Who are Wings for Life USA - Spinal Cord Research Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: ReNetX ($3.5M), NervGen Pharma Corp ($3.2M), Ohio State University ($1.3M).

Does Wings for Life USA - Spinal Cord Research Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wings for Life USA - Spinal Cord Research Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Trustees of Boston University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Washington University.

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California · Public charity

Wings for Life USA - Spinal Cord Research Foundation Inc

To find a biological cure for spinal cord injuries SCI

$2.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 17
Grants FY2025: 11
Organizations funded FY2024: 27%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $117,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $500,000
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 14; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 8
Total assets, FY2025: $19M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Wings for Life USA - Spinal Cord Research Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	13	$2.7M	8%
FY2024	11	$2.7M	27%
FY2023	12	$5.0M	42%
FY2022	6	$1.0M	33%
FY2021	14	$4.7M	50%
FY2020	4	$459k	25%
FY2019	10	$3.6M	80%
FY2018	5	$924k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$8.9MHealth$7.9MEducation$1.3MYouth Development$684k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
ReNetX	$3,487,458	2	n/a
NervGen Pharma Corp	$3,182,104	1	n/a
Ohio State University	$1,347,050	5	n/a
Children's Hospital Corporation	$1,210,400	8	0%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego	$1,195,392	5	n/a
Sci Ventures LLC	$1,000,000	2	n/a
University of California San Francisco	$752,100	5	n/a
The University of Texas at Dallas Center for Brainhealth	$735,374	1	n/a
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago	$734,560	3	0%
Regents of the University of California at Irvine	$700,000	4	n/a

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All grantees of Wings for Life USA - Spinal Cord Research Foundation Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
ReNetX	$3,487,458	2	n/a
NervGen Pharma Corp	$3,182,104	1	n/a
Ohio State University	$1,347,050	5	n/a
Children's Hospital Corporation	$1,210,400	8	0%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego	$1,195,392	5	n/a
Sci Ventures LLC	$1,000,000	2	n/a
University of California San Francisco	$752,100	5	n/a
The University of Texas at Dallas Center for Brainhealth	$735,374	1	n/a
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago	$734,560	3	0%
Regents of the University of California at Irvine	$700,000	4	n/a
University of Kentucky Research Foundation	$606,000	4	0%
University of Louisville Research Foundation	$548,400	3	0%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$423,700	2	0%
Regents Univ of California	$379,040	2	n/a
Case Western Reserve University	$360,100	2	0%
University of Pittsburgh	$360,000	2	0%
University of Miss Medical Center	$345,000	2	n/a
University of Washington	$339,000	2	n/a
University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc	$333,000	2	0%
Methodist Hospital	$328,400	2	n/a
Trustees of Boston University	$328,400	2	0%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	$290,100	2	0%
Drexel University	$289,500	2	0%
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc	$283,000	1	0%
Clemson University	$274,500	1	n/a
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education	$240,000	1	0%
Axonis Therapeutics Inc	$240,000	1	n/a
Veterans Education and Research Association of Northern New England Inc	$240,000	1	8%
Texas A&M University	$184,400	2	n/a
USC School of Medicine Greenville	$145,200	1	n/a
The Ohio State University	$122,000	1	n/a
Carnegie Mellon University	$40,800	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wings for Life USA - Spinal Cord Research Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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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.

Trustees of Boston UniversityMA13.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trustees of Boston University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Washington University · The Trustees of Columbia University · American Cancer Society Inc · American Heart Association Inc

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.

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About Wings for Life USA - Spinal Cord Research Foundation Inc

How much does Wings for Life USA - Spinal Cord Research Foundation Inc give?: Wings for Life USA - Spinal Cord Research Foundation Inc reported 17 grants totaling $2,035,488 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Wings for Life USA - Spinal Cord Research Foundation Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (47%), Health (42%), Education (7%).
Who are Wings for Life USA - Spinal Cord Research Foundation Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: ReNetX ($3.5M), NervGen Pharma Corp ($3.2M), Ohio State University ($1.3M).
Does Wings for Life USA - Spinal Cord Research Foundation Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wings for Life USA - Spinal Cord Research Foundation Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Trustees of Boston University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Washington University.
Where is Wings for Life USA - Spinal Cord Research Foundation Inc based?: Wings for Life USA - Spinal Cord Research Foundation Inc is based in CA.