California · Nonprofit
CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,594,869 to it, the largest being MAGISTRO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,580,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $9.6M
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Cystinosis Research Foundation does
Mission
CRF is committed to finding a cure through an aggressively funded research agenda. CRF awards research grants bi-annually to accelerate the research process and to ensure that there is never a gap in funding new, cutting-edge research projects. CRF is dedicated to improving the quality of life for cystinosis patients and to finding better treatments, including a cure, for our adults and children living with cystinosis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
EDUCATIONThe Cystinosis Research Foundation is dedicated to educating the cystinosis community, the public and the medical community about cystinosis to ensure early diagnosis and immediate and proper treatment.NATALIES WISHNatalies wish, To have my disease go away forever, was the driving force and inspiration that led to the establishment of the Cystinosis Research Foundation (CRF) in 2003. We knew at that moment that we needed to make every effort to make Natalies wish and the wish of others with cystinosis a reality.HISTORY AND RESEARCHCystinosis is a rare, metabolic, genetic disease that afflicts approximately 2,500 children and adults worldwide. CRF is increasingly focused on funding clinical and translational research which is crucial to finding new treatments and a cure for cystinosis. CRF is committed to prioritizing and aggressively supporting research that has the potential to significantly improve the quality of life for children and adults with cystinosis. RESEARCH GIVES US HOPEWe firmly believe that funding and supporting research gives our community hope for a brighter future for those living with cystinosis. Hope allows us to live with cystinosis until the day a…
$3,072,586 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,072,586.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $9.1M to $9.7M (+6%).
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.
77% of CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Nancy J Stack
Chair - trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 19 funders, grant income fell $1.0M → $712k.
17 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
47% 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 CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 49% · 2019 35% · 2020 27% · 2021 30% · 2022 34% · 2023 40% — 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
40% of CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CYSTINOSIS 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 CYSTINOSIS 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 CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,594,869 to it, the largest being MAGISTRO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,580,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $9,594,869 in grants to CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- MAGISTRO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,580,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 58 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