· Public charity
Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation
The corporation is organized to increase scientific and public understanding of restless legs syndrome or rls, to encourage and provide funding for research leading to treatments and cure for the disease, to provide support to those suffering from the disease, to be the leading center for information on all aspects of the disease, and to…
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63% of Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $49,982 |
| THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Grants abroad, by region: $50k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT
How this is measured
3 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. 3 of the 7 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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