Maryland · Nonprofit
AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC
AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 346 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,598,509 to it, the largest being DIALYSIS CLINIC INC ($41,914,049). 200 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $325M
- Funders on record
- 346
- Grants received
- $69M
- Net assets
- $189M
What American Kidney Fund Inc does
Mission
The mission of the american kidney fund is to fight kidney disease and help people live healthier lives. Founded in 1971, akf fights kidney disease on all fronts with a comprehensive scope of programs that support people across the spectrum from disease awareness and prevention through post-transplant living.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Patient assistance: in 2025, we helped more than 73,500 low-income people with kidney failure in all 50 states gain access to lifesaving healthcare, including dialysis and transplant, by providing need-based grants to pay for health insurance premiums, transportation to treatment, prescription medications and nutritional products, and emergency assistance in the wake of natural disasters. With akf's support for health coverage they otherwise could not afford, nearly 1,700 dialysis patients had lifesaving kidney transplants and post-transplant care, representing nearly 6% of all u.s. Kidney transplants performed in 2025. We provided 76 dialysis and post-transplant patients with disaster relief assistance in the wake of floods, and wildfires. With the exception of disaster relief, our grant programs are needs-based and patients must complete a grant application to receive assistance. On average, our grant recipients have total household incomes less than $31,000 per year.
$268,855,777 spentof which $263,568,593 as grants93% of program spendingPublic education, awareness and prevention activities:awareness and prevention35.5 million americans 1 in 7 adults have chronic kidney disease (ckd), and most don't realize they have it. Akf's education programs help individuals identify their risks for ckd and manage ckd, kidney failure and co-morbidities. A hallmark of our awareness-building work was our sixth annual kidney action week, held from march 3-7, 2025. The virtual educational event was streamed through a digital conference platform and simulcasted through akf's facebook and youtube social channels. Approximately 3,000 people preregistered for the event, with more than 150,000 people viewing the combined live and archived sessions throughout the year. We provided prevention and awareness messaging throughout the year on our social media channels, which grew to 245,000 followers in 2025.public educationwe continually enhance our education content and offerings. Our website had more than 12 million views in 2025 from people looking for kidney health information. As part of our web strategy, we continued to enrich our award-winning kidney kitchen website, a comprehensive resource for planning a kidney-friendly diet.…
$19,551,570 spent7% of program spendingResearch: established in 1988, akf's clinical scientist in nephrology program has provided research funding to many of nephrology's brightest scholars. Many former csn fellows have gone on to distinguished careers in the field, conducting groundbreaking research that advances knowledge and treatment of kidney disease. In 2025, akf selected two new fellows: dr. Momen abbasi, from the university of chicago, will be looking to find any variances in kidney mris of patients with varying levels of ckd to look for subtypes or imaging markers; and dr. Api chewcharat, from brigham and women's hospital in boston, who will be looking for circulating inflammation biomarkers in patients after stem-cell transplants.akf took major steps in addressing the problem of unknown causes of kidney disease (uckd) by continuing the implementation of aspects of akf's uckd roadmap. These included the launch of our partnership with the maven project to bring resources and education to primary care professionals in rural settings nationwide, hosting our third rare disease fly-in, and hosting our third, in-person uckd summit on september 12, 2025, bringing together patients, family members, and renal…
$472,855 spentof which $360,000 as grants0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $288,880,202.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $89M to $160M (+79%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Lavarne Burton
President & chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 63 funders to 140 funders, grant income fell $7.0M → $5.7M.
29 of 346 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 346 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 52% · 2019 71% · 2020 54% · 2021 62% · 2022 61% · 2023 70% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
45% of AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 37 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 49 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- American Kidney Fund Service Organization · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC?
- AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 346 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,598,509 to it, the largest being DIALYSIS CLINIC INC ($41,914,049). 200 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 346 organizations giving $68,598,509 in grants to AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC, 200 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC?
- DIALYSIS CLINIC INC is the largest funder on record, with $41,914,049 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 346 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing