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 1736 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,004,015,123 to it, the largest being SERGEY BRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($651,317,366). 860 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,075 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,075 health nonprofits over $100M, 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.
- The Fine and Greenwald Foundationshared funders
- Medical Research Charities Incportfolio match
- Raymond J Moncini Charitable Foundationportfolio match
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.
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%. 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 286 funders to 700 funders, grant income rose $13M → $161M.
131 of 1736 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 1736 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 80%; 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
43% of THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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. $180M arriving through sponsors registered in 33 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.
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 1736 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Fine and Greenwald Foundationshared fundersFL · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
- Medical Research Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Raymond J Moncini Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sunshine Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- Ann & Gordon Getty Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 61 organizations that share your funders
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 71 organizations that share your funders
- May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- Ploughshares Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- Kpmg US Foundation Incshared fundersNJ · backs 87 organizations that share your funders
- Cornell Universityshared fundersNY · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
- Vanderbilt University Medical Centershared fundersTN · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
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 MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Mjff Canada · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: 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 THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH?
- THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH (New York) receives grants from 1736 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,004,015,123 to it, the largest being SERGEY BRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($651,317,366). 860 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 1736 organizations giving $1,004,015,123 in grants to THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH, 860 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1736funders 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