Focused Ultrasound Foundation
Charlottesville, VA · EIN 20-5744808. Reported 89 grants totalling $6,985,630 to 41 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 Focused Ultrasound Foundation, the IRS classifies it under diseases & disorders rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE G9B) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 12% 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. 79% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $48,000. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $102,500; the smallest was $4,000 and the largest $500,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $841,253 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Maryland Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $749,048 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $668,720 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $577,510 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Acoustiic Inc | Bellevue, WA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | Blacksburg, VA | $475,739 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $372,334 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Research Institute | Washington, DC | $360,463 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $321,917 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Navitas Clinical Research Inc | Rockville, MD | $292,949 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $217,209 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA | $153,104 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Miami Childrens Health System Inc | Miami, FL | $132,445 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $102,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy | Waukesha, WI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $99,999 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Philadelphia University | Philadelphia, PA | $99,521 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $95,798 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research | Westbury, NY | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | $78,212 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $63,838 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinsons Research | New York, NY | $58,009 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Auburn University | Auburn University, AL | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Childrens Tumor Foundation | New York, NY | $47,892 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | $37,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Animal Medical Center | New York, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| William Marsh Rice University | Houston, TX | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Georgia Tech Research Corporation | Atlanta, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $12,670 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Advanced Microbubble | Newark, CA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Economic Club of Washington DC | Washington, DC | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
25 of 41 (61%) 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 25 of 41 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 | 15 | $937,363 | $42,275 |
| 2022 | 19 | $1,723,478 | $70,692 |
| 2023 | 24 | $1,735,646 | $49,771 |
| 2024 | 31 | $2,589,143 | $40,000 |
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
15% of its giving went to organizations in Maryland. 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 $48,000 -- 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 Maryland.
- 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 Focused Ultrasound Foundation'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 31 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 31 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: 1230 Cedars Court 206, Charlottesville, VA, 22903.
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