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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 FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
22
States reached
$351k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 28 grants below total $2,047,460, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,301,691 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,254,231 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $290k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+1 grant · $351k
$61,090
Median grant
22
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA SAN FRANCISCO$350,902
GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORP$190,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE$137,107
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY$120,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$114,875
CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE$106,950
DISCOGEN LLC$100,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GENE AND CELL THERAPY$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$95,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS$86,672
BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$86,000
NICKLAUS MIAMI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SEGA$75,880
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$62,500
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$61,090
BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION$60,000
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $95k → 15%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $129k → 16%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $100k → 17%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 19%CHILDREN'S RESEARCH: $135k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $343k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $87k → 21%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GENE AND CELL THERAPY: $100k → 5%UNIVERSITY OF UTAHPAYNE: $94k → 8%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $112k → 13%ACOUSTIIC INC: $500k → 9%DISCOGEN LLC: $100k → 7%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $242k → 21%KAI (ARRAY - PANCREATIC CANCER REGISTRY): $204k → 8%BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL: $120k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $103k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $216k → 8%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $224k → 17%CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $107k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $254k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GENE AND CELL THERAPY: $100k → 5%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $94k → 9%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $182k → 21%KAI: $126k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $390k → 19%BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL: $113k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $136k → 8%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $218k → 17%CHILDREN'S RESEARCH: $96k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $235k → 14%GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORP: $190k → 13%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $150k → 21%NAVITAS CLINICAL RESEARCH INC: $112k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $199k → 19%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $86k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $127k → 8%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $153k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $173k → 14%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $120k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $145k → 19%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $115k → 8%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $96k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $137k → 19%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $98k → 8%CORNELL UNIVERSITYWEILL: $100k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $118k → 19%UNIV OF MARYLAND: $102k → 19%SONIC CONCEPTS INC: $139k → 9%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

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $2.2M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions, $2.2M to organizations and $30k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$1.5M · 67% · 14 grants · 8 people

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

North America (Canada and Mexico)$396k · 18% · 4 grants · 6 people

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

East Asia and the Pacific$340k · 15% · 3 grants · 2 people

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.3M · 30 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
15

Total granted

$8.3M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+21%

Still filing today

47%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CR
    CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $467k · revenue +64%
  • GT
    GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $215k · revenue +7%
  • MC
    Miami Children's Health System Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $208k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • AI
    ACOUSTIIC INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500k
  • SC
    SONIC CONCEPTS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $139k
  • UO
    UNIV OF MARYLAND
    one grant, 2019 · $102k
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
University of Miami

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

Education
4
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
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
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
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
8
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
9
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
11
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
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 Carnegie Mellon University; the most unlike its peers is Variety Children's Hospital. 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

28 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. 28 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1,195,867 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $1,074,518 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $933,528 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $874,705 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCONavitas Clinical Research Inc: $623,068 · OtherNavitas Clinical Research IncACOUSTIIC INC: $500,000 · OtherACOUSTIIC INCMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $458,334 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $278,299 · Other+21 more: $1,599,846 · Other+21 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $828,150 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $668,720 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUM…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $165,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBU…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $111,672 · EducationCornell University: $100,000 · EducationVanderbilt University: $100,000 · EducationPHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY: $99,521 · Education+4 more: $59,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $467,413 · HealthCHILDREN'S RESE…GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $215,000 · HealthGEORGIA TECH RE…Miami Children's Health System Inc: $208,325 · HealthMiami Children'…THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GENE & CELL THERAPY: $200,000 · HealthTHE AMERICAN SO…CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH…THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $100,000 · HealthTHE FEINSTEIN I…BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $60,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $58,009 · Health+4 more: $142,866 · Health+4 moreNorthwestern University: $105,798 · Recreation & SportsTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $30,000 · Animals
Other$7,538,165Education$2,132,063Health$1,551,613Recreation & Sports$105,798Animals$30,000

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 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $828,150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $668,720 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $467,413 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $215,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMiami Children's Health System Inc: $208,325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GENE & CELL THERAPY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $165,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $111,672 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $105,798 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVanderbilt University: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY: $99,521 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $58,009 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVariety Children's Hospital: $50,114 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $47,892 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN STATE RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $29,360 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Economic Club of Washington DC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $4,000 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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Miami Children's Health System Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GENE & CELL THERAPY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds Variety Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Fidelity Investments …
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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Focused Ultrasound Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Focused Ultrasound Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%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%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Variety Children's Hospital: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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 54 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 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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