New York · Nonprofit
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH (New York) receives grants from 1783 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,006,590,771 to it, the largest being SERGEY BRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($651,317,366). 879 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $708M
- Funders on record
- 1,783
- Grants received
- $1.0B
- Net assets
- $304M
What The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research does
Mission
The foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with parkinson's today.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To fund research focused on developing a cure for parkinson's disease.
$551,424,049 spentof which $469,045,222 as grants$552,318 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $551,424,049.
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.
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 $439M to $639M (+46%).
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: 2021 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Deborah W Brooks
Co-founder & CEO
Board chair
Andrew J O'Brien
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 286 funders to 700 funders, grant income rose $13M → $161M.
132 of 1783 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $143k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research). These are real filings, and they are not money THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH raised.
From the IRS filings of THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1783 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
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 25% · 2019 29% · 2020 76% · 2021 81% · 2022 80% · 2023 42% — growing more concentrated.
“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
42% of THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 49 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $181M arriving through sponsors registered in 35 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
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
40%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 40 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Mjff Canada · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH?
- THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH (New York) receives grants from 1783 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,006,590,771 to it, the largest being SERGEY BRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($651,317,366). 879 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH have?
- IRS filings report 1783 organizations giving $1,006,590,771 in grants to THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH, 879 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH?
- SERGEY BRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $651,317,366 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1783 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing