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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.

$13M
Revenue FY2024
120
Funders on record
$31M
Grants received
$6.3M
Net assets
65/120 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 66%

Against its field

FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE is better cushioned than half of the 4,579 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve3.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.5M) Expenses 100 ($6.8M) Net assets 100 ($4.5M)2018 Revenue 101 ($7.6M) Expenses 103 ($7.0M) Net assets 110 ($5.0M)2019 Revenue 94 ($7.1M) Expenses 110 ($7.5M) Net assets 84 ($3.8M)2020 Revenue 167 ($13M) Expenses 114 ($7.7M) Net assets 192 ($8.7M)2021 Revenue 102 ($7.7M) Expenses 134 ($9.1M) Net assets 159 ($7.2M)2022 Revenue 147 ($11M) Expenses 163 ($11M) Net assets 151 ($6.8M)2023 Revenue 149 ($11M) Expenses 179 ($12M) Net assets 136 ($6.1M)2024 Revenue 174 ($13M) Expenses 195 ($13M) Net assets 138 ($6.3M)
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Revenue (174)Expenses (195)Net assets (138)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,738 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$722k
17
$554k
18
$405k
19
$4.8M
20
$1.4M
21
$90k
22
$998k
23
$142k
24
3.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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.

56%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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.

WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
MD
DE
TN
NC
OK
AL
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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23
Virginia out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 3%Fundraising 3%

Governance

19
board members
89%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
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CO
MO
KY
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VA
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FL

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.

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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