Indiana · Nonprofit
TRI-STATE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSN
TRI-STATE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSN (Indiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,519 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY ($29,092). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $90k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Tri-State Multiple Sclerosis Assn does
Mission
To assist, serve and inform persons impacted by multiple sclerosis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We have provided educational information to client ms members on issues relating to multiple sclerosis through support groups and speakers. We have assisted in maintaining support groups in the tri-state area of indiana, illinois and kentucky. We have provided financial and medical assistance support for the benefit of ms patients. Provision of a family weekend retreat for ms patients and their families to interact, support and educate. Presented program to ms patients and their families to better partner with physician and nurse provided information on ms symptom management. Adult weekend for ms patients and their caregivers for health benefits, stress reduction and socializing with other ms patients. Mainted nurse to provide symptom management to ms patients, education programs at support group meeting & in-office.
$93,752 spent97% of program spendingWe have provided educational information to client ms members on issues relating to multiple sclerosis through support groups and speakers. We have assisted in maintaining support groups in the tri-state area of indiana, illinois and kentucky. We have provided financial and medical assistance support for the benefit of ms patients. Provision of a family weekend retreat for ms patients and their families to interact, support and educate. Presented program to ms patients and their families to better partner with physician and nurse provided information on ms symptom management. Adult weekend for ms patients and their caregivers for health benefits, stress reduction and socializing with other ms patients. Mainted nurse to provide symptom management to ms patients, education programs at support group meeting & in-office.
$2,740 spent3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $96,492.
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 $1.1M to $952k (−14%).
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.
28% of TRI-STATE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSN’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% 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.
Board chair
Jody Donosky
Chair person
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $600 → $15k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 TRI-STATE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSN’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
TRI-STATE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 TRI-STATE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 59% · 2019 55% · 2020 97% · 2021 80% · 2022 55% · 2023 96% — 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
33% of TRI-STATE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
85% of TRI-STATE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSN'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
TRI-STATE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSN is better cushioned than half of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like TRI-STATE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSN
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
32%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRI-STATE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSN?
- TRI-STATE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSN (Indiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,519 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY ($29,092). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRI-STATE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSN have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $64,519 in grants to TRI-STATE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSN, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRI-STATE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSN?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $29,092 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRI-STATE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 8 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing