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Dr Ralph & Marian Falk Medical Research Tr at a glance

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Dr Ralph & Marian Falk Medical Research Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$356k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$18MHealth$13MRecreation & Sports$1.0MFood & Nutrition$497kScience & Tech$484kHuman Services$1kArts & Culture$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k26 grants · $4.5M
  • $250k+12 grants · $3.8M
$175,864
Median grant
11
States reached
$146M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$355,809
YALE UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$348,252
INDIANA UNIVERSITY$340,879
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN$334,583
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$333,333
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$331,873
BOARD REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN$330,487
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN$315,981
UNIVERSITYOF MINNESOTA$308,897
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$284,681
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$268,735
PURDUE UNIVERSITY$257,044
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$210,398
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$208,319
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$203,837
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITYOF MINNESOTA: $309k → 11%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $333k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $460k → 7%STANFORD UNIVERSITY - DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $190k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $208k → 15%REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $200k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $400k → 16%KUMC RI: $200k → 16%BOARD REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $330k → 10%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $1.2M → 17%BROWN UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE: $505k → 14%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $446k → 18%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $257k → 19%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $200k → 15%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1.1M → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $497k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $332k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $285k → 11%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $333k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $200k → 15%REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $190k → 14%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $377k → 17%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $341k → 18%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $198k → 15%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $200k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $211k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $210k → 14%UNIVERSITYOF MINNESOTA: $235k → 11%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $333k → 22%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN sen neuron: $346k → 17%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $190k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $205k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $200k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $204k → 11%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $197k → 22%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $335k → 17%REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF MINNESOTA: $200k → 11%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $319k → 17%BROWN UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE: $495k → 14%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $316k → 17%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $356k → 17%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $343k → 17%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $301k → 17%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $260k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $201k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $200k → 14%RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $200k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $269k → 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

ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
MO
KS
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 21 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
12

Total granted

$25M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+1257%

Still filing today

48%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $640k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +9%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
    4× · 2022–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +21%
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • MC
    MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN sen neuron
    one grant, 2023 · $346k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
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
University of Miami

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

Education
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
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
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
8
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
9
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
10
Marquette University

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.

Education
11
Illinois Institute of Technology

To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Punt Pediatric Cancer Collaborative 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

17 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. 17 of the 40 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $2,514,767 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITYOF MINNESOTA: $2,090,515 · OtherUNIVERSITYOF MINNESOTAIndiana University School of Medicine: $1,963,505 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1,709,930 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $1,605,293 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATIBOARD REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $870,487 · OtherBOARD REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $850,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $530,512 · Other+16 more: $2,670,143 · Other+16 moreTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $2,600,500 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INCYale University: $2,517,944 · EducationYale UniversityCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $1,878,494 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,423,075 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANF…THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $1,347,499 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYUniversity of Chicago: $1,267,745 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $698,717 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY+1 more: $175,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,983,769 · HealthCHILDREN'S …Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $525,091 · HealthRehabilitat…MAYO CLINIC: $356,330 · HealthMAYO CLINICRush University Medical Center: $299,458 · HealthRush Univer…+2 more: $101,000 · HealthBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,523,096 · Community ImprovementNorthwestern University: $1,028,586 · Recreation & Sports
Other$14,805,152Education$11,908,974Health$3,265,648Community Improvement$1,523,096Recreation & Sports$1,028,586

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 budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $2,600,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYale University: $2,517,944 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,983,769 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $1,878,494 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,523,096 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,423,075 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $1,347,499 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $1,267,745 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $1,028,586 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $698,717 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $525,091 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $356,330 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $299,458 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $294,489 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $175,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUNT PEDIATRIC CANCER COLLABORATIVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds PUNT PEDIATRIC CANCER COLLABORATIVE INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dr Ralph & Marian Falk Medical Research Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dr Ralph & Marian Falk Medical Research Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Yale University: 12% 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 · 0–90%
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.

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 40 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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