· Public charity
Diabetes Research Connection
To connect donors with early-career scientists enabling them to perform peer-reviewed research designed to prevent and cure type 1 diabetes, minimize its complications and improve the quality of life for those living with the disease.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $70,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $65,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $55,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CA SF | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AL BIRMINGHAM | $40,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH C | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
University of Chicago3× · 2022–2024 · $125k · revenue +22%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE2× · 2023–2024 · $80k · revenue +37%- TJTHE JACKSON LABORATORY2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVERone grant, 2023 · $50k
- COCITY OF HOPEone grant, 2023 · $40k
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +76%
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…
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…
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…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Indiana Biosciences Research Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Diabetes Research Connection funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Diabetes Research Connection. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Diabetes Research Connection through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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