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American Lung Association

Name: American Lung Association grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

205
grants reported: $52.5M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $200,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

research

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Johns Hopkins University4 grants · $4.0M
Northwestern University4 grants · $2.7M
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai4 grants · $2.1M
Duke University4 grants · $1.8M
University of Alabama at Birmingham4 grants · $1.6M
Entertainment Industry Foundation (Stand Up 2 Cancer)1 grant · $1.5M
University of Vermont4 grants · $1.4M
Baylor College of Medicine4 grants · $1.2M
Trustees of Boston University3 grants · $1.2M
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco2 grants · $1.2M

Giving over time

$13.2M

2021

$13.6M

2022

$12.8M

2023

$12.9M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 205 grants.

$1.5M
Entertainment Industry Foundation (Stand Up 2 Cancer) · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
Research
$1.2M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2021
Research
$1.1M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Research
$1.1M
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2022
Research
$970,310
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Research
$845,000
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · New York City, NY · 2022
Research
$825,000
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Research
$815,160
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Research
$790,907
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2024
Research
$622,497
The Regents of the University of Michigan · Annarbor, MI · 2022
Research
$600,000
Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2024
Research
$585,462
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2022
Research
$547,500
Brigham and Women'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2022
Research
$530,000
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2023
Research
$517,140
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023
Research
$500,000
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$500,000
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · New York, NY · 2023
Research
$500,000
Texas Biomedical Research Institute · San Antonio, TX · 2022
Research
$494,622
Baylor College of Medicine · Houston, TX · 2022
Research
$474,465
Nemours Children Clinic · Jacksonville, FL · 2024
Research
$467,495
University of Kansas Center for Research · Lawrence, KS · 2024
Research
$465,000
University of Kansas Center for Research · Lawrence, KS · 2023
Research
$464,289
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2021
Research
$462,675
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2023
Research
$461,793
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2024
Research
$441,078
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2021
Research
$418,743
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2021
Research
$414,279
University of Vermont · Burlington, VT · 2021
Research
$400,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$400,000
Texas Biomedical Research Institute · San Antonio, TX · 2024
Research
$400,000
The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Research
$400,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2023
Research
$400,000
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Redwood City, CA · 2023
Research
$400,000
Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2023
Research
$400,000
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2022
Research
$400,000
Gateway for Cancer Research · Schaumburg, IL · 2021
Research
$400,000
Regents University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
Research
$400,000
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
Research
$380,107
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · New York City, NY · 2022
Research
$373,132
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Research
$372,397
University of Kansas Medical Center · Lawrence, KS · 2022
Research
$365,000
University of Vermont · Burlington, VT · 2023
Research
$358,487
Arizona Board of Regents University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2022
Research
$350,000
Boston Children'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
Research
$350,000
Brigham and Women'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
Research
$350,000
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Nashville, TN · 2024
Research
$343,984
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2021
Research
$333,119
Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Research
$324,415
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2024
Research
$323,130
University of Vermont · Burlington, VT · 2024
Research
$323,105
Baylor College of Medicine · Houston, TX · 2023
Research
$317,874
Temple University · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Research
$305,662
Temple University · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Research
$305,570
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
Research
$305,455
The Regents of the University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023
Research
$303,847
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2022
Research
$301,500
The Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2021
Research
$300,000
Portland State University · Portland, OR · 2024
Research
$300,000
The Board of Trustees of the Univeristy of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2024
Research
$300,000
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024
Research
$300,000
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2023
Research
$298,105
New York University School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2023
Research
$297,500
The Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2022
Research
$296,485
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2023
Research
$295,532
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Research
$291,667
University of Vermont · Burlington, VT · 2022
Research
$289,565
University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Research
$288,015
National Jewish Medical and Research Center · Denver, CO · 2024
Research
$287,620
Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Research
$271,842
National Jewish Medical and Research Center · Denver, CO · 2022
Research
$271,710
American Thoracic Society · New York, NY · 2021
Research
$266,615
University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2023
Research
$258,709
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2021
Research
$253,265
National Jewish Medical and Research Center · Denver, CO · 2023
Research
$250,000
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois - Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Research
$250,000
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
Research
$250,000
The Regents of the University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2023
Research
$250,000
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2022
Research
$247,500
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · New York, NY · 2021
Research
$246,050
Temple University · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Research
$245,000
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburge, PA · 2023
Research
$245,000
Weill Medical College of Cornell University · New York, NY · 2023
Research
$236,109
Temple University · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Research
$235,599
University of Kansas Ctr for Research · Lawrence, KS · 2021
Research
$232,790
The Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2023
Research
$227,314
National Jewish Medical and Research Center · Denver, CO · 2021
Research
$214,239
Baylor College of Medicine · Houston, TX · 2021
Research
$208,030
Baylor College of Medicine · Houston, TX · 2024
Research
$203,187
Nemours Children Clinic · Jacksonville, FL · 2022
Research
$201,085
Weill Medical College of Cornell University · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$200,000
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$200,000
Michigan State University · East Lansing, MI · 2024
Research
$200,000
New York University School of Medicine · New York, NY · 2024
Research
$200,000
Rutgers the State University · Piscataway, NJ · 2024
Research
$200,000
The Medical College of Wisconsin · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
Research
$200,000
The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Research
$200,000
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · Galveston, TX · 2024
Research
$200,000
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · Dallas, TX · 2024
Research
$200,000
Boston Children'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
Research
$200,000
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute · Tampa, FL · 2023
Research

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.