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Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation

The PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION is committed to accelerating research, empowering our community, and transforming care so that everyone with pulmonary fibrosis can live a better life.

$620k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$2.3MEducation$957kScience & Tech$50kRecreation & Sports$14k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $600,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $620,294 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,294 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.

$100,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$100,000
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY$100,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE$100,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$100,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Brigham & Women's Hospital: $50k → 16%Mayo Clinic: $50k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $7k → 11%University of Pittsburgh: $50k → 11%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $125k → 22%THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100k → 7%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JR UNI: $50k → 8%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $100k → 11%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 14%Stony Brook University: $8k → 7%WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%UNI OF TX HEALTH SCIENCE ctr AT SAN ANTONIO: $7k → 16%The University of Iowa: $50k → 15%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $100k → 10%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 14%PIEDMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $7k → 13%University of colorado Denver AMC and DC: $50k → 10%National Jewish Health: $75k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER: $8k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $75k → 14%THE RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $100k → 8%Virginia Commonwealth University: $75k → 22%University of Vermont State & Agricultural College: $50k → 10%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $7k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE RESEARCH Fdn: $50k → 15%Trustees of Boston University BU Medical Campus: $50k → 16%University of Pittsburgh: $50k → 11%THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $123k → 22%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JR UNI: $8k → 8%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $125k → 17%Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $50k → 14%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $8k → 12%The University of Chicago: $50k → 14%The Rector & Visitors of the Univ of VA: $50k → 8%Virginia Commonwealth University: $75k → 22%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $100k → 19%THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $75k → 22%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $123k → 17%University of Chicago: $50k → 14%RECTOR & VISITORS UNIVERSITY OF Va: $8k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $100k → 19%Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania: $50k → 22%University of Pennsylvania: $50k → 22%Weill Medical College of Cornell University: $50k → 17%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $8k → 22%Weill Medical College of Cornell University: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 8 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
17

Total granted

$1.1M
$892k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+32%

Still filing today

63%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k 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
EducationHealthOther

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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2025 · $207k · revenue +64%
  • University of Chicago
    3× · 2018–2023 · $175k · revenue +52%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    2× · 2017–2021 · $107k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • VC
    VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +28%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2024 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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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
2
University of Miami

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

Education
3
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
4
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
5
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
6
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
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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
8
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
9
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
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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
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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
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago and the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 62 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%55%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%66%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,532

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.

04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $430,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIATHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $253,033 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $207,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYUniversity of Chicago — $175,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $157,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT — $150,000 · EducationVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATVanderbilt University — $150,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityYale University — $125,000 · EducationYale UniversityUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $106,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHCornell University — $100,000 · Education+2 more — $57,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISC…RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $157,500 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY O…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $100,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORN…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $100,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANWeill Medical College of Cornell Univers — $100,000 · OtherWeill Medical College of Cornell Univ…University of Wisconsin Madison — $100,000 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM — $57,500 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $50,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO — $50,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE — $50,000 · OtherState University of Iowa — $50,000 · Other+4 more — $28,000 · OtherCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $100,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINA…UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $100,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY …NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $83,000 · HealthNATIONAL JE…MAYO CLINIC — $50,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC+1 more — $6,500 · Health
Education$1,911,533Other$1,093,000Health$339,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $430,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $253,033 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $207,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $175,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $157,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT — $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVanderbilt University — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $106,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $83,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc — $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Pulmonary Fibrosis 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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