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Les Turner Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Foundation Ltd

To provide the most comprehensive care and support to people living with als and their families in chicagoland, so they can confidently navigate the disease, and advance scientific research for the prevention, treatment and cure of als.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$300,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$700,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 3
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$4.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Les Turner Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Foundation Ltd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k 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
HealthOther
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 arriving2$1.1M0%
FY20232$1.2M50%
FY20222$916k0%
FY20212$1.5M0%
FY20202$1.4M0%
FY20193$2.3M0%
FY20183$1.2M67%
FY20172$1.1Mn/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$11MEducation$50k

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
Northwestern University$6,667,06380%
I Am Als$1,351,344292%
Northwestern Memorial Healthcare$675,0002n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.

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About Les Turner Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Foundation Ltd

How much does Les Turner Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Foundation Ltd give?
Les Turner Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Foundation Ltd reported 4 grants totaling $1,126,959 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Les Turner Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Foundation Ltd fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (100%), Education (0%).
Who are Les Turner Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Foundation Ltd's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Northwestern University ($6.7M), I Am Als ($1.4M), Northwestern Memorial Healthcare ($675k).
Does Les Turner Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Foundation Ltd fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Les Turner Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Foundation Ltd based?
Les Turner Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Foundation Ltd is based in IL.

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 5 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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