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.

Medical Research Charities Inc

Medical Research Charities Inc at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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.

$244k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$70k

Largest

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$4.0MScience & Tech$610k

02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 11 grants below total $235,299, the rows itemized in this filing. The $244,287 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,988 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 $10k3 grants · $23k
$10k–50k7 grants · $143k
$50k–250k1 grant · $70k

$17,884

Median grant

States reached

$379k

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.5M · 23 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.5M

$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+9%

Still filing today

87%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $969k · revenue +40%
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THE V FOUNDATION
6× · 2017–2022 · $388k · revenue +111%
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PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $306k · revenue +57%

Funded once

AA
AMERICAN ACADEMY FOR CEREBRAL PALSY AND DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE
one grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue +17%
CR
Comm Research Initiative On AIDS Inc
one grant, 2017 · $10k
IC
Interstitial Cystitis Association of America Inc
one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -27%

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.

Target Als Foundation Inc

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…

Education

Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative

Health

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

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

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.

Health

The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health

Scleroderma Research Foundation

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.

Health

Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

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…

Human Services

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

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…

Health

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

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.

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Critical Path Institute

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…

Health

Foundation for Cardiovascular Research and Innovations

Philanthropy

Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 28 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/26

Grantees still filing

24/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$2,128,098Other$1,127,089Public Safety & Disaster$969,210Philanthropy$342,778

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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

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

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

3report 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.

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