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PKD Foundation

We give hope.

$3.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 38 grants below total $2,620,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,060,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $440,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k35 grants · $2.5M
$70,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute$80,000
University of Alabama Birmingham$80,000
State of Maryland - University of Maryland Baltimore$80,000
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute$80,000
Mayo Clinic$80,000
State of Maryland - University of Maryland Baltimore$80,000
Regents of the University of Colorado$80,000
Mayo Clinic$80,000
Augusta University Research Institute$80,000
University of Colorado Denver$80,000
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute$80,000
National Institutes of Health$80,000
Regents University of California San Francisco$80,000
Rutgers$80,000
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute$80,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CRITICAL PATH INSTITUTE: $100k → 15%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $80k → 16%Mayo Clinic: $260k → 9%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA RESEARCH: $80k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $120k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $80k → 16%Michigan Technological University: $80k → 14%University of Alabama at Birmingham: $160k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $205k → 5%University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute: $380k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL SCHOOL: $80k → 8%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $80k → 17%YALE UNIVERSITY: $80k → 11%YALE UNIVERSITY: $140k → 12%Augusta University Research Institute: $80k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $80k → 9%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $80k → 10%University of Colorado: $287k → 12%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $80k → 16%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $80k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY - ASRSP CASH MANAGEMENT: $80k → 14%Rutgers: $80k → 8%University of Vermont and State Ag College: $80k → 10%National Institutes of Health: $80k → 8%Johns Hopkins University: $80k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $80k → 15%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $80k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $220k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF TX SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $80k → 14%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $80k → 12%MICHIGAN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY: $80k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL SCHOOL: $240k → 16%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $80k → 17%YALE UNIVERSITY: $80k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $80k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER: $190k → 12%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $80k → 16%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY-ASRSP CASH MANAGEMENT: $80k → 14%National Institutes of Health: $80k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $80k → 19%University of Arizona: $80k → 15%MAYO CLINIC: $120k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL SCHOOL: $240k → 16%Loyola University: $140k → 14%MAYO CLINIC: $100k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTI: $220k → 16%University of Maryland Baltimore: $140k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INST: $160k → 16%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

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

Grants abroad, by region: $440k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$240k · 55% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT

North America (Canada and Mexico)$120k · 27% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT

Middle East and North Africa$80k · 18% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 35 repeat orgs$682k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
10

Total granted

$12M
$522k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+77%

Still filing today

51%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +129%
  • TK
    The Kansas University Endowment Association
    4× · 2017–2025 · $580k · revenue +93%
  • EU
    Emory University
    4× · 2020–2025 · $306k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • CP
    CRITICAL PATH INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +153%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2017 · $80k
  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue +110%
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
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
2
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
3
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
4
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
5
University of Miami

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

Education
6
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

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
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
9
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
10
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
11
Rhode Island Hospital

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

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is Critical Path Institute. 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

30 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. 30 of the 52 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)
30/30
Grantees still filing
28/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $1,454,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $1,020,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $969,964 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMMAYO CLINIC: $611,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICKANSAS ATHLETICS INC: $480,000 · OtherKANSAS ATHLETICS INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE: $400,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTEUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center: $280,000 · Other+16 more: $1,876,548 · Other+16 moreMAYO CLINIC: $1,646,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,255,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CE…SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $201,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $160,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $160,000 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $160,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN: $160,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $160,000 · Health+5 more: $409,000 · Health+5 moreYale University: $1,400,000 · EducationYale UniversityThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $580,000 · EducationThe Kansas University Endowme…Emory University: $306,000 · EducationEmory UniversityLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $280,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $240,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT M…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $240,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $160,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $160,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $160,000 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $160,000 · Education+5 more: $399,125 · Education+5 moreNorthwestern University: $160,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$7,091,512Health$4,311,000Education$4,085,125Recreation & Sports$160,000

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 budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,646,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $1,400,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,255,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $580,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $306,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $280,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $240,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $240,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $201,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN: $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $140,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $129,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRITICAL PATH INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Rogosin Institute Inc: $84,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY: $33,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Physiological Society: $5,000 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.

  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds CRITICAL PATH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds The Rogosin Institute Inc ↗

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 Associ…Cystic Fibrosis Found…Muscular Dystrophy As…Vanderbilt University…Mayo ClinicYale UniversityAlexs Lemonade Stand …Rheumatology Research…Breakthrough T1dThe George Washington…President and Fellows…Washington University
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology: 14% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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 52 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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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home