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National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION (narsad) d/b/a the brain & behavior research foundation is committed to alleviating the suffering of mental illness by awarding grants that will lead to advances and breakthroughs in scientific research.
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 80 grants below total $8,433,434 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,577,332 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,143,898 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
- $10k–50k35 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k39 grants · $5.3M
- $250k+6 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $384,952 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES | $379,900 |
| MCLEAN HOSPITAL | $314,797 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $279,997 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $279,692 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $274,990 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | $245,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $245,000 |
| NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (NICHDNIH) | $245,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $244,902 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $244,378 |
| HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL | $240,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $210,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $210,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO | $209,900 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of your 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
Grants abroad, by region — $3.0M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions, $2.9M to organizations and $100k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT
Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT
Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT
Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT
Stated purpose: PARDES PRIZE/AWARD
Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
146 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2024, 79 since wound down; 4 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI8× · 2017–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +58%
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +44%- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +88%
Funded once
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $300k · revenue +98%- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS INCone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +22%
- BBBRENTWOOD BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $98k · revenue -91%
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.
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, research, medical services and other public services.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation. 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 59 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 — 0.5% 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.
131 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. 131 of the 207 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
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: American Heart Association Inc · Yale University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Johns Hopkins University · Cornell University · Washington University · Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · American Foundation for Suicide Prevention · American Cancer Society Inc · Cystic Fibrosis 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 National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Laureate Institute for Brain Research Inc — 59% of income from government
- Hebrew Rehabilitation Center — 53% of income from government
- Hugo W Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Inc — 39% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Portland Va Research Foundation — 34% of income from government
- The Lieber Institute Inc — 31% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Max Planck Florida Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Veterans Education and Research Association of Northern New England Inc — 17% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- Rowan University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Cooper Health System a New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation — 0% 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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