· Public charity
Open Medicine Foundation
Funds collaborative medical research and education for multi-system chronic complex diseases.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $485k
- $250k+2 grants · $800k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION | $500,000 |
| THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC | $300,000 |
| JONAS BERGQUIST | $120,000 |
| SIMARON LLC | $120,000 |
| BATEMAN HORNE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE | $100,000 |
| WENZHONG XIAO | $90,000 |
| BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $54,605 |
| PENG LI | $30,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER | $25,818 |
| JOHANNA WOODWARD SQUIRES | $24,000 |
| DAVID SYSTROM | $20,000 |
| SUET YING CHRISTIN CHONG | $12,450 |
| SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC | $6,840 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $1.0M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: RESEARCH
Stated purpose: INFLAMMATION STUDY
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $975k · revenue +28%
- BHBATEMAN HORNE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE4× · 2022–2025 · $881k · revenue +54%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2023 · $701k · revenue +34%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -47%- IBIntegrative Bioinformatics Incone grant, 2018 · $309k
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINEone grant, 2019 · $250k
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.
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.
To support the scientific and educational purposes of the regents of the university of california (the "university"), in its specific capacity as manager and operator of the lawrence berkeley national laboratory and to carry on other…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Education and Research
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 47 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BATEMAN HORNE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Open Medicine Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Open Medicine Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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