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Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments.

$19M
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$800k
Largest
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$38MEducation$13MScience & Tech$7.0MEmployment$268kReligion$180k
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 45 grants below total $9,705,914, the rows itemized in this filing. The $18,765,868 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,059,954 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

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $49k
  • $50k–250k31 grants · $4.0M
  • $250k+13 grants · $5.7M
$129,400
Median grant
20
States reached
$137M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DIGNITY HEALTH - ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER: $965k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $670k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $382k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $260k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $290k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $631k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $265k → 16%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $801k → 14%MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE: $580k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $264k → 17%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $843k → 11%CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTFICAS: $260k → 12%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $387k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $439k → 14%NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH (NIH): $450k → 8%DIGNITY HEALTH: $800k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $394k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $575k → 17%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $288k → 14%MAYO CLINIC - JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA: $544k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $272k → 11%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $384k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $777k → 19%DIGNITY HEALTH - ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER: $564k → 11%THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $375k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $517k → 17%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $287k → 14%MAYO CLINIC - JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA: $322k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $640k → 19%DIGNITY HEALTH - ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER: $481k → 11%N-LOREM FOUNDATION: $500k → 11%MAYO CLINIC - JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA: $273k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $580k → 19%DIGNITY HEALTH - ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER: $401k → 11%N-LOREM FOUNDATION: $478k → 11%MAYO CLINIC - JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA: $262k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $408k → 19%DIGNITY HEALTH - ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER: $346k → 11%N-LOREM FOUNDATION: $300k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $350k → 19%BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $313k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $819k → 11%NEW YORK GENOME CENTER: $1.5M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $623k → 11%NEW YORK GENOME CENTER: $1.2M → 17%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $461k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $312k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $273k → 11%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

VT
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 22% of all-years giving ($13M)

14 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$3.1M · 13 grants
Canada$1.6M · 15 grants
Switzerland$1.6M · 8 grants
Germany$1.4M · 9 grants
Belgium$1.3M · 7 grants
Israel$1.2M · 5 grants
France$776k · 6 grants
Italy$651k · 6 grants
India$360k · 3 grants
Spain$260k · 1 grant

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.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$4.4M · 83% · 24 grants

Stated purpose: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Middle East and North Africa$606k · 12% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

East Asia and the Pacific$214k · 4% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

South Asia$84k · 2% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: SCIENTIFIC 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. 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Target Als Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Target Als Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 22% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40M · 61 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
48

Total granted

$40M
$7.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+66%

Still filing today

28%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.9M 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
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +95%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +25%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • UC
    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
    one grant, 2024 · $666k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
    one grant, 2019 · $415k
  • EU
    EMORY UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $384k
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
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
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
3
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
4
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
5
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
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
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
8
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
9
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
10
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
11
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
12
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; 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.
05the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 144 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
27/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DIGNITY HEALTH - ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER: $2,757,415 · OtherDIGNITY HEALTH - ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTERUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $2,220,090 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $1,882,944 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL: $1,716,020 · OtherMAYO CLINIC - JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA: $1,710,183 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $1,494,807 · Other+103 more: $24,829,166 · Other+103 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,008,566 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,788,948 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,615,311 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,581,595 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA U…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,068,318 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF T…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $650,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $610,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $560,000 · Education+13 more: $2,856,203 · Education+13 moreNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $3,165,707 · HealthNEW YORK GENOME…N-LOREM FOUNDATION: $1,277,585 · HealthN-LOREM FOUNDAT…DIGNITY HEALTH: $800,313 · HealthDIGNITY HEALTHColumbia University Health Care Inc: $575,116 · HealthColumbia Univer…THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $499,940 · HealthTHE JACKSON LAB…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $374,467 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $266,550 · Health+6 more: $990,415 · Health+6 moreNorthwestern University: $438,968 · Recreation & Sports
Other$36,610,625Education$13,738,941Health$7,950,093Recreation & Sports$438,968

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 budgetNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $3,165,707 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,008,566 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,788,948 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,615,311 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,581,595 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetN-LOREM FOUNDATION: $1,277,585 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,068,318 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH: $800,313 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $729,286 over 4y, 75% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $650,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $610,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $560,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $499,940 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $391,051 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $374,467 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $325,020 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $266,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $260,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $260,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City University: $240,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $230,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $165,398 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $128,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $125,053 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $103,087 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLudwig Institute for Cancer Research Ltd: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPurdue Research Foundation: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGENERATIVE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $49,273 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis AssnVA24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Target Als Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Target Als Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
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
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.

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 144 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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