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FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE
FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE (Virginia) receives grants from 120 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,345,850 to it, the largest being THE CHRISTINA FOUNDATION ($17,461,084). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE is better cushioned than half of the 4,579 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,579 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared funders
- The Morris I Franco Foundationportfolio match
- Diana S Simberloff Charitable 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.
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: 2020 1% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $4.2M.
31 of 120 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 120 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
FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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
38% 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 FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 77% · 2019 63% · 2020 89% · 2021 63% · 2022 54% · 2023 77% — 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
34% of FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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.
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. Your 120 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 186 organizations that share your funders
- The Morris I Franco Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Diana S Simberloff Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dr A Everett and Ruth E Rosen Foundation Inc c/o Dr Rosenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beyourpossible Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Irby N & Marion H Taylor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gross Family Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Feuerring Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lawrence & Elizabeth Krulik Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Richard H Yearick Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Global Genesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Health First - America's Charitiesportfolio 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 FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Stichting Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance Europe · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: 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 FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE?
- FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE (Virginia) receives grants from 120 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,345,850 to it, the largest being THE CHRISTINA FOUNDATION ($17,461,084). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 120 organizations giving $31,345,850 in grants to FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE?
- THE CHRISTINA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,461,084 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 120funders 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