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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 FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$8.7M
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$120MScience & Tech$57MEducation$11M
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $21,813,761, the rows itemized in this filing. The $22,714,461 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $900,700 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+10 grants · $20M
$249,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$214M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NIHNIAMS$8,700,000
NIHNCI$3,724,778
NIH NIMH$2,614,331
NIHNIAID$1,834,488
Research Triangle Institute$836,038
Thomas Jefferson University$736,764
NIHNINDS$614,100
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center$562,536
NIH NHLBI$512,204
University of Alabama at Birmingham$304,475
NIHOD$249,500
Trustees of Boston University$231,516
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill$215,635
The Trustees of Columbia University$148,351
Friends of Cancer Research$138,296
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $905k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1.3M → 14%WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 12%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1.0M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $1.1M → 16%DONALD DANFORD PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $1.2M → 11%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CTR: $859k → 9%NIHNIA: $11.4M → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $888k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1.3M → 14%University of Alabama at Birmingham: $856k → 16%NIHNIAMS: $8.7M → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1.1M → 14%NIHNIAMS: $7.5M → 8%NIHNIAMS: $7.3M → 8%NIHNCI: $5.8M → 8%NIHNIAA: $5.8M → 8%NIHNIAID: $5.4M → 8%NIHNIAID: $4.9M → 8%NIH NIMH: $4.5M → 8%NIHNCI: $4.2M → 8%NIHNIAID: $4.0M → 8%NIH NIMH: $3.8M → 8%NIHNIAID: $3.8M → 8%NIHNCI: $3.7M → 8%NIHNIAMS: $3.7M → 8%NIHNIAMS: $3.5M → 8%NIHNIAID: $3.2M → 8%NIHNIAID: $3.1M → 8%NIH NIMH: $3.1M → 8%NIHNCI: $2.9M → 8%NIHNATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING: $2.8M → 8%NIH NIMH: $2.6M → 8%NIHNIAMS: $2.5M → 8%NIHNIAID: $2.4M → 8%NIHNIAMS: $2.3M → 8%NIHNIA: $2.2M → 8%NIHNCI: $2.1M → 8%NIHNIAMS: $2.0M → 8%NIHNIAID: $1.8M → 8%NIHNCI: $1.3M → 8%NIHNIMH: $1.2M → 8%NIHNIMH: $1.2M → 8%NIHNINDS: $1.1M → 8%NIH NHLBI: $980k → 8%NIHNCI: $911k → 8%NIHNIA: $883k → 8%NIHNINDS: $847k → 8%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
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
RI
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$178M · 32 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
6

Total granted

$178M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+16%

Still filing today

53%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthScience & TechOther
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

  • RT
    Research Triangle Institute
    5× · 2019–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +30%
  • FH
    FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +27%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    5× · 2019–2023 · $3.3M · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • DD
    DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $1.2M · revenue +2%
  • N
    NIHNIA
    one grant, 2018 · $883k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE
    one grant, 2018 · $592k
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
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
3
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
4
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
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
6
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
7
University of Miami

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

Education
8
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
9
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
10
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
11
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
12
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Catalysis Foundation for Health 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

24 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. 24 of the 41 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)
23/24
Grantees still filing
22/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NIHNIA: $137,631,018 · OtherNIHNIA+19 more: $26,407,652 · Other+19 moreUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,115,262 · EducationUNIVERSITY…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $3,277,332 · EducationUNIVERSITY…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,934,691 · EducationTHE TRUSTE…THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $1,627,686 · EducationTHOMAS JEF…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $1,587,747 · EducationCASE WESTE…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,192,973 · EducationDUKE UNIVE…UNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC: $981,516 · EducationUNIV OF LO…Emory University: $702,570 · Education+4 more: $484,818 · EducationResearch Triangle Institute: $3,645,815 · Science & TechDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $1,187,493 · Science & Tech+1 more: $124,000 · Science & TechFriends of Cancer Research: $1,069,795 · HealthThe Broad Institute Inc: $299,798 · HealthTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $260,291 · HealthSUTTER BAY HOSPITALS: $88,124 · Health+2 more: $79,401 · Health
Other$164,038,670Education$16,904,595Science & Tech$4,957,308Health$1,797,409

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,115,262 over 5y, 0.0% of 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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,934,691 over 7y, 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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $42,062 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BLOOD CENTER INC: $28,750 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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Research Triangle Institute ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Cancer Research ↗
  • Who funds CATALYSIS FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES INC ↗
  • Who funds SUTTER BAY HOSPITALS ↗
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗

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 Univers…The Trustees of Colum…Muscular Dystrophy As…Amyotrophic Lateral S…Northwestern Universi…Washington UniversityCharities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
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 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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