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National STEM Cell Foundation Inc

NSCF funds adult stem cell and regenerative medicine research, connects children with limited resources to clinical trials for rare diseases, and underwrites a professional development program for middle school science teachers inspiring the next generation of stem pioneers nationwide.

$648k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$648k
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Health$4.1MEducation$300kPhilanthropy$125k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$647,920
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NY Stem Cell Foundation$647,920
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NY STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $840k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM: $200k → 11%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE: $125k → 15%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $200k → 18%NY STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $803k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM: $100k → 11%WESTERN KY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR GATTON ACADEMY: $50k → 18%NY Stem Cell Foundation: $648k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM: $100k → 11%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 18%NY STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $331k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM: $50k → 11%NY STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $188k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM: $50k → 11%NY STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $129k → 17%NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%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.

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.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 3 repeat orgs$500k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
3

Total granted

$3.9M
$500k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-32%
+8%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationOther

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

  • NY
    NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue -32%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $500k · revenue +72%
  • WK
    WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2023 · $300k · revenue -40%

Funded once

  • NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +8%
  • SF
    SUMMIT FOR STEM CELL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -92%
  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +384%

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
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
2
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
3
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

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
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
6
The Jackson Laboratory

The purposes of the laboratory are scientific, medical, charitable, and educational. our mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the biomedical community.

Health
7
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
8
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
9
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
10
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
11
The Isthmus Foundation

The isthmus foundation (tif) is a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming stem cell discoveries into cures for unmet medical needs. through our alliances we bridge the gap between academic and scientific research and the…

Health
12
Scleroderma Research Foundation

The mission of the Scleroderma Research Foundation is to fund and facilitate the most promising, highest quality research aimed at new treatments and, ultimately, a cure for scleroderma.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Stem Cell Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $3,139,242 · HealthNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INCDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $500,000 · HealthDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INCNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $300,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY+2 more — $200,000 · HealthWESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $300,000 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC — $125,000 · Philanthropy
Health$4,139,242Education$300,000Philanthropy$125,000

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 budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $3,139,242 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $300,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC — $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUMMIT FOR STEM CELL FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $100,000 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization National STEM Cell Foundation Inc 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to National STEM Cell Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to National STEM Cell Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 7 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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