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The Mpn Research Foundation

The primary misson of mpn research foundation is to promote, fund and support the most innovative and effective research into the causes, treatments, and potentially the cure for et, pv, and mf.

$600k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$5.5MEducation$575k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $299,634 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $599,634 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $300,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA$100,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL HEMATOLOGY$99,634
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $200k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES: $100k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $100k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $100k → 10%CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $100k → 17%THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $100k → 21%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $100k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $100k → 13%THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $100k → 8%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $100k → 9%University of Illinois at Chicago: $75k → 14%JOHN HOPKINS: $200k → 19%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $200k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES: $100k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $100k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CA SD: $75k → 10%CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $100k → 17%THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $100k → 21%THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $100k → 8%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $75k → 9%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $200k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 19%BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $175k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $75k → 10%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $100k → 21%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $200k → 14%The John Hopkins University: $75k → 19%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $100k → 16%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $200k → 17%THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $100k → 21%Harvard Medical School: $100k → 16%MSK TISSUE BANK: $100k → 17%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $75k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $100k → 14%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL HEMATOLOGY: $100k → 16%ICHAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $200k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $100k → 14%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $75k → 16%ICHAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $100k → 17%ICHAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $75k → 17%Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $75k → 17%BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $100k → 16%BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $100k → 16%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $200k → 16%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $100k → 16%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $100k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
UT
MO
MD
TN
NC

Grants abroad, by region — $300k 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)$300k · 100% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: MPN RESEARCH

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.8M · 17 repeat orgs$525k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
4

Total granted

$4.8M
$425k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+222%

Still filing today

65%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $500k · revenue +76%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    5× · 2018–2023 · $496k · revenue +98%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    5× · 2017–2022 · $475k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • WM
    Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +59%
  • TB
    THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2017 · $75k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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
3
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
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
University of Miami

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

Education
6
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
7
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
8
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
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
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
11
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
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 64 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%75%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%78%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
1/25
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,540

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
17/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $500,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $475,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $400,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $375,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYYale University — $200,000 · EducationYale UniversityTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $200,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JU…University of Chicago — $200,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoNew York University — $200,000 · EducationNew York UniversityMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $349,634 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE — $275,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIF…FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $250,000 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CE…Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers — $200,000 · OtherWeill Medical College of Cornell U…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTATRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $200,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CH…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — $75,000 · Other+1 more — $20,668 · OtherDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $496,250 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Ins…CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER — $200,000 · HealthCITY OF HOPE NATIONAL …Children's Hospital Corporation — $200,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Co…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $185,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERI…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $100,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RES…NEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC — $50,000 · HealthNorthwestern University — $425,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$2,550,000Other$1,870,302Health$1,231,250Recreation & Sports$425,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $500,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $496,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $475,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $425,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $400,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $375,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $185,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Mpn Research Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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