· Public charity
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (NICHDNIH) | $245,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
How this is measured
131 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. 131 of the 207 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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