· Private foundation
Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $238,814 |
| SWISS FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE OF LAUSANNE | $218,006 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $207,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $197,907 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $167,825 |
| UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH | $141,212 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $117,494 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $98,571 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $69,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $33,460 |
| MUSCULAR DISTROPHY ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 72% of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BOSTON6× · 2017–2024 · $837k · revenue +91%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER4× · 2017–2021 · $382k · revenue +81%- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA3× · 2017–2020 · $191k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- SFSWISS FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE OF LAUSANNEone grant, 2024 · $218k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGHone grant, 2024 · $141k
MUSCULAR DISTROPHY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +6%
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.
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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How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 STANFORD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DISTROPHY ASSOCIATION ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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