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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.

$16M
Granted FY2025still arriving
65
Grants FY2025still arriving
28
States reached
$3.0M
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 2024.

Health$97M
02FY2025 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 65 grants below total $15,120,555, the rows itemized in this filing. The $16,051,336 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $930,781 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 · $6k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $927k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+14 grants · $12M
$58,100
Median grant
28
States reached
$88M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$3,037,963
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$2,815,610
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$1,344,967
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO$812,485
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$610,890
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$577,127
EMORY UNIVERSITY$552,746
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$449,585
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS$442,073
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$333,441
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$327,414
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$320,175
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$302,573
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$288,825
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$224,989
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $498k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $380k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $200k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $80k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $48k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $40k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $39k → 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

ME
NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$99M · 68 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

68 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
16

Total granted

$99M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+21%

Still filing today

57%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $499k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TF
    THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $8.4M · revenue +42%
  • EU
    Emory University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6.6M · revenue +80%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • LJ
    LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY
    one grant, 2024 · $450k · revenue 0%
  • FH
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
    one grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue +25%
  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
    one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +24%
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
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
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
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
4
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
5
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
6
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
7
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
8
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Rilite Foundation. 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

61 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. 61 of the 97 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
51/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $7,836,796 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDWeill Medical College of Cornell Univers: $6,770,005 · OtherWeill Medical College of Cornell UniversREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $3,647,947 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL: $2,762,527 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOLREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $2,694,672 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN …UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $2,067,338 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,991,188 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $1,857,743 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $1,794,561 · Other+33 more: $15,885,352 · Other+33 moreTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $8,351,239 · HealthTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICA…NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $2,987,885 · HealthNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF …Children's Hospital Corporation: $2,912,328 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $2,825,610 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $2,584,786 · HealthMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLIN…Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $2,147,234 · HealthOklahoma Medical Research Foundatio…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $1,911,611 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Cente…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,529,380 · Health+25 more: $9,454,751 · Health+25 moreEmory University: $6,595,741 · EducationEmory UniversityYale University: $3,428,296 · EducationYale UniversityTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,145,904 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF…New York University: $2,722,705 · EducationNew York UniversityUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,981,029 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,911,235 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE …UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,469,213 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $1,282,514 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $1,065,498 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $988,495 · Education+11 more: $4,394,083 · Education+11 moreNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $1,284,298 · Human Services
Other$47,308,129Health$34,704,824Education$28,984,713Human Services$1,284,298

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 budgetTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $8,351,239 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetEmory University: $6,595,741 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetYale University: $3,428,296 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,145,904 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $2,987,885 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $2,912,328 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $2,825,610 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $2,722,705 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $2,584,786 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetOklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $2,147,234 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,981,029 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $1,911,611 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,911,235 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,529,380 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,469,213 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $1,284,298 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $1,282,514 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $1,065,498 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $1,010,860 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $988,495 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $871,586 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $834,996 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $826,322 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $810,759 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $700,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical System Inc: $651,472 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetWALLACE RHEUMATIC DISEASE FOUNDATION: $626,557 over 7y, 62% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $607,743 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $602,573 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $600,188 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $591,756 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC: $571,129 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $542,267 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $521,613 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $499,585 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MINORITY QUALITY FORUM INC: $470,466 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY: $449,814 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $314,059 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $298,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic: $281,461 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $277,504 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $257,424 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $224,989 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMethodist Healthcare Foundation: $160,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $115,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA ↗

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.

Johns Hopkins Univers…Vanderbilt University…The Children's Hospit…Cornell UniversityMayo ClinicYale UniversityAmerican Cancer Socie…American Heart Associ…Muscular Dystrophy As…Emory UniversityUniversity of Pittsbu…The Trustees of Colum…
Johns Hopkins UniversityMD22.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Cornell University · Mayo Clinic · Yale University · American Cancer Society Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · Emory University · University of Pittsburgh · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: 31% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
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 97 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home