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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 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$5.5MEducation$575k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $299,634, the rows itemized in this filing. The $599,634 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $300,000 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.
$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

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:

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

area typical 11%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $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%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $200k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES: $100k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $100k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $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 CA SD: $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%Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $75k → 17%ICHAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $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
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

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

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+64%
+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
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

  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $500k · revenue +76%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    5× · 2018–2023 · $496k · revenue +123%
  • 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
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
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
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
5
University of Miami

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

Education
6
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
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
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
9
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
10
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 25 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Mpn Research Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mpn Research Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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