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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $519,999, the rows itemized in this filing. The $849,999 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $330,000 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.

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

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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its 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
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

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

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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+33%
+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
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AB
    AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2025 · $373k · revenue +33%
  • 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
  • UO
    Univeristy of California San Diego
    one grant, 2023 · $110k
  • DU
    Duke University School of Medicine
    one grant, 2024 · $110k
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
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…

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7
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
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
10
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
11
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
12
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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medical University of South Carolina Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Children's Hospital Corporation. 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 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 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 UniversityUniveristy of California San Diego: $110,000 · OtherUniveristy of California San DiegoDuke University School of Medicine: $110,000 · OtherDuke University School of MedicineYALE UNIVERSITY: $110,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYLANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $110,000 · OtherLANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH+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 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 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 budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $110,000 over 1y, 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
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.

  • 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 Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% 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, 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 18 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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