Texas · Nonprofit
CHAMPIONS OF DISCOVERY
CHAMPIONS OF DISCOVERY (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being ADELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CHAMPIONS OF DISCOVERY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,883 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Michael and Andrea Leven Family Foundationshared funders
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth Associationportfolio match
- Hu Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CHAMPIONS OF DISCOVERY’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
CHAMPIONS OF DISCOVERY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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.
Where its funders are
CHAMPIONS OF DISCOVERY draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Michael and Andrea Leven Family Foundationshared fundersDE · backs 15 organizations that share your funders
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hu Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The American Society of Gene & Cell Therapyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Cancer Research Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Act for Nih Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nesburn Family Foundation Co Anthony B Nesburn Mdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aplastic Anemia & Mds International Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Richard H Yearick Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stella P Holt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kurz Charitable Trust & Foundation 10018300portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dr Miriam & Sheldon G Adelson Medical Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CHAMPIONS OF DISCOVERY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHAMPIONS OF DISCOVERY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHAMPIONS OF DISCOVERY?
- CHAMPIONS OF DISCOVERY (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being ADELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHAMPIONS OF DISCOVERY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $30,000 in grants to CHAMPIONS OF DISCOVERY.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAMPIONS OF DISCOVERY?
- ADELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAMPIONS OF DISCOVERY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing