· Public charity
Target Als Foundation Inc
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
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.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its 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
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 8% of Target Als Foundation Inc’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.
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
How this is measured
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
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
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.
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 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 ↗
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- 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.
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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