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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. We combine forces to find cures.

$244k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Itemized grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$235k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$17,884
Largest grant, FY2025
$70,053
Organizations funded a year
12 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$379k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Medical Research Charities Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY2025still arriving11$235k0%
FY202412$258k0%
FY202312$261k0%
FY202213$364k0%
FY202115$460k0%
FY202017$547k0%
FY201917$540k12%
FY201819$731k11%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$4.0MScience & Tech$610k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
NC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$969,21090%
Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies Inc$609,9384n/a
The V Foundation$387,52460%
Prostate Cancer Foundation$306,49090%
San Diego Biomedical Research Institute$282,50491%
Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc$257,22080%
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America Inc$205,61192%
Leukemia Research Foundation$193,00391%
Arthritis National Research Foundation$177,26043%
National Brain Tumor Society Inc$168,12590%
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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Medical Research Charities Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $969,210 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetThe V Foundation: $387,524 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetProstate Cancer Foundation: $306,490 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSan Diego Biomedical Research Institute: $282,504 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetAls Therapy Development Foundation Inc: $257,220 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAsthma and Allergy Foundation of America Inc: $205,611 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetLeukemia Research Foundation: $193,003 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetArthritis National Research Foundation: $177,260 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetNational Brain Tumor Society Inc: $168,125 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetGateway for Cancer Research: $165,993 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGlaucoma Research Foundation: $144,935 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetLung Cancer Research Foundation: $130,440 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetThe Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc: $116,187 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAts Foundation Inc: $69,806 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetRheumatology Research Foundation: $69,292 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCopd Foundation Inc: $53,867 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAlpha-1 Foundation Inc: $41,959 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Scripps Research Institute: $37,639 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConcern Foundation: $36,288 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine: $27,753 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNational Scleroderma Foundation Inc: $26,333 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetInterstitial Cystitis Association of America Inc: $5,682 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUnited Leukodystrophy Foundation Inc: $5,615 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPelvic Floor Disorders Research Foundation: $417 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

AbbVie FoundationIL17.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Medical Research Charities Inc?

Find your warmest path to Medical Research Charities Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Medical Research Charities Inc

How much does Medical Research Charities Inc give?
Medical Research Charities Inc reported 11 itemized grants totaling $235,299, out of $244,287 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Medical Research Charities Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (87%), Science & Tech (13%).
Who are Medical Research Charities Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc ($969k), Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies Inc ($610k), The V Foundation ($388k).
Does Medical Research Charities Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Medical Research Charities Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, American Express Foundation.
Where is Medical Research Charities Inc based?
Medical Research Charities Inc is based in MA.

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 28 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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