Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL
NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,713,832 to it, the largest being HOPEWILL FOUNDATION INC ($2,710,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Nephcure Kidney International does
Mission
Nephcure Kidney International is the only organization committed exclusively to supporting research seeking the cause of the potentially debilitating kidney disease of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (fsgs) and nephrotic syndrome. The organization is committed to improving treatment and finding a cure for this disease.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research - Nephcure Kidney International is committed to multi-year grants for basic, translational, and clinical scientific research. The purpose of this research is to determine causes of kidney disease, fsgs & nephrotic syndrome that could lead to effective treatmentsclinical trial support - Nephcure Kidney International supportsand facilitates clinical research by actively supporting patient recruitment to address the growing demand of clinical trials.
$2,219,150 spentof which $16,245 as grants43% of program spendingHealth and education - Nephcure Kidney International funds and manages programs to educate patients/families about nephrotic syndrome & fsgs. Nephcure Kidney International also provides education materials (bi-lingual) for physicians and directly to patient families.
$2,942,168 spent57% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,161,318.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.0M to $4.4M (+49%).
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: 2020 9% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Josh Tarnoff
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Irving Smokler
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $848k → $1.1M.
15 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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
NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 64% · 2019 47% · 2020 40% · 2021 42% · 2022 48% · 2023 44% — 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
36% of NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $730k arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL is better cushioned than half of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL: 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 NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL?
- NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,713,832 to it, the largest being HOPEWILL FOUNDATION INC ($2,710,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $6,713,832 in grants to NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL?
- HOPEWILL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,710,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 87 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