New York · Public charity
National Kidney Foundation Inc
The national kidney foundation is revolutionizing the fight to save lives by eliminating preventable kidney disease, accelerating innovation for the dignity of the patient experience, and dismantling structural inequities in kidney care, dialysis, and transplantation.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $678k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $26,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $246,150
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 11
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $52M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations National Kidney Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $678k | 78% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $650k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $434k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $859k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $580k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $920k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins University | $1,377,847 | 6 | 0% |
| Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc | $676,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Tufts Medical Center Inc | $334,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New York University | $239,976 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Utah | $158,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Caridad Center Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The George Washington University | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Methodist Hospital | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vcuvcu Health Campus | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Texas | $70,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins University | $1,377,847 | 6 | 0% |
| Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc | $676,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Tufts Medical Center Inc | $334,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New York University | $239,976 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Utah | $158,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Caridad Center Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The George Washington University | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Methodist Hospital | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vcuvcu Health Campus | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Texas | $70,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of California | $70,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences | $70,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Tufts Medical Center Physicians Organization Inc | $67,500 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Maryland College Park | $60,000 | 2 | n/a |
| New York University School of Medicine | $59,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $56,250 | 1 | 0% |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Texas Health Science Center Houston | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Connecticut Children's Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Rockefeller University | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rutgers the State University | $34,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $26,250 | 1 | n/a |
| University of California San Francisco | $26,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $26,250 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc | $18,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | $14,840 | 1 | 0% |
| Nihnia | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Wake Forest University Health Sciences | $9,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $9,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Florida Atlantic University | $9,250 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Florida | $7,200 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget National Kidney Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Washington University · Yale University · American Cancer Society Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Mayo Clinic · American Lung Association · National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
How this is measured
About National Kidney Foundation Inc
- How much does National Kidney Foundation Inc give?
- National Kidney Foundation Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $677,876, out of $1,071,600 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does National Kidney Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (82%), Science & Tech (14%), Education (4%).
- Who are National Kidney Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Johns Hopkins University ($1.4M), Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc ($676k), Tufts Medical Center Inc ($334k).
- Does National Kidney Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as National Kidney Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Washington University, Yale University.
- Where is National Kidney Foundation Inc based?
- National Kidney Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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