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N of One

N of One aims to create breakthroughs in autism by focusing on emerging areas such as the microbiome, immune system, and mitochondrial cell metabolism. We take a venture capital appproach by supporting both innovative academic researchers as well as start-ups pursuing novel, transformative approaches.

$20k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$755k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations N of One funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$20k0%
FY20233$186k33%
FY20223$45k0%
FY20215$67k20%
FY20204$50k25%
FY20195$141k80%
FY20184$169k75%
FY20171$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$443kEducation$233kScience & Tech$21k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Caltech Y$218,424614%
Phoenix Children's Hospital$44,00030%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute$15,00010%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($420k), not named here.

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Find your warmest path to N of One through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About N of One

How much does N of One give?
N of One reported 1 grants totaling $20,025 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does N of One fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (64%), Education (33%), Science & Tech (3%).
Who are N of One's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Caltech Y ($218k), Phoenix Children's Hospital ($44k), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ($15k).
Does N of One fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is N of One based?
N of One is based in TX.

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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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