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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.

$142k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $67,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $142,438 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $75,438 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$37,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIMMARON RESEARCH INC$37,000
YALE UNIVERSTIRY$30,000
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 (FY23–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TEA LEAF HEALTH INC: $5k → 10%TEA LEAF HEALTH INC: $5k → 10%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

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

Grants abroad, by region: $74k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$37k · 50% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: MEDICAL RESEARCH

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$37k · 50% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: MEDICAL RESEARCH

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$257k · 5 repeat orgs$386k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
15

Total granted

$257k
$386k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+26%

Still filing today

80%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • SR
    SIMMARON RESEARCH INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $107k · revenue +30%
  • HF
    HUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $55k · revenue +72%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    2× · 2019–2020 · $40k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • VC
    VASSAR COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $44k · revenue +31%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
  • Nova Southeastern University Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $33k · revenue +45%
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
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
2
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
3
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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4
University of Miami

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

Education
5
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
6
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
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

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
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College; the most unlike its peers is Tea Leaves 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

15 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. 15 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Yale University: $74,973 · EducationYale UniversityTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR…HUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION: $55,000 · EducationHUDSONALPHA FOUNDATIONUCLA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONTrustees of Tufts College: $40,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeNova Southeastern University Inc: $32,500 · EducationNova Southeastern University IncUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $26,786 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEG…FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $15,919 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $45,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHVASSAR COLLEGE: $44,000 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGEMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $40,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDNEUROVERSION: $31,664 · OtherNEUROVERSIONUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $27,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSUNIVERSIY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $27,500 · OtherUNIVERSIY OF MASSACHUSETTSUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONTUniversity of Nevada School of Medicine Integrated Clinical Services Corporation: $20,000 · OtherUniversity of Nevada School of Medicine…UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENOJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $14,931 · OtherSIMMARON RESEARCH INC: $107,000 · HealthSIMMARON RESEARCH…AUTOIMMUNITY RESEARCH INC: $20,000 · HealthAUTOIMMUNITY RESE…GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE CENTER: $25,000 · InternationalTea Leaves Inc: $10,000 · Human Services
Education$375,178Other$290,595Health$127,000International$25,000Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIMMARON RESEARCH INC: $107,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetYale University: $74,973 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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.

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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 Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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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.

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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