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Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy

To find a cure for epilepsy by promoting and funding patient focused research.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$258k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$11MScience & Tech$5.7MEducation$4.4MRecreation & Sports$300kYouth Development$250kFood & Nutrition$100k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $1,289,863 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,274,098 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $984,235 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $725k
  • $250k+2 grants · $508k
$100,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Stanford University$258,324
Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene$250,000
University of Southern California$125,000
University of California Riverside$125,000
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania$125,000
Northwestern University$100,000
Seattle Children's Hospital$100,000
The Jackson Laboratory$100,000
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia$50,000
American Epilepsy Society$15,000
Gordon Research Conferences$15,000
Nucleus Healthcare Consulting$10,566
Bruker Spatial Biology$9,673
Mid-Atlantic Sleep and Epilepsy Center$6,300
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Brandeis University: $250k → 8%Axonis Therapeutics Inc: $249k → 12%Brigham and Women's Hospital: $250k → 16%LIFESPLICE PHARMA: $243k → 6%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $100k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $104k → 11%University of California Riverside: $125k → 11%University of Southern California: $125k → 14%New York Medical College: $250k → 9%Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene: $250k → 14%University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center: $250k → 14%Gryphon Bio Inc: $150k → 16%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON: $237k → 16%The University of Iowa: $250k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $150k → 16%University of Wisconsin Madison: $250k → 10%St Judes Children's Hospital: $250k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $250k → 11%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $220k → 14%University of Utah: $200k → 8%Morehouse University: $243k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $251k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $250k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $250k → 9%THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $230k → 19%RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY: $250k → 8%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST & STATE UNIVERSITY: $667k → 21%MID ATLANTIC EPILEPSY & SLEEP CENTER LLC: $556k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $350k → 22%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $103k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $250k → 10%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $250k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $141k → 9%BOARD OF TRUSTEES UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $300k → 19%Virginia Tech: $140k → 21%MID-ATLANTIC EPILEPSY & SLEEP CENTER LLC: $243k → 8%COGNIZANCE BIOMARKERS LLC: $238k → 22%University of California Los Angeles: $125k → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE BRAIN HEALTH CENTER: $250k → 14%VIRGINIA TECH: $1.3M → 21%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $1.4M → 16%TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $233k → 22%Northwestern University: $250k → 14%VIRGINIA TECH: $613k → 21%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $594k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $175k → 22%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $594k → 16%Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania: $125k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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Grants abroad, by region — $871k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$400k · 46% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Research Grant

Middle East and North Africa$250k · 29% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Research Grant

North America (Canada and Mexico)$222k · 25% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Research Grant

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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 22 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
36

Total granted

$11M
$5.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+43%

Still filing today

45%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $545k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationScience & TechRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • EU
    Emory University
    3× · 2019–2021 · $751k · revenue +54%
  • Northwestern University
    4× · 2017–2025 · $550k · revenue +41%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    3× · 2019–2024 · $450k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • VP
    VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $667k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2024 · $250k

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.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
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
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
5
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
6
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
7
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
8
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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9
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
10
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
11
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
12
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornell University 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.

Your grantees are a median of 62 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%57%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%7%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%54%55yr+

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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/73
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,492

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.

04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 73 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
33/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $2,898,811 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDMID ATLANTIC EPILEPSY & SLEEP CENTER LLC — $886,581 · OtherMID ATLANTIC EPILEPSY & SLEEP CENTER LLCUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA — $838,778 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY — $667,200 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — $530,000 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin Madison — $514,970 · Other+33 more — $5,668,492 · Other+33 moreVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $2,058,052 · EducationVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INCTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $1,112,252 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNS…Emory University — $751,000 · EducationEmory UniversityTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $643,933 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $434,854 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY…MOREHOUSE COLLEGE — $322,790 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $297,232 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $250,000 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $250,000 · Education+7 more — $661,339 · Education+7 moreChildren's Hospital Corporation — $450,000 · HealthChildren's H…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $349,999 · HealthST JUDE CHIL…SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $320,000 · HealthSEATTLE CHIL…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $250,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S H…RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC — $250,000 · HealthRESEARCH FOU…DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $249,908 · HealthDUKE UNIVERS…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORY — $100,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $99,995 · HealthAMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY — $95,750 · Health+5 more — $63,837 · HealthNorthwestern University — $550,000 · Recreation & SportsBROWN UNIVERSITY — $220,000 · Community ImprovementGORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES INC — $72,756 · Science & Tech
Other$12,004,832Education$6,781,452Health$2,329,489Recreation & Sports$550,000Community Improvement$220,000Science & Tech$72,756

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $2,058,052 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $1,112,252 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $751,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $643,933 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $550,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $450,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $434,854 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $349,999 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE — $322,790 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $320,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $297,232 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE — $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $249,908 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $220,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $165,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $162,149 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $117,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $115,190 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $99,995 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY — $95,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $84,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES INC — $72,756 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $28,617 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $13,634 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational League Against Epilepsy — $8,086 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTXBP1 FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTreatments for Epilepsy and Symptoms of — $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

  • Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

American Epilepsy Soc…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Epilepsy SocietyIL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Epilepsy Society · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organization Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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