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The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

The foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with parkinson's today.

$469M
Granted FY2025still arriving
149
Grants FY2025still arriving
34
States reached
$17M
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 2024.

Health$855M
02FY2025 · 149 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 149 grants below total $201,501,047, the rows itemized in this filing. The $469,045,222 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $267,544,175 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k35 grants · $4.5M
  • $250k+103 grants · $197M
$425,905
Median grant
34
States reached
$639M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIANA UNIVERSITY$16,649,309
GREENPHIRE$12,709,888
SB TECHNOLOGY INC$12,094,918
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$7,602,000
CASMA THERAPEUTICS$6,723,424
SKIP INNOVATIONS INC$6,329,612
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$5,309,314
XINGIMAGING LLC$5,010,510
THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC$4,824,668
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$4,696,688
VERILY LIFE SCIENCES$4,577,504
PSOMAGEN INC$4,171,009
YALE UNIVERSITY$4,041,669
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$3,924,051
ALAMAR BIOSCIENCES$3,604,575
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 (FY23–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SANDBOX AQ: $1.5M → 8%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CAREGIVING: $75k → 14%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

ME
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $129M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 40 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

United Kingdom$51M · 39% · 21 grants

Stated purpose: PARKINSON'S RESEARCH

North America (Canada and Mexico)$19M · 15% · 16 grants

Stated purpose: PARKINSON'S RESEARCH

Germany$16M · 12% · 23 grants

Stated purpose: PARKINSON'S RESEARCH

Belgium$7.1M · 6% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: PARKINSON'S RESEARCH

France$5.8M · 5% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: PARKINSON'S RESEARCH

Netherlands$5.5M · 4% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: PARKINSON'S RESEARCH

Sweden$4.9M · 4% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: PARKINSON'S RESEARCH

Spain$2.9M · 2% · 8 grants

Stated purpose: PARKINSON'S RESEARCH

Italy$2.7M · 2% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: PARKINSON'S 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$851M · 219 repeat orgs$106M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

219 repeat relationships: 101 still active in FY2025, 118 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

219
148

Total granted

$851M
$68M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+13%

Still filing today

32%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationScience & TechHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $67M · revenue +527% · 96% of their budget
  • Northwestern University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $35M · revenue +41%
  • PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $29M · revenue +177% · 38% of their budget

Funded once

  • G
    GREENPHIRE
    one grant, 2023 · $9.1M
  • CL
    CND LIFE SCIENCES
    one grant, 2024 · $4.1M
  • RF
    RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3.0M · revenue +4%
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
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
4
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
5
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
6
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
7
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
8
The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research

The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.

Education
9
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
10
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Biotech Connection - Bay Area 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

115 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. 115 of the 416 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/115
Grantees still filing
94/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Indiana University School of Medicine: $55,689,160 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineGREENPHIRE: $50,731,949 · OtherGREENPHIREALKAHEST: $27,393,097 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $22,027,690 · Other+135 more: $468,245,510 · Other+135 moreYale University: $36,745,811 · EducationYale UniversityUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $20,570,364 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBU…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $18,219,475 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $18,077,033 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $14,461,849 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHER…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $13,460,864 · EducationPresident and Fellows…Emory University: $10,314,508 · EducationEmory UniversityTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10,301,066 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVE…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $7,577,171 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $7,204,929 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $6,431,973 · Education+14 more: $24,625,734 · Education+14 moreINSTITUTE FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS: $66,705,244 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR NEUR…PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $28,947,135 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDA…THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $8,174,558 · HealthTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $7,223,401 · HealthFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $5,686,135 · Health+26 more: $45,292,862 · Health+26 moreNorthwestern University: $35,297,255 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION: $1,229,638 · Science & TechResearch Triangle Institute: $781,753 · Science & TechTHE SANDBOX GROUP INC: $1,500,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $543,061 · Social Science
Other$624,087,406Education$187,990,777Health$162,029,335Recreation & Sports$35,297,255Science & Tech$2,011,391Human Services$1,500,000Social Science$543,061

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetINSTITUTE FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS: $66,705,244 over 9y, 96% of budgetYale University: $36,745,811 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwestern University: $35,297,255 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $28,947,135 over 7y, 38% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $20,570,364 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $18,219,475 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $18,077,033 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $14,461,849 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $13,460,864 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $10,314,508 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10,301,066 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $8,174,558 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $7,577,171 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $7,223,401 over 4y, 14% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $7,204,929 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $6,752,085 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $6,431,973 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $5,686,135 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $5,477,183 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $5,153,735 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $4,069,827 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $3,831,867 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCRITICAL PATH INSTITUTE: $3,543,137 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $3,222,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $3,138,307 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $3,129,740 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $2,999,909 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,948,047 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $2,544,294 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,420,745 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $2,385,983 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2,181,384 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH: $1,832,145 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,687,485 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,624,514 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOHEN VETERANS BIOSCIENCE INC: $1,412,315 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $1,258,434 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,258,359 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION: $1,229,638 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBanner Health: $1,131,106 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,077,332 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $985,753 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $912,975 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $894,599 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetGEORGIA TECH APPLIED RESEARCH CORPORATION: $883,564 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $831,518 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PARKINSON AND MOVEMENT DISORDER SOCIETY INC: $809,876 over 5y, 1.3% 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 INSTITUTE FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Alzheimer's Disease &…Yale UniversityNorthwestern Universi…Amyotrophic Lateral S…Parkinson's Foundatio…The Trustees of Colum…Vanderbilt University…Washington UniversityThe Children's Hospit…Mayo ClinicJohns Hopkins Univers…Cystic Fibrosis Found…
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association IncIL34.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc · Yale University · Northwestern University · Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn · Parkinson's Foundation Inc · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Washington University · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Mayo Clinic · Johns Hopkins University · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

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 Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Digital Medicine Society Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report 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 416 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$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