General Diabetes Facts

Why Entrust Funds To JDRF?
For more than three decades, JDRF, the largest charitable funder of type 1 diabetes research worldwide, has been renowned as a highly effective medical research organization with remarkable efficiency in directing donor dollars to its mission. Each year, JDRF’s unwavering commitment to finding and funding the best in diabetes research has earned it high marks from the scientific and business media and from charity watchdogs. “JDRF breaks funding bottlenecks,” said Nature magazine, commending the foundation for its ability to move fast when scientific opportunities arise, and placing JDRF on its list of top biomedical research funders.

JDRF Puts Donor Dollars to Work

More than 85 percent of JDRF's expenditures directly support research and research-related education. JDRF Follows a business-world model that efficiently and effectively directs resources to research aimed at accelerating the pace of science leading to a cure. JDFR's unique, results-oriented research management program funds science aimed at delivering cures and therapeutics to market, with emphasis on industry partnerships, strategic projects, drug discovery, and human clinical trials.

FY 2006 Expenses

Research & Education      86%   Fund Raising 7%   Management/General 7%     Total 100%

JDRF in the News   Awarded JDRF its highest rating, 4-stars, in June 2007, and praised the foundation for "outperform[ing] the majority of nonprofits in America with respect to fiscal responsibility.  This 'exceptional' designation... differentiates JDRF from its peers and demonstrates to the public it is worthy of their trust." JDRF was awarded an efficiency rating of 92 out of 100 in Forbes Magazine's most recent annual charity ranking.  The accompanying article called JDRF "...a tightly run organization that puts almost every dollar spent to work curing disease...." "The foundation typically outperforms, in lobbying and fundraising, nearly every other group built around a particular disease." "Since its founding in 1970, the Juvneile Diabetes Reasearch Foundation has spent some $900 million on reasearch.  It has a pile of discoveries to show for it...." For the ninth year in a row, JDRF was top ranked by the American Institute of Philanthropy in its most recent survey -- the only national diabetes organization to earn an "A" grade.

For more information, visit the JDRF Web site at www.jdrf.org, or call 800-533-CURE.          Updated: February 2008