New York · Nonprofit
BREAKTHROUGH T1D
BREAKTHROUGH T1D (New York) receives grants from 2548 organizations whose IRS filings report $326,645,968 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($52,130,546). 1294 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $302M
- Funders on record
- 2,548
- Grants received
- $327M
- Net assets
- $351M
What Breakthrough T1d does
Mission
Breakthrough T1d is the leading global t1d organization working to accelerate life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat t1d and its complications.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research funding -- for the year ended june 30, 2025, Breakthrough T1d (formerly jdrf) directly funded research grants and industry agreements for which $121.1 million in research grant expense, net was recognized according to gaap in addition to $15.5 million of programmatic research investments that are recorded on Breakthrough T1d's balance sheet. For an expanded description of program service activities related to direct research funding, see schedule o.
$121,747,047 spentof which $121,747,047 as grants58% of program spendingPublic education -- Breakthrough T1d (formerly jdrf) educates the community about type 1 diabetes (t1d) and its complications and provides support services and resources to diagnosed children and adults, their families, and others. For an expanded description of program service activities related to public education and outreach, see schedule o.
$59,332,584 spent28% of program spendingResearch support -- Breakthrough T1d (formerly jdrf) maintains an in-house team of skilled scientific, medical, policy, and government relations professionals who play a critical role in leading and supporting the evaluation of research funding opportunities by Breakthrough T1d and influencing research direction and the disbursement of research funds from others. These professionals also work with regulatory and policy officials to ensure that research can proceed without delay and results are understood by healthcare decision makers. For an expanded description of program service activities related to research support, see schedule o.
$29,460,942 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $210,540,573.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $268M to $361M (+35%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of BREAKTHROUGH T1D’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Aaron Kowalski
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 708 funders to 735 funders, grant income rose $18M → $57M.
208 of 2548 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 BREAKTHROUGH T1D’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 2548 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
BREAKTHROUGH T1D has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
75% 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 BREAKTHROUGH T1D.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 15% · 2018 31% · 2019 18% · 2020 14% · 2021 13% · 2022 17% · 2023 14% — broadly stable.
“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
39% of BREAKTHROUGH T1D's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
66% of BREAKTHROUGH T1D'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 $112M that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 48 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $215M arriving through sponsors registered in 38 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
BREAKTHROUGH T1D runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding BREAKTHROUGH T1D receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- TRUST FUND$2k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BREAKTHROUGH T1D
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 50 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- T1d Fund a Breakthrough T1d Venture LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BREAKTHROUGH T1D: 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 BREAKTHROUGH T1D?
- BREAKTHROUGH T1D (New York) receives grants from 2548 organizations whose IRS filings report $326,645,968 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($52,130,546). 1294 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BREAKTHROUGH T1D have?
- IRS filings report 2548 organizations giving $326,645,968 in grants to BREAKTHROUGH T1D, 1294 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BREAKTHROUGH T1D?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $52,130,546 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BREAKTHROUGH T1D find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2548 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