· Private foundation
The Richard Stravitz Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $715k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Emory University Hospital | $580,000 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | $500,000 |
| R Packard Center for ALS Research | $150,000 |
| UCL Queen Square Inst of Neurology | $120,000 |
| Northeast ALS Consortium | $100,000 |
| University of Michigan | $85,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders USA Inc | $85,000 |
| ALS Association | $75,000 |
| Team Gleason Foundation | $50,000 |
| Brain Cancer Research Institute | $50,000 |
| Hospital for Special Surgery | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| ALS Therapy Development Institute | $20,000 |
| Hope Loves Company | $15,000 |
| Les Turner Foundation | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +85% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $570k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $206k · revenue +98%- UOUniversity of Michigan4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +96%
- ALAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN4× · 2020–2023 · $165k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- ESEmory School of Medicineone grant, 2017 · $190k
- VGVIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -53%
- AFAASLD Foundationsone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Leading the fight to treat and cure ALS through global research and nationwide advocacy while also empowering people with Lou Gehrig's disease and their families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support.
To discover treatments and a cure for als, and to serve, advocate for, and empower people affected by als to live their lives to the fullest.
The amyotrophic lateral sclerosis association's mission is to raise money to assist in finding a cure for als and to improve the lifestyle of those who have als.
Leading the fight to treat and cure als through global research and nationwide advocacy while also empowering people with lou gehrig's disease and their families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support.
AxeALS was founded to raise awareness and funding for patient-centered treatment and cure of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
NextGen ALS is entirely committed to raising funds for targeted research toward developing treatments and cures for genetic forms of ALS.
Organization's mission or most significant activities are to provide long-term support to 1) basic and clinical research programs leading to a cure, 2) clinical centers of excellence for the care and treatment of patients with ALS, 3)…
Founded by Augie Nieto, Augies Quest to Cure ALS is the unwavering force driving breakthroughs in ALS research, defying limitations, and empowering hope for a future without this devastating disease.
To assist people with ALS and their families by providing compassionate care and support, and to support research efforts.
The mission of the lvh foundation is to provide funding to endow a professorship of als at duke university - not only to help those today with als, but more importantly to fund a cure for als in the future.
To find cure for adssl1 and offer hope and provide a brighter future to children affected with adenylosuccinate lyase (adsl) deficiency
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Als One Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 47 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DEKALB MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH EAST ALS CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds BRAIN CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Loves Company Inc ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ALS INC ↗
- Who funds TARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALS ONE INC ↗
- Who funds HOP ON A CURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Compassionate Care ALS Inc ↗
- Who funds ANSWER ALS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Leandro P Rizzuto Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · AbbVie Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Richard Stravitz 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.
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Als One Inc — 1% of income from government
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.