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MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 184 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,104,421 to it, the largest being Richard A Odom Family Foundation % AZ COMMUNITY FDN ($500,000). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$4.1M
Revenue FY2024
184
Funders on record
$2.1M
Grants received
$6.2M
Net assets
84/184 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.4M) Expenses 100 ($7.7M) Net assets 100 ($6.1M)2018 Revenue 123 ($9.1M) Expenses 98 ($7.6M) Net assets 118 ($7.3M)2019 Revenue 118 ($8.7M) Expenses 95 ($7.4M) Net assets 146 ($9.0M)2020 Revenue 71 ($5.2M) Expenses 72 ($5.6M) Net assets 140 ($8.6M)2021 Revenue 77 ($5.6M) Expenses 65 ($5.0M) Net assets 153 ($9.4M)2022 Revenue 47 ($3.5M) Expenses 69 ($5.4M) Net assets 116 ($7.1M)2023 Revenue 66 ($4.8M) Expenses 68 ($5.2M) Net assets 112 ($6.9M)2024 Revenue 56 ($4.1M) Expenses 65 ($5.0M) Net assets 101 ($6.2M)
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Revenue (56)Expenses (65)Net assets (101)

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: 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

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

$340k
17
$1.5M
18
$1.4M
19
$360k
20
$613k
21
$1.9M
22
$414k
23
$943k
24
2.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 43 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $99k → $202k.

18 of 184 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)30% 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 MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 184 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

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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

61% 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 MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC.

24%
largest funder
47%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 20% · 2019 23% · 2020 28% · 2021 74% · 2022 16% · 2023 13%diversifying over time.

“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

21% of MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 33 states in all.

ME
WA
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $623k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 statesis 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 184 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.

Government funding MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $950 on record.

State$950
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $950

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC

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 Florida

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

54% of spending goes to programs.

Program 54%Management 19%Fundraising 27%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 51 states

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC: 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 MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC?
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 184 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,104,421 to it, the largest being Richard A Odom Family Foundation % AZ COMMUNITY FDN ($500,000). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 184 organizations giving $2,104,421 in grants to MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC, 84 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC?
Richard A Odom Family Foundation % AZ COMMUNITY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 184funders 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