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The Progeria Research Foundation

EIN 04-3460220Health Massachusetts Small

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Together we WILL find the cure!

To discover treatments and the cure for Progeria and its aging-related disorders. Progeria is a fatal, "rapid aging" disease that afflicts children, who die of heart disease at an average age of 13 years - the same heart disease affecting millions of normal aging adults. The Progeria Research Foundation (PRF) was founded in 1999 in response to the lack of resources for doctors, scientists, patients, and families of those with Progeria. PRF has been the driving force behind the tremendous progress in the field, moving from total obscurity, to gene discovery, to first-ever drug treatment in just 13 years. PRF is the only non-profit solely dedicated to finding treatments and the cure for Progeria, and is hailed as a prime example of a successful translational research organization. Moreover, with the now-documented biological connection between Progeria, common heart disease and aging, finding the cure for one of the rarest disease on earth may help the entire aging population.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

92.09Overall score
out of 100

88.82Financial score
out of 100

100.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$2,147,287

Total expenses · USD$2,362,863

Program expenses

$1,911,556.17 recorded amount

80.9%

Fundraising expenses

$148,860.37 recorded amount

6.3%

Administrative expenses

$300,083.60 recorded amount

12.7%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.08 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Meryl Fink
Recorded compensation: $103,000.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 4.35%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for The Progeria Research Foundation
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	100.0
`category` Category	Health
`description` Mission & description	To discover treatments and the cure for Progeria and its aging-related disorders. Progeria is a fatal, "rapid aging" disease that afflicts children, who die of heart disease at an average age of 13 years - the same heart disease affecting millions of normal aging adults. The Progeria Research Foundation (PRF) was founded in 1999 in response to the lack of resources for doctors, scientists, patients, and families of those with Progeria. PRF has been the driving force behind the tremendous progress in the field, moving from total obscurity, to gene discovery, to first-ever drug treatment in just 13 years. PRF is the only non-profit solely dedicated to finding treatments and the cure for Progeria, and is hailed as a prime example of a successful translational research organization. Moreover, with the now-documented biological connection between Progeria, common heart disease and aging, finding the cure for one of the rarest disease on earth may help the entire aging population.
`ein` EIN	04-3460220
`tot_exp` Total expenses	2362863.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.127
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.08
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.063
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.809
`fscore` Financial score	88.82
`leader` Recorded leader	Meryl Fink
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	103000.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0435
`motto` Tagline	Together we WILL find the cure!
`name` Charity name	The Progeria Research Foundation
`tot_rev` Total revenue	2147287.0
`score` Overall score	92.09
`state` State code	MA
`subcategory` Subcategory	Diseases, Disorders, and Disciplines
`size` Source size label	small
`program_exp` Program expenses	1911556.1670000001
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	148860.369
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	300083.601

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 04-3460220
Source category: Health
Source subcategory: Diseases, Disorders, and Disciplines
Recorded location: Massachusetts (MA)
Expense-based size: Small
Under $3.5M in total expenses · source label: small

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.