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Spastic Paraplegia Foundation Inc

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$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$2.4MEducation$160kRecreation & Sports$149k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $963,957, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,121,008 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $157,051 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k4 grants · $464k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$149,957
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Critical Path Institute$500,000
Drexel University$150,000
Columbia University$149,957
To Cure A Rose Foundation$89,000
Children's Hospital Corporation Grants Management$75,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Critical Path Institute: $500k → 15%Boston Children's Hospital: $600k → 16%Drexel University: $150k → 22%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $150k → 17%To Cure A Rose Foundation: $89k → 10%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $150k → 16%Mayo Clinic: $150k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $111k → 15%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $150k → 14%Emory University: $150k → 14%Northwestern University: $150k → 14%Children's Hospital Corporation Grants Management: $75k → 16%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $150k → 22%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $150k → 14%Drexel University: $150k → 22%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $149k → 14%Drexel University: $150k → 22%Drexel University: $150k → 22%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

IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $161k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$161k · 100% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Development of a spastin recovery biomarker · Decoding Neuronal Network Dysfunction and Extracellular Vesicle Signatures in Primary Lateral Sclerosis

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 3 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
3

Total granted

$1.9M
$411k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+32%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $589k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthRecreation & 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

  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $750k · revenue +18%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    2× · 2023–2025 · $675k · revenue +32%
  • Northwestern University
    3× · 2020–2023 · $449k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicinegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +32%
  • EU
    Emory University
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
  • UO
    University of Miamigraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $111k · revenue +48%
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.

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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
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
4
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
5
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
6
Rhode Island Hospital

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

Health
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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
8
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
9
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brown University; the most unlike its peers is To Cure a Rose Foundation. 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

12 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.

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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $750,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $385,957 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF …Baylor College of Medicine: $150,000 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineEmory University: $150,000 · EducationEmory UniversityYale University: $149,755 · EducationYale UniversityUniversity of Miami: $111,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiChildren's Hospital Corporation: $675,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationCRITICAL PATH INSTITUTE: $500,000 · HealthCRITICAL PATH INSTITUTEMAYO CLINIC: $150,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICTO CURE A ROSE FOUNDATION: $89,000 · HealthTO CURE A ROSE FOUNDATIONNorthwestern University: $448,904 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern …BROWN UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · Community Improvement
Education$1,696,712Health$1,414,000Recreation & Sports$448,904Community Improvement$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $750,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $675,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRITICAL PATH INSTITUTE: $500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $448,904 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $385,957 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $149,755 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $111,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Spastic Paraplegia Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spastic Paraplegia Foundation Inc. 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 Spastic Paraplegia Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Spastic Paraplegia 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 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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