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Morton Cure Paralysis Fund

The Morton Cure Paralysis Fund MCPF is a nonprofit organization committed to finding a cure for paralysis caused by spinal cord injury and other disorders of the central nervous system.

$554k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Health$618kScience & Tech$239kEducation$170kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $299,914 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $554,449 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $254,535 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.

$75,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$490k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Miami Project$75,000
Case Western Reserve University$75,000
Ohio State University$75,000
University of Washington$74,914
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Marine Biological Laboratory: $30k → 8%Mayo: $26k → 9%Texas A&M: $35k → 22%Miami Project: $75k → 15%University of Utah: $30k → 8%Ohio State University: $75k → 15%Case Western Reserve University: $75k → 17%University of Washington: $75k → 9%Henry M Jackson Fdn for Adv of Military Med Inc: $18k → 8%Johns Hopkins University: $30k → 19%Mayo Clinic Research: $25k → 9%Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station: $30k → 22%Miami Project: $50k → 15%NeuroTech Institute: $75k → 15%University of Washington Department of Re: $30k → 9%Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station: $4k → 22%NeuroTech Institute: $75k → 15%Ohio State University: $35k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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OH
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Grants abroad, by region — $255k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$140k · 55% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: SCI Research

North America (Canada and Mexico)$114k · 45% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: SCI Research

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your field

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.

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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
2
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
3
Illinois Institute of Technology

To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.

Education
4
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
5
University of Miami
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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
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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
8
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
9
University of Notre Dame du Lac

See Schedule O. See explanation for Form 990, Part I, Line 1 - Organization's Mission above.

Education
10
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
11
Nova Southeastern University Inc

The mission of Nova Southeastern University-a selective, doctoral research university-is to deliver academic programs in a dynamic, innovative environment. We foster academic excellence, leadership, integrity (continued on Schedule O) and…

Education
12
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University and the most unlike its peers is Miami Recovery Project Inc. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $75,000 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $75,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $74,914 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONTexas A&M — $35,000 · OtherTexas A&MOhio State University — $35,000 · OtherOhio State UniversityTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY — $33,523 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHUniversity of Washington 2 — $30,000 · OtherUniversity of Washington 2University of Washington Department of Re — $30,000 · OtherUniversity of Washington Department of ReMayo — $25,900 · OtherMayoMayo Clinic Research — $25,000 · OtherMarquette University — $105,000 · EducationMarquette UniversityCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $75,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYUniversity of Miami — $75,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $50,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwea…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYNEUROTECH INSTITUTE INC — $150,000 · HealthNEUROTECH INSTITUTE INCMIAMI RECOVERY PROJECT INC — $50,000 · HealthMIAMI RECOVERY PROJECT …HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE — $18,260 · HealthHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDAT…MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY — $30,000 · Science & Tech
Other$469,337Education$335,000Health$218,260Science & Tech$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEUROTECH INSTITUTE INC — $150,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetMarquette University — $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI RECOVERY PROJECT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE — $18,260 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Morton Cure Paralysis Fund 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 32%
  • Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine84% of income from government
  • Marine Biological Laboratory32% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University11% of income from government
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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