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The Stanley Medical Research Institute

To find the cause(s) of and better pharmacological treatments for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

$4.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$2.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$33M
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $3,745,212, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,664,456 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $919,244 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $545k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.2M
$107,392
Median grant
6
States reached
$93M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - RHY$2,564,105
SHEPPARD PRATT$588,013
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE - RB$147,656
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF CALIFORNIA$126,223
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$107,392
THE MCLEAN HOSPITAL CORPORATION$89,197
VANPELT BIOSCIENCES LLC$75,000
AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE$29,547
UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER - SB$18,079
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 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE MCLEAN HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $89k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $161k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $267k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $580k → 11%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $225k → 16%UC REGENTS: $95k → 11%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $148k → 14%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNI CITY OF NY: $115k → 17%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $217k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $163k → 15%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF MICHIGAN: $145k → 14%AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $80k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE - RB: $200k → 6%SHEPPARD PRATT: $683k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - RHY: $2.6M → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $141k → 11%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $95k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $447k → 11%UC REGENTS: $89k → 11%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $126k → 14%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $197k → 14%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF MICHIGAN: $145k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE - RB: $148k → 6%SHEPPARD PRATT: $666k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - RHY: $2.5M → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $99k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $386k → 11%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $114k → 14%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $136k → 14%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF MICHIGAN: $145k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE - RB: $102k → 6%SHEPPARD PRATT: $599k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2.5M → 19%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $189k → 11%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER - SB: $78k → 14%SHEPPARD PRATT: $588k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - RHY: $2.5M → 19%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $121k → 11%WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE: $122k → 8%SHEPPARD PRATT: $574k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2.4M → 19%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $107k → 11%SHEPPARD PRATT: $549k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - RHY: $2.4M → 19%SHEPPARD PRATT: $528k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - RHY: $2.4M → 19%SHEPPARD PRATT: $526k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - RHY: $2.3M → 19%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
CA
MD
OK
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $820k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$798k · 97% · 7 grants

Stated purpose: TREATMENT TRIALS-EARMARKED FOR DR.DAVID · TREATMENT TRIALS-EARMARKED FOR DR.DO · TREATMENT TRIALS-EARMARKED FOR DR.FALKAI

East Asia and the Pacific$22k · 3% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TREATMENT TRIALS-EARMARKED FOR DR. KULKARNI

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33M · 23 repeat orgs$367k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 8 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

23
6

Total granted

$33M
$278k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+70%

Still filing today

39%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k 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
EducationHealthSocial ScienceOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $20M · revenue +64%
  • SP
    SHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +49%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • WR
    WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $122k
  • WR
    WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH
    one grant, 2018 · $54k
  • IC
    INNOVATIVE CLINICAL RESEARCH INC
    one grant, 2017 · $46k
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
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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9
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
10
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
11
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
12
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laureate Institute for Brain Research Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

14 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. 14 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
14/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $19,556,750 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,906,790 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH+6 more: $912,478 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $1,194,678 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYL…THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE: $821,264 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF T…VANPELT BIOSCIENCES LLC: $600,000 · OtherVANPELT BIOSCIENCES…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $435,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIV…REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $411,126 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CAL…UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $400,861 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSA…PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $325,719 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE …UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $306,564 · OtherIndiana University School of Medicine: $302,584 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $282,943 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE: $214,111 · Other+8 more: $516,991 · Other+8 moreSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $4,712,531 · HealthSHEPPARD PRATT H…+3 more: $180,586 · HealthLaureate Institute for Brain Research Inc: $15,749 · Social Science
Education$22,376,018Other$5,811,841Health$4,893,117Social Science$15,749

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 budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $19,556,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $4,712,531 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,906,790 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $277,598 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $276,624 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $181,601 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $148,609 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $107,336 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $53,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $17,390 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $10,656 over 1y, 0.0% 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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds Laureate Institute for Brain Research Inc ↗
  • Who funds Yale 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.

Johns Hopkins Univers…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Johns Hopkins UniversityMD17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Stanley Medical Research Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stanley Medical Research Institute. 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%
  • Laureate Institute for Brain Research Inc: 59% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Stanley Medical Research Institute?

Find your warmest path to The Stanley Medical Research Institute through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 32 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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