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Lupus Foundation of America Inc

Lupus foundation of america, inc.

$424k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$140k
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 2025.

Health$6.9MScience & Tech$951kEmployment$932kEducation$510k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $379,874, the rows itemized in this filing. The $423,638 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $43,764 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $280k
$45,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$140,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL$140,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$45,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERISITY$45,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$9,874
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL: $140k → 8%THE BRIGHAM WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $400k → 16%SYSTEMIC LUPUS INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATING CLINICS: $181k → 11%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $45k → 22%THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $140k → 7%FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $140k → 6%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $140k → 17%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $75k → 28%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $756k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $140k → 16%CHILDHOOD ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATOLOGY RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $50k → 17%YALE UNIVERSITY: $140k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 11%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $70k → 15%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $140k → 16%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $140k → 14%LFA NEW JERSEY CHAPTER: $25k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: $25k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $140k → 19%THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $140k → 16%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $200k → 17%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $50k → 28%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $756k → 12%CHILDHOOD ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATOLOGY RESEARCH A: $50k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $140k → 11%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $70k → 16%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $45k → 14%LFA NEW JERSEY CHAPTER: $25k → 10%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERISITY: $45k → 19%BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $140k → 16%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $150k → 17%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $47k → 28%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $756k → 12%CHILDHOOD ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATOLOGY RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $50k → 17%SYSTEMIC LUPUS INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATING CLINICS: $103k → 14%LFA NEW JERSEY CHAPTER: $25k → 10%THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $70k → 16%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $100k → 17%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $756k → 12%CHILDHOOD ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATOLOGY RESEARCH ALLIANCE (CARRA): $50k → 17%SYSTEMIC LUPUS INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATING CLINICS: $100k → 14%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $45k → 16%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $100k → 17%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $756k → 12%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $45k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER: $140k → 17%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $107k → 12%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $140k → 12%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
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
MD
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.9M · 16 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
12

Total granted

$6.9M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+28%

Still filing today

81%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $550k · revenue +21%
  • NY
    New York University
    3× · 2017–2024 · $350k · revenue +76%
  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    2× · 2018–2025 · $340k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • MU
    MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2022 · $756k
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2024 · $400k
  • Northwestern Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $140k · revenue +33%
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
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
2
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
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
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
5
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
6
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
7
Lupus Research Alliance Inc

Putting people with lupus at the center of all we do, the lupus research alliance drives the discovery & development of next generation lupus diagnostics and curative treatments through innovative research & collaborations.

Health
8
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
9
University of Miami

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

Education
10
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
11
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
12
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Systemic Lupus International Collaborati ng Clinics. 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

25 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. 25 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHI CHI MEDICAL FRATERNITY INC: $3,270,536 · OtherPHI CHI MEDICAL FRATERNITY INCMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $756,000 · OtherMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINAUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $581,475 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $400,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED+9 more: $516,048 · Other+9 moreNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $550,000 · HealthNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RE…Systemic Lupus International Collaborati ng Clinics: $383,805 · HealthSystemic Lupus Internationa…SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $340,000 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALChildren's Hospital Corporation: $230,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corpora…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $210,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL…CHILDHOOD ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATOLOGY RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $200,000 · HealthCHILDHOOD ARTHRITIS AND RHE…THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDA…THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $140,000 · HealthTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FO…+2 more: $47,346 · HealthNew York University: $350,000 · EducationNew York Universi…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $185,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNI…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $185,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $172,000 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSIT…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $140,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUS…Yale University: $140,000 · EducationYale UniversityTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $140,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF C…+2 more: $90,000 · Education+2 moreNorthwestern University: $140,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$5,524,059Health$2,251,151Education$1,402,000Recreation & Sports$140,000

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 budgetNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $550,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSystemic Lupus International Collaborati ng Clinics: $383,805 over 3y, 35% of budgetNew York University: $350,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $340,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $230,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $210,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDHOOD ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATOLOGY RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $200,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $185,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $185,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $172,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $140,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $140,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $140,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $140,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $140,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA NEW JERSEY CHAPTER INC: $75,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA HEARTLAND CHAPTER INC: $27,026 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA GEORGIA CHAPTER INC: $22,462 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $22,346 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLupus Foundation of America Inc: $15,810 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA GREATER OHIO CHAPTER: $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC9.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Lupus Foundation of America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lupus Foundation of America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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