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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $299,914, the rows itemized in this filing. The $554,449 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $254,535 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.
$75,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$490k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Miami Project$75,000
Ohio State University$75,000
Case Western Reserve University$75,000
University of Washington$74,914
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%NeuroTech Institute: $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%Ohio State University: $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
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

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
UT
MD
TX
FL

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

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. 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.
03Its 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.

1
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
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
4
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
5
University of Miami
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6
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
7
Illinois Institute of Technology

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

Education
8
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
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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
11
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
12
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University; 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 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. 9 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 Washington Department of Re: $30,000 · OtherUniversity of Washington Department of ReUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHUniversity of Washington 2: $30,000 · OtherUniversity of Washington 2Mayo: $25,900 · OtherMayoMayo Clinic Research: $25,000 · OtherMarquette University: $105,000 · EducationMarquette UniversityUniversity of Miami: $75,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYTemple 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEUROTECH INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetMarquette University: $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Morton Cure Paralysis Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morton Cure Paralysis Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine: 84% of income from government
  • Marine Biological Laboratory: 32% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 11% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% 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, 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.

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 20 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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