How much did AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

rtfcpredoctoralsanworkshop

2020

part iiiiii linepredoctoraltraininginformationtreatmentscomplex

2021

early careerbrainhealthregentsmedical

2022

creightonsupportsjesuit catholicrutgersrolebenefitprivate

2023

educationalclinicalexperienceescsergievskychildren'slead

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k2 grants · $15k
$10k–50k25 grants · $583k
$50k–250k14 grants · $905k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$19M

Total assets

Largest grants

CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$103,189
CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE$102,470
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF NC AT CHAPEL HILL$75,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$73,240
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE$64,955
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - LA$54,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$53,770
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$53,235
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$50,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER$50,000
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN$50,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$50,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$41,500

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 15% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 6% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETYlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.2M · 39 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.2M

$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+41%

Still filing today

64%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $571k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthRecreation & SportsScience & TechHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

BC
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
5× · 2018–2023 · $307k · revenue +28%
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
5× · 2018–2023 · $277k · revenue +37%
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
6× · 2018–2023 · $268k · revenue +58%

Funded once

LA
LENNOX AND LOMBROSO TRUST FOR EPILEPSY RESEARCH AND TRAININGgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $700k · revenue +57% · 72% of their budget
UO
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONTgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +65%
NY
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
one grant, 2018 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education

Washington University Medical Center

To provide and assist its member organizations in providing hospital facilities, physical properties, and programs appropriate for the care and treatment of patients, for the continued on Schedule O

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Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

To improve the wellness of all people through innovative, interprofessional education of health and biomedical professionals and the discovery and implementation of knowledge.

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Philadelphia University

To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.

Education

University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission is to provide superior health care in a compassionate manner, ever mindful of each patient's dignity and individuality. to accomplish our mission, we call upon the skills and expertise of all who work together to advance…

Health

Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education

New York Medical College

Educate physicians, scientists, public health specialists & other healthcare professionals.

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Medical University of South Carolina

The medical university of south carolina foundation (the "foundation") was incorporated in july 1966 under the laws of south carolina as an educational, charitable, eleemosynary foundation to promote educational, research, clinical, and…

Health

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.

Health

University of Kansas School of Medicine-

Patient care and research are offered to provide education to members and students and to offer quality care to individuals without regard to the patients ability to pay.

Human Services

The Rockefeller University

A world-renowned center for research and graduate education.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Treatments for Epilepsy and Symptoms of. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/98

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,467

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

06the grantee network

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

59/59

Grantees still filing

56/59

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,779,049Education$2,625,845Health$1,415,997Recreation & Sports$204,000Science & Tech$153,000Human Services$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis AssnVA20.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn · Washington University · American Cancer Society Inc · National Multiple Sclerosis Society · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Northwestern University · Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders · Muscular Dystrophy Association · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · The Michael J Fox Foundation · University of Pittsburgh · Emory University

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MI.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~17 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 382222745 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MI, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 17 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 79% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to American Epilepsy Society?

Find your warmest path to American Epilepsy Society through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to American Epilepsy Society?

More from the funding graph

AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to American Epilepsy Society?

More from the funding graph