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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$2.3MEducation$957kScience & Tech$50kRecreation & Sports$14k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $600,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $620,294 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,294 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.
$100,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE$100,000
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$100,000
WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY$100,000
THE RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$100,000
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 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%University of Pennsylvania: $50k → 22%Trustees of the 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
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
IA
PA
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
KS
TN
AL
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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
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

  • 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%
  • WM
    Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
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
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
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
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
7
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
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
10
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
11
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
12
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 33 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)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers: $100,000 · OtherWeill Medical College of Cornell Univ…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $100,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $100,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORN…University of Wisconsin Madison: $100,000 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $57,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE: $50,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $50,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $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 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 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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $83,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 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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