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THE MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC

THE MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,584,613 to it, the largest being THE RICHARD M SCHULZE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($490,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$2.0M
Revenue FY2024
37
Funders on record
$1.6M
Grants received
$10M
Net assets
22/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%

Against its field

THE MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,110 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin30% · top quartile
Months of reserve29.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,110 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.9M)2018 Revenue 79 ($1.3M) Expenses 68 ($1.5M) Net assets 83 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 130 ($2.1M) Expenses 56 ($1.2M) Net assets 132 ($2.6M)2020 Revenue 347 ($5.6M) Expenses 49 ($1.1M) Net assets 367 ($7.1M)2021 Revenue 189 ($3.0M) Expenses 57 ($1.3M) Net assets 467 ($9.1M)2022 Revenue 106 ($1.7M) Expenses 54 ($1.2M) Net assets 466 ($9.1M)2023 Revenue 96 ($1.5M) Expenses 70 ($1.5M) Net assets 485 ($9.4M)2024 Revenue 126 ($2.0M) Expenses 64 ($1.4M) Net assets 519 ($10M)
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Revenue (126)Expenses (64)Net assets (519)Peer revenue range

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
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2021
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

37% of THE MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,590 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$586k
17
$211k
18
$854k
19
$4.5M
20
$1.8M
21
$503k
22
$15k
23
$615k
24
29
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $161k → $214k.

14 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)57% 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 THE MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

58% 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 THE MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC.

31%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 60% · 2019 47% · 2020 40% · 2021 40% · 2022 60% · 2023 51%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

36% of THE MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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

57% of THE MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC'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 $683k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 15 states.

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

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $902k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 37 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.

Organizations like THE MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH 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 Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 24%Fundraising 10%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

79%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 32 states

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WI
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MA
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CA
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Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH 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 THE MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC?
THE MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,584,613 to it, the largest being THE RICHARD M SCHULZE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($490,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $1,584,613 in grants to THE MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC?
THE RICHARD M SCHULZE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $490,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 37funders 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