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Health and Environmental Sciences Institute

The HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE (hesi) is a nonprofit institution whose mission is to engage scientists from academia, government, industry, nonprofit, and other research institutions to identify and resolve global health and environmental issues.

$996k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$576k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$1.3MEducation$888kScience & Tech$192kRecreation & Sports$13kOther$815k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $788,426 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $996,017 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $207,591 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $141k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
  • $250k+1 grant · $576k
$37,750
Median grant
7
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROAD INSTITUTE$576,000
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS$64,200
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$37,750
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$37,750
ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$37,750
TERATOLOGY SOCIETY$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$12,476
SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY OF NORTH AMERICA$7,500
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 39% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BROAD INSTITUTE: $576k → 8%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $38k → 16%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $275k → 8%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $38k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $38k → 16%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $38k → 28%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $75k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER: $38k → 16%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $106k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGENESIS AND GENOMICS SOCIETY: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $81k → 5%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS: $64k → 16%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $38k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $34k → 10%MIDDLE TENNESEEE UNIVERSITY: $49k → 9%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $34k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $38k → 8%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $68k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER - SKAGGS SCHOOL OF PHARMACY AND PHARMACEUTICA: $38k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%ANN & ROBERT LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $38k → 14%RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY: $38k → 8%TERATOLOGY SOCIETY: $15k → 6%NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHING ASSOCIATION: $26k → 7%NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHING ASSOCIATION: $70k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT FOUNDATION: $16k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DIVISION OF RESEARCH: $36k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $55k → 19%BROAD INSTITUTE: $546k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $38k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $13k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $21k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $68k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER: $13k → 16%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $45k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $13k → 21%MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 9%ANN & ROBERT LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $13k → 14%RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY: $38k → 8%TERATOLOGY SOCIETY: $15k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND-JIFSAN: $26k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $38k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $28k → 16%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $13k → 14%RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY: $13k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND-JIFSAN: $14k → 11%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 — $180k on the FY2024 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)$108k · 60% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: THRIVE RESEARCH GRANT · RESEARCH GRANT · CONTRIBUTION

North America (Canada and Mexico)$60k · 33% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT

East Asia and the Pacific$12k · 7% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 17 repeat orgs$515k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
12

Total granted

$2.3M
$375k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+40%

Still filing today

47%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthScience & 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

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $151k · revenue +16%
  • NS
    NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHING ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $96k · revenue +28%
  • Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    2× · 2019–2022 · $50k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $81k · revenue +51%
  • EU
    Emory Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $68k · revenue +32%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $55k · revenue +40%

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.

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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
University of Miami

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

Education
3
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
4
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
5
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
6
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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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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
9
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
10
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
11
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry of North America. 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 56 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%54%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%52%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%24%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%0/34
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,531

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

21 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. 21 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Broad Institute Inc — $1,122,000 · HealthThe Broad Institute IncUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $80,500 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH …Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $50,000 · Health+1 more — $37,750 · HealthTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $324,941 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LE…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $150,826 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYNATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHING ASSOCIATION — $96,000 · EducationNATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHING ASSOC…Emory University — $67,706 · EducationEmory UniversityJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $55,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYDUKE UNIVERSITY — $45,000 · EducationAlbert Einstein College of Medicine — $37,750 · Education+4 more — $61,000 · Education+4 moreUTMD ANDERSON — $194,976 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY — $87,750 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $87,750 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPO…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK — $75,846 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLE…MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY — $69,250 · OtherMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVE…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS — $59,071 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAV…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE — $50,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF…UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA — $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMAUniversity of Wisconsin Madison — $45,000 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin Madi…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO — $37,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $37,750 · Other+2 more — $20,200 · OtherSOCIETY FOR BIRTH DEFECTS RESEARCH AND — $90,000 · Science & TechUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc — $64,200 · Science & TechSociety of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry of North America — $22,500 · Science & TechENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGENESIS AND GENOMICS S — $15,000 · Science & TechNorthwestern University — $12,500 · Recreation & Sports
Health$1,290,250Education$888,223Other$815,343Science & Tech$191,700Recreation & Sports$12,500

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 budgetThe Broad Institute Inc — $1,122,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $324,941 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $150,826 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHING ASSOCIATION — $96,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIETY FOR BIRTH DEFECTS RESEARCH AND — $90,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $80,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University — $67,706 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc — $64,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $37,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlbert Einstein College of Medicine — $37,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSociety of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry of North America — $22,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGENESIS AND GENOMICS S — $15,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Health and Environmental Sciences Institute 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Health and Environmental Sciences Institute?

Find your warmest path to Health and Environmental Sciences Institute through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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