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Nephcure Kidney International

NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL is the only organization committed exclusively to supporting research seeking the cause of the potentially debilitating kidney disease of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (fsgs) and nephrotic syndrome.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.7MScience & Tech$341kEducation$249kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$16,245
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$16,245
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $150k → 16%AURINIA PHARMACEUTICALS: $5k → 7%CHOP RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $113k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANSISCO: $40k → 10%RETROPHIN INC: $195k → 11%PFIZER INC: $10k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $38k → 16%ASN FOUNDATION FOR KIDNEY RESEARCH: $88k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LEONARD M MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $40k → 15%ARBOR RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE FOR HEALTH: $52k → 14%MALLINCKRODT PHARMACEUTICALS: $50k → 11%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $29k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $38k → 17%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $187k → 16%THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $101k → 22%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $38k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1.2M → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $150k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $16k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%CHOP RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $100k → 22%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $125k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $16k → 13%CHOP RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $100k → 22%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 4 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
17

Total granted

$1.9M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+22%

Still filing today

50%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    2× · 2017–2021 · $1.3M
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    3× · 2021–2023 · $313k · revenue +45%
  • EU
    Emory University
    2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • RI
    RETROPHIN INC
    one grant, 2018 · $195k
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $187k · revenue +99%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
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.

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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
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
7
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
8
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
9
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
10
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
11
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baylor College of Medicine; the most unlike its peers is Arbor Research Collaborative for Health. 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

13 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. 13 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1,342,463 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANRETROPHIN INC: $195,000 · OtherRETROPHIN INCMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $150,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $85,000 · Other+6 more: $212,009 · Other+6 moreTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $312,500 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL…BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $186,666 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS M…ASN Foundation for Kidney Research: $87,500 · HealthASN Foundation for Kidn…Arbor Research Collaborative for Health: $52,130 · HealthArbor Research Collabor…DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $50,000 · HealthDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH …Emory University: $200,000 · EducationEmory UniversityWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $101,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVE…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFOR…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $37,500 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE …Baylor College of Medicine: $37,500 · EducationBaylor College of Med…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $37,500 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDIC…+1 more: $16,000 · Education
Other$1,984,472Health$688,796Education$619,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $312,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $186,666 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $101,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASN Foundation for Kidney Research: $87,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetArbor Research Collaborative for Health: $52,130 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Nephcure Kidney International funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nephcure Kidney International. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of 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 · 0–75%
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 23 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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