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Walter and Jean Boek Global Autoimmune Institute at a glance

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Walter and Jean Boek Global Autoimmune Institute

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.

$964k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$725k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$2.9MPhilanthropy$1.5MReligion$8kInternational$4kCrime & Legal$3kArts & Culture$2kScience & Tech$1kEducation$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $217k
  • $250k+1 grant · $725k
$20,997
Median grant
3
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY$725,000
JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE$217,000
CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER$20,997
ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC$1,026
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC$16
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WIKIMEDIA: $104 → 10%LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY: $725k → 11%CONSUMER REPORTS: $48 → 9%BOBBY JONES CHIARI & SYRINGOMELIA FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE: $15 → 16%CUNY FOUNDATION: $150k → 17%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $600k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $96k → 11%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT: $600k → 7%NORTH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF CELIAC DISEASE (NASSCD): $100 → 7%MCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $100 → 6%WETA RADIO: $60 → 7%CROHN'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON DCVVIRGINIA: $3k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $217k → 19%WIKIPEDIA: $104 → 10%BOBBY JONES CHIARI & SYRINGOMYELIA FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%CROHNS AND COLITIS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $200k → 14%VANGUARD CHARITABLE: $550k → 7%MCLEAN TREES FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%WETA TV: $45 → 7%FRIENDS OF THE ENDOWMENT OF THE DIPLOMATIC RECEPTION ROOMS: $2k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY CO AMY M HELSEL: $300k → 19%WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $16 → 10%BOBBY JONES & CHIARI SYRINGOMYELIA FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $21k → 14%VANGUARD CHARITABLE FUND: $480k → 7%PRS INC: $350 → 6%WETA RADIO: $30 → 7%ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 10%REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 14%VANGUARD CHARITABLE FUND: $450k → 7%THE CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC: $2k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC: $1k → 14%ORDER OF ST JOHN USA PRIORY: $3k → 14%ORDER OF ST JOHN USA PRIORY: $2k → 14%PHILANTHROPIC ROUNDTABLE: $2k → 14%ORDER OF ST JOHN USA PRIORY: $1k → 14%ORDER OF ST JOHN USA PRIORY: $1k → 14%TUDOR PLACE: $1k → 14%ORDER OF ST JOHN USA PRIORY: $1k → 14%TUDOR PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $250 → 14%REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL: $900 → 14%FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL ARBORETUM: $500 → 14%FRIENDS OF THE ENDOWMENT OF THE DIPLOMATIC RECEPTION: $1k → 14%US DEPARTMENT OF STATE: $1k → 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

IL
NY
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 27% of Walter and Jean Boek Global Autoimmune Institute’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Walter and Jean Boek Global Autoimmune Institutelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$846k · 9 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
20

Total granted

$846k
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+26%

Still filing today

56%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $943k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureInternationalEducationPublic Safety & DisasterEnvironmentOther
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

  • CN
    CHILDREN'S NATIONAL
    3× · 2018–2024 · $821k · revenue +38% · 28% of their budget
  • BJ
    BOBBY JONES CHIARI & SYRINGOMYELIA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2023 · $5k · revenue +54%
  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $4k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • VC
    VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $600k
  • JH
    JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY CO AMY M HELSEL
    one grant, 2018 · $300k
  • CF
    CUNY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $150k
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
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
2
Children's Research Institute

Children's research institute dba children's national research institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research and education programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of…

Health
3
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
4
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
5
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
6
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
9
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
10
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
11
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
12
Association of Clinical Research Professionals

Acrp promotes excellence in clinical research. we support clinical research professionals through training and development, the exchange of ideas and expertise, and certification. we serve as the preferred source for quality tools,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mclean Volunteer Fire Dept Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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 34 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY: $725,000 · OtherLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGYVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT: $600,000 · OtherVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENTJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY CO AMY M HELSEL: $300,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY CO AMY M HELSELJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $217,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINECUNY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherCUNY FOUNDATIONWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $96,353 · Other+17 more: $16,716 · OtherVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $1,480,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM+1 more: $2,239 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $820,997 · HealthCHILDREN'S NATIONAL+3 more: $8,600 · HealthCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC: $2,750 · Crime & LegalREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,202 · InternationalFUND FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE DIPLOMATIC RECEPTION ROOMS OF THE DEPT OF STATE: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $45 · Arts & CultureFriends of the National Arboretum: $500 · Environment
Other$2,105,069Philanthropy$1,482,239Health$829,597Crime & Legal$2,750International$2,202Arts & Culture$2,045Environment$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $1,480,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $820,997 over 3y, 28% of budgetLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY: $725,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOBBY JONES CHIARI & SYRINGOMYELIA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $2,239 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,202 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE DIPLOMATIC RECEPTION ROOMS OF THE DEPT OF STATE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC NO CA CHAP: $1,026 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the National Arboretum: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUDOR PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF CELIAC DISEASE: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC: $48 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $45 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $16 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA11.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Walter and Jean Boek Global Autoimmune Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter and Jean Boek Global Autoimmune Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Walter and Jean Boek Global Autoimmune Institute?

    Find your warmest path to Walter and Jean Boek Global Autoimmune 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 34 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-PF 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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