· Public charity
Permobil Foundation
The organization is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life by empowering strength and independence through community support, employee engagement, and grant funding.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $225,622 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $571,521 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $345,899 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN | $52,024 |
| AFAR INC | $50,000 |
| UNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION INC | $21,950 |
| PERMOBIL INC | $17,714 |
| LIVE LIKE LOU | $14,534 |
| MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION OF | $12,500 |
| FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY | $11,400 |
| TENNESSEE TITANS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BEAT ALS - 723 FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ALS NETWORK | $8,000 |
| CRAIG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against -26% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ALAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN9× · 2017–2025 · $479k · revenue +122%
- TGTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2023 · $92k · revenue +308%
- FOFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA7× · 2018–2025 · $63k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- RLRaelee's Legacy Incone grant, 2017 · $14k · 29% of their budget
- LRLIFE ROLLS ON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue -9%
- MNMDA Nationalone grant, 2024 · $11k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Leading the fight to treat and cure ALS through global research and nationwide advocacy while also empowering people with Lou Gehrig's disease and their families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support.
AxeALS was founded to raise awareness and funding for patient-centered treatment and cure of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
To find solutions for people living with als now and for the future by utilizing knowledge of patients, leading researchers and technology to seek immediate solutions to improve the lives of those living with als until a treatment or cure…
Leading the fight to treat and cure als through global research and nationwide advocacy while also empowering people with lou gehrig's disease and their families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support.
NextGen ALS is entirely committed to raising funds for targeted research toward developing treatments and cures for genetic forms of ALS.
ALS Worldwide brings guidance, compassion and hope to thousands of ALS patients and their families in more than 150 countries. ALS Worldwide fills a unique niche of free counseling and information for people living with ALS/MND via…
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…
To assist people with ALS and their families by providing compassionate care and support, and to support research efforts.
Organization's mission or most significant activities are to provide long-term support to 1) basic and clinical research programs leading to a cure, 2) clinical centers of excellence for the care and treatment of patients with ALS, 3)…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn and the most unlike its peers is Tennessee Titans Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA ↗
- Who funds AFAR INC DBA THE ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE TITANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALS Arizona ↗
- Who funds United Spinal Association of Virginia ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOC TENNESSEE CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds THE AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION ST LOUIS REGIONAL CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds TUCKER'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LIVE LIKE LOU SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Raelee's Legacy Inc ↗
- Who funds ALS Network ↗
- Who funds LIFE ROLLS ON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARAQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATEWAY CONFLUENCE WHEELCHAIR SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital ↗
- Who funds Adaptive Sports for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds HENDERSONVILLE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVELIKELOU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF MUSIC CITY ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Christopher Reeve Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Permobil Foundation 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.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
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.