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Scleroderma Research Foundation

The mission of the Scleroderma Research Foundation is to fund and facilitate the most promising, highest quality research aimed at new treatments and, ultimately, a cure for scleroderma.

$3.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$467k
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$13MScience & Tech$5.0MEducation$3.5MRecreation & Sports$224k
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $146k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
$114,950
Median grant
14
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Regents of Univ of CA-UCSF$466,635
Stanford School of Medicine$459,985
University of Utah$365,618
Univ of TX Health Science Ctr$314,255
Regents of Univ of Michigan$218,440
John Hopkins University$212,416
Hospital for Special Surgery$191,356
University of Pittsburgh$176,500
NYU Grossman School Medicine$150,000
Boston Childrens Hospital Co$147,103
Trustees of Dartmouth College$132,338
Yale University$125,000
Regents of UCLA$114,950
The Feinstein Institute$110,000
Duke University$103,057
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%University of Pittsburgh: $250k → 11%STANFORD UNIV SCHOOL MEDICINE: $93k → 8%Regents of UCLA: $115k → 14%The Feinstein Institute: $110k → 6%University of Rochester: $85k → 14%NYU Grossman School Medicine: $150k → 17%McGovern Med SchoolUT Health: $79k → 16%University of Utah: $194k → 8%Northwestern University: $79k → 14%Johns Hopkins University: $165k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $374k → 19%Trustees of Dartmouth College: $132k → 10%Boston Childrens Hospital Co: $147k → 16%University of Pittsburgh: $177k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $342k → 8%USC: $75k → 14%University of Rochester: $84k → 14%NYU Grossman School Medicine: $100k → 17%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $244k → 19%Trustees of Dartmouth College: $131k → 10%University of Pittsburgh: $175k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $325k → 8%Regents of UCLA: $109k → 14%Hospital for Special Surgery: $191k → 17%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $730k → 19%Trustees of Dartmouth College: $118k → 10%Boston Childrens Hospital Co: $96k → 16%University of Pittsburgh: $75k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $225k → 8%USC: $75k → 14%Hospital for Special Surgery: $180k → 17%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $580k → 19%Trustees of Dartmouth College: $116k → 10%University of Pittsburgh: $75k → 11%Hospital for Special Surgery: $168k → 17%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV: $415k → 19%Trustees of Dartmouth College: $116k → 10%Boston Childrens Hospital Co: $86k → 16%Hospital for Special Surgery: $142k → 17%University of Rochester: $75k → 19%Trustees of Dartmouth College: $114k → 10%Hospital for Special Surgery: $142k → 17%Geisel School of Medicine: $114k → 10%Hospital for Special Surgery: $136k → 17%Geisel School of Medicine: $105k → 10%Hospital for Special Surgery: $134k → 17%DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL: $85k → 10%Weill Cornell Medical College: $125k → 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

NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MD
NC
SC
DC
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 22 repeat orgs$289k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
2

Total granted

$14M
$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+23%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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

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HealthEducationRecreation & 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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.1M · revenue +64%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +28%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    6× · 2020–2025 · $805k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • WM
    Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers
    one grant, 2018 · $125k
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    one grant, 2019 · $21k · revenue +23%
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
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
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
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
5
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
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
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
8
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
9
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
10
Rhode Island Hospital

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

Health
11
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University; the most unlike its peers is Children's Hospital Corporation. 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

20 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. 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
20/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,593,952 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $4,139,596 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYYale University: $1,140,000 · EducationYale UniversityUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $804,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHTrustees of Dartmouth College: $685,072 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College+6 more: $1,127,160 · Education+6 moreUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $1,815,540 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTON: $1,404,406 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIEN…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $915,709 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIC…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $762,827 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRA…TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $345,727 · OtherTRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGENEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $250,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $243,614 · Other+6 more: $436,310 · Other+6 moreNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $1,093,612 · HealthNEW YORK SOC…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $373,585 · HealthVanderbilt U…Children's Hospital Corporation: $343,732 · HealthChildren's H…THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $209,069 · HealthTHE MEDSTAR-…THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $110,000 · Health+3 more: $181,001 · Health+3 moreNorthwestern University: $302,811 · Recreation & Sports
Education$12,490,280Other$6,174,133Health$2,310,999Recreation & Sports$302,811

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,593,952 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $4,139,596 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $1,140,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $1,093,612 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $804,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $685,072 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $373,585 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $343,732 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $312,338 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $302,811 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $244,446 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $230,646 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $209,069 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $168,314 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $71,998 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $58,611 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $50,392 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $21,416 over 1y, 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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds The George Washington University ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Donor Advised Charita…
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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 Scleroderma Research Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scleroderma Research 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% 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 · 0–30%
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 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$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