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Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc

To create and lead alliances and public-private partnerships that advance breakthrough biomedical discoveries and improve the quality of people's lives

$23M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Itemized grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$22M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$249,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$8,700,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$214M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationScience & TechHealthOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$22M0%
FY202315$20M0%
FY202221$30M5%
FY202118$20M6%
FY202019$19M32%
FY201922$29M32%
FY201819$15M37%
FY201716$27Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$120MScience & Tech$57MEducation$11M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nihnia$137,631,0188n/a
Nih Nia$3,834,1973n/a
Research Triangle Institute$3,645,81550%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center$3,428,99580%
University of Pittsburgh$3,277,33250%
Regents of the University of Michigan$2,754,2694n/a
Board of the University of Alabama$2,699,1585n/a
Trustees of Boston University$1,906,92550%
Leidos Biomedical Research Inc$1,709,1644n/a
Thomas Jefferson University$1,627,68650%
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All grantees of Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nihnia$137,631,0188n/a
Nih Nia$3,834,1973n/a
Research Triangle Institute$3,645,81550%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center$3,428,99580%
University of Pittsburgh$3,277,33250%
Regents of the University of Michigan$2,754,2694n/a
Board of the University of Alabama$2,699,1585n/a
Trustees of Boston University$1,906,92550%
Leidos Biomedical Research Inc$1,709,1644n/a
Thomas Jefferson University$1,627,68650%
Western Michigan University$1,596,8643n/a
Case Western Reserve University$1,587,74740%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$1,207,4195n/a
Duke University$1,192,97370%
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center$1,187,49312%
Friends of Cancer Research$1,069,79584%
Catalysis Foundation for Health Inc$1,061,1985n/a
Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette Foundation Inc$981,51623%
North Carolina State University$962,4275n/a
Nihnia$883,0531n/a
University of California San Francisco$847,3225n/a
Indiana University School of Medicine$825,1414n/a
John Hopkins University$771,8916n/a
Emory University$702,57030%
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia$690,0015n/a
University of Louisiana at Lafayette$592,3741n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado$475,2653n/a
The Broad Institute Inc$299,79820%
The Translational Genomics Research Institute Foundation$260,29132%
Georgetown University$205,30630%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$176,13020%
Gordon Research Conferences Inc$124,00020%
Mayo Clinic$114,6312n/a
Sutter Bay Hospitals$88,12430%
West Virginia University Foundation Inc$61,32010%
Rush University Medical Center$50,65120%
University of Minnesota$47,3581n/a
New York Blood Center Inc$28,75010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetResearch Triangle Institute: $3,645,815 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: $3,428,995 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $3,277,332 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $1,906,925 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThomas Jefferson University: $1,627,686 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $1,587,747 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDuke University: $1,192,973 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDonald Danforth Plant Science Center: $1,187,493 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFriends of Cancer Research: $1,069,795 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetUniv of Louisiana at Lafayette Foundation Inc: $981,516 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetEmory University: $702,570 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $299,798 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Translational Genomics Research Institute Foundation: $260,291 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetGeorgetown University: $205,306 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $176,130 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGordon Research Conferences Inc: $124,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSutter Bay Hospitals: $88,124 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWest Virginia University Foundation Inc: $61,320 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $50,651 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Blood Center Inc: $28,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 20.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Johns Hopkins UniversityMD16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn · Northwestern University · Washington University · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc

How much does Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc give?
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc reported 21 itemized grants totaling $21,813,761, out of $22,714,461 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (64%), Science & Tech (30%), Education (6%).
Who are Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Nihnia ($138M), Nih Nia ($3.8M), Research Triangle Institute ($3.6M).
Does Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Johns Hopkins University, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc.
Where is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc based?
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc is based in MD.

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 41 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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