How much does National Multiple Sclerosis Society give?

National Multiple Sclerosis Society reported 92 itemized grants totaling $23,191,903, out of $26,584,095 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 59 and 92 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does National Multiple Sclerosis Society fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (44%), Science & Tech (36%), Education (19%).

Who are National Multiple Sclerosis Society's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Johns Hopkins University ($14M), University of California San Francisco ($13M), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($12M).

Does National Multiple Sclerosis Society fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as National Multiple Sclerosis Society?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.

Where is National Multiple Sclerosis Society based?

National Multiple Sclerosis Society is based in NY.

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New York · Public charity

National Multiple Sclerosis Society

We will cure ms while empowering people affected by ms to live their best lives.

$27M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 92
Itemized grants FY2025: 59
Organizations funded FY2024: 8%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $23M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $161,019
Largest grant, FY2025: $1,615,407
Organizations funded a year: 59 to 92; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 32
Total assets, FY2025: $189M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations National Multiple Sclerosis Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationEnvironmentInternationalScience & TechOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	66	$20M	9%
FY2024	59	$19M	8%
FY2023	65	$19M	3%
FY2022	73	$22M	8%
FY2021	76	$23M	14%
FY2020	88	$26M	19%
FY2019	88	$30M	23%
FY2017	92	$35M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Health$97MScience & Tech$78MEducation$41MRecreation & Sports$1.2MArts & Culture$959kFood & Nutrition$799kInternational$330kYouth Development$219k

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, FY2017 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	$13,731,225	8	0%
University of California San Francisco	$13,424,667	7	n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$12,332,859	8	n/a
University of Utah	$10,935,936	8	n/a
Washington University	$7,424,566	8	0%
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation	$5,738,207	6	0%
Oregon Health & Science University	$5,503,166	7	n/a
University of Washington	$5,382,893	8	n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado	$5,285,157	8	n/a
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$4,316,806	8	n/a

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All grantees of National Multiple Sclerosis Society by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Johns Hopkins University	$13,731,225	8	0%
University of California San Francisco	$13,424,667	7	n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$12,332,859	8	n/a
University of Utah	$10,935,936	8	n/a
Washington University	$7,424,566	8	0%
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation	$5,738,207	6	0%
Oregon Health & Science University	$5,503,166	7	n/a
University of Washington	$5,382,893	8	n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado	$5,285,157	8	n/a
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$4,316,806	8	n/a
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$3,556,766	8	0%
Kessler Foundation Inc	$3,490,186	8	5%
New York University	$3,171,245	8	0%
Accelerated Cure Project Inc	$3,030,592	8	25%
University of Alabama at Birmingham	$2,778,291	8	n/a
University of California San Francisco Foundation	$2,767,409	1	n/a
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return	$2,531,580	3	0%
Rutgers the State University	$2,331,871	5	n/a
Vcuvcu Health Campus	$2,161,019	8	n/a
Weill Cornell Medical College	$2,151,566	5	n/a
State University of New York College at Purchase	$2,112,157	3	n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan	$2,099,810	8	n/a
Nihnia	$1,974,454	8	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Riverside	$1,928,398	7	n/a
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente	$1,866,930	8	n/a
Case Western Reserve University	$1,832,764	8	0%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$1,751,184	5	n/a
Thomas Jefferson University	$1,743,918	5	0%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	$1,723,835	7	0%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego	$1,667,885	7	n/a
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$1,622,437	7	n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$1,594,948	3	n/a
Wayne State University	$1,518,911	6	n/a
Baylor College of Medicine	$1,479,322	7	0%
University of Connecticut Health Center	$1,472,588	6	n/a
Northwestern University	$1,446,938	8	0%
Oregon State University	$1,420,766	3	n/a
Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine	$1,384,733	6	0%
Vanderbilt University Medical Center	$1,381,684	6	0%
University of Maryland College Park	$1,307,043	7	n/a
University of Massachusetts	$1,277,124	7	n/a
State University of Iowa	$1,249,456	7	n/a
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	$1,210,185	7	0%
Henry Ford Health System	$1,122,945	7	0%
University of Rochester	$1,091,705	7	0%
Georgetown University	$1,074,008	7	0%
Colorado State University	$1,064,444	7	n/a
Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia	$1,061,070	6	0%
Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers	$1,038,813	3	n/a
The Ohio State University	$1,031,179	4	n/a
Children's Hospital Medical Center	$1,025,338	6	0%
Curators of the University of Missouri	$1,014,440	6	n/a
Tisch Multiple Sclerosis Research Center of New York Inc	$1,000,000	4	3%
Versiti Wisconsin Inc	$986,709	5	0%
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute	$974,129	7	0%
St Louis University	$969,255	4	0%
Clene Nanomedicine Inc	$967,564	3	n/a
Regents Univ of California	$902,193	5	n/a
University of Chicago	$880,174	5	0%
Dignity Health	$873,341	4	0%
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College	$835,383	6	n/a
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia	$817,839	4	n/a
Empire Discovery Institute Inc	$752,336	2	4%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$660,049	3	n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$660,000	3	0%
University of California Davis	$652,581	4	n/a
Montclair State University	$651,999	4	n/a
University of Connecticut	$649,494	5	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$641,410	4	n/a
Stony Brook Foundation Inc	$633,907	2	1%
Texas A&M Agrilife Research	$623,988	2	n/a
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York	$618,551	3	0%
Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital Inc	$586,980	5	1%
Duke University	$582,967	4	0%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society	$577,243	1	0%
Annexon Biosciences Inc	$555,458	3	n/a
Children's Hospital Corporation	$550,803	5	0%
The Univ of Tx Health Science Ctr of Sa	$545,884	3	n/a
University of California Berkeley Foundation	$530,700	3	0%
Gryphon Scientific LLC	$512,939	2	n/a
University of Kentucky Research Foundation	$503,579	3	0%
University of Miami	$479,726	5	0%
Emory University	$468,013	3	0%
University of Texas	$449,998	7	n/a
Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center	$443,718	2	17%
Institute for Clinical Research Inc	$441,744	3	5%
University of Texas at San Antonio	$441,639	3	n/a
Myrobalan Therapeutics Inc	$425,482	1	n/a
Cashel Neural Inc	$401,335	4	n/a
Duke University Health System Inc	$398,101	2	0%
Brainstrom Cell Therapeutics Inc	$396,265	2	n/a
Loyola University of Chicago	$378,125	3	0%
University of Wisconsin Madison	$374,029	2	n/a
Children's National	$359,552	2	0%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education	$359,411	3	0%
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago	$355,929	2	0%
Research Foundation of the City University of New York	$335,712	6	0%
The Population Council Inc	$330,000	1	1%
University of Kansas Center for Research Inc	$301,673	1	0%
Esupport Health Pbc	$300,000	2	n/a
American Brain Foundation	$300,000	2	2%
TG Therapeutics Inc	$283,395	3	n/a
The University of Texas at Dallas Center for Brainhealth	$275,271	2	n/a
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation	$266,200	2	0%
Westat Corp	$261,926	3	n/a
The J David Gladstone Institutes	$241,724	5	0%
Breakthrough T1d	$224,584	1	0%
Rutgers the State University	$219,057	1	n/a
University of South Florida	$215,000	4	n/a
Brentwood Biomedical Research Institute	$210,647	2	14%
McKing Consulting Corp	$205,736	2	n/a
Albert Einstein College of Medicine Inc	$203,852	2	0%
University of Florida	$203,561	4	n/a
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc	$200,569	4	0%
University of Pittsburgh	$192,708	1	0%
Seattle Children's Hospital	$180,104	1	0%
Longevity Biotech Inc	$179,705	4	n/a
Texas A&M AgriLife Research	$175,221	2	n/a
Therini Bio	$169,939	2	n/a
University of Chicago Medical Center	$165,625	1	0%
Vanderbilt University	$164,706	2	0%
University of Wisconsin	$162,785	2	n/a
Children's Research Institute	$150,110	3	0%
Barrow Neurological Foundation	$146,300	1	1%
Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc	$144,173	2	0%
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston	$137,750	3	n/a
Shepherd Center Inc	$137,500	2	0%
Neurogenesis Bio Inc	$120,000	1	n/a
Greater Los Angeles Veterans Research and Education Foundation	$115,528	1	2%
Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene Inc	$104,814	2	0%
Kent State University	$99,815	1	n/a
University of New Mexico	$99,000	2	n/a
Drexel University	$95,937	1	0%
University of Florida	$94,941	1	n/a
Rhode Island Hospital	$93,750	3	0%
The Medstar-Georgetown Medical Center Inc	$93,750	3	0%
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc	$90,267	3	0%
Southern California Permanente Medical Group	$80,232	2	n/a
Children's Hospital Los Angeles	$75,000	2	0%
Upmc	$75,000	2	0%
Dignity Health-St Joseph's Hospital Az	$73,150	1	n/a
University of Cincinnati	$65,000	1	n/a
Research Triangle Institute	$58,874	2	0%
Rush University Medical Center	$56,776	1	0%
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research	$55,000	1	0%
Albany Med Health System	$55,000	1	n/a
Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research	$55,000	1	0%
Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc	$55,000	1	n/a
Hugo W Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Inc	$55,000	1	0%
Berry College Inc	$54,996	1	0%
Unversity of Oklahoma	$53,547	1	n/a
The University of Vermont Medical Center	$48,479	2	0%
Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College	$44,000	1	n/a
Chicago Association for Research and Education in Science	$43,993	1	1%
Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education	$43,628	1	n/a
Truven Health Analytics Inc	$42,440	1	n/a
University of North Texas	$19,074	1	n/a
Upmc	$18,750	1	n/a
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc	$18,750	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget National Multiple Sclerosis Society supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 81.

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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.

Yale UniversityCT38.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Yale University · Johns Hopkins University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · American Heart Association Inc · University of Pittsburgh · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · American Cancer Society Inc · Cornell University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · President and Fellows of Harvard College · Emory University

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About National Multiple Sclerosis Society

How much does National Multiple Sclerosis Society give?: National Multiple Sclerosis Society reported 92 itemized grants totaling $23,191,903, out of $26,584,095 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 59 and 92 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does National Multiple Sclerosis Society fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (44%), Science & Tech (36%), Education (19%).
Who are National Multiple Sclerosis Society's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Johns Hopkins University ($14M), University of California San Francisco ($13M), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($12M).
Does National Multiple Sclerosis Society fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as National Multiple Sclerosis Society?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Where is National Multiple Sclerosis Society based?: National Multiple Sclerosis Society is based in NY.