Arizona · Nonprofit
ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,500,565 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,121,205). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2017
- $241k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $0
What Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation does
Mission
The Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation is a grassroots, non-profit organization dedicated to funding medical research projects to find a treatment for niemann-pick type c (np-c) disease and related neurodegenerative disorders.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
The Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation's purpose is to promote research that is targeted toward understanding the molecular basis of niemann pick type c (np-c) disease and developing novel therapeutic strategies to treat and/or cure the disease. As np-c disease appears to be caused by a defect in intracellular cholesterol trafficking, these studies should provide fundamental insights into cholesterol homeostasis and as such will also serve to increase understanding of atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction, the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the united states. In the year ended june 30, 2017, the organization awarded research grants to 1 major research university.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 7 funders, grant income fell $60k → $59k.
11 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 48% · 2019 57% · 2020 69% · 2021 37% · 2022 27% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“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
17% of ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
91% of ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $139k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.5M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,524 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2017
Organizations like ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,500,565 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,121,205). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,500,565 in grants to ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,121,205 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 23 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing