
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
5
University of Miami

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

Education
6
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
7
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Princeton University; the most unlike its peers is United States Association for Unhcr. 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

13 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. 13 of the 25 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)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ADVANCING INNOVATION IN DERMATOLOGY INC: $530,600 · HealthADVANCING INNOVATION IN DERMATOLOGY INCMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICAmerican Telemedicine Association: $50,000 · HealthAmerican Telemedicine Association+1 more: $1,500 · HealthDIGITAL MEDICINE SOCIETY: $83,000 · OtherDIGITAL MEDICINE SOCIETYICAHN SCHOOL OF MED AT MT SINAI: $75,000 · OtherICAHN SCHOOL OF MED AT MT SINAICOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT: $50,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENTCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ATTN CYNTHIA GOREY: $50,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ATTN CYNTHIA GOREYYALE UNIVERSITY DERM DEPT: $50,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY DERM DEPTOFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT VAGELOS COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS: $50,000 · OtherOFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT VAGELOS COLLEGE OF P…HARVARD MEDICAL FACULTY PHYSICIANS AT BIDMC: $50,000 · OtherHARVARD MEDICAL FACULTY PHYSICIANS AT BIDM…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLUMBIA: $50,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLUMBIAIndividual grant recipient: $41,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRECYCLABLU INC: $30,712 · OtherRECYCLABLU INCMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $20,000 · Other+3 more: $22,300 · OtherRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $125,000 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY F…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $61,387 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEE…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $50,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLU…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $26,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIV…OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $16,000 · EducationOREGON HEALTH & SCIE…+1 more: $5,000 · EducationUnited States Association for UNHCR: $1,000 · International
Health$682,100Other$572,012Education$283,387International$1,000

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 budgetADVANCING INNOVATION IN DERMATOLOGY INC: $530,600 over 5y, 33% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $61,387 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Telemedicine Association: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $26,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY: $10,300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $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 David M C Ju Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David M C Ju Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% 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 · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to David M C Ju Foundation?

Find your warmest path to David M C Ju Foundation 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 25 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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