How much does The Brain Foundation give?

The Brain Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $897,178 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does The Brain Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (98%), Education (2%).

Who are The Brain Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: University of California Davis ($594k), Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ($220k), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ($198k).

Does The Brain Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is The Brain Foundation based?

The Brain Foundation is based in CA.

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The Brain Foundation

THE BRAIN FOUNDATION is organized and operated exclusively for educational, public, charitable, and scientific purposes. The specific purpose of THE BRAIN FOUNDATION is to educate the public and promote medical scientific research in the area of neurological disorders, including the biology of neuro-immune, gastro-intestinal, metabolic…

$897k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 11
Grants FY2024: 5
Organizations funded FY2023: 60%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $89,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $140,000
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 11; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 8
Total assets, FY2024: $2.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations The Brain Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $360k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthPhilanthropyOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	10	$807k	100%
FY2023	5	$715k	60%
FY2022	11	$794k	27%
FY2021	10	$756k	50%
FY2020	4	$100k	25%
FY2019	6	$165k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$3.9MEducation$90k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of California Davis	$593,900	5	n/a
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation	$220,000	3	0%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$197,646	2	0%
The Scripps Research Institute	$185,000	2	0%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$166,100	2	n/a
California Institute of Technology	$140,000	3	0%
Unversity of Oklahoma	$135,000	1	n/a
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System	$135,000	1	n/a
The Star Center Foundation Dba Star Institute for Sensory Processing	$128,750	2	4%
Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc	$115,000	2	0%

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All grantees of The Brain Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of California Davis	$593,900	5	n/a
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation	$220,000	3	0%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$197,646	2	0%
The Scripps Research Institute	$185,000	2	0%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$166,100	2	n/a
California Institute of Technology	$140,000	3	0%
Unversity of Oklahoma	$135,000	1	n/a
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System	$135,000	1	n/a
The Star Center Foundation Dba Star Institute for Sensory Processing	$128,750	2	4%
Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc	$115,000	2	0%
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center	$100,000	1	0%
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York	$92,816	2	0%
Autism Discovery and Treatment Foundation Inc	$90,000	1	14%
University of Miami	$90,000	1	0%
St Peter's Foundation	$85,000	4	1%
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University	$70,000	2	0%
American Friends of the University of Calgary Inc	$30,000	1	25%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	$25,000	1	0%
Uc San Diego Foundation	$20,000	1	0%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($717k), not named here.

The Brain Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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About The Brain Foundation

How much does The Brain Foundation give?: The Brain Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $897,178 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Brain Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (98%), Education (2%).
Who are The Brain Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: University of California Davis ($594k), Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ($220k), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ($198k).
Does The Brain Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is The Brain Foundation based?: The Brain Foundation is based in CA.