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Dr Miriam & Sheldon G Adelson Medical Research Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$41M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
38
Grants FY2024
35
Organizations funded FY2023
9%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$699,447
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,982,102
Organizations funded a year
34 to 38
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
13
Total assets, FY2024
$714k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Dr Miriam & Sheldon G Adelson Medical Research Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Recreation & SportsEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving36$38M3%
FY202335$33M9%
FY202234$32M6%
FY202134$34M3%
FY202036$49M8%
FY201935$22M3%
FY201838$36Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$183MEducation$72MScience & Tech$2.9MRecreation & Sports$2.0M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
MD
NC
SC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Johns Hopkins University$21,987,95070%
University of California San Francisco$17,844,5847n/a
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$14,096,47170%
The Broad Institute Inc$10,788,15770%
Children's Hospital Corporation$8,445,88570%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$7,200,02260%
The Rockefeller University$6,500,00031%
University of Rochester$4,993,03570%
The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology$3,144,18971%
Regents of the University of Michigan$3,008,0337n/a
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All grantees of Dr Miriam & Sheldon G Adelson Medical Research Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Johns Hopkins University$21,987,95070%
University of California San Francisco$17,844,5847n/a
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$14,096,47170%
The Broad Institute Inc$10,788,15770%
Children's Hospital Corporation$8,445,88570%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$7,200,02260%
The Rockefeller University$6,500,00031%
University of Rochester$4,993,03570%
The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology$3,144,18971%
Regents of the University of Michigan$3,008,0337n/a
South Carolina Research Foundation$2,930,32477%
Thomas Jefferson University$2,446,56970%
Northwestern University$1,987,91650%
Baylor College of Medicine$1,941,39870%
University of California Santa Barbara$1,400,0004n/a
Duke University$1,118,10930%
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation$536,7082n/a
University of Chicago$379,50510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($134M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dr Miriam & Sheldon G Adelson Medical Research Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJohns Hopkins University: $21,987,950 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $14,096,471 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $10,788,157 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $8,445,885 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $7,200,022 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rockefeller University: $6,500,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Rochester: $4,993,035 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology: $3,144,189 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetSouth Carolina Research Foundation: $2,930,324 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetThomas Jefferson University: $2,446,569 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $1,987,916 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $1,941,398 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDuke University: $1,118,109 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $379,505 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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About Dr Miriam & Sheldon G Adelson Medical Research Foundation

How much does Dr Miriam & Sheldon G Adelson Medical Research Foundation give?
Dr Miriam & Sheldon G Adelson Medical Research Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $40,804,682 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Dr Miriam & Sheldon G Adelson Medical Research Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (70%), Education (28%), Science & Tech (1%).
Who are Dr Miriam & Sheldon G Adelson Medical Research Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Johns Hopkins University ($22M), University of California San Francisco ($18M), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($14M).
Does Dr Miriam & Sheldon G Adelson Medical Research Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dr Miriam & Sheldon G Adelson Medical Research Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Dr Miriam & Sheldon G Adelson Medical Research Foundation based?
Dr Miriam & Sheldon G Adelson Medical Research Foundation is based in MA.

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 52 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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