· Public charity
The American Tinnitus Association
The mission of THE AMERICAN TINNITUS ASSOCIATION is to promote relief, help prevent, and research tinnitus cures, evidenced by its core values of compassion, credibility, and responsibility.compassion: evidenced in a spirit of hope reflected in the commitment to prevention, finding cures, and supporting those affected by the condition.…
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER | $120,000 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $119,240 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS | $59,517 |
| ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 48% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $176k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A NOVEL PROTOCOL FOR SELECTING AND FITTING SOUND THERAPY FOR TINNITUS
Stated purpose: MAPPING HIGHER-ORDER BRAIN NETWORK MECHANISMS OF TINNITUS DURING FMRI NEUROFEEDBACK
Stated purpose: DERIVING A RISK MODEL TO DEVELOP AND PILOT AN ONLINE TINNITUS RISK QUIZ
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $289k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS2× · 2023–2024 · $120k
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS2× · 2024–2025 · $119k · revenue +5%
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN2× · 2017–2018 · $100k
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2022 · $60k
- PVPORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +20%
- NONORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $7k
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.
4 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. 4 of the 9 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The American Tinnitus Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The American Tinnitus Association. Bigger dots raise more.
- Portland Va Research Foundation: 37% of income from government
How this is measured
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