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· Public charity

Foundation for Neurologic Diseases Inc

The Foundation is dedicated to finding the cause of and providing treatments for complex, chronic diseases that prematurely destroys Brain Function.

$567k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$445k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Health$3.6MScience & Tech$193kEducation$171kRecreation & Sports$10k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $62k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
  • $250k+1 grant · $445k
$60,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Brigham & Womens Hospital$444,500
Brigham & Women's Physican Group$60,000
Yale University$32,000
Stanford University$30,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Brigham & Womens Hospital: $1.1M → 16%Stanford University: $20k → 8%University of California Irvine: $9k → 10%University of Southern California: $8k → 14%Newburgh Armory Unity: $10k → 14%Clinical Biotechnology Research: $5k → 12%Compass Research LLC: $23k → 13%UF Foundation: $163k → 19%KU Center for Research Inc: $41k → 15%University of Wisconsin-Madison: $8k → 10%Yale University: $22k → 12%Butler Hospital: $8k → 14%University of Kentucky: $7k → 15%Brigham & Womens Hospital: $770k → 16%Stanford University: $30k → 8%Yale University: $32k → 12%Brigham & Womens Hospital: $481k → 16%Brigham & Womens Hospital: $445k → 16%Brigham & Womens Hospital: $305k → 16%Brigham & Womens Hospital: $285k → 16%Brigham & Women's Physican Group: $60k → 16%Brigham & Womens Hospital: $50k → 16%Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: $25k → 16%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

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NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
KY
KS
NC
SC
FL
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
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.

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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
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Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
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
4
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
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Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
6
University of Miami

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

Education
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Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yale University; the most unlike its peers is University of Kansas Center for Research 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

11 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. 11 of the 16 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $3,514,800 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED+4 more: $47,700 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $162,956 · EducationYale University: $54,200 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $25,000 · Education+2 more: $15,600 · EducationUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $40,900 · Science & TechBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $25,000 · HealthBUTLER HOSPITAL: $8,400 · HealthClinical Biotechnology Research Institute at RSFH: $5,100 · HealthNEWBURGH ARMORY UNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,562,500Education$307,756Science & Tech$40,900Health$38,500Recreation & Sports$10,000

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 UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $162,956 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYale University: $54,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $40,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWBURGH ARMORY UNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $8,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUTLER HOSPITAL: $8,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $7,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClinical Biotechnology Research Institute at RSFH: $5,100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Foundation for Neurologic Diseases Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Neurologic Diseases Inc. 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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How do I get to Foundation for Neurologic Diseases Inc?

Find your warmest path to Foundation for Neurologic Diseases Inc 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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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