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Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America Inc

Committed to finding a cure for myasthenia gravis and closely related disorders, improving treatment options, and providing information and support to people with myasthenia gravis through research, education, community programs and advocacy.

$850k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$1.5MHealth$1.5M
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $519,999 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $849,999 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $330,000 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 · FY2025

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $270k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$159,999
Median grant
3
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
George Washington University - MGNet$250,000
American Brain Foundation$159,999
Boston Children's Hospital$110,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Alira Health: $10k → 8%Boston Children's Hospital: $110k → 16%Mayo Clinic: $100k → 9%American Brain Foundation: $160k → 11%Lankenau Institute for Medical Research: $110k → 7%Univeristy of California San Diego: $110k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $28k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY: $25k → 14%George Washington University - MGNet: $250k → 14%University of Michigan: $55k → 14%Yale University: $225k → 12%Duke University School of Medicine: $110k → 11%The George Washington University: $50k → 4%Alira Health: $10k → 8%American Brain Foundation: $160k → 11%University of California Davis: $110k → 16%The George Washington University: $110k → 14%The George Washington University: $50k → 4%Alira Health: $10k → 8%AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $53k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS OFFICE OF RESEARCH SPONSORED PROGRAMS: $25k → 16%The George Washington University: $50k → 4%The George Washington University: $50k → 4%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

MN
MI
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
NC
DC
TX

Grants abroad, by region — $330k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$330k · 100% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: Immune Atlas of myasthenia gravis in blood, muscle and thymus in AChR+ patients · Untangling the diverse effects of MuSK (auto)antibodies through antibody-receptor structure. · From Thymoma to Tolerance Breakdown: Identifying Predictive Biomarkers of Myasthenia Gravis Development

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.7% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 6 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$1.5M
$660k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+92%

Still filing today

50%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $360k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationOther

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

  • AB
    AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2025 · $373k · revenue +6%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $310k · revenue +22%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2021 · $122k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • UU
    Uppsala University
    one grant, 2024 · $110k
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $110k
  • LI
    LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
    one grant, 2021 · $110k · revenue +4%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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…

3
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

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…

Education
4
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

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…

5
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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…

6
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

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…

Health
7
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
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

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…

Health
9
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

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…

Health
10
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

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…

Health
11
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

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…

Health
12
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

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…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medical University of South Carolina Foundation and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the 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 18 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YALE UNIVERSITY — $525,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYGeorge Washington University - MGNet — $250,000 · OtherGeorge Washington University - MGNetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVIS — $165,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVISUppsala University — $110,000 · OtherUppsala UniversityYALE UNIVERSITY — $110,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYLANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH — $110,000 · OtherLANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCHUniveristy of California San Diego — $110,000 · OtherUniveristy of California San DiegoDuke University School of Medicine — $110,000 · OtherDuke University School of Medicine+4 more — $162,500 · Other+4 moreThe George Washington University — $310,000 · EducationThe George Washington Unive…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $300,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY …DUKE UNIVERSITY — $122,020 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION — $373,331 · HealthAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDAT…Children's Hospital Corporation — $110,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Co…MAYO CLINIC — $100,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC
Other$1,652,500Education$732,020Health$583,331

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 budgetAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION — $373,331 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetThe George Washington University — $310,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $122,020 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH — $110,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $55,000 over 1y, 17% 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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The George Washington University
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds University of Michigan

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% 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)
0rely 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 18 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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