· Public charity
Medical Research Charities Inc
The mission of Medical Research Charities is to raise funds and create unique collaborations between donors, charities, and medical researchers for a healthier tomorrow.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $235,299 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $244,287 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,988 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $70,053 |
| SAN DIEGO BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $29,144 |
| ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC | $27,499 |
| PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION | $25,608 |
| NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC | $18,340 |
| Lung Cancer Research Foundation | $17,884 |
| GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $12,651 |
| ASTHMA & ALLERGY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA NATIONAL | $11,496 |
| LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $9,230 |
| ALPHA-1 FOUNDATION INC | $7,274 |
| RHEUMATOLOGY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $6,120 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $969k · revenue +40%- TVTHE V FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $388k · revenue +111%
- PCPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $306k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- AAAMERICAN ACADEMY FOR CEREBRAL PALSY AND DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINEone grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue +17%
- CRComm Research Initiative On AIDS Incone grant, 2017 · $10k
- ICInterstitial Cystitis Association of America Incone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -11%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
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,…
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
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The mission of the Scleroderma Research Foundation is to fund and facilitate the most promising, highest quality research aimed at new treatments and, ultimately, a cure for scleroderma.
The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…
Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is San Diego Biomedical Research Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASTHMA AND ALLERGY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds ATS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rheumatology Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds COPD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA-1 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CONCERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY FOR CEREBRAL PALSY AND DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Interstitial Cystitis Association of America Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED LEUKODYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PELVIC FLOOR DISORDERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Medical Research Charities Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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