Minnesota · Nonprofit
UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS
UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS (Minnesota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $380,176 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($95,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $640k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $380k
- Net assets
- $433k
What Unite 2 Fight Paralysis does
Mission
Educate the public about paralysis through newsletters, outreach projects, website, printed materials. Host an annual educational and advocacy symposium to bring together researchers, clinicians, and the patient community for an exchange of information and strategies to accelerate scientific progress.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Host an educational science & advisory symposium to bring together research scientists, clinicians, investors, and persons living with paralysis for an exchage of information and strategies to accelerate progress toward therapies that will bring treatments to restore function and healthy bodies to people with spinal cord injuries. The conference is unique in its attendee profile and highly valued for the powerful messaging and networking opportunities. We reach approximately 200 attendees through online participatin and thoudsnds more through social media, livestream, and video recordings.
$124,276 spent$152,263 earned by the program30% of program spendingThrough cure advocacy network, educate the public about paralysis and empower people with spinal cord injury to advocate for research that will bring treatments to the clinic. Provide an educational podcast, website, and social media postings and links to information on sci, and tools and support to advocate for state funding or research. Give patients a seat at the decision making table through their presence on review boards for funding. Sponsor wheelchair and running teams in the chicago and twin cities marathons as another avenue for advocacy.
$150,105 spent37% of program spendingOther program services include support for advocacy projects, established workgroups with various stakeholder participation to develop strategies for treatment innovations, communications with individuals who have suffered a spinal cord injury about best options for recovery, consulting and collaborations with other spinal cord organizations, blogs and newsletters that track developments in spinal cord research and resources.
$135,298 spent33% of program spendingFor the last five years, u2fp has been placing individuals with a spinal cord injury ito research labs as lived-in experience consultants. These sci consultants (lab rats) keep reseach labs focused on the practical implications of their goals. Our sci consultants learn about the complex challenges facing research labs and their presence gives researchers real- tie feedback on their targets and priorities.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $409,679.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $435k to $530k (+22%).
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 7% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $40k → $34k.
9 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS’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
UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
87% 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 UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 88% · 2019 45% · 2020 92% · 2021 43% · 2022 31% · 2023 47% — 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
57% of UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
70% of UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS'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 $112k that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $268k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 11 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS: 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 UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS?
- UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS (Minnesota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $380,176 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($95,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $380,176 in grants to UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 17 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