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Leducq Foundation for Cardiovascular Research at a glance

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Leducq Foundation for Cardiovascular Research

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26M
Granted FY2024still arriving
116
Grants FY2024still arriving
25
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$64MHealth$61MScience & Tech$5.9MRecreation & Sports$4.2MSocial Science$1.5MEnvironment$244kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 116 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $654k
  • $50k–250k60 grants · $8.8M
  • $250k+31 grants · $16M
$156,967
Median grant
25
States reached
$88M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$1,302,634
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$1,168,922
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$1,010,159
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$1,008,594
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$806,807
UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER AT DALLAS$706,703
LMU KLINKIKUM DER UNIVERSITAT MUNCHEN$587,386
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS$576,360
CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CARLOS III (FSP)$563,179
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH$514,274
CHARITE UNIVERSITATSMEDIZIN BERLIN$501,424
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD$499,915
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$497,370
MAX DELBRUCK CENTRE FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE$491,930
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON$466,928
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.

US giving: 55% of grant dollars ($76M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 45% that went abroad ($63M) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC: $392k → 8%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $421k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1.2M → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $1.3M → 8%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $559k → 28%FONDATION LEDUCQ: $9.0M → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON: $467k → 16%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $576k → 21%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $403k → 12%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $807k → 8%NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE: $437k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $690k → 19%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $374k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $987k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $1.3M → 14%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $377k → 28%FONDATION LEDUCQ: $6.0M → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $534k → 21%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $882k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $593k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $404k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $884k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $974k → 8%FONDATION LEDUCQ: $1.6M → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $748k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $394k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $378k → 19%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $875k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $524k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $633k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $389k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $722k → 8%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $497k → 14%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $563k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $417k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $393k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $752k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $527k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $517k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $497k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $396k → 16%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $654k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $624k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $433k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $418k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $396k → 17%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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Beyond the US: 45% of all-years giving ($63M)

20 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
France$18M · 14 grants
Germany$14M · 72 grants
United Kingdom$7.9M · 45 grants
Netherlands$6.1M · 32 grants
Spain$3.0M · 12 grants
Italy$2.9M · 25 grants
Sweden$2.5M · 14 grants
Israel$1.2M · 8 grants
Denmark$1.1M · 11 grants
Austria$905k · 6 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 17% of Leducq Foundation for Cardiovascular Research’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Leducq Foundation for Cardiovascular Researchlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 45% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$125M · 137 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

137 repeat relationships: 102 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

137
8

Total granted

$125M
$809k

Still filing today

20%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $511k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsScience & 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

  • Northwestern University
    6× · 2019–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +34%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +41%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $592k
  • NI
    NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES
    one grant, 2019 · $152k
  • UD
    UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX
    one grant, 2023 · $28k
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
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
3
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
4
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
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
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 Cornell University; the most unlike its peers is Cvpath Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 159 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
34/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $16,600,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE: $4,207,685 · Other+119 more: $80,574,071 · Other+119 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,427,502 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,685,348 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVE…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $2,747,822 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDIC…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,652,660 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUM…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2,397,012 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERS…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,717,996 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,451,723 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY+17 more: $6,840,390 · Education+17 moreVanderbilt University Medical Center: $1,526,995 · HealthThe Broad Institute Inc: $1,302,770 · HealthDIGNITY HEALTH: $808,443 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $727,850 · HealthCVPATH INSTITUTE INC: $673,536 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $488,534 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $263,123 · Health+4 more: $111,221 · HealthNorthwestern University: $4,160,178 · Recreation & SportsThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $448,425 · Science & TechBROWN UNIVERSITY: $387,674 · Community Improvement
Other$101,381,756Education$26,920,453Health$5,902,472Recreation & Sports$4,160,178Science & Tech$448,425Community Improvement$387,674

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,427,502 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $4,160,178 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,685,348 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $2,747,822 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,652,660 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2,397,012 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,717,996 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $1,526,995 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,451,723 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $1,302,770 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH: $808,443 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $727,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCVPATH INSTITUTE INC: $673,536 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $658,508 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $639,672 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $601,352 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $591,501 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $550,076 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $506,315 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $500,986 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $488,534 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $465,001 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $450,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $448,425 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University: $415,652 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $405,253 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $387,674 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $359,613 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $328,789 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $263,123 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $246,808 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $65,379 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $38,884 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH: $35,923 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $32,151 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC: $22,956 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $22,834 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEISINGER CLINIC: $13,458 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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗

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.

Cystic Fibrosis Found…Johns Hopkins Univers…Donor Advised Charita…
Cystic Fibrosis FoundationMD13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · Johns Hopkins University · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Leducq Foundation for Cardiovascular Research funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leducq Foundation for Cardiovascular Research. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% 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
  • Cvpath Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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.

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 159 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-PF 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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The unnamed billions
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