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International Fop Association Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

International Fop Association Inc

To support and connect the global fop community while driving research toward treatments and a cure.

$597k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

58% of International Fop Association Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’18
1
’19
7
’20
5
’21
6
’22
2
’23
4
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$4.0MScience & Tech$424kHealth$308k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $470,947, the rows itemized in this filing. The $596,971 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $126,024 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–50k2 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $148k
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$65,250
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$275,000
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS$83,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC$65,250
MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED$28,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$19,697
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC: $65k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $18k → 9%NAVROGEN INC: $68k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $819k → 22%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $34k → 10%TAMU HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $46k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $84k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $42k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $21k → 11%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $16k → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $39k → 14%CORIELL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $8k → 12%TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE: $25k → 16%NAVROGEN INC: $29k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $600k → 22%TAMU HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $24k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $26k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $21k → 11%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $16k → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $32k → 14%TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE: $25k → 16%NAVROGEN INC: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $463k → 22%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $15k → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $28k → 16%NAVROGEN INC: $23k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $428k → 22%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $13k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $415k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $325k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $275k → 22%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

MN
MI
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
TN
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $121k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, $90k to organizations and $31k 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)$104k · 86% · 1 grant · 10 people

Stated purpose: FOP RESEARCH · HAROLD & ELAINE KAPLAN QUALITY OF L.I.F.E. AWARDS

Sub-Saharan Africa$5k · 4% · 4 people

Stated purpose: HAROLD & ELAINE KAPLAN QUALITY OF L.I.F.E. AWARDS

South America$5k · 4% · 8 people

Stated purpose: HAROLD & ELAINE KAPLAN QUALITY OF L.I.F.E. AWARDS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$3k · 3% · 5 people

Stated purpose: HAROLD & ELAINE KAPLAN QUALITY OF L.I.F.E. AWARDS

Middle East and North Africa$2k · 2% · 1 person

Stated purpose: HAROLD & ELAINE KAPLAN QUALITY OF L.I.F.E. AWARDS

Central America and the Caribbean$1k · 1% · 3 people

Stated purpose: HAROLD & ELAINE KAPLAN QUALITY OF L.I.F.E. AWARDS

South Asia$1k · 1% · 2 people

Stated purpose: HAROLD & ELAINE KAPLAN QUALITY OF L.I.F.E. AWARDS

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 9 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$1.2M
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+110%
+195%

Still filing today

44%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’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

  • UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $605k · revenue +633%
  • EU
    Emory University
    4× · 2020–2024 · $104k · revenue +54%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    2× · 2018–2020 · $50k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • TH
    TAMU HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $46k
  • UO
    University of Michigangraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $26k · revenue +195%
  • TA
    TEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $24k
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
University of Miami

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

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
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
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
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
10
Upmc Group

Healthcare, education, and research

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11
University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc

The organization's mission is to solicit and receive contributions and grants from the general public and to hold, invest, and administer these funds and pay expenditures for the benefit of the university of maryland in baltimore and to…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College; 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

8 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. 8 of the 18 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)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,325,782 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC: $605,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $153,660 · EducationNAVROGEN INC: $106,680 · OtherNAVROGEN INCREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $99,016 · OtherREGENTS OF TH…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $87,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL …UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $63,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $49,610 · OtherREGENTS OF TH…TAMU HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $46,000 · OtherTAMU HEALTH S…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $28,000 · OtherUniversity of Michigan: $25,800 · OtherTEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $23,832 · OtherNAVROGEN INC: $22,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $20,861 · OtherMAYO CLINIC: $50,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center: $32,000 · HealthCORIELL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH INC: $8,000 · Science & Tech
Education$4,084,442Other$572,299Health$82,000Science & Tech$8,000

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,325,782 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC: $605,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetEmory University: $103,660 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $25,800 over 1y, 12% of budgetCORIELL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH INC: $8,000 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds CORIELL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization International Fop Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Fop Association 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 44%
  • Coriell Institute for Medical Research Inc: 44% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 18 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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