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THE MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC

THE MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC (New York) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,614,652 to it, the largest being THE CURE STARTS NOW INC ($279,166). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$475k
Revenue FY2024
39
Funders on record
$1.6M
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
22/39 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%

Against its field

THE MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,726 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−51% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve21.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−14% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,726 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 86 ($1.2M) Expenses 92 ($1.2M) Net assets 94 ($977k)2019 Revenue 126 ($1.7M) Expenses 91 ($1.2M) Net assets 146 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 129 ($1.8M) Expenses 106 ($1.4M) Net assets 177 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 107 ($1.5M) Expenses 95 ($1.3M) Net assets 198 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 89 ($1.2M) Expenses 97 ($1.3M) Net assets 192 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 35 ($475k) Expenses 54 ($718k) Net assets 197 ($2.0M)
2017201820192020202120222024
Revenue (35)Expenses (54)Net assets (197)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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

71% of THE MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,844 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$39k
17
$55k
18
$514k
19
$359k
20
$198k
21
$68k
22
$243k
24
21
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $111k → $140k.

11 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)43% 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 MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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

73% 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 MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC.

17%
largest funder
42%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 29% · 2019 52% · 2020 52% · 2021 17% · 2022 21% · 2023 36%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

27% of THE MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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

THE MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 15 states in all.

MN
MI
NY
MA
NV
WY
IA
OH
NJ
CT
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL

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

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $699k 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 39 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 MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION 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 New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 11%Fundraising 2%

Governance

18
board members
94%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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 7 states

MN
IL
NY
NV
PA
NJ
UT

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION 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 MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC?
THE MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC (New York) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,614,652 to it, the largest being THE CURE STARTS NOW INC ($279,166). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC have?
IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,614,652 in grants to THE MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC?
THE CURE STARTS NOW INC is the largest funder on record, with $279,166 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC 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 39funders 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