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Asn Foundation for Kidney Research
Washington, DC · EIN 45-5090971. Reported 171 grants totalling $11.3M to 53 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Asn Foundation for Kidney Research, the IRS classifies it under medical research rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE H44) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 53 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 68% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $50,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $136,350. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $1,000,162 | 13 | 4 | 2024 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $700,000 | 9 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $610,000 | 9 | 4 | 2024 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN | $500,000 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Hospital Corporation | Boston, MA | $450,000 | 6 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $450,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $427,117 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $410,000 | 6 | 2 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $355,000 | 4 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | $326,129 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | Research Triangle Park, NC | $315,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $310,000 | 7 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $300,000 | 3 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of South Florida | Tampa, FL | $300,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $286,650 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $275,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ut Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas, TX | $264,000 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Childrens Hospital Medical Center | Cincinnati, OH | $250,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $250,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | Boston, MA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $200,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $200,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $170,000 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | Boston, MA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $150,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | Bloomington, IN | $130,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Oregon Health and Science University | Portland, OR | $110,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Temple University-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Educ | Philadelphia, PA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System on Behalf of the | Madison, WI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas City, KS | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Loma Linda University | Loma Linda, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences | Little Rock, AR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wright State University | Dayton, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Augusta University Research Institute Inc | Augusta, GA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Veterans Research and Education Foundation of St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
37 of 53 (70%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 39 of 53 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 47 | $3,055,028 | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 44 | $2,734,729 | $50,000 |
| 2023 | 41 | $2,708,099 | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 39 | $2,821,202 | $50,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
18% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Asn Foundation for Kidney Research's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 39 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1401 H Street Nw 900, Washington, DC, 20005.
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