Rheumatology Research Foundation
Atlanta, GA · EIN 58-1654301. Reported 762 grants totalling $58.0M to 153 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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 Rheumatology Research Foundation, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in medical research -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE H110).
- How spread out its giving is. 153 distinct organizations, with 6% 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. 70% 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 $30,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $788,724. 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 | $3,725,568 | 27 | 5 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $3,283,153 | 28 | 5 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $2,194,951 | 19 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | $2,134,281 | 22 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $2,086,288 | 28 | 5 | 2024 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $2,029,190 | 24 | 5 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $2,023,482 | 22 | 5 | 2024 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $2,021,943 | 23 | 5 | 2024 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $1,996,791 | 25 | 5 | 2024 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $1,546,045 | 29 | 5 | 2024 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | Lincoln, NE | $1,478,000 | 21 | 5 | 2024 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $1,421,999 | 14 | 5 | 2024 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $1,327,193 | 20 | 5 | 2024 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $1,301,942 | 11 | 5 | 2024 |
| New York Society for the Relief of Ruptured & Crippled Maintaining | New York, NY | $1,215,500 | 12 | 5 | 2024 |
| American College of Rheumatology | Atlanta, GA | $1,100,623 | 10 | 5 | 2024 |
| Childrens Hospital Corporation | Boston, MA | $1,099,999 | 12 | 5 | 2024 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $1,003,768 | 10 | 5 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $956,499 | 26 | 5 | 2024 |
| The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | Houston, TX | $874,481 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc | Boston, MA | $852,777 | 11 | 5 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $850,000 | 8 | 5 | 2024 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $796,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $755,000 | 12 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas, TX | $728,000 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $715,681 | 12 | 5 | 2024 |
| Oregon Health & Science University | Portland, OR | $675,000 | 8 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of California Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $654,000 | 9 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $594,989 | 9 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $554,638 | 6 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $530,000 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX | $525,670 | 9 | 5 | 2024 |
| Good Samaritan Foundation | Portland, OR | $520,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Arizona | Tucson | $501,000 | 5 | 2 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $425,000 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN | $410,000 | 10 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | $407,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Childrens Hospital Medical Center | Cincinnati, OH | $401,500 | 11 | 5 | 2024 |
| Philadelphia University | Philadelphia, PA | $400,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $400,000 | 8 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $400,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| George Washington University | Ashburn, VA | $399,999 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Attune Health Research Inc | Beverly Hills, CA | $399,584 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $384,888 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $375,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | $351,000 | 6 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $350,000 | 4 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Independence, OH | $343,839 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | Charlestown, MA | $323,000 | 9 | 5 | 2024 |
| Childrens Research Institute | Washington, DC | $317,904 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rush University Medical Center | Chicago, IL | $300,400 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $275,000 | 5 | 2 | 2021 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Rush University Medical Center | Chicago, IL | $250,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Washington Foundation | Seattle, WA | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc | Charleston, SC | $241,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Hospital Pittsburgh Foundation | Pittsburgh, PA | $225,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $215,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Seattle Childrens Hospital | Seattle, WA | $213,274 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Board of Regents of University of Wisconsin System | Madison, WI | $200,993 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Hospital Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $200,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ohio University | Athens, OH | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Umass Medical School Bursar's Office | Worcester | $200,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell University | New York, NY | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Berkshire Medical Center Inc | Pittsfield, MA | $197,262 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Oklahoma Hlth Sciences Center | $181,762 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $180,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Augusta University Research Institute Inc | Augusta, GA | $176,498 | 5 | 2 | 2024 |
| Thomas Jefferson University | Philadelphia, PA | $175,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Louis University | Saint Louis, MO | $171,435 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research | Westbury, NY | $164,932 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Indiana University | Detroit, MI | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Maryland Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | Houston, TX | $140,739 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Upmc | Pittsburgh, PA | $140,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $128,994 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport | Shreveport | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Seattle Childrens Foundation | Seattle, WA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research | Seattle, WA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason | Seattle, WA | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Broad Institute Inc | Cambridge, MA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Idaho Arthritis Center | Meridian | $75,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Bronx, NY | $74,998 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The University of Tennessee | Memphis, TN | $50,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hackensack Meridian Health Inc | Edison, NJ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Larkin Community Hospital Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Montefiore Medical Center | Bronx, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northshore University Healthsystem | Arlington Hts, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ochsner Clinic Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ochsner LSU Health System of North Louisiana | Shreveport, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rheumatology Associates Pc | Bettendorf, IA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rheumatology Solutions Pllc | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| The Nemours Foundation | Jacksonville, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Tennessee Health Science Center | Memphis, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle, WA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Lexington, KY | $49,172 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Healthpartners Institute | Minneapolis, MN | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Pennsylvania State University | Hershey, PA | $39,523 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| New York University School of Medicine | Boston, MA | $37,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Empowered Arthritis & Rheumatology | Cary, NC | $26,050 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Advanced Rheumatology of Houston | The Woodlands, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Allergy Arts | Amarillo, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arthritis Consultants of Tidewater | Virginia Beacj, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Asheville Arthritis and Osteoporosis Center Pa | Asheville, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Association of Idaho Rheumatologists Inc | Boise, ID | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Allergy Asthma and Arthritis Center | Beach, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Amicus Arthritis & Osteoporosis Center Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| Arthritis & Rheumatology of Metairie | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| Articularis Healthcare Group | Summerville, SC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Carewell Arthritis Center | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| Carolina Rheumatology and Internal Medicine | Fayetteville, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Geisinger Clinic | Danville, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Loma Linda University | Loma Linda, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Multicare Foundations | Tacoma, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Naiara M Lvarez MD Pa | Mcallen, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Haven Rheumatology Pc | Guilford, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Penobscot Community Health Center | Bangor, ME | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Raleigh Medical Group Pa | Raleigh, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rheumatology Center of San Diego Pc | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital | Kerrville, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Simedhealth LLC | Gainesville, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ssk Physician Associates Pa | Lufkin, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Triangle Arthritis & Rheumatology Associates | Raleigh, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Weitzner MD Yonker Do and Kaine MD Pa | Sarasota, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rs Venuturupalli MD Inc | $24,999 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| Arthritis and Rheumatism Associates Pc | Wheaton, MD | $24,991 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Olive View UCLA Education and Research Institute Inc | Sylmar, CA | $24,980 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rheumatology and Allergy Institute of Connecticut LLC | $24,931 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| South Charlotte Rheumatology Pllc | Charlotte, NC | $24,925 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arthritis Clinic of Cypress and Katy | Katy, TX | $24,922 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Scott & White Clinic | Dallas, TX | $24,919 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cary Rheumatology & Arthritis Associates Pa | $24,902 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| Overlake Arthritis and Osteoporosis Center | Bellevue, WA | $24,813 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Grapevine Rheumatology Clinic | Grapevine, TX | $23,497 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Munson Healthcare Foundations | Traverse City, MI | $15,004 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | Boston, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nyu Langone Health System | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Public Health Trust of Miami-Dade County Florida | Miami, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of South Carolina | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| The University of Iowa | City, IA | $14,985 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Medford, MA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Buffalo Pediatric Associates P C | Buffalo, NY | $2,000 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Denver Health Medical Center University of Colorado School of Medicine | Denver, CO | $1,000 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pci Medical Associates Pllc | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| Rheumatology Services of Florida | Port Saint Lucie, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Diego State University Foundation | San Diego, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Vermont Medical Center Inc | Burlington, VT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
80 of 153 (52%) 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AWARD - BASIC - Regents of the University of Michigan
Innovative Research Award - Translational - Boston University
Innovative Research Award - Health Services - Mayo Clinic
Investigator Award - Clinical - Regents of the University of California Sf
Scientist Development Award - Basic - University of Delaware
INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AWARD - CLINICAL
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 80 of 153 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 143 | $10.7M | $50,000 |
| 2021 | 143 | $11.4M | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 144 | $12.2M | $50,000 |
| 2023 | 162 | $12.1M | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 170 | $11.6M | $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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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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Rheumatology Research Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). 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 70 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 17 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: 2200 Lake Boulevard Ne, Atlanta, GA, 30319.
EIN 58-1654301 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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