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The American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy

Asgct's mission is to advance knowledge, awareness, and education leading to the discovery and clinical application of genetic and cellular therapies to alleviate human disease.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GENE & CELL THERAPY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $1,040,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,266,770 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $226,770 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.0M
$100,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$200,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY PA$200,000
AUBURN UNIVERSITY$100,000
HDT BIO CORP$100,000
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER$100,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$100,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$100,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$100,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE NIH$25,000
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH)$15,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $50k → 8%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $100k → 16%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $100k → 11%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY PA: $200k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CA: $50k → 14%THE REGENTS UNI OF CA DAVIS: $10k → 16%HEALTH RESEARCH INC: $100k → 14%WEILL MED COLLEGE OF CORNELL: $25k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $100k → 16%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $100k → 12%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%CHILDRENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $50k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $100k → 15%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $100k → 14%AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 15%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $100k → 21%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $100k → 17%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%HDT BIO CORP: $100k → 9%MARY BYERS INC: $13k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR THE NIH: $25k → 8%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILAD: $50k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50k → 14%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $100k → 16%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 21%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $100k → 9%FOUNDATION FOR THE NIH: $25k → 8%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY PA: $50k → 22%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $100k → 14%HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH IN: $50k → 16%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $100k → 9%NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE: $100k → 8%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY PA: $50k → 22%BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $100k → 14%NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH): $15k → 8%WISTAR INST OF ANATOMY & BIO: $35k → 22%BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $100k → 14%NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH): $15k → 8%BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $35k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 9 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
28

Total granted

$1.8M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+42%

Still filing today

44%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationOther

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

  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    3× · 2018–2022 · $225k · revenue +49%
  • FH
    FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +27%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +17%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • IU
    Indiana University School of Medicine
    one grant, 2021 · $200k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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
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
3
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
4
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
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
6
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
7
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
8
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
9
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
10
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
11
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
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc. 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 63 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%57%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%56%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
2/46
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,519

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.

04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
22/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $410,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $375,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $200,000 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTERUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS — $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSIndiana University School of Medicine — $200,000 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $125,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $100,000 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · OtherNIHNIA — $100,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $100,000 · OtherPHI CHI MEDICAL FRATERNITY INC — $100,000 · OtherHDT Bio — $100,000 · OtherAUBURN UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · OtherState University of Iowa — $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $100,000 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA — $100,000 · Other+8 more — $197,500 · Other+8 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $300,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PEN…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELA…Baylor College of Medicine — $225,000 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $150,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSI…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIALEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $100,000 · EducationAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTI…+3 more — $150,000 · Education+3 moreBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE — $235,000 · HealthBECKMAN RESEARCH INST…Children's Hospital Corporation — $200,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital C…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $100,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RE…MAYO CLINIC — $100,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICHEALTH RESEARCH INC — $100,000 · HealthHEALTH RESEARCH INCDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $100,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer In…Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc — $50,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $50,000 · HealthTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY — $35,000 · Health+2 more — $35,000 · Health
Other$2,707,500Education$1,575,000Health$1,005,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE — $235,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Johns Hopkins Univers…Vanderbilt University…Mayo ClinicYale UniversityAmerican Cancer Socie…Lymphoma Research Fou…Alexs Lemonade Stand …Alliance for Clinical…Breakthrough T1dTrustees of Tufts Col…Cystic Fibrosis Found…Muscular Dystrophy As…
Johns Hopkins UniversityMD19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Mayo Clinic · Yale University · American Cancer Society Inc · Lymphoma Research Foundation · Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation · Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation · Breakthrough T1d · Trustees of Tufts College · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc

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 The American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy?

Find your warmest path to The American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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