New York · Nonprofit
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY (New York) receives grants from 1735 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,405,116 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($26,276,362). 912 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $162M
- Funders on record
- 1,735
- Grants received
- $175M
- Net assets
- $123M
What National Multiple Sclerosis Society does
Mission
We will cure ms while empowering people affected by ms to live their best lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Client and community services (see schedule o)client and community services - the society empowers people affected by ms to solve everyday challenges. We believe that when individuals are informed, connected and supported by loved ones, communities, healthcare providers and the society, they experience an improved quality of life, increased confidence, new connections, and take positive actions toward living their best lives. We achieve this by serving as a trusted source of support, offering educational programs, reliable information, and one-on-one guidance through ms navigators. We also foster connections between people impacted by ms, providing emotional support and a sense of community. In fiscal 2025, ms navigators assisted 22,980 individuals in connecting to critical resources such as ms education and information, healthcare, financial, emotional, and personalized case management support. The society delivered over 96 virtual and in-person educational programs, reaching 1,786 attendees. Programs were made available on demand, allowing an additional 268,996 individuals to engage with the content. Topics included symptom management, treatment options, and wellness strategies.…
$40,872,775 spentof which $277,402 as grants37% of program spendingPublic education (see schedule o)public education - people with ms can better manage their disease when they have the support and understanding of the people around them-from doctors to employers to family members. That's why we work relentlessly to tell the world what it means to live with ms. We educate the public through the society's awareness campaigns, public service announcements, and momentum, which is the society's flagship magazine distributed quarterly to nearly 550,000 people living with ms, healthcare providers, and supporters of the society. We send bimonthly emails with news and information about ms to 700,000 people and more than 5.6 million people visit the society's website each year to access information and support and get involved.in addition, many people get engaged in conversations and learn more about ms via the society's social media, with more than 1.15 million followers.
$33,633,411 spent31% of program spendingResearch and scientific studies (see schedule o)research and scientific studies - in fiscal 2025, the society invested nearly $30 million to support 311 new and ongoing research projects around the world aimed at stopping ms in its tracks, restoring function, and ending the disease forever. The society engaged 100 expert scientific and peer reviewers to evaluate 312 proposals for research grants, fellowships and early career awards, commercial research and development agreements, and targeted research grants. We also engaged 14 lay community reviewers to help the society identify the most promising and appropriate research investments.research priority areas to drive breakthroughs to a cure include: accelerating promising research to empower people affected by ms to live their best lives and advance the pathways to ms cures roadmap, including: stopping disease activity and progression through precision medicine and early detection; restoring what's been lost by reversing symptoms and disability through regeneration and functional recovery enhanced by rehabilitation and wellness; and ending the disease through prevention by limiting exposure to risk factors across the population…
$29,267,742 spentof which $24,394,743 as grants27% of program spendingProfessional education and training - the society wants scientists and healthcare professionals to be aware of and trained in ms so that the very best expertise worldwide is engaged in finding treatments and solutions for everyone with ms. This includes activities and programs designed to improve the knowledge, skills, and critical judgement of scientists, physicians and other healthcare professionals engaged (directly or indirectly) in providing services to people living with ms by keeping them abreast of new diagnostic techniques and therapies. In fiscal 2025, 41 echo-trained clinicians, who provide care for approximately 3,620 people with ms, participated in echo ms, which is a continuing medical education program that establishes a peer-to-peer knowledge sharing network to improve overall health outcomes for individuals with ms. 88% of participants reported that they will be making a change to their clinical practice as a result of the program. As of 2025, the society has funded the training of 285 physicians to become ms specialists who are now providing care for nearly 50,620 people living with ms.
$6,019,245 spentof which $1,911,950 as grants5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $109,793,173.
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 2020 to 2021, from $173M to $201M (+16%).
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: 2017 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 6% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY’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 8 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.
Board chair
Peter Porrino
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 324 funders to 606 funders, grant income rose $6.7M → $26M.
160 of 1735 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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: $577k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest National Multiple Sclerosis Society). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1735 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
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
64% 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 NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 19% · 2019 23% · 2020 33% · 2021 22% · 2022 16% · 2023 19% — 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
39% of NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
55% of NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $79M that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 51 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $96M arriving through sponsors registered in 39 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
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves 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
Government funding NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $754k on record.
- MA$725k
- DE$29k
- OR$868
- VT$235
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 NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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
- Fast Forward LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY?
- NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY (New York) receives grants from 1735 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,405,116 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($26,276,362). 912 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 1735 organizations giving $175,405,116 in grants to NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY, 912 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $26,276,362 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY 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 1735 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