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Rheumatology Research Foundation

The mission of the Rheumatology Research Foundation is to advance research and training to improve the health of people with rheumatic diseases.

$12M
Granted FY2025still arriving
170
Grants FY2025still arriving
33
States reached
$400k
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$52MScience & Tech$17MEmployment$15MEducation$8.5MRecreation & Sports$897kHuman Services$1k
02FY2025 · 170 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $780k
  • $50k–250k103 grants · $9.4M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
$50,000
Median grant
33
States reached
$76M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Children's Hospital Corporation$400,000
Regents of the University of Michigan$400,000
Mayo Clinic$250,000
Regents of the University of California SF$250,000
Ohio University$200,000
The Johns Hopkins University$200,000
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center$200,000
Boston University$200,000
University of Arizona$200,000
Regents of the Univ of Calif UC San Diego$200,000
The George Washington University$200,000
University of Alabama at Birmingham$200,000
Brigham and Women's Hospital$200,000
University of California Los Angeles$200,000
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$200,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SUNY UMU FOUNDATION: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$82M · 102 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

102 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102
78

Total granted

$82M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+21%

Still filing today

52%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $656k 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
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsScience & TechOther
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
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +64%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +51%
  • AC
    American College of Rheumatology Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • RU
    RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2017 · $222k
  • Cornell University
    one grant, 2022 · $215k · revenue +15%
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
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
2
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
3
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
4
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
5
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
6
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
7
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
8
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
9
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
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
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
12
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is The Assoc of Idaho Rheumatologists. 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

105 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. 105 of the 204 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/105
Grantees still filing
88/105
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $6,794,066 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $4,208,153 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $4,177,783 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $3,206,045 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $2,973,858 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $2,760,228 · OtherAmerican College of Rheumatology Inc: $2,545,207 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $2,443,995 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $2,396,611 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $2,001,000 · Other+94 more: $19,009,314 · Other+94 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,518,705 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYDUKE UNIVERSITY: $2,765,696 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,708,541 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF …WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2,169,087 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYYale University: $1,985,557 · EducationYale UniversityNew York University: $1,861,667 · EducationNew York UniversityTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,856,970 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVE…The Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $1,264,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,245,989 · Education+26 more: $5,898,635 · Education+26 moreTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,999,181 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S H…NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $1,953,000 · HealthNEW YORK SOCIETY…Children's Hospital Corporation: $1,913,499 · HealthChildren's Hospi…MAYO CLINIC: $1,018,092 · HealthMAYO CLINICCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $761,507 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPI…THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $744,839 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center: $640,000 · HealthGOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION: $520,000 · Health+51 more: $4,568,563 · Health+51 moreNorthwestern University: $2,268,648 · Recreation & SportsPORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Science & Tech
Other$52,516,260Education$25,275,097Health$14,118,681Recreation & Sports$2,268,648Science & Tech$1,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,518,705 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $2,765,696 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,708,541 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican College of Rheumatology Inc: $2,545,207 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $2,396,611 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $2,268,648 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2,169,087 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,999,181 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $1,985,557 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $1,953,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,913,499 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $1,861,667 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,856,970 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $1,264,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,245,989 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,018,092 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $761,507 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $744,839 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $728,670 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $706,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $640,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $616,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $534,888 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION: $520,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetThe George Washington University: $474,999 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $468,548 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $455,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $451,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $440,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY: $400,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $394,524 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $391,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $379,705 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $339,928 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC: $330,998 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $317,904 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $300,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH: $225,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCornell University: $215,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $184,408 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $180,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $176,998 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $175,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $165,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds American College of Rheumatology Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Cancer Socie…Cystic Fibrosis Found…Muscular Dystrophy As…The Children's Hospit…Mayo ClinicUniversity of Pittsbu…The Trustees of Colum…American Heart Associ…Yale UniversityBreakthrough T1dAmyotrophic Lateral S…Vanderbilt University…
American Cancer Society IncGA40.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Mayo Clinic · University of Pittsburgh · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · American Heart Association Inc · Yale University · Breakthrough T1d · Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn · Vanderbilt University Medical Center

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Hebrew Rehabilitation Center: 53% of income from government
  • Portland Va Research Foundation: 34% of income from government
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: 31% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Berkshire Medical Center Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The University of Vermont Medical Center: 1% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 204 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home