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Dr Miriam & Sheldon G Adelson Medical Research Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$5.0M
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$183MEducation$72MScience & Tech$2.9MRecreation & Sports$2.0M
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $354k
  • $250k+36 grants · $40M
$699,447
Median grant
13
States reached
$714k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$4,982,102
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$3,353,535
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$3,133,485
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$2,936,328
THE BROAD INSTITUTE$2,655,976
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SF$2,491,738
ST JOHNS CANCER INSTITUTE$1,773,025
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$1,599,745
WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE$1,505,877
OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$1,494,586
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$1,252,596
CEDARS SINAI$1,200,022
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TRUST$936,387
IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF LONDON$800,888
HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM$767,849
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.

US giving: 86% of grant dollars ($224M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 14% that went abroad ($37M) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $3.1M → 7%THE BROAD INSTITUTE: $2.7M → 8%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SF: $3.2M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $6.5M → 14%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $4.2M → 16%OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $1.5M → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3.2M → 19%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $2.9M → 7%THE BROAD INSTITUTE: $2.6M → 8%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SF: $2.8M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $6.3M → 14%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $3.4M → 16%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3.2M → 19%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $2.3M → 7%THE BROAD INSTITUTE: $1.9M → 8%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SF: $2.5M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $5.0M → 14%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $2.5M → 17%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $3.1M → 16%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3.2M → 19%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $1.9M → 7%THE BROAD INSTITUTE: $1.6M → 8%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SF: $2.5M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1.6M → 14%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $2.4M → 16%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3.1M → 19%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $1.7M → 7%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SF: $2.5M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $4.0M → 14%ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $2.0M → 17%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $2.2M → 16%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3.1M → 19%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $1.7M → 7%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SF: $2.3M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1.6M → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3.1M → 19%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SF: $2.1M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $3.5M → 14%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $2.0M → 17%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3.1M → 19%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $2.0M → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $3.3M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $2.4M → 14%ST JOHNS CANCER INSTITUTE: $1.8M → 14%ST JOHNS CANCER INSTITUTE: $1.6M → 14%ST JOHNS CANCER INSTITUTE: $1.4M → 14%ST JOHNS CANCER INSTITUTE: $1.4M → 14%CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $2.0M → 14%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
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
MD
NC
SC
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 14% of all-years giving ($37M)

4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Israel$28M · 33 grants
Germany$5.3M · 16 grants
United Kingdom$3.3M · 8 grants
Denmark$188k · 2 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$241M · 42 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

42 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
6

Total granted

$241M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+52%

Still filing today

33%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $801k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $22M · revenue +51%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $14M · revenue +123%
  • TB
    The Broad Institute Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $11M · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • UN
    USC NORRIS CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $1.1M
  • TW
    THE WINIFRED MASTERSON BURKE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $525k
  • BG
    BEN GURION UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $518k
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
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
4
University of Miami

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

Education
5
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
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
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
8
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
9
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
10
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
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
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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

18 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. 18 of the 52 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $30,872,231 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELESUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $17,844,584 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $17,358,529 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERWEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $10,994,798 · OtherWEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCEMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $8,611,880 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALHEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM: $6,670,410 · OtherOREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $6,422,229 · OtherST JOHNS CANCER INSTITUTE: $6,247,432 · Other+28 more: $54,856,839 · Other+28 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $21,987,950 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSIT…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $8,097,047 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN …THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $6,500,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERS…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,352,515 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERS…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $4,993,035 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $2,446,569 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,101,144 · EducationBaylor College of Medicine: $1,941,398 · Education+2 more: $1,497,614 · EducationDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $14,096,471 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer …The Broad Institute Inc: $10,788,157 · HealthThe Broad Institute…Children's Hospital Corporation: $8,445,885 · HealthChildren's Hospital…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $7,200,022 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICA…THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY: $3,144,189 · HealthTHE WISTAR INSTITUT…Northwestern University: $1,987,916 · Recreation & Sports
Other$159,878,932Education$54,917,272Health$43,674,724Recreation & Sports$1,987,916

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

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $8,097,047 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $7,200,022 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $6,500,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,352,515 over 7y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,101,144 over 4y, 0.0% 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
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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds South Carolina Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dr Miriam & Sheldon G Adelson Medical Research Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dr Miriam & Sheldon G Adelson Medical Research Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Dr Miriam & Sheldon G Adelson Medical Research 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 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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