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Asn Foundation for Kidney Research
Washington, DC · EIN 45-5090971. Reported 215 grants totalling $14.3M to 57 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, 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. 57 distinct organizations, with 8% 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. 64% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
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 | $1,150,162 | 15 | 5 | 2025 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $875,000 | 13 | 5 | 2025 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $715,000 | 10 | 3 | 2025 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $660,000 | 7 | 3 | 2025 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $640,000 | 10 | 5 | 2025 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $600,000 | 6 | 2 | 2025 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN | $600,000 | 10 | 5 | 2025 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $527,117 | 7 | 5 | 2025 |
| Childrens Hospital Corporation | Boston, MA | $500,000 | 7 | 4 | 2025 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $450,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Hospital Medical Center | Cincinnati, OH | $350,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $333,639 | 8 | 4 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $300,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $300,000 | 6 | 4 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $270,000 | 7 | 4 | 2025 |
| Ut Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas, TX | $264,000 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | Charlestown, MA | $250,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $200,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System on Behalf of the | Madison, WI | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $175,000 | 3 | 2 | 2025 |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | Bloomington, IN | $160,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Oregon Health and Science University | Portland, OR | $160,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $150,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc | Boston, MA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $130,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Trustees of Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | $130,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Childrens Research Institute | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Loma Linda University | Loma Linda, CA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas City, KS | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Bronx, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Broad Institute Inc | Cambridge, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| University of California Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Veterans Research and Education Foundation of St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
45 of 57 (79%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 42 of 57 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 |
| 2025 | 44 | $3,003,639 | $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
17% 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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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 44 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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