How much does Focused Ultrasound Foundation give?

Focused Ultrasound Foundation reported 28 itemized grants totaling $2,047,460, out of $4,301,691 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Focused Ultrasound Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (75%), Health (21%), Education (3%).

Who are Focused Ultrasound Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Regents of the University of Michigan ($1.2M), University of Maryland College Park ($1.1M), Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University ($934k).

Does Focused Ultrasound Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Focused Ultrasound Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.

Where is Focused Ultrasound Foundation based?

Focused Ultrasound Foundation is based in VA.

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Virginia · Public charity

Focused Ultrasound Foundation

Organize, conduct, and fund research, foster collaboration through meetings, symposia and workshops, cultivate the next generation through fellowships and internships, and collect and disseminate knowledge.

$4.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 28
Itemized grants FY2025: 28
Organizations funded FY2024: 32%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $2.0M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $61,090
Largest grant, FY2025: $350,902
Organizations funded a year: 6 to 28; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 22
Total assets, FY2025: $51M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Focused Ultrasound Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $805k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	27	$1.9M	22%
FY2024	28	$2.3M	32%
FY2023	22	$1.4M	41%
FY2022	17	$1.4M	35%
FY2021	13	$737k	54%
FY2020	6	$409k	17%
FY2019	13	$1.8M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Science & Tech$7.0MHealth$1.9MEducation$241kRecreation & Sports$96kAnimals$30kSocial Science$6k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Regents of the University of Michigan	$1,195,867	7	n/a
University of Maryland College Park	$1,074,518	7	n/a
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	$933,528	7	n/a
University of California San Francisco	$874,705	3	n/a
Navitas Clinical Research Inc	$623,068	6	n/a
Acoustiic Inc	$500,000	1	n/a
Children's Research Institute	$467,413	5	0%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$458,334	5	n/a
University of Washington	$278,299	5	n/a
Georgia Tech Research Corporation	$215,000	2	0%

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All grantees of Focused Ultrasound Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Regents of the University of Michigan	$1,195,867	7	n/a
University of Maryland College Park	$1,074,518	7	n/a
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	$933,528	7	n/a
University of California San Francisco	$874,705	3	n/a
Navitas Clinical Research Inc	$623,068	6	n/a
Acoustiic Inc	$500,000	1	n/a
Children's Research Institute	$467,413	5	0%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$458,334	5	n/a
University of Washington	$278,299	5	n/a
Georgia Tech Research Corporation	$215,000	2	0%
Miami Children's Health System Inc	$208,325	3	0%
The American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy	$200,000	2	1%
University of Utah	$194,364	5	n/a
University of Pittsburgh	$165,000	2	0%
Georgia Institute of Technology	$153,104	2	n/a
Sonic Concepts Inc	$139,120	1	n/a
The Ohio State University	$116,752	4	n/a
University of Arizona	$115,000	2	n/a
Washington University	$111,672	3	0%
Northwestern University	$105,798	3	0%
Univ of Maryland	$101,700	1	n/a
Cornell University	$100,000	1	0%
Cancer Research Institute Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Discogen LLC	$100,000	1	n/a
Vanderbilt University	$100,000	3	0%
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research	$100,000	3	0%
Oklahoma State University	$100,000	1	n/a
Philadelphia University	$99,521	3	0%
Carnegie Mellon University	$90,000	3	0%
Verasonics Inc	$82,800	1	n/a
Arizona State University	$78,212	3	n/a
Auburn University	$77,000	3	n/a
Trustees of Boston University	$70,000	3	0%
Brightfocus Foundation	$60,000	1	0%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research	$58,009	1	0%
Variety Children's Hospital	$50,114	1	0%
Pennsylvania State University	$50,000	3	n/a
Children's Tumor Foundation	$47,892	2	0%
Trustees of Purdue University	$40,000	1	n/a
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	$38,188	2	n/a
William Marsh Rice University	$30,000	1	0%
The Animal Medical Center	$30,000	1	0%
Ocean State Research Institute Inc	$29,360	1	0%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$25,340	2	n/a
University of Chicago	$20,000	1	0%
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	$15,500	2	0%
Advanced Microbubble	$12,000	1	n/a
Onda Corporation	$6,836	1	n/a
The Economic Club of Washington DC	$5,500	1	0%
Johns Hopkins University	$4,000	1	0%
Microvascular Therapeutics	$3,930	1	n/a

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Focused Ultrasound Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 25.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Focused Ultrasound Foundation

How much does Focused Ultrasound Foundation give?: Focused Ultrasound Foundation reported 28 itemized grants totaling $2,047,460, out of $4,301,691 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Focused Ultrasound Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (75%), Health (21%), Education (3%).
Who are Focused Ultrasound Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Regents of the University of Michigan ($1.2M), University of Maryland College Park ($1.1M), Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University ($934k).
Does Focused Ultrasound Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Focused Ultrasound Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Focused Ultrasound Foundation based?: Focused Ultrasound Foundation is based in VA.