· Public charity
National Alopecia Areata Foundation
NAAF drives research to find a cure and accessible treatments for alopecia areata, supports those those impacted, and educates the public about the disease.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $154k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New | $53,750 |
| Penn State University | $50,000 |
| PeDRA | $50,000 |
| The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | $45,000 |
| Brigham and Women's Hospital | $30,000 |
| Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New | $30,000 |
| The University of Iowa | $24,997 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% 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
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 25% of National Alopecia Areata Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +66% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CECerner Enviza LLC2× · 2022–2023 · $205k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO2× · 2020–2021 · $120k
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED2× · 2024–2025 · $105k
Funded once
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIone grant, 2023 · $43k · revenue +8%- HUHebrew University of Jerusalemone grant, 2024 · $40k
- CLConvergency LLCone grant, 2024 · $30k
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.
5 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. 5 of the 15 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
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization National Alopecia Areata Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Alopecia Areata Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Pediatric Dermatology Research Alliance Inc: 4% of income from government
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