· Public charity
Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Inc
To provide programs and support services to those persons affected by ms.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $147,916 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $502,835 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $354,919 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WE ARE ILL INCORPORATED | $20,000 |
| WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY | $17,667 |
| MERCY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE BOSTON HOME | $15,000 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $12,917 |
| INDEPENDENCE CARE SYSTEM | $11,667 |
| MS ACHIEVEMENT CENTER | $9,000 |
| MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $8,379 |
| PUSH TO WALK | $8,367 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK | $7,500 |
| MS DREAM CENTER RI INC | $7,500 |
| THE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES | $7,500 |
| MS JUST KEEP MOVING | $7,419 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MFMERCY FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2024 · $77k · revenue +37%
- FDFUNDACION DE ESCLEROSIS MULTIPLE DE PUERTO RICO INC3× · 2017–2019 · $64k · revenue +65%
- OCOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSone grant, 2018 · $32k
- RFResearch Foundation of the City University of New Yorkone grant, 2023 · $23k · revenue +11%
- MMSINSIGHTgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $21k · revenue +542%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The purpose of tisch multiple sclerosis research center of ny, inc. is to conduct medical research directed toward finding the cause and eventual cure for multiple sclerosis.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Provide fundraising, support, and maintains pooled investments for entities of the mount sinai health system, inc.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.
We will cure ms while empowering people affected by ms to live their best lives.
The mission of hospital for special surgery is to provide the highest quality patient care, improve mobility, and enhance the quality of life for all and to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and their related…
Mission: to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. values: humanity, innovation, teamwork, diversity and equity - our values define our philosophy of care. they shape our actions and motivate and…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Boston Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 36 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FUNDACION DE ESCLEROSIS MULTIPLE DE PUERTO RICO INC ↗
- Who funds OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MSFORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOSTON HOME INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds CENTRASTATE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The New York and Presbyterian Hospital ↗
- Who funds MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds MSINSIGHT ↗
- Who funds WE ARE ILL ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds KETTERING ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE CARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Concord Hospital Trust ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MS ACHIEVEMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Push To Walk a New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds M S DREAM CENTER RI INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds YOGA MOVES MS ↗
- Who funds MS - JUST KEEP MOVING INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY NEUROLOGY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Christopher Reeve Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Boston Home Inc — 45% of income from government
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.
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