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Ian's Friends Foundation Inc

Dedicated to raising funds to support the funding of pediatric brain tumor research.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$414k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$5.5MEducation$208k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $689k
  • $250k+1 grant · $414k
$95,806
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$414,365
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA$195,000
ICHAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$103,255
Individual grant recipient$100,500
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$95,806
DUKE UNIVERISTY$89,393
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$55,000
RADYS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$50,000
UNC AT CHAPEL HILL$22,443
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 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNIVESITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $101k → 12%UPMC: $100k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $60k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $125k → 10%RADYS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $50k → 11%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $96k → 17%JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S: $50k → 12%UCSF: $104k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $55k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $414k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 21%DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $308k → 11%UNC AT CHAPEL HILL: $22k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $102k → 13%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $340k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $35k → 27%NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S: $109k → 15%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $60k → 8%SANFORD BURNHAM: $124k → 11%WEIL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $100k → 17%UCSF: $104k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $220k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $125k → 11%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $75k → 13%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $195k → 14%NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S: $107k → 15%WEIL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $100k → 17%UCSF: $42k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $113k → 14%DUKE UNIVERISTY: $108k → 11%GA TECH: $70k → 13%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $190k → 14%WEIL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $100k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $100k → 14%DUKE UNIVERISTY: $89k → 11%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $166k → 14%WEIL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $100k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $50k → 14%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $160k → 14%ICHAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $103k → 17%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $110k → 14%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $109k → 14%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

MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
MO
NC
GA
TX
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
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 8 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$3.5M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+18%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $941k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthOther
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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2024 · $630k · revenue +51%
  • JH
    JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $504k · revenue +56%
  • Cornell University
    2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +80%
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $125k · revenue -9%
  • SB
    SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2019 · $124k · revenue -7%
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
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
3
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
4
University of Miami

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

Education
5
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
6
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
7
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
8
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of California San Francisco Foundation; the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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

15 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. 15 of the 27 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $1,075,367 · OtherCHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INCREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $483,180 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUniversity of Michigan: $414,365 · OtherUniversity of MichiganUCSF Medical Center Auxiliary: $250,148 · OtherUCSF Medical Center AuxiliaryTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $195,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA+9 more: $632,943 · Other+9 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $630,352 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYCornell University: $200,000 · EducationCornell UniversityEmory University: $177,000 · EducationEmory UniversityUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $125,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FR…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $120,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LE…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $103,255 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOU…Cornell University Medical College Alumni Association Inc: $100,000 · EducationCornell University Medical Coll…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $95,806 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVER…+1 more: $50,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $503,901 · HealthJOHNS HOPKINS AL…Nationwide Children's Hospital Inc: $215,894 · HealthNationwide Child…SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $124,000 · HealthSANFORD BURNHAM …
Other$3,301,003Education$1,601,413Health$843,795

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $630,352 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $503,901 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $414,365 over 1y, 85% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNationwide Children's Hospital Inc: $215,894 over 2y, 59% of budgetCornell University: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $177,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $124,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $103,255 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University Medical College Alumni Association Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 94% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $95,806 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50,000 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Ian's Friends Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ian's Friends Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ian's Friends Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Ian's Friends Foundation 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 27 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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