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· Public charity

International Foundation for Ethical Research Inc

To advance the development and implementation of human-relevant,non-animal alternatives in research, testing and education.

$96k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Science & Tech$243kEducation$195kHealth$70k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $90,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $95,921 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,921 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.
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMORY UNIVERSITY$30,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$15,000
TUFTS UNIVERSITY$15,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$15,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$15,000
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $15k → 10%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $15k → 8%UCLA: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $15k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 16%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - DALLAS: $15k → 14%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $28k → 22%WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 21%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%WAKE FOREST: $15k → 15%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $30k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK: $15k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $28k → 19%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $15k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $15k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 16%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - DALLAS: $13k → 14%WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 21%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK: $15k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $15k → 19%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $13k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $13k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $13k → 16%Wayne State University: $13k → 21%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $13k → 19%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $13k → 8%Duke University: $13k → 11%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 11%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

MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
MD
DE
NC
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$323k · 9 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 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

9
5

Total granted

$323k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

67%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +40%
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $43k · revenue +30%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $43k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • TA
    TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH
    one grant, 2023 · $28k
  • RU
    REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • WF
    WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
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
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
2
University of Miami

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

Education
3
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
4
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
11
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
12
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. 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

11 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. 11 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $55,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $42,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERCornell University: $42,500 · EducationCornell UniversityPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $40,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeEmory University: $30,000 · EducationEmory UniversityNew York University: $30,000 · EducationNew York UniversityDUKE UNIVERSITY: $27,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYYale University: $15,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORETEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH: $27,500 · OtherTEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCHTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS CENTER FOR BRAINHEALTH: $27,500 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS …WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $15,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREWayne State University: $12,500 · OtherWayne State UniversityDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $42,500 · HealthDUKE UNIVERS…WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER: $15,000 · HealthWAKE FOREST …
Education$297,500Other$152,500Health$57,500

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization International Foundation for Ethical Research Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Foundation for Ethical Research Inc. 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
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How do I get to International Foundation for Ethical Research Inc?

Find your warmest path to International Foundation for Ethical Research Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 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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