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Meningitis Foundation

Meningitis Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $24,480 to it, the largest being CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC ($24,480). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$24k
Net assets
$1.5M
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Meningitis Foundation does

Mission

Meningitis Foundation is established to as a scientific organization to support research into meningitis and to decrease the burden of meningitis and other infectious diseases conditions worldwide. The organizations mission focuses on infections of both U.S. and global importance for which prevention or current therapies are inadequate.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.

  1. Payment to Infectious Diseases Institute to support HIV-related meningitis clinical trials and related resea. rch activities Support of Platform Trial For Cryptococcal Meningitis PLATFORM-CM. Clinicaltrials.gov NCT06666322

    $426,681 spent$1,454,167 earned by the program
    80% of program spending
  2. Travel for 6 medical researchs to participate in cryptococcal meningiitis research clinical trials testing new antifungal medicines. Travel to HARVEST Trial Tubcerulous Meningitis Consortium meeting in Nijmegen, Netherlands over November 12-14, 2025

    $13,316 spent
    2% of program spending
  3. Information Technology expenses for DFNet clinical trial software to support Single Dose Liposomal Amphotericin for Asymptomatic Cryptococcal Antigenemia ACACIA. Clinicaltrials.gov NCT03945448

    $25,000 spent
    5% of program spending
  4. Program Service Expenses 71,660, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Other Medical Research related expenses

    $71,660 spent
    13% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $536,657.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($259k) Expenses 100 ($203k) Net assets 100 ($120k)2024 Revenue 179 ($464k) Expenses 66 ($133k) Net assets 374 ($451k)2025 Revenue 608 ($1.6M) Expenses 264 ($537k) Net assets 1227 ($1.5M)
202320242025
Revenue (608)Expenses (264)Net assets (1227)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $451k to $1.5M (+228%).

$66k
$451k
$1.5M
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

3% of Meningitis Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$56k
’23
$331k
’24
$1.0M
’25
18
months of
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.

20232024
Listed33
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $8k.

Funder
'21
'22
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of Meningitis Foundation’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.

Where its funders are

Meningitis Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.

MA

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

’21
’22
Minnesota out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Meningitis Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin66% · top quartile
Months of reserve18.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)147% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Meningitis 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 Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Meningitis 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 Meningitis Foundation?
Meningitis Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $24,480 to it, the largest being CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC ($24,480). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Meningitis Foundation have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $24,480 in grants to Meningitis Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Meningitis Foundation?
CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC is the largest funder on record, with $24,480 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Meningitis Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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