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The Chest Foundation

The CHEST Foundation champions lung health by supporting clinical research, community service and patient education.

$801k
Granted FY2022
19
Grants FY2022
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States reached
$68k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2022.

Health$3.4MEducation$222kScience & Tech$55kCivil Rights$50kCommunity Improvement$30kEnvironment$15kHousing & Shelter$15kHuman Services$15k
02FY2022 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $594,505, the rows itemized in this filing. The $800,505 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $206,000 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 · FY2022

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $325k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $270k
$30,000
Median grant
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States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Thoracic Society$67,667
American Thoracic Society$51,838
Columbia University$50,000
Houston Methodist Hospital$50,000
University of Virginia School of Medicine$50,000
Case Western$30,000
Brigham and Women's Hospital$30,000
University of Kansas Medical Center$30,000
Harvard Medical School$30,000
NYU Grossman School of Medicine$30,000
NYU Grossman School of Medicine$30,000
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center$30,000
University of Rochester$30,000
NYU Grossman School of Medicine$20,000
Team Telomere Inc$15,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The JUDAHH Project: $15k → 12%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
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
NC
SC
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 23 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2022, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
38

Total granted

$2.4M
$963k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+41%

Still filing today

52%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
HealthEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • NY
    New York University
    3× · 2019–2022 · $141k · revenue +51%
  • AT
    AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $140k · revenue +30%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2018–2021 · $135k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR SARCOIDOSIS RESEARCHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $69k · revenue +541%
  • PF
    PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $62k · revenue +9%
  • NC
    Nationwide Children's Hospital Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +563%
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
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
2
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
3
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
4
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
5
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
6
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
7
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
8
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
9
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
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montefiore Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is The Judahh Project. 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

48 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. 48 of the 69 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
41/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $287,500 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDMETHODIST HOSPITAL: $275,000 · OtherMETHODIST HOSPITALALLERGY AND ASTHMA NETWORK - MOTHERS OF ASTHMATICS INC: $128,900 · OtherALLERGY AND ASTHMA NETWORK - MOTHERS OF ASTHMATICS INCREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $125,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $120,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $105,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $100,000 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INCUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $86,680 · OtherVCUVCU HEALTH CAMPUS: $75,000 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $65,000 · Other+15 more: $447,458 · Other+15 moreNew York University: $141,000 · EducationNew York UniversityAMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY INC: $139,505 · EducationAMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY INCJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $135,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $110,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $82,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVER…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $59,929 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FR…Yale University: $55,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $50,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $40,000 · Education+7 more: $151,526 · Education+7 moreMAYO CLINIC: $130,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $75,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS …PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $62,292 · HealthPULMONARY FIBROSIS FO…BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $60,680 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER…Nationwide Children's Hospital Inc: $50,000 · HealthNationwide Children's…Rhode Island Hospital: $37,500 · HealthDENVER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $30,000 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $30,000 · HealthMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $29,000 · HealthUPMC PINNACLE HOSPITALS: $25,000 · Health+13 more: $187,818 · Health+13 moreNorthwestern University: $101,000 · Recreation & SportsFOUNDATION FOR SARCOIDOSIS RESEARCH: $69,000 · PhilanthropyVITAL STRATEGIES INC: $45,000 · InternationalNORTHWELL HEALTH INC: $15,998 · Community Improvement
Other$1,815,538Education$1,044,460Health$717,290Recreation & Sports$101,000Philanthropy$69,000International$45,000Community Improvement$15,998

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York University: $141,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY INC: $139,505 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $135,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $130,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLERGY AND ASTHMA NETWORK - MOTHERS OF ASTHMATICS INC: $128,900 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $101,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $82,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SARCOIDOSIS RESEARCH: $69,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $62,292 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $60,680 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $59,929 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVITAL STRATEGIES INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Hospital: $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $29,996 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $29,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPMC PINNACLE HOSPITALS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Miriam Hospital: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor University Medical Center: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER FLORIDA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI PHYSICIANS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIPEDISEASESFOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetTeam Telomere Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGWINNETT HOSPITAL SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNational Medical Association: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreathe Southern California: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe JUDAHH Project: $15,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $14,998 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $10,320 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR RESPIRATORY EQUITY: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

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.

Johns Hopkins Univers…Vanderbilt University…Mayo ClinicWashington UniversityYale UniversityAmerican Heart Associ…Silicon Valley Commun…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
Johns Hopkins UniversityMD16.2× affinity6 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 · Washington University · Yale University · American Heart Association Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Chest Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chest Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Connecticut Children's Medical Center: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report 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
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.

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 69 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home