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Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc

The solve me/cfs initiative (solve m.e.) is a non-profit organization that serves as a catalyst for critical research into diagnostics, treatments, and cures for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (me/cfs), long covid and other (continued on sch. O) post-infection diseases. Our work with the scientific, medical, and…

$142k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$67k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$37,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$37,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$37k0%
FY20243$72k33%
FY20234$104k100%
FY20222$41k100%
FY20212$50k50%
FY20209$224k78%
FY20195$115kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$633kEducation$103kScience & Tech$45kSocial Science$25kRecreation & Sports$23k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
NY
MA
NV
PA
CT
CA
UT
MD
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Simmaron Research Inc$107,00036%
Hudsonalpha Foundation$55,00021%
University of Utah$45,0002n/a
Vassar College$44,00010%
Trustees of Tufts College$40,00020%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$40,0001n/a
Nova Southeastern University Inc$32,50010%
University of Massachusetts$27,5001n/a
Universiy of Massachusetts$27,5001n/a
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation Inc$26,78610%
Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Simmaron Research Inc$107,00036%
Hudsonalpha Foundation$55,00021%
University of Utah$45,0002n/a
Vassar College$44,00010%
Trustees of Tufts College$40,00020%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$40,0001n/a
Nova Southeastern University Inc$32,50010%
University of Massachusetts$27,5001n/a
Universiy of Massachusetts$27,5001n/a
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation Inc$26,78610%
Global Interdependence Center$25,00016%
Autoimmunity Research Inc$20,0001n/a
University of Nevada School of Medicine Integrated Clinical Services Corporation$20,00011%
Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Johns Hopkins University$15,91910%
Johns Hopkins University$14,9311n/a
Tea Leaves Inc$10,0002n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($72k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSimmaron Research Inc: $107,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetHudsonalpha Foundation: $55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVassar College: $44,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $32,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation Inc: $26,786 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Interdependence Center: $25,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetUniversity of Nevada School of Medicine Integrated Clinical Services Corporation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFlorida Atlantic University Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $15,919 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc?

Find your warmest path to Solve Me Cfs Initiative 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.

About Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc

How much does Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc give?
Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc reported 2 itemized grants totaling $67,000, out of $142,438 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (76%), Education (12%), Science & Tech (5%).
Who are Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Simmaron Research Inc ($107k), Hudsonalpha Foundation ($55k), University of Utah ($45k).
Does Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc based?
Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc is based in CA.

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 23 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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