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PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
To accelerate the development of new treatments and ultimately a cure for pulmonary fibrosis.
$785k
Granted FY2024
7
Grants
6
Communities
$125k
Largest
01What you fund
0161% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Education$1.3MHealth$125kOther$908k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
see part
2021
see part
2022
see part
2023
functionalveolar epithelialtargetinglung
2024
type cellsalveolar epithelial
2025
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$100,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
- TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$125,000
- TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$125,000
- JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$100,000
- THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$100,000
- THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$100,000
- UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON$100,000
- THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO$100,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 87% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 4 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
4
15
Total granted
$1.1M
$783k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+26%
+25%
Still filing today
75%
47%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
University of Pennsylvania4× · 2018–2024 · $423k · revenue +37%- TOTrustees of Columbia University3× · 2019–2024 · $253k · revenue +13%
University of Chicago3× · 2018–2023 · $175k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- VCVirginia Commonwealth Universityone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -9%
YALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +24%
National Jewish Healthgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +25%
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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Philadelphia University
To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.
Education
2
New York University
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.
Education
3
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
4
William Penn University
William penn university provides the opportunity for an educational experience with a focus on leadership, technology, and the quaker principles of simplicity, peace-making, intergrity, community and equality.
Education
5
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Vanderbilt University Medical Center ("VUMC") is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University, VUMC cultivates distinguished research and…
Health
6
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
7
The George Washington University
Education and research
Education
8
York University
Provide post secondary education to students in various fields.the university is a four year accredited post secondary education institution offering bachelor's degrees in various areas. the university offers on-site learning and provides…
Education
9
University of Hartford
The university provides a learning environment in which students may transform themselves intellectually, personally and socially.
Education
10
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
To improve the wellness of all people through innovative, interprofessional education of health and biomedical professionals and the discovery and implementation of knowledge.
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Long Island University
Provide excellence and access in education to those who seek to expand their knowledge. see sch o.
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12
Westminster University
Offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in liberal arts and professional programs.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University 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.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$1,300,533Other$907,500Health$125,000
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 University of Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Columbia University ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds Virginia Commonwealth University ↗
- Who funds YALE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds National Jewish Health ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Boston University BU Medical Campus ↗
- Who funds Mayo Clinic ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds University of Pittsburgh ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation 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.
2023
’20’21’22’23
- Trustees of Boston University — 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–23
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Virginia Commonwealth University.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~26 months of operating runway; revenue held over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 540757884 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Virginia Commonwealth University, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 26 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines