· Public charity
Target Als Foundation Inc
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 45 grants below total $9,705,914 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,765,868 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,059,954 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $49k
- $50k–250k31 grants · $4.0M
- $250k+13 grants · $5.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIGNITY HEALTH | $800,313 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | $731,472 |
| MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE | $579,510 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $575,116 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO | $461,402 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $438,968 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $386,594 |
| THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $375,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | $298,217 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA | $290,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $260,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $255,000 |
| JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $253,263 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $213,046 |
| BANNER SUN HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $202,642 |
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.
Your US giving — 78% of grant dollars ($46M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 22% that went abroad ($13M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
Beyond the US — 22% of all-years giving ($13M)
14 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
Grants abroad, by region — $5.3M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Stated purpose: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Stated purpose: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Stated purpose: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Target Als Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
61 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NYNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +95%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +25%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +35%
Funded once
- UCUNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDONone grant, 2024 · $666k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAone grant, 2019 · $415k
- EUEMORY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $384k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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Education, research, medical services and other public services.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is N-Lorem Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 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. 37 of the 144 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds N-LOREM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Columbia University Health Care Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research · Johns Hopkins University · Mayo Clinic · Yale University · University of Pittsburgh · American Cancer Society Inc · Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc · The Scripps Research Institute · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · Cornell University
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 Target Als 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
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.