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Polybio Research Foundation Inc

We are a 501(c)3 transforming how complex chronic conditions like longcovid, me/cfs & post treatment lyme disease are studied, diagnosed, and treated.

$14M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Health$13MEducation$8.4MScience & Tech$7.6M
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $11,910,094, the rows itemized in this filing. The $13,813,525 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,903,431 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $640k
  • $250k+8 grants · $11M
$290,025
Median grant
8
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$3,503,518
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$3,203,968
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$2,091,756
NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$999,812
YALE UNIVERSITY$575,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$345,000
J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE$290,025
UMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL$250,000
STRATEVI LLC$201,000
AMICI LOVANIENSES$159,128
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$129,305
BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPITAL$93,128
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$57,330
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN$11,124
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 (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPITAL: $93k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $2.1M → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $57k → 8%BERKELEY LABS: $16k → 10%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $3.2M → 10%J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $1.8M → 11%SERIMMUNE: $30k → 14%NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1000k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN: $11k → 14%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $129k → 14%YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL: $917k → 12%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $304k → 12%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER: $68k → 9%J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE INC: $2.1M → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $115k → 19%STRATEVI LLC: $201k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PERELMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1.7M → 22%AMICI LOVANIENSES: $159k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $5.1M → 10%J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $290k → 11%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $3.5M → 17%MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM: $3.3M → 16%MOUNT SINAI: $1.3M → 17%MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM: $315k → 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

WA
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
MD
AZ
DC
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $1.8M on the FY2024 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.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$1.7M · 95% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT

Sub-Saharan Africa$100k · 5% · 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
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.

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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
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Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
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
4
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
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
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
7
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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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
9
University of Miami

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

Education
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
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Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Amici Lovanienses Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $5,078,544 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM: $3,657,834 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAMREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $3,203,968 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOMOUNT SINAI: $1,326,594 · OtherMOUNT SINAINYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $999,812 · OtherNYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINEYALE MEDICAL SCHOOL: $916,691 · OtherYALE MEDICAL SCHOOLYALE UNIVERSITY: $575,000 · Other+7 more: $905,043 · Other+7 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,764,546 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF P…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $3,503,518 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOU…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $345,000 · Education+4 more: $460,580 · Education+4 moreJ CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $4,161,828 · Science & TechJ CRAIG VENTER I…Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $67,800 · Health
Other$16,663,486Education$8,073,644Science & Tech$4,161,828Health$67,800

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJ CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $4,161,828 over 3y, 14% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,764,546 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $3,503,518 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $345,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMICI LOVANIENSES INC: $159,128 over 1y, 16% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $129,305 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $114,817 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $67,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $57,330 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 J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMICI LOVANIENSES INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of 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.
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Find your warmest path to Polybio Research Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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