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The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
45
Grants FY2024
27
Organizations funded FY2023
59%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$75,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$110,310
Organizations funded a year
22 to 36
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
17
Total assets, FY2024
$20k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 59% of the organizations The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthScience & TechRecreation & SportsOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving26$2.9M35%
FY202327$2.6M59%
FY202226$2.6M38%
FY202125$2.6M40%
FY202022$2.6M32%
FY201930$2.8M100%
FY201836$3.1Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$10MEducation$6.7MScience & Tech$4.9MRecreation & Sports$210kFood & Nutrition$75kCommunity Improvement$75k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
MD
NM
TN
NC
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New York University$675,00050%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$600,00040%
California Institute of Technology$516,50040%
Northwestern University$510,31040%
Johns Hopkins University$462,11250%
University of California San Francisco$450,0003n/a
University of Michigan$449,913346%
Baylor College of Medicine$375,00040%
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies$316,50040%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$300,00030%
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New York University$675,00050%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$600,00040%
California Institute of Technology$516,50040%
Northwestern University$510,31040%
Johns Hopkins University$462,11250%
University of California San Francisco$450,0003n/a
University of Michigan$449,913346%
Baylor College of Medicine$375,00040%
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies$316,50040%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$300,00030%
Trustees of Boston University$250,00030%
University of Washington$250,0003n/a
University of Utah$250,0002n/a
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory$225,00030%
Van Andel Research Institute$225,00030%
Syracuse University$216,50030%
Yale University$200,0002n/a
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center$200,0002n/a
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$200,0002n/a
Marquette University$200,00020%
The Scripps Research Institute$150,00010%
Max Planck Florida Corporation$150,00020%
Children's Hospital Corporation$100,00010%
Carnegie Mellon University$100,00010%
Duke University$100,00010%
Regents of the University of Michigan$100,0001n/a
The Trustees of Princeton University$75,00010%
University of Florida$75,0001n/a
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research$75,00010%
Washington University$75,00010%
Regents of the University of Colorado$16,5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 87 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York University: $675,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $600,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Institute of Technology: $516,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $510,310 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $462,112 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $449,913 over 3y, 46% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $375,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $316,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCold Spring Harbor Laboratory: $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVan Andel Research Institute: $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSyracuse University: $216,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Scripps Research Institute: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMax Planck Florida Corporation: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDuke University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWashington University: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 22.

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About The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience

How much does The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience give?
The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience reported 45 grants totaling $3,359,310 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (46%), Education (30%), Science & Tech (22%).
Who are The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: New York University ($675k), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ($600k), California Institute of Technology ($517k).
Does The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience based?
The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience is based in MN.

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 123 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-PF 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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