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National Ataxia Foundation Incorporated

The National Ataxia Foundation's mission is to accelerate the development of treatments and a cure while working to improve the lives of those living with Ataxia.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$197k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$4.3MHealth$4.0MEducation$620kRecreation & Sports$466k
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 31 grants below total $1,834,987 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,459,416 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $624,429 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $269k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.6M
$50,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Regents of the University of MN$196,568
University of Chicago$122,384
University of Texas Southwestern$111,369
University of South Florida$102,852
Columbia University New York$101,150
Regents of the University of Michigan$89,450
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill$85,000
Massachusetts General Hospital$84,000
Regents of the University of California dba University of California Irvin$75,000
Indiana University - Purdue$72,608
Regents of the University of California Los Angeles$71,400
GeneMatters$63,256
Emory University$61,600
Science Coach Inc$60,000
Greenwood Genetic Center Inc$57,200
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Arizona State University: $50k → 11%Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc: $50k → 16%Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: $50k → 22%GeneMatters: $63k → 7%Regents of the University of California dba University of California Irvin: $75k → 10%UCLA Regents: $135k → 14%Research Foundation for SUNY obo Univ at Buffalo: $50k → 13%Columbia University New York: $151k → 17%University of Texas Southwestern: $147k → 14%Baylor College of Medicine: $85k → 16%Greenwood Genetic Center Inc: $57k → 18%University of South Florida: $129k → 13%Wayne State University: $100k → 21%University of North Carolina Chapel Hill: $85k → 13%Northwestern University: $110k → 14%Johns Hopkins University Department of Neurology: $53k → 19%Regents of the University of California Los Angeles: $122k → 14%Columbia University New York: $101k → 17%University of Texas Southwestern: $111k → 14%Greenwood Genetic Center Inc: $50k → 18%University of South Florida: $106k → 13%University of Michigan Neurology Dept: $100k → 14%Wayne State University: $100k → 21%Science Coach Inc: $60k → 21%Duke University Medical Center: $75k → 11%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%Johns Hopkins University Department of Neurology: $51k → 19%Massachusetts General Hospital: $89k → 16%Regents of the University of California Los Angeles: $95k → 14%Columbia University New York: $71k → 17%University of Texas Southwestern: $63k → 14%University of South Florida: $103k → 13%Regents of the University of Michigan: $193k → 14%Northwestern University: $85k → 14%Massachusetts General Hospital: $84k → 16%Regents of the University of California Los Angeles: $71k → 14%University of South Florida: $94k → 13%Regents of the University of Michigan: $190k → 14%Northwestern University: $68k → 14%Massachusetts General Hospital: $67k → 16%Regents of the University of California Los Angeles: $70k → 14%University of South Florida: $56k → 13%Regents of the University of Michigan: $132k → 14%Regents of the University of California Los Angeles: $68k → 14%Regents of the University of Michigan: $89k → 14%University of Chicago: $122k → 14%University of Chicago Medical Center: $107k → 14%The University of Chicago: $52k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
RI
CA
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CO
MO
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
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GA
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FL

Grants abroad, by region — $575k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$423k · 74% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: Research grants to recipients in the region

North America (Canada and Mexico)$102k · 18% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: Research grants to recipients in the region

East Asia and the Pacific$50k · 9% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Research grants to recipients in the region

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.7M · 25 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
32

Total granted

$6.7M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+54%

Still filing today

52%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $511k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsScience & TechOther

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

  • Northwestern University
    8× · 2017–2025 · $462k · revenue +41%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $323k · revenue +64%
  • University of Chicago
    7× · 2017–2025 · $301k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Chicago Medical Center
    one grant, 2024 · $107k · revenue +11%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +148%
  • BC
    BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $65k

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

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
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
4
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
5
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
6
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
7
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
9
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
10
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
11
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
12
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 57 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%53%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%2%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%67%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/64
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,501

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.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
24/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $977,955 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $660,800 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA — $508,261 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA — $498,120 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDAUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $418,092 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $335,665 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE — $322,219 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTEWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — $200,000 · Other+32 more — $1,662,908 · Other+32 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $558,050 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UN…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $322,735 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYUniversity of Chicago — $300,884 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $196,100 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY …Baylor College of Medicine — $185,000 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineEmory University — $182,400 · EducationEmory UniversityDUKE UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $85,000 · EducationYale University — $81,250 · Education+6 more — $260,000 · Education+6 moreTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $220,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN…THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $128,850 · HealthTHE METHODIS…GREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER INC — $107,600 · HealthGREENWOOD GE…University of Chicago Medical Center — $107,393 · HealthUniversity o…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN…AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION — $86,666 · HealthAMERICAN BRA…THE METHODIST HOSPITAL — $70,000 · HealthTHE METHODIS…UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS — $57,650 · HealthUT SOUTHWEST…Baylor University Medical Center — $50,000 · HealthMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $50,000 · Health+4 more — $100,000 · Health+4 moreNorthwestern University — $462,050 · Recreation & SportsGORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES INC — $5,000 · Science & Tech
Other$5,584,020Education$2,271,419Health$1,078,159Recreation & Sports$462,050Science & Tech$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $558,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $462,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $322,735 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $300,884 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $220,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $196,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $185,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $182,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $128,850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER INC — $107,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Chicago Medical Center — $107,393 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION — $86,666 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $81,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE COACH INC — $60,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS — $57,650 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBaylor University Medical Center — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE COACH INC ↗
  • Who funds UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS ↗
  • Who funds Baylor University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED ↗

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.

President and Fellows…American Cancer Socie…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeMA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: President and Fellows of Harvard College · American Cancer Society Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Ataxia Foundation Incorporated 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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