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Epilepsy Foundation of America at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Epilepsy Foundation of America

To improve the lives of peoples affected by epilepsy through education, advocacy, research, and connection.

$328k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$9.2MYouth Development$325kScience & Tech$176kArts & Culture$150kEducation$95kPhilanthropy$13kRecreation & Sports$8k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $137,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $327,949 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $190,449 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEUROVIEW TECHNOLOGY INC$75,000
AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION$50,000
FOUNDATION NEUROTECH$12,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%SOTERYA INC: $125k → 8%MAYO CLINIC: $1.3M → 9%AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%TALIA NEWMAN WEARABLES LLC: $75k → 22%ZETO INC: $200k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $503k → 10%EYSZ INC: $150k → 10%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $20k → 10%SBC MEDSIM LLC: $51k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $350k → 17%ADVANCED SCANNERS: $151k → 10%WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 21%FOUNDATION NEUROTECH: $13k → 5%CURADITE: $50k → 8%GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES: $15k → 7%EPITEL: $264k → 8%HEALTHAPPY TECH LLC: $25k → 13%AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY: $185k → 14%NEUROVIEW TECHNOLOGY INC: $75k → 7%EMBLEENA INC: $200k → 8%THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $33k → 8%CENTER FOR COURAGEOUS KIDS: $20k → 15%INNOCENTIVE INC: $65k → 8%MAYO CLINIC: $1.2M → 9%AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $88k → 10%AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY: $180k → 14%MAYO CLINIC: $475k → 9%AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%PHASE FOUR FILM LLC: $150k → 14%AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY: $135k → 14%MAYO CLINIC: $261k → 9%AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $266k → 14%AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY: $100k → 14%MAYO CLINIC: $237k → 9%AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $251k → 14%AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY: $50k → 14%AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1.0M → 14%AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY: $50k → 14%AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $43k → 11%UCLA FOUNDATION: $800k → 14%AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY: $50k → 14%AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $43k → 11%AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY: $50k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
KY
VA
AL
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $125k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$125k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: 2024 SHARK TANK WINNER

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 8 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
21

Total granted

$2.7M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+47%

Still filing today

88%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentScience & TechPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AE
    AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +59%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY
    3× · 2019–2022 · $600k · revenue +75%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    2× · 2019–2020 · $517k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • NY
    New York Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $350k · revenue +76%
  • EI
    EMBLEENA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • ZI
    ZETO INC
    one grant, 2018 · $200k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
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
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
10
American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Advancing medicine through excellence in the science, education and professional practice of medical physics. the mission is carried out through driving scientific and clinical innovation in medical physics to improve human health,…

Science & Tech
11
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Brain Foundation; the most unlike its peers is 4-H Clubs of Ozaukee County Leaders. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC: $3,451,211 · HealthMAYO CLINICAMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY: $800,000 · HealthAMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETYCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $600,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTYChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $517,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los AngelesAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $411,491 · HealthAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION+3 more: $57,500 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CAL…UCLA FOUNDATION: $800,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONNew York University: $350,000 · EducationNew York UniversityUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $150,000 · EducationUniversity of Kentucky Res…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationEPITEL: $270,330 · OtherEPITELEMBLEENA INC: $200,000 · OtherEMBLEENA INCZETO INC: $200,000 · OtherZETO INCADVANCED SCANNERS: $151,000 · OtherADVANCED SCANNERSEYSZ INC: $150,000 · OtherEYSZ INCPHASE FOUR FILM LLC: $150,000 · OtherPHASE FOUR FILM LLCSOTERYA INC: $125,000 · OtherSOTERYA INCTALIA NEWMAN WEARABLES LLC: $75,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · OtherNEUROVIEW TECHNOLOGY INC: $75,000 · OtherINNOCENTIVE INC: $65,000 · Other+7 more: $193,250 · Other+7 more4-H CLUBS OF OZAUKEE COUNTY LEADERS: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES INC: $25,040 · Science & TechNEUROTECH FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Philanthropy
Health$5,837,202Education$2,310,000Other$1,729,580Youth Development$50,000Science & Tech$25,040Philanthropy$12,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAYO CLINIC: $3,451,211 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $800,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY: $800,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $600,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $517,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $411,491 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetNew York University: $350,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget4-H CLUBS OF OZAUKEE COUNTY LEADERS: $50,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetPROJECT CAMP INC: $37,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES INC: $25,040 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD NEUROLOGY EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEUROTECH FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 37% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILIESCN2A FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds 4-H CLUBS OF OZAUKEE COUNTY LEADERS ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD NEUROLOGY EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEUROTECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILIESCN2A FOUNDATION INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE4.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Epilepsy Foundation of America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Epilepsy Foundation of America. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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