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Respiratory Health Association at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Respiratory Health Association

Mission is to prevent lung disease, promote clean air and help people live better through education, research, and policy change.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
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$680kRecreation & Sports$170kScience & Tech$145kEducation$25k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$75,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CARDINAL BERNADIN CANCER CENTER$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DIVISION OF PULMONARY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE$25,000
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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DIVISION OF PULMONARY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $20k → 13%SEATTLE INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH: $20k → 9%Illinois Transplant Fund: $10k → 7%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $75k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $20k → 19%Regents of the Univeristy of Michigan: $15k → 14%University of Illinois: $138k → 14%Northwestern University: $50k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation: $27k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%LOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%NORTHWESTERN LURIE CANCER CENTER: $25k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CARDINAL BERNADIN CANCER CENTER: $75k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $25k → 14%The University of Chicago: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE: $25k → 14%CHEST FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CHEST FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CHEST FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%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.
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$773k · 6 repeat orgs$247k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$773k
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+30%

Still filing today

50%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
EducationHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & 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

  • TB
    THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    3× · 2017–2024 · $263k
  • Northwestern University
    4× · 2017–2023 · $220k · revenue +41%
  • University of Chicago
    4× · 2018–2022 · $125k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • PF
    PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue +9%
  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +24%
  • RU
    REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
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
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
3
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
4
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
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

—
11
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
12
Illinois Institute of Technology

To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. 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 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $262,500 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $95,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $40,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANThe Chest Foundation: $30,000 · OtherThe Chest FoundationREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $25,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN LURIE CANCER CENTER: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $20,000 · OtherNorthwestern University: $220,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern UniversityUniversity of Chicago: $125,000 · EducationUniversity of Chic…LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $25,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY …JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIV…CANDID: $75,000 · PhilanthropyCANDIDILLINOIS TRANSPLANT FUND: $10,342 · PhilanthropyILLINOIS …PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $26,729 · HealthSEATTLE INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH: $20,000 · Health
Other$497,500Recreation & Sports$220,000Education$170,000Philanthropy$85,342Health$46,729

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 budgetNorthwestern University: $220,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANDID: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Chest Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $26,729 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetILLINOIS TRANSPLANT FUND: $10,342 over 1y, 3.1% 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 Respiratory Health Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Respiratory Health Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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 15 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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