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DONORS CURE FOUNDATION IS A PLATFORM FOR EARLY-CAREER INVESTIGATORS IN THE BIOMEDICAL FIELD TO SUPPORT THEIR RESEARCH.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$1.5MEducation$610kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$225,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$436k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$225,000
RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC$75,000
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MASS GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICE: $180 → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $50k → 10%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $201k → 10%DR RALPH NIXON: $300k → 9%ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER: $2k → 14%RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $75k → 14%RESEARCH FOUND FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $300k → 17%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $520k → 12%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $100k → 11%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 21%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $1k → 17%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $50k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $2k → 8%VIRGINIA TECH INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 21%UC REGENTS: $50k → 10%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $2k → 17%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $3k → 12%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $50k → 15%UC REGENTS: $50k → 10%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $26k → 17%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $260k → 12%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $50k → 10%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $2k → 17%UC REGENTS: $2k → 10%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

WI
MI
NY
MA
CA
MO
VA
NC
SC
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 7 repeat orgs$321k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$2.5M
$321k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
0%

Still filing today

57%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2023 · $104k · revenue +44%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +45%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    2× · 2022–2024 · $28k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • UR
    UC REGENTS
    one grant, 2019 · $102k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY
    one grant, 2019 · $58k
  • IU
    Indiana University School of Medicine
    one grant, 2018 · $52k
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
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
University of Miami

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

Education
3
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
4
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
5
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
6
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
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
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
9
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
10
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rockefeller University; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 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. 8 of the 19 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $825,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $783,000 · OtherMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINAREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $250,500 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAUC REGENTS: $101,763 · Other+7 more: $214,173 · Other+7 moreRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $375,000 · HealthRESEARCH FOUND…+1 more: $2,000 · HealthWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $104,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UN…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF …WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST U…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $28,359 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL …+2 more: $3,475 · Education
Other$2,174,436Health$377,000Education$335,834

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $375,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $104,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $28,359 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $1,475 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.

  • Who funds RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds ALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization New Vision Research funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Vision Research. 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%25%50%75%100%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
    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 19 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-PF 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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