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Moebius Syndrome Foundation

The mission of the Moebius Syndrome Foundation is to provide information and support to individuals with moebius syndrome and their families, promote greater awareness and understanding of moebius syndrome, and to advocate for scientific research to advance the diagnosis and treatment of moebius syndrome and its associated conditions.

$228k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
86%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$200k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$2.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 86% of the organizations Moebius Syndrome Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’22’23’24
EducationHealthOther
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 arriving2$200k100%
FY20247$21k86%
FY20238$91k100%
FY20224$12k100%
FY20202$184k50%
FY20191$80k100%
FY20181$80k100%
FY20172$125kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$515kEducation$54kScience & Tech$24k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
NE
MD
AR
NC
DC
OK
MS
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
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$240,00020%
University of Wisconsin Madison$100,0001n/a
Northwestern University$100,0001n/a
The Mount Sinai Hospital$80,00010%
Indiana University School of Medicine$70,0001n/a
Children's Hospital Corporation$50,00010%
Oregon State University$24,3441n/a
University of South Florida$6,0002n/a
Butler Community College$3,0001n/a
Augsburg University$3,00010%
Show all 22 grantees
All grantees of Moebius Syndrome Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$240,00020%
University of Wisconsin Madison$100,0001n/a
Northwestern University$100,0001n/a
The Mount Sinai Hospital$80,00010%
Indiana University School of Medicine$70,0001n/a
Children's Hospital Corporation$50,00010%
Oregon State University$24,3441n/a
University of South Florida$6,0002n/a
Butler Community College$3,0001n/a
Augsburg University$3,00010%
The George Washington University$3,00010%
University of North Florida$3,0001n/a
Eckerd College$3,00010%
Fayetteville State University$3,0001n/a
University of Hartford$3,00010%
University of Maryland College Park$3,0001n/a
Oklahoma State University Foundation$3,00010%
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska$3,0001n/a
Citrus College Foundation$3,00010%
Oklahoma Wesleyan University$3,00010%
Howard Community College$3,0001n/a
York College of Pennsylvania$3,00010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($81k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Moebius Syndrome Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $240,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mount Sinai Hospital: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAugsburg University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEckerd College: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Hartford: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitrus College Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOklahoma Wesleyan University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYork College of Pennsylvania: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 11.

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How do I get to Moebius Syndrome Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Moebius Syndrome Foundation 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 Moebius Syndrome Foundation

How much does Moebius Syndrome Foundation give?
Moebius Syndrome Foundation reported 2 itemized grants totaling $200,000, out of $227,648 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Moebius Syndrome Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (87%), Education (9%), Science & Tech (4%).
Who are Moebius Syndrome Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ($240k), University of Wisconsin Madison ($100k), Northwestern University ($100k).
Does Moebius Syndrome Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Moebius Syndrome Foundation based?
Moebius Syndrome Foundation is based in CO.

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 25 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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