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The Bluefield Project to Cure Frontotemporal Dementia

frontal lobe of the brain and may extend back to the temporal lobe.

$4.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$2.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$13MScience & Tech$8.2MEducation$220k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $3,642,807, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,601,946 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $959,139 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 · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $180k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.5M
$303,410
Median grant
5
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Univ of Calif San Francisco$2,409,271
Memorial Sloan Kettering Canc$477,613
Mayo Clinic Rochester$303,410
PresidentFellows Harvard Col$272,513
University of Alabama$180,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Harvard University: $591k → 8%Massachusetts Gnrl Hospital: $220k → 16%Mayo Clinic Rochester: $303k → 9%University of California: $2.4M → 10%Cornell University: $172k → 16%Memorial Sloan Kettering Canc: $442k → 17%AWA Health - Probably Genetic: $20k → 5%UT Southwestern Medical Ctr: $225k → 14%HudsonAlpha Institute for Bio: $98k → 11%University of Alabama: $247k → 17%Saint Louis University: $122k → 21%Emory University: $165k → 13%Emory University: $166k → 14%Foundation for NIH: $47k → 8%Harvard University: $299k → 8%Massachusetts Gnrl Hospital: $138k → 16%Mayo Clinic Rochester: $294k → 9%University of California: $2.2M → 10%Cornell University: $129k → 16%UT Southwestern Medical Ctr: $225k → 14%University of Alabama: $214k → 17%Saint Louis University: $98k → 21%Emory University: $165k → 14%NINDS - Neuroscience Center: $110k → 8%Harvard University: $289k → 8%Massachusetts Gnrl Hospital: $138k → 16%Mayo Clinic Rochester: $250k → 9%University of California: $1.6M → 10%University of Alabama: $180k → 17%Emory University: $165k → 14%Harvard University: $270k → 8%Mayo Clinic Rochester: $227k → 9%University of California: $1.3M → 10%University of Alabama: $180k → 17%Emory University: $124k → 14%Harvard University: $256k → 8%University of California: $1.1M → 10%University of Alabama: $180k → 17%Harvard University: $243k → 8%University of California: $851k → 10%University of Alabama: $135k → 17%J David Gladstone Institutes: $275k → 10%J David Gladstone Institutes: $165k → 10%The FTD Disorders Registry: $150k → 10%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

MN
NY
MA
CT
CA
MO
MD
AL
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $959k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$959k · 100% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: Medical 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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 11 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$18M
$867k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+43%

Still filing today

55%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $658k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthOther
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

  • TF
    Trustees for Harvard University
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +29%
  • EU
    Emory University
    5× · 2017–2022 · $785k · revenue +80%
  • TJ
    THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES
    2× · 2017–2019 · $440k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $442k
  • TF
    THE FTD DISORDERS REGISTRY LLCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +43%
  • NN
    NINDS - Neuroscience Center
    one grant, 2017 · $110k
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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
3
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
4
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
5
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
6
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

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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
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
9
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
10
University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is President and Fellows of Harvard College; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $9,536,184 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONTrustees for Harvard University: $1,948,353 · EducationTrustees for Harvard UniversityEmory University: $784,750 · EducationEmory University+4 more: $1,244,026 · Education+4 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $2,826,440 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRAN…BOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $1,135,358 · OtherBOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAM…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $495,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $477,613 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER C…THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE: $450,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWEST…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $442,193 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER C…Erasmus University: $220,000 · Other+4 more: $408,000 · Other+4 moreMAYO CLINIC: $1,074,507 · HealthTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $440,000 · HealthTHE FTD DISORDERS REGISTRY LLC: $150,000 · Health+1 more: $47,017 · Health
Education$13,513,313Other$6,454,604Health$1,711,524

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $9,536,184 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTrustees for Harvard University: $1,948,353 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,074,507 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $784,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $449,875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $440,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCornell University: $301,677 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $272,513 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $219,961 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FTD DISORDERS REGISTRY LLC: $150,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $47,017 over 1y, 0.1% 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 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Trustees for Harvard University ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE FTD DISORDERS REGISTRY LLC ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc ↗

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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 The Bluefield Project to Cure Frontotemporal Dementia funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bluefield Project to Cure Frontotemporal Dementia. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Bluefield Project to Cure Frontotemporal Dementia 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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