Missouri · Public charity
PKD Foundation
We give hope. We fund research, advocate for patients, and build a community for all impacted by pkd.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $37M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations PKD Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $2.5M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $2.2M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $1.6M | 43% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $1.1M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $880k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $970k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $1.4M | 17% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $773k | 70% |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Health$13MScience & Tech$1.6MEducation$1.2MYouth Development$140kHuman Services$60kCommunity Improvement$6k
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
KS
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regents of the University of Colorado | $1,454,000 | 9 | n/a |
| University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | $1,255,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Maryland College Park | $1,020,000 | 7 | n/a |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | $969,964 | 8 | n/a |
| Mayo Clinic | $611,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Kansas University Endowment Association | $580,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Kansas Athletics Inc | $480,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente | $400,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Emory University | $306,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Loyola University of Chicago | $280,000 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regents of the University of Colorado | $1,454,000 | 9 | n/a |
| University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | $1,255,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Maryland College Park | $1,020,000 | 7 | n/a |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | $969,964 | 8 | n/a |
| Mayo Clinic | $611,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Kansas University Endowment Association | $580,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Kansas Athletics Inc | $480,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente | $400,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Emory University | $306,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Loyola University of Chicago | $280,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center | $280,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $240,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $240,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of California San Francisco | $210,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Wisconsin Madison | $202,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Swedish Medical Center Foundation | $201,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc | $166,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Children's Hospital Medical Center | $160,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Michigan Tech University | $160,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Northwestern University | $160,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | $160,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Arizona | $160,000 | 2 | n/a |
| St John's University New York | $160,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Children's Mercy Hospital | $160,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California | $160,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | $160,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return | $160,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $160,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Research Foundation for The State University of New York | $160,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Institutes of Health | $160,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Rutgers the State University | $140,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Children's Research Institute | $140,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | $132,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc | $130,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Critical Path Institute | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Rogosin Institute Inc | $84,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Washington | $80,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Seattle Children's Hospital | $80,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Augusta University Research Institute Inc | $80,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Vermont and State Agricultural College | $80,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Case Western Reserve University | $80,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New York University | $80,000 | 1 | 0% |
| State University of Iowa | $52,624 | 1 | n/a |
| Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology | $33,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Univ of Tx Health Science Ctr of Sa | $5,924 | 1 | n/a |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Physiological Society | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget PKD Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
American Heart Association IncTX17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: American Heart Association Inc · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Mayo Clinic · Yale University · Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation · Rheumatology Research Foundation · Breakthrough T1d · The George Washington University · President and Fellows of Harvard College · Washington University
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
About PKD Foundation
- How much does PKD Foundation give?
- PKD Foundation reported 38 itemized grants totaling $2,620,000, out of $3,060,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does PKD Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (81%), Science & Tech (10%), Education (8%).
- Who are PKD Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Regents of the University of Colorado ($1.5M), University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute ($1.3M), University of Maryland College Park ($1.0M).
- Does PKD Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as PKD Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Heart Association Inc, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc.
- Where is PKD Foundation based?
- PKD Foundation is based in MO.
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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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