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Sjogren's Foundation Inc

The foundation's mission is to provide education and resources to sjogren's patients and their loved ones, provide credible resources/education to healthcare professionals, serve as the voice of all patients through advocacy and fund innovative research.

$637k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$1.4MScience & Tech$1.1MEducation$75kArts & Culture$75k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $570,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $636,789 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $66,789 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$100,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH$200,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$120,000
MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM$100,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON$50,000
OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION$50,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM: $100k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $25k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $25k → 11%THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $25k → 8%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $35k → 10%UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY: $75k → 14%DYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL: $25k → 14%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $75k → 16%OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $200k → 16%BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $75k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $25k → 9%LOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: $300k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $35k → 19%THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC: $75k → 16%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL: $25k → 14%OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $150k → 16%BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $50k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY: $25k → 8%LOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: $200k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $35k → 19%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER: $75k → 16%MIAMI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER: $25k → 15%THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $120k → 8%HARRIS INSIGHTS & ANALYTICS LLC: $45k → 14%NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIA: $50k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $25k → 19%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $25k → 16%OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $25k → 16%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 11 repeat orgs$920k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
14

Total granted

$1.6M
$620k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+14%

Still filing today

45%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% 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
EducationHealthPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $400k · revenue +20%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2022 · $95k · revenue +64%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2020 · $50k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicinegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +32%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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
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
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
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
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
6
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
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Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
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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
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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
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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
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
12
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc. 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

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NIHNIA — $350,000 · OtherNIHNIAREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $175,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $170,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHUniversity of Wisconsin Madison — $125,000 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — $125,000 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA — $75,000 · OtherUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center — $75,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · OtherUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center — $50,000 · Other+5 more — $145,000 · Other+5 moreOklahoma Medical Research Foundation — $400,000 · HealthOklahoma Medical Research Foundat…Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc — $200,000 · HealthFoundation for the National Insti…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $100,000 · HealthMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC — $50,000 · HealthDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC+1 more — $25,000 · HealthJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $95,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIV…Baylor College of Medicine — $75,000 · EducationBaylor College of …University of Miami — $50,000 · EducationUniversity of Miam…LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $50,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY …NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVE…Trustees of Tufts College — $25,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts …UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITT…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUST…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $25,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UN…South Florida Veterans Affairs Foundation For Research & Education Inc — $25,000 · Public Benefit
Other$1,415,000Health$775,000Education$420,000Public Benefit$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOklahoma Medical Research Foundation — $400,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $95,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Florida Veterans Affairs Foundation For Research & Education Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Federation f…Emory UniversityVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Federation for Aging ResearchNY13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Federation for Aging Research · Emory University · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Sjogren's Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% 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
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Sjogren's Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sjogren's Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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