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· Public charity

National Multiple Sclerosis Society

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

$27M
Granted FY2025still arriving
92
Grants FY2025still arriving
32
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 92 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 92 grants below total $23,191,903, the rows itemized in this filing. The $26,584,095 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,392,192 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $297k
  • $50k–250k50 grants · $7.0M
  • $250k+28 grants · $16M
$161,019
Median grant
32
States reached
$189M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$1,615,407
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$1,310,088
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$1,280,874
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$966,543
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$910,753
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$836,987
BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$635,345
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER$601,810
KESSLER FOUNDATION RESEARCH CENTER$599,688
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE$590,898
YALE UNIVERSITY$539,079
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$518,246
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$494,655
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$474,490
MYROBALAN THERAPEUTICS INC$425,482
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Kessler Foundation Research Center: $973k → 4%Kessler Foundation Research Center: $634k → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION RESEARCH CENTER: $600k → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION RESEARCH CENTER: $435k → 4%Kessler Foundation Research Center: $383k → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION RESEARCH CENTER: $188k → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION RESEARCH CENTER: $182k → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION RESEARCH CENTER: $95k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $3.0M 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)$1.8M · 61% · 11 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

North America (Canada and Mexico)$601k · 20% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

East Asia and the Pacific$571k · 19% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$187M · 126 repeat orgs$6.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

126 repeat relationships: 60 still active in FY2025, 66 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

126
27

Total granted

$187M
$5.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+29%

Still filing today

49%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationScience & TechHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +64%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $7.4M · revenue +76%
  • THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $2.8M · revenue -9%
  • NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $577k · revenue -11%
  • TP
    THE POPULATION COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $330k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
4
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
5
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining the

The mission of hospital for special surgery is to provide the highest quality patient care, improve mobility, and enhance the quality of life for all and to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and their related…

Health
6
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
7
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
8
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

92 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. 92 of the 169 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/92
Grantees still filing
77/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $13,424,667 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $12,332,859 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $10,935,936 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $5,503,166 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $5,382,893 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $5,285,157 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $4,316,806 · Other+75 more: $54,902,383 · Other+75 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $13,731,225 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $7,424,566 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $6,636,445 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY…Yale University: $4,714,613 · EducationYale UniversityTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,088,297 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3,984,831 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $3,556,766 · EducationNew York University: $3,171,245 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $2,767,409 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,535,111 · Education+26 more: $16,246,173 · Education+26 moreTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $5,738,207 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CL…ACCELERATED CURE PROJECT INC: $3,030,592 · HealthACCELERATED CURE…THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN: $2,531,580 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CL…MAYO CLINIC: $1,799,284 · HealthMAYO CLINICTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,723,835 · HealthHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE: $1,384,733 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center: $1,381,684 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,210,185 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $1,122,945 · Health+36 more: $12,771,012 · Health+36 moreKessler Foundation Inc: $3,490,186 · Human ServicesNorthwestern University: $1,446,938 · Recreation & SportsEMPIRE DISCOVERY INSTITUTE INC: $752,336 · EnvironmentUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $301,673 · Science & TechResearch Triangle Institute: $58,874 · Science & TechHUGO W MOSER RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT KENNEDY KRIEGER INC: $55,000 · Science & Tech
Other$112,083,867Education$68,856,681Health$32,694,057Human Services$3,490,186Recreation & Sports$1,446,938Environment$752,336Science & Tech$415,547

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $13,731,225 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $7,424,566 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $6,636,445 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $5,738,207 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $4,714,613 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,088,297 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3,984,831 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $3,556,766 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKessler Foundation Inc: $3,490,186 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetNew York University: $3,171,245 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetACCELERATED CURE PROJECT INC: $3,030,592 over 8y, 25% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,535,111 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN: $2,531,580 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $1,832,764 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,799,284 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $1,743,918 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,723,835 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $1,479,322 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $1,446,938 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE: $1,384,733 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $1,381,684 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,210,185 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $1,122,945 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,091,705 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,074,008 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $1,061,070 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,025,338 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetVERSITI WISCONSIN INC: $986,709 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $974,129 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $969,255 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $880,174 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH: $873,341 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMPIRE DISCOVERY INSTITUTE INC: $752,336 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $666,112 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $660,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $633,907 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $618,551 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI REHABILITATION HOSPITAL INC: $586,980 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $586,521 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $582,967 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $577,243 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $550,803 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $530,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $503,579 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $479,726 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $468,013 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER: $443,718 over 2y, 17% of budget
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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds Kessler Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds ACCELERATED CURE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN ↗
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • 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.

Yale UniversityJohns Hopkins Univers…The Trustees of Colum…American Heart Associ…University of Pittsbu…Cystic Fibrosis Found…The Children's Hospit…American Cancer Socie…Cornell UniversityVanderbilt University…President and Fellows…Emory University
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Multiple Sclerosis Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine: 100% of income from government
  • Kessler Foundation Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Hugo W Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: 31% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • The University of Vermont Medical Center: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 169 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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